cynicaster
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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For most day-to-day uses the T3 is a great bang for your buck, and a great introduction to DSLR. It was my first DSLR and I used it for over a year before trading it up for a T3i.
Its very important for me to stress that the reason I switched up had nothing whatsoever to do with image quality or megapixels; it was simply because there were a few features missing from the T3 that I really wanted. If those features werent important to me, Id still be using the T3 today.
The main missing feature for me was wireless flash. The T3s pop up flash will not wirelessly trigger other speedlights, and the T3is will, so now I no longer have to always have my 580EX-II on the camera as a wireless master. In that sense, in getting the T3i, I sort of feel like I got a new flash with it, because now I have two off-camera flashes to work with (the other is a 430EX).
Other omissions on the T3 include:
- No external microphone jack for video
- Video is 720p only
- No spot metering
- No articulating LCD
- The hard/smooth plastic shell with no grip material makes it feel a bit cheap
There are probably others, but these were the first that came to mind.
Personally, I couldnt possibly care less about video-related features, but theyre important to some people.
PSI know some people are probably thinking its silly to even bother moving from a T3 to a T3i, but I got such a good deal on the T3i that I only came out a few measly dollars behind after selling the T3. Totally worth the negligible investment for the incremental improvement I received.
So, since there's no spot metering, does that mean I cant do silhouettes?
The T3 still has partial metering, which is kinda sorta like spot metering, in that it sets exposure based on a group of the frames centermost pixels. Ive been able to get some pretty nice silhouettes using partial metering on the T3. A curves adjustment to bump the contrast after the fact never hurts, of course.