Ultimately though, we’d put the Canon T3i’s image quality slightly ahead of the T2i, since it maintained acceptable noise ratings 1 stop higher-through ISO 3200. Ironically, this means that the range for which the Canon T3i gets an Excellent overall image quality score is ISO 100 through ISO 400, while the T2i goes up to ISO 800. Below ISO 1600 it basically matched the T2i, except at ISO 800 where the Canon T3i showed more noise-just barely enough to push it to a Moderately Low rating on our scale. In our noise test, the Canon T3i showed modest improvements over the T2i at ISO 1600 and above. If you don’t care about these innovations, though, you’ll get a better deal with the T2i. And its 3-inch, 1.04-million-dot, articulated LCD monitor makes getting those images, and shooting HD video footage, easier. Plus you get wireless TTL control of off-camera flash-a first for the Rebel line. So if you want great pictures from a DSLR, at a reasonably low cost, then the Canon T3i delivers. When it comes to image quality, the Canon T3i basically matches the T2i, already the best in the entry-level segment, and its performance in other areas is also just as good-again, at or near the top of the category. Because, even though we do think the new T3i is the best Rebel ever, we know that what rings our chimes doesn’t necessarily ring everybody’s.ĭon’t get us wrong. This year, though, we have a slightly different message. It wouldn’t be spring without our heralding the arrival of a breakthrough Canon Rebel. Canon’s new T3i offers an 18MP CMOS APS-C sensor, 1080p HD video capture at 30-fps and a 3-inch articulated LCD all for $900 with an 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 EF-S IS II kit lens.
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