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  • Pete Burger

    February 8, 2011 at 7:16 am

    Thanks, Sohrab! Interesting news.

  • Albert Solan

    February 8, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks for the info.

    Hmmm, first the 60D with a vari-angle screen, now the T3i.
    Will we see a new 7D with such screen soon?

  • Bob Knapp

    February 9, 2011 at 1:59 am

    If it has manual audio control (like 60d) then this might be my next camera!!

    See What I See Productions

  • Stephen Smith

    February 15, 2011 at 12:14 am

    I was hoping for more professional type features to be added to camera.

    Stephen Smith
    Utah Video Productions

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  • Albert Solan

    February 15, 2011 at 1:18 am

    such as?

  • Richard Harrington

    February 15, 2011 at 2:18 am

    At the price point? You’re kidding right.

    Richard M. Harrington, PMP

    Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

  • Stephen Smith

    February 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    Alberto & Richard,
    Let me expand my thought. When the T2i was announced it sent shockwaves of excitement out. When I went to Amazon to pre-order it, Amazon said the waiting list was so big it would be delivered two months after it was released. There was a dramatic difference between the T1i and the T2i. If I had a T1i I would would get rid of it and buy a T2i with no hesitation. As I stated earlier…the T2i created an extreme amount of buzz and excitement. I was lucky enough to find a local camera store that had a few left in stock the day it came out. I have really loved the T2i and feel it was a great purchase.
    When I read the article above about the T3i and how Cannon was trying to capture a bigger audience such as the “family User” I thought that that was great. Then I read the new features in the article: Scene Intelligent Auto, Picture Style Auto mode, Fish-Eye Effect and creative filters such as b&W, Snapshot…Sorry, but I didn’t get excited about those new features. The Digital Zoom was a cool addition that can come in handy in a pinch. I already own a T2i, I felt like the T3i didn’t have enough oomph to get me to get rid of my T2i to purchase a T3i. I’m sure there are more new features then I read about in the article above that I will learn about as more information come out about the camera. But for now…I’m happy with my T2i and I’ll probably trade it in for a T4i. That is what I was trying to say.

    After I went back to look at the article again to look up the features I realized I missed the paragraph above all of those links. I did not realize that they added a flip-out screen. I think that is a cool addition as well. During the summer I was hiking in the middle of nowhere with my T2i and a slider. I did a shoot with the camera super low to the ground and the sun made it really hard to see the screen. I set everything up and then did my camera moves with out seeing the screen. My battery died and I didn’t know it. this flip out screen would have fixed that problem from happening.

    That’s my 2 cents…or maybe 0 cents depending on how you look at it.

    Stephen Smith
    Utah Video Productions

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