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The Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D delivers 18 megapixels of professional grade image quality in a compact, light weight, feature-filled, easy-to-use body that carries a very affordable price tag. These are the qualities have anchored the flagship Canon Rebel model in the top-selling DSLRs category for years - and I fully expect the Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D to maintain the Rebel's popularity.
The T3i is the 7th 3-character Canon Digital Rebel model and, including the low-end Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D, the 8th Rebel model to become available. The 9th, the less-feature-filled Canon EOS Rebel T3 / 1100D, has been announced but is not available as of Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D review time.
As always, the latest model offers advantages over the previous model. This is a very mature camera line, and the advances we find in the T3i are not going to cause buyer's remorse to many T2i owners. But, the combination of new and existing Rebel features are going to make the T3i the right choice for many new DSLR buyers or those looking to upgrade from an older DSLR model - or from a point and shoot model.
Prior to reading the rest of the Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D review, I recommend that you read the Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D Press Release. I'll open that URL in a new window for you - to retain your place here - just close that window when you finish. The press release highlights the new features and some of the T2i carry-over highlights - no sense in me re-writing the PR.
New features include: Feature Guide Instruction, Scene Intelligent Auto Mode, Creative Image Filters and my favorites, the Integrated Speedlite Transmitter and 3" Vari-Angle Clear View LCD as demo'd below.
Along with fast phase-detection autofocus, amazing image quality (especially in low light) is one of the big drivers for the popularity of Digital SLR cameras. And the Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D does not sacrifice image quality to achieve a very modest price. Sharing the same sensor with the T2i, 60D and the EOS 7D means, in this case, that the T3i matches the image quality of even Canon's current best APS-C format DSLR. Here is a Canon EOS Rebel T3i vs. EOS 7D resolution comparison (use the mouseover on that page to see the similarities). Four EOS DSLRs sharing the same sensor marks a new record.
Following are a pair of 100% crop Canon EOS DSLR image quality comparisons: identical exposure, identical targets, identical lighting, identical framing and identical processing (a key point). These manually-exposed samples were shot from a Foba Gamma Studio Camera Stand-mounted Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens set to 100mm and f/6.3. RAW images were captured with auto white balance, no noise reduction and the "Standard" Picture Style. Sharpness was set to "1" (very low).
I currently use Canon's Digital Photo Pro (DPP) image processing software (free/included) for my RAW file processing. DPP is easy to use and delivers image quality as high as or higher than anything else available (though more full-featured and easier/faster/nicer to use software is available - such as Adobe Lightroom). And DPP always supports the latest Canon camera models. For the examples below, RAW images were converted to 16 bit TIFF files and Photoshop CS4 "Save for Web" was used to create the 70% quality JPG crops shown below.
Lighting is from a hot 4,000 watts of Photoflex Starlite tungsten lights in a pair of daylight-balanced Photoflex SilverDome softboxes.
With those details out of the way, let's review the comparison images. There are many MB of files required to be downloaded to make all of the mouseovers and mouseclicks on this page function properly - please be patient while they load.
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