I got what I could afford. A Rebel T7. I should have guessed with a camera being named "Rebel" doesn't exactly fit in the echelon of Hasselblad or Nikon, but this I say as my truth. If there was a dissclaimer on the ad I saw on Amazon, I would not...
So the general concensus is this: Canon can, and did, change their flash shoe by eliminating the central 5th pin, so that purchasers of their recent photo equiptment will be forced to buy their external flashes. I'm ok with that if that is the road...
And to the party saying it is Canon's perogative to make an exclusive flash shoe for their cameras, because some flashes can ruin a camera . . . well that is the very "new" attitude you will find with most capitalists. For years every camera had a f...