Help, Rebel T3i or T2i

My daughter wants a good camera. I am totally inexperienced with this kind of camera and have been reading reviews and trying to understand them. I was looking at getting the T3i, but noticed the T2i at the same price. Is there a difference and if so what is the difference and what would you recommend for a beginner. Maybe there is another camera that you would recommend in the price range. Thank you for any help.

The XXi line gets updated every year (roughly). We've gone from the Xti to the Xsi to the T1i, T2i, T3i and now T4i. If the T3i is the same price as the T2i, I'd go ahead and get that. The T3i has an articulating LCD screen, which a lot of users seem quite happy with. Beyond that there's not too much different between them.

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Canon Rebel t3i or t2i ???? need input

I am upgading from my little Canon Power Shot. Decided on a Canon Rebel either t3i or t2i and would like input.
The only difference I can see is the swivel out LCD screen, is it worth spending the extra money on that opiton???
I do take a lot of video's.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Swivel screens is nice when you shoot low or overhead
Swivel screens are unprotected (ie a belt buckle) when exposed and must be flip around in order to view it.... a hassle
Swivel screens also results in more blurry shaky pictures.... using the view finder will be a more steady image as the camera is held closer to your bodies center of gravity
DSLR videos offer great images, but horrible give audio when the Auto Focus or Image Stabilizer is used. Turn up your computer speakers and click on this link. The audio is like listening to finger nails on a chalkboard. Just say "NO"! If this your wedding video.... you will be "so fired!".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r3VcFueYw4&t=4s
DSLR videos will require external microphones for best audio.... suddenly your camera is no longer portable.
DSLR videos are also limited in length before the sensor overheats..... will your wedding completed in 12 minutes? I prefer packing a separate HD camcorder.
I like Canon pocket shooters and HD cameras, but I like Nikon for DSLR's. Consider the D7000 and the D5100 as well in your research

Rebel t3i viewfinder is blurry, not the diopter adjustment.

Ok, I own a Rebel t3i. Everytime I look in the viewfinder, it's blurry. However the picture comes out crisp. It isn't the diopter adjusment. Sometimes when I hold the camera up and wiggle it, the viewfinder will be clear for a couple seconds, then it'll go back to being blurry. There aren't any camera shops around me, and I'm in to sports photography and it gets very frustrating having to look at the blurry viewfinder. Hope somebody can help!! Thanks.

Remove your lens and look at (but do not touch) the focus screen. The focus screen is located above the reflex mirror.
The camera is projecting an image onto that screen. The distance from the back of the lens to the reflex mirror and up to the screen is the same as the distance straight through the to the imaging sensor at the back of the camera. So if the focus screen is in place, an image focused on the screen will appear the same way on the sensor when you take the shot.
I'm wondering if something has dislodged your focus screen. It should be snugly in place. You might give your camera a gentle shake when looking inside and see if it moves.
There's a frame that holds the focus screen in place and it's possible it came unhunged. If it did come unhunged, you should avoid touching it as it's easy to smudge it and very hard to clean. Companies that sell replacement screens usually include special tweezers so you can swap screens without actually touching it.
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Using PS CS1 & a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. Where to get the plug-in to use camera raw?

Using PS CS1 & a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. Where to get the plug-in to use camera raw?

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Are my cannon zoom lenses compatible to the new Cannon EOS Rebel T3i

We are thinking about buying a cannon EOS Rebel T3I and need to know if the lenses we had from our cannon EOS Rebel 2000 will work on it of do we need to purchase newer zoom lenses. We have a Cannon Zoom Lens EF 75-30mm 1:4-5.6 and a Cannon Zoom Lens EF 35-70mm 1:3.5-45 A. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, your old lenses will work with a Rebel T3i. They were designed for a 35mm film camera, and since the Rebel T3i has a sensor that is smaller than a frame of 35mm film, the effective focal length of the lenses will increase by a factor of 1.6. So, for example, your 35-70mm lens will have effective focal lengths of 56-112 mm.

Canon Rebel T3i flash error

I am on my second Canon Rebel T3i. Out of the blue I get the Err 05 that the flash can not be raised. I turn it off and back on like it says but that doesn't help. Same thing happened with my first one only a month after I had it. This camera is less than a year old and doing this. Why? Do I have to send it away to be fixed?

There was an issue where the camera thinks an external flash is connected. You can check under the metal brackets where a shoe-bracket flash would go to see if the little button is being pushed down and blow some compressed air over it. If that doesn't help, you'll probably need to send it in for a defective flash release.
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Rebel T3i

Can someone tell me if lenses that work with a Rebel T3i, what other Canon Cameras they will work on. One Lens is a Sigma APO DG 70-300mm the other is a Canon EFS 18-55mm IMAGE STABILIZER have others but they all have fit my T3i's.
Thanks for any help.
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The exact model of the Sigma lens is needed to know whether it can be used on a full frame camera but any lens which fits your Rebel series body fits all of the Canon crop bodies. Not counting the really old bodies they are the full Rebel series, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 60D and the 7D.
The 5D, 5Dmark 2 & mark 3 plus 6D are FULL frame and lenses specifically designed for crop bodies may mount on them (some do, some don't) but don't work correctly on them.
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Recommendation for correct wide angle lens and flash for real estate photos for Canon Rebel T3i?

Hi I'm new to the forum. I always hire out a professional photog for my real estate photos however have thought that with the amount that I pay them, I could buy my own wide angle lens to do on my own.
Any recommendations for what wide angle lens and flash to buy?
Here are some examples of the work they have done in the past for me:
Any advice would be much appreciated. I enjoy amateur photography with my family and portraits but am hoping to be able to do more of my own work on my listings. Thanks!
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Your samples look like incredibility simple images to do. I also suspect little artificial light was added. Possibly just a bounce off the ceiling.
Since you already have a Rebel T3i, I would get the Canon 430 EX, and just one. But be aware it will likely not provide equal coverage for a 10-22mm lens. Ten millimeters is pretty wide even on a T3i. Bouncing off the ceiling will help this.
Some ceilings may not be good for bounce either.
Give it a go and you will learn what works and what not. But the old saying, KISS, applies. You will learn!
Photshop and/or Lightroom are great additions. They both have learning curves and PS a very long learning curve.
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New Rebel t3i

I just purchased a Rebel t3i from amazon and it will be here around the end of the month. I was wondering if there was anything I need to know about the camera or dSLR's in general, because this is my first digital camera since a point-and-shoot Kodak in 2007.

Your manual is your friend & because this was wrote a few years ago some may not apply in the same way due to control differences. I have no idea whethor or not my daughter took the time to learn it all but she gets GREAT images with it still, and amaxingly the original batteries still give good service.
Camera Instruction summary.
These are in order of importance, once you have one so that you can usually do it without thinking or having the manual close by, then start on the next one.
DON’T USE “Auto” mode, it makes poor choices in camera settings, USE THE “P” mode (program) until you have learned the next few things.
You need to learn how to run through the menu system, but not that often, but it isn’t that difficult.
First setting to learn is “exposure compensation” which you use to change how over or under exposed you want a picture to look after taking it at the base setting you started with. Once you take a photo look at the LCD, (or better yet the Histogram on the LCD) which you can set to always display after each shot. If it’s overexposed (washed out, too bright etc) then you need to reduce the exposure & shoot another shot. If it’s too dark, then you need to set the exposure for a brighter image. The needle moves to the left for less exposure, & to the right for a brighter exposure.
Next “Flash Exposure Compensation” which is the same as above but needed when using the flash. Generally that camera ALWAYS needs some extra help with a setting to the right of about 1 or higher.
Auto Focus point selection. I generally prefer to use just the centre point, focus, and then reframe rather than all of the points possible, but it’s good to learn how to change it & decide what you like.
ONE SHOT / AI SERVO. You can change how the AF works, in ONE SHOT it assumes that you are shooting a stationary target, and once the AF locks onto the target it doesn’t change if the target moves. You see the little red light which indicated focus lock & where.
AI SERVO is for things which keep moving, and the AF tracks the movement, but you will not see the red dot light up. YOU CAN USE THIS ALL THE TIME, but it isn’t as useful for reframing as the focus point may not work as well as the ONE SHOT mode.
YOU can learn this but don’t worry about it for now, just get an idea of what I am talking about.
Tv mode = Time Value, or SHUTTER SPEED, important for fast moving things, a fast shutter speed freezes what otherwise would have motion blur. Needs good light to work properly, the brighter the better.
Av mode = Apetrure value, which is a lens setting that is hard to explain in simple terms but has the following effect. Apertures are measured in “stops” and the reference to lenses is that a “fast” lens will have a lower F stop number. F2.8 is faster than F 4.0 etc.
This becomes important for 2 reasons, low light, or to control Depth Of Field (DOF) which is an important thing in certain uses. The DOF at F 2.8 is about half of what it would be at F 4.0, therefore things that are a bit closer & a bit farther than where you lock the focus on will be out of focus, and as they get closer or further from the focal point they become just a blur. This is VERY useful where you only want the main object in the photo to be what draws your attention, leaving most everything else out of focus. This type of FAST refers to the fact that you can use a fast shutter speed, the lens is letting lots of light
Flash photos usually force a camera to use a wide open aperture, so indoor shots have a shallow DOF, but you might not notice it at print size, but blown up on a computer screen it shows.
The original camera language will always refer to “stops” which is a ratio thing, and when a camera has a P mode it uses a pre wrote internal program to pick both the Tv & Av.
Stops work like this Every lens has a F value which relates to how much light can pass through it at the widest F stop (faster lenses cost big bucks, hard to build, require top quality lens glass & are larger in diameter). If you close a lens by 1 stop you must select a slower shutter speed to make up for there being exactly ½ the light. An example (numbers only to help understand it)
If a lens was at F2.8 and according to the cameras light meter you need a shutter speed of 1/500 second then a change to F 4.0 requires 1/250 second.
WHY DOES IT MATTER???? The rule of photography is to always keep shutter speed higher than lens length when hand holding to eliminate blur caused by our motion of pressing the shutter, jitters etc. The 20D is known as a “CROP” body, and that means that lens length in it’s case is 1.6 times longer than the numbers (mm) so the 18-200 lens acts like a 28-320 mm lens, so the slowest shutter speed should exceed 1/320 sec when zoomed to the max.
CAMERA CONTROLS The ON / OFF switch can be left on all the time, it has a setting to put it into sleep mode that you can change using the menu, but it should be OK the way I have it set. A simple touch of the shutter button wakes it up instantly & it’s ready to shoot immediately.
IF at some time you can’t change a setting such as Exposure Compensation etc MAKE SURE the On / Off switch is fully on, It can still take photos with it a bit less than in the fully on position, but won’t allow changes. I HAVE RUN INTO THIS MORE THAN ONCE, AND WAS TOTALLY BAFFLED for a while, even the second & third time due to how seldom it happens. .
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Rebel t3i Flash output settings

I have a new rebel t3i when i set the flash to manual the flash output level for the built in flash will not go higher than 1/4 power. it will go lower down to 1/128 power but not higher than 1/4. I contacted canon and they replied back that they do not know. I sent a second e-mail and that person said that is the way it works. I don't beleive these two people really know, and all they do is answer e-mails. Somebody must know why this happens. Any help would be appreciated.

I think you're mis interpreting the manual. From reading the t21 & t41 as well as the 7D manual you don't have the ability to set the power output of the built in flash. You do have that available on the Canon Speedlights (ad on flash units) which are specified as fully compatible with your camera. .
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I have a Canon Rebel T3i and I need to tether into my Macbook Pro. How can I do that?

I have a Canon Rebel T3i and I need to tether into my Macbook Pro. How can I do that? I updated my iPhoto to recongize my camera, it does. When connected I see it in the USB utlitiy. But my MacBook Pro says "no camera found." What do I need to do to fix this problem?

Thanks, Kappy
I was fooling around with Lightroom and it has a tethering option. I tried it and it worked. But I am still reading my camera manual as you recommeded.
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When I try to open the EOS digital solution disk ver 24.1 for my new Canon Rebel T3i camera on my Mac 10.5.8 a notice "this software is not supported by the CPU you are using" comes up. What gives?

When I try to open the EOS digital solution disk ver 24.1 for my new Canon Rebel T3i camera on my Mac 10.5.8 a notice "this software is not supported by the CPU you are using" comes up. Do I need this software? Can I just download the pictures to my Mac without using the Canon software?

When I try to open the EOS digital solution disk ver 24.1 for my new Canon Rebel T3i camera on my Mac 10.5.8 a notice "this software is not supported by the CPU you are using" comes up
You need to contact Canon - or read the software specs - it sounds like the software you got form them is not supported by your computer
Do I need this software?
Probably not - exactly what about it do you want?
Can I just download the pictures to my Mac without using the Canon software?
Probably - if you are shooting JPEG - launch iPhoto and in the iPhoto preferences set action when a camera is connected to launch iPhoto and connect your camera - iPhoto should launch and you should be able to import
Some cameras need to be set to mass storage mode - read your camera manual for details and procedures
If you are using RAW then your camera needs to be on this list and you need the versions of software noted - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4757 - for older OS versions you can use google to find the list of supported cameras
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EOS Rebel T3i Flash

Hi I have a EOS Rebel T3i. My flash will come up but doesn't work, how do i fix this?

"t doesn't flash when we need it either. I've tried basically everything."
Except cleaning the pin which tells the camera the flash is up.
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Canon EOS Rebel T3i 600D Video Problem

hello there!
I've been using my DSLR for about a month ago, and I love that it shoots full HD 1080p in 24 frames per second which commonly used for film-making. My Question is, when I browse videos on my computer (.mov files), it's resolution is always 1920x1088. So, it's not exactly in 1080 in height, is this fine? or others do have situation like this? And lastly, if I upload a video on Youtube, does the quality of the video will be remained? Thanks

Hello francoambatali,
The video recorded by the EOS Rebel T3i is 1920 x 1080, so I am unsure where you see it listed as being different than that. From what you describe, your saying it has an extra 8 pixels on the vertical side, which makes it over HD if nothing else. But again, we do not think what you are seeing is accurate, instead the program is probably reading the specifications incorrectly. It will not harm the integrity of the video though.
If you upload a video to Youtube, the quality undoubtedly will be compressed as a result of being uploaded. Youtube's compression methods are not determined by Canon, so we can't say for certain how much of a quality loss there will be, but it will undoubtedly be lower quality than the original source file.
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Camera Raw CS4 Canon Rebel T3i update?

Is there an update to Camera Raw (CS4!) for the Canon EOS Rebel T3i?
Or, is there an equivelant method for opening CR2 files in PS CS4?
Can I update to Camera Raw 6.4.1 (which is when it started support for the Canon Rebel T3i) with CS4?

Once a new verson of PS comes out camera raw is not updated, and the old version is not suppported.
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You options are to upgrade to current version so you can use ACR 7.x or download the free current DNG converter. Currently the DNG converter is 7.1 which is the same as ACR 7.1.

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