What's this? like this? these are not many questions that people who are intimately familiar with canon's marketing policies ask. the presence of a flash and a mount for EF-S class optics has always indicated the initial level of the device. its name puts it on the same shelf with 5D, 1D (crop version, of course), but at the same time it is cheaper than the younger one by as much as 30,000. And here comes the 550D, which in terms of functions is not inferior to many (although there are quite a few pitfalls here). In general - a strange device, but simply magnificent!