Canon EOS 500N — small-format single lens reflex camera with autofocus made by Canon from 1996 to March 1999. Is a further upgrade of camera Canon EOS 500 in 1999 to replaced model Canon EOS 300. EOS in the model name tells that the camera has an electro-optical system (Electro-Optical System). First EOS came out already in 1987. Then the same symbol that had many other 35mm autofocus film SLRs. And since 2003, with the EOS models 300D started the line digital SLR cameras Canon.