Canon is selling a gray version of the Rebel T6

Yeah, there are ways to make silver plastic look less cheap. Fuji and Olympus manage to do it. Even Canon was doing it back in the 70's with their silver AE-1. which most people have long mistaken for being a metal body (even though the body was all plastic). But this Canon's silver plastic body looks as cheap as the first Canon Digital Rebel (300D), which also had a cheap-looking silver plastic.

You could have been working for Kodak.

We all know how that story ended.

"If you are new to photography you would be really stupid to buy yourself a Canon or Nikon. "

Humm.
Canon and Nikon both offer great cameras (quality, ergonomic, eco-system, lens, flash...). All this cameras are just working flowlessly and let people take great shots for whatever they want..

Why would it be stupid to buy one of them?

Brandon,
I feel your pain. I have always been a pentaxian. If they could improve their focus up to Canon levels they would literally crush their competitors due to accurate focus and other factors such as quality, customization, great IBS and weather sealing. I have been waiting a long time for speedy focus. Hopefully they team up with Panasonic - they seem to have it figured it out. Good luck with Canon, they seem content riding along as the premier but don't seem to innovate much these days. Although their sensors have improved greatly recently.

Brandon, I understand... been there, done that.

No matter what system you choose, after a while, there will be things you will miss and start feeling the same way again. There is always something in that other system that you want, whether it is the higher DR, a particular lens, the extra focus points, or whatever.

if you're staying with Canon, I would recommend the 80D. Or even go to the new M5. They offer the best IQ/DR Canon APSC sensors have produced so far. The advantage with 80D would be that you can use your current lenses. M5 will require an adapter.

All the best.

If you wanna move on with Canon save up for a body up then foodchain.

The 70d was good and the 80d a very solid improvement.

Unfortunately the ones below aren't worth considering.

The K-30 and the K-01 have the same sensor and identical image quality.

If you are getting softer images from a K-30, then it probably means that the K-30 needed AF fine-tuned for the lens. That's the beauty of mirrorless cameras...since they AF is performed on the image sensor, lens calibration is no longer necessary.

Not all of them, Richard. My white Pentax K-30 was white through and through, except for the black leatherette and plastic applications.
It's one of the most beautiful cameras ever made, IMO, and the injected color plastic is one of the reasons for that.

Ok, besides the white ones. :-)

I don't know why the grey models are spray on since grey plastic is pretty common, but they are - maybe it's for the metallic finish?

The Digital Rebel is quite a bit larger than any Rebel of today.

Dramatic much? Canon is like the Toyota of the camera world. They ain't goin' nowhere.

Karroly, it is you that needs to learn. Canon (and other DSLRs) already use LCD overlays in optical viewfinders (to show the position of focus points, battery level and several other pieces of information). There is absolutely no reason why a live histogram, fed from sensor information, could not be superimposed over the focusing screen in an optical viewfinder, or in the area just outside of the picture area, currently occupied with LCD aperture and shutter information. Think before you write in haste!

@entoman.
If you can see something through the OVF, it means the mirror is down, the shutter is closed, and the sensor is blind. So no chance to build up an histogram and display it on the OVF.
Unless Canon switches to a transluscent mirror, which is another story...
So think twice before writing an answer in haste !

I seriously doubt a beginner, who this camera is aimed at, knows what a histogram does and wants to look at it.

Exactly, you've understood - Canon has used translucent mirrors in the past (remember the Pellix?) so there is no reason why they can't do so again, and no reason why they can't overlay a live histogram! Reverting to a translucent mirror would also make it much easier to achieve faster frame rates, and would provide greater durability. It really beats me why Canon and Nikon don't use translucent mirrors anymore. Sony have proven, with the a99 etc, that it does not adversely affect image quality. The percentage of light reaching the optical finder would of course be slightly reduced - but the difference would probably be no greater than the difference in illumination levels between pentaprism and pentamirror DSLRs. Maybe half a stop, which is nothing. Put a lens on your DSLR and use the DoF preview to see what a tiny difference that half a stop would make. Think outside the box! Canon don't anymore - that's their problem.

It's not a DSLR but my X-Pro1 from 2012 displays a live histogram in its *optical* viewfinder. Fuji know how to innovate.

Karroly -
1 - Exactly the same amount of light would reach the sensor as it does in a mirrorless camera. The amount of light "lost" would be about half a stop (check Pellix and Sony a99 for exact amounts), which would be negligible for viewing purposes.
2 - Live view monitor would be off, just some feed from the sensor to the OVF overlay. Also live view would only be activated when the shutter button was half pressed, and would turn off when pressure on the shutter button was released. Hence battery consumption would be only very slightly higher than if live histogram was not in use.
3 - Those who didn't want the histogram could deactivate it via the menu options, negating both of your comments, so what's the problem for you? Those who do want it would get more accurate exposures, which means less time rescuing badly exposed shots in post-processing, more control over clipping of highlights and shadows, and less noise.