CANON EOS 1300D VS NIKON D3400

BOTH of these cameras are aimed at beginners or photographers on a tight budget, so you won’t find cutting-edge specifications here. But you do want a camera that delivers good performance across a wide range of everyday subjects – and is also a little future-proof, so you don’t outgrow it too soon as your skills evolve.

Canon’s EOS 1300D and Nikon’s D3400 both have APS-C format sensors. The Canon’s is very slightly smaller – only by a millimetre here or there, but it explains why the Canon has a crop factor of 1.6x and the Nikon’s is 1.5x.

You need to multiply a lens’s actual focal length by each number to get the effective focal length. So an 18-55mm kit lens on the Canon corresponds to a 29-88mm lens, whereas on the Nikon it’s equivalent to 27-83mm. In practice, you’ll hardly notice the difference. Both cameras are backed up by a big choice of lenses.

The EOS 1300D uses an 18-megapixel sensor that’s served many of Canon’s SLRs well, but is a step behind the 24MP sensors in its latest (and more expensive) EOS