The EOS Rebel T3i comes with a 18.0 Megapixel CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) sensor that captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range and more than enough resolution for big enlargements or crops. This first class sensor features most same new technologies as employed by professional Canon cameras to increase each pixel’s light gathering efficiency. Its APS C size sensor creates an effective 1.6x field of view (in comparison with 35mm format).

DIGIC 4 Image Processor
The Canon DIGIC 4 Image Processor dramatically boosts the total EOS Rebel T3i DSLR’s camera operations for intuitive operation and will be offering improvements inside aspect and natural color reproduction. Functions in concert with the EOS Rebel T3i DSLR’s CMOS Image Sensor to produce phenomenal degrees of performance in nearly any situation.

The EOS Rebel T3i features an expanded ISO range who makes shooting possible in situations previously unthinkable without flash. That has an ISO rating roughly 6400 (expandable to ISO 12800), plus the DIGIC 4 Image Processor's improved noise reduction technology, creative possibilities abound. Combine the EOS Rebel T3i and among Canon's EF or EF S lenses with Optical Image Stabilizer as well as the shooting possibilities for both movies and stills expand further.

The EOS Rebel T3i does not just shoot movies, it gives the enhanced ease of use, image quality, smooth frame rates and adaptive exposure compensation necessary inside of a professional video making tool by boasting quite possibly the most advanced EOS video capturing features currently:  When Full HD (1920 x 1080) is set, available for you Movie Digital Zoom to magnify center of the image by 3–10x while at the same time maintaining gorgeous Canon Full HD image quality. While using Video Snapshot feature, the EOS Rebel T3i DSLR will capture short movies (of 2, 4 or 8 seconds) then combine them automatically into one video file as being a snapshot or highlights “album.” And no editing needed after shooting, the compiled video is perfect for sharing online or displaying entirely on an HDTV through the camera’s HDMI port.

In addition for a number of different recording size and frame rate modes, the EOS Rebel T3i enables easy manual control over exposure, focus and Live View features and covers in camera editing. The big CMOS sensor and compatibility auction web sites 60 lenses make a insightful depth of field options. And it’s all as easy as the press of your mouse — the EOS Rebel T3i is known for a dedicated Live View/Movie Recording start/stop button that offers the shooting started fast.

Three Recording Sizes
Full HD Video is captured at 1920 x 1080 resolution at 30p (29.97), 24p (23.976) or 25p frames per second, for approximately 4GB per clip. Video are saved as .MOV files and will be viewed outright HD with HDMI output. Other recording sizes include HD at 1280 x 720 (50p/60p (59.94) fps) or SD/VGA at 640 x 480 (30p (29.97) and 25p fps).

The EOS Rebel T3i incorporates a bright, hd, flip out Vari angle 3.0 inch Clear View LCD monitor for shooting for a different angles. By way of rotating the monitor, yourrrre able to retain the camera directly overhead for above the crowd shots at concerts, or retain the camera on a low angle for teenagers and pets. By rotating the LCD monitor fully, the EOS Rebel T3i becomes a perfect camera for self portraits. The EOS Rebel T3i freely enables easy angle adjustments set up camera is mounted on a tripod or posesses a battery grip attached.

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With 1,040,000 (dots/VGA) pixels for spectacular detail, the advanced, smudge resistant monitor includes high transparency materials plus anti reflective and water repellant coatings to offer clear and bright viewing. Superb for reviewing, editing and deleting photos or composing new images in Live View function, the Vari angle Clear View LCD monitor is furthermore the most perfect method for accessing camera settings like ISO, metering modes, AF Point selection, the horizontal Electronic Level and flash options.

The EOS Rebel T3i DSLR’s new Scene Intelligent Auto mode unites five Canon digital camera technologies – the fresh Picture Style Auto, plus Automatic Lighting Optimizer, Automatic White Balance, Autofocus, and Automatic Exposure –into a robust new feature for photographers. With all the advanced EOS Scene Detection System, you automatically analyzes the look, using faces, colors, brightness, movement and contrast. Scene Intelligent Auto then chooses the enhancing features to produce maximum impact. Blues and greens are definitely vivid, “hot” colors are more fiery, and skin tones are smooth and truer alive.

The EOS Rebel T3i comprises of a sophisticated, 63 zone Dual layer sensor intended to complement the 9 point AF system. By subtracting into mind furnishings and luminosity surrounding chosen AF points, this feature delivers a professional a better standard of accuracy for better results even in difficult lighting situations. As being the metering sensor is known for a color measurement function, exposure errors as you concentrate errors because of different light sources are minimized; the EOS Rebel T3i gives stable exposure from shot to shot in situations where light changes, which includes inside a theater or concert hall. This will make the EOS Rebel T3i suitable for scenes with extreme difference in brightness just like brightly lit scenes or backlit scenes; the digital camera balances exposure within the main subject from the background, and exposures will not be overly influenced by bright areas from the shot. Since the EOS Rebel T3i provides high speed X sync (“X sync” means the quickest shutter speed which will synchronize that has a flash burst at this moment the shutter is fully released) as much as 1/200 sec., the stove of photographic expression is dramatically increased, allowing the EOS Rebel T3i to use with certainty in bright scenes or dim.

63 zone Metering System

Basic+ is known as a new creative imaging feature so that it is basic create the graphic effects you are looking for. It is typically set with the Quick Control screen in Basic Zone modes. Basic+ provides two options:

Shoot by ambience selection
Based along the Picture Style and its parameters (sharpness, contrast, saturation, and color tone), the exposure compensation and white balance correction are adjusted to get the chosen ambience. It's also possible to could also pick the strength of this ambience effect.

Shoot by lighting or scene type
Although that parameter set could be the white balance, the settings are expressed in additional understandable terms.

The Multi Aspect Function belonging to the EOS Rebel T3i permits you to express a graphic per of three ways by matching the aspect ratio to each scene. Besides the camera’s standard 3:2 ration, the Multi Aspect Function incorporates a 1:1 ratio that creates the sensation that your viewer's gaze is focusing upon the midst of the picture. From the 4:3 ratio, the user gets nearly an identical aspect ratio as a general regular TV possibly a 4:3 computer display. The 16:9 aspect ratio provides a wide look, a very similar as HDTV.

The EOS Rebel T3i incorporates five in camera Creative Filters allowing you to artistically manipulate scenes devoid of the aid associated with outside computer. Soft Focus lends a dreamy, romantic aspect, while Grainy Black or white provides dramatically gritty, hard bitten look. Miniature Effect creates an illusion rrn which expansive subjects are seemingly reduced to doll house like proportions, and Toy Camera Effect recreates the colors and softness rendered by cameras accompanied by a plastic lens, a result often popular by art photographers. Fish Eye Effect mimics the “Fisheye” lenses which can be favorites of professional photographers for a quirky, convex perspective.

The EOS Rebel T3i can shoot up to three.7 frames per second (fps) for as much as approximately 6 consecutive RAW files or approximately 34 full resolution JPEGs. Shooting at speeds of up to 1/4000 sec., the EOS Rebel T3i can capture even rapidly unfolding scenes effortlessly.

The Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR demystifies great photography by including an in camera Feature Guide. Appearing in the camera’s LCD, the Feature Guide displays a super easy description or advice for your respective function. It truly is displayed in each shooting mode, during Mode Dial operations, for Quick Control screen functions (during normal shooting, Live View shooting, movie shooting, and playback). The Feature Guide appears automatically during Mode Dial operations then when a function is selected at the Quick Control screen.

The EOS Rebel T3i uses popular SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards. Compact, inexpensive and found increasingly large capacities, SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards can be a perfect complement towards EOS Rebel T3i DSLR’s compact and lightweight body design.

Additionally, the EOS Rebel T3i is compatible with Eye Fi* SD cards, which are outfitted having Wi Fi transmitter (IEEE 802.11b/g) and an enclosed antenna for wireless, high speed transfer of images. By Eye Fi card installed, the EOS Rebel EOS Rebel T3i can instruct the Eye Fi’s connection status and error notes quickly and completely, for fully functional wireless uploading of images directly from you.

*Canon cameras are not guaranteed to support Eye Fi card functions, including wireless transfer. From a major issue with all the Eye Fi card, please confer with the card manufacturer. The effective use of Eye Fi cards will not be available away from the U . s and Canada; please contact the card manufacturer for territory availability.

EF Lenses
The EOS Rebel T3i is compatible with all Canon lenses within the EF lineup, including compact and lightweight EF S lenses, which range from ultra wide angle to super telephoto lenses. Canon lenses employ advanced optical expertise and micron precision engineering to deliver outstanding performance and deliver beautiful results. Special technologies including the Canon Image Stabilizer technology in select lenses enables the minimize the issue of camera shake, effectively including to four stops of light. Having a dizzying choice of lenses ideal for travel, sports, still life and my way through between, photographers can truly maximize the quality and performance with their EOS Rebel T3i with superlative Canon optics.

Flash Photography
With a flash sync speed of 1/200 from a second, the EOS Rebel T3i also features the acclaimed E TTL II flash metering system. With from either of the flashes while in the EX Speedlite line, E TTL II provides reliable flash output whether shooting fill in flash pictures in sunlight, or using flash altogether darkness. With E TTL II, exactly the same 35 zone metering sensor useful for measuring ambient light is in addition raised for flash metering — giving even finer metering command in the image area. If you prefer a broader area for flash metering, there’s a menu setting to convert to “Average” flash metering — where entire 35 zone area is measured evenly for flash exposure. Additionally, the EOS Rebel T3i includes a Speedlite transmitter built in for convenient, full featured wireless control of EX series Speedlite flashes set as slave units.

The Canon Speedlite 430EX II is the ideal step up accessory for powerful flash shooting together with the EOS Rebel T3i. There are excellent flash power (maximum guide range of 141 ft./43m at ISO 100), which is an excellent to obtain great flash pictures if you can't get right up to the topic. The 430EX II can be just the tools for bounce flash, with its tilting and swiveling flash head.  It automatically zooms the flash head over to cover lenses ranging from 16mm approximately 105mm or longer while using the EOS Rebel T3i. Naturally, it does the job considering the camera to offer full E TTL II automatic flash exposure. And also the 430EX II is known for a powerful AF assist beam, so that your camera to autofocus even in total darkness on subjects as long as 32 ft. from the camera.

Speedlite 430EX II