Hot! Canon Eos Rebel T3 Eos 1100d Camera

Review Summary: Marking a new entry point to the Rebel line, the Canon T3 offers good image quality, a friendly design, and excellent battery life. Although its burst-shooting capabilities don't match the best-in-class, and has a few omissions such as dust removal and spot metering, these are fairly easy to overlook given the entry-level pricetag. In all, a fairly easy recommendation for the first-time SLR buyer.

Canon EOS Rebel T3 Overview Canon Rebel T3 User Report

The new Feature Guide text appears whenever you select a Quick Menu item, explaining the function of that option. Feature Guide text also appears whenever you rotate the Mode Dial to a new position, explaining in plain English what each item does.

Video. The Canon T3 delivers good, basic video recording at 720p/30fps.

Movie mode. A few of the Live views, including Record, and the various Quick Menu options.

Canon T3 Shooter's Report

High ISOperformance is much improved over the Rebel XS, but the best results are had when shooting raw. At ISO 2,000, this shot taken five minutes after sunset is quite clean, but shows that quite a bit of fine detail is lost to noise processing. (Pay attention in particular to the right-hand side of the "basketball", which is textured like the real thing.)

Shooting lowto the ground was the only way to get the framing I wanted for this golden hour shot. That wouldn't have been possible using the viewfinder, but the live view mode saved the day, even without an articulated LCD.

Lots of detailis available from the T3's sensor, even if it lags somewhat behind its more expensive siblings in terms of pixel count. In this shot of Knoxville's Federal Courthouse, each and every brick is clearly defined.

White balancewas generally fairly good, other than indoors where it tended to be on the warm side, as shown in our testing. Shooting around sunset, though, I found it to yield rather erratic results. The images just seconds before and after this one had the same framing, but a much more neutral look. Of the three, this frame captured the golden hour look much better, in part thanks to a little negative exposure compensation.

Canon Rebel T3 Image Quality Comparisons Canon T3 versus Canon XS at ISO 1,600 Canon T3 versus Canon T2i at ISO 1,600 Canon T3 versus Canon T3i at ISO 1,600 Canon T3 versus Nikon D3100 at ISO 1,600 Canon T3 versus Pentax K-r at ISO 1,600 Detail: Canon T3 vs. XS, T2i, T3i, Nikon D3100 and Pentax K-r Canon T3 Print Quality In the Box Recommended Accessories Canon T3 Conclusion