Does anyone know anything about Canon Rebel t3

[MickeyMouseCD524]

I'm thinking about buying a Canon Rebel t3 can anyone give me their experience with the camera or what they think of it. I've only used point and shoot as of now but they keep breaking, because I keep giving them to friends to take pictures and the drop them and break them. Sorry for the rant but if anyone could give me a hand I would appreciate it. Please and thank you.

 

[KCmike]

T3 is the bottom of the slr rebel series. The best bang for the buck in your situation would probably be the Canon Rebel T2i. It is older than the T3 but a much better camera all together. There is also a T3i which is the latest of the rebel series. I would go T2i.

What makes you sure your ready for a SLR?

 

[MickeyMouseCD524]

My father has had I think it's the Canon rebel for a long time now, and the pictures are x500 better then mine. My parents have bought me nothing but crappy cameras and they in a word stink plus all my friends have them and I compare photos with them and mine are blurry and dark and I can't tell wether its a person or a bear and they have these gorgeous pictures that could be in a brochure or something. This would be my third camera the first two worked fine when I got them. The first I handed to my friends father on halloween to take a picture of us he dropped it and it didn't work right after that. I got a new one worked fine for a while on the day of my sisters graduation found the camera split in half on the desk if you can believe it. We keep all the cameras in a cabinet in the desk. My best guess is my father pulled his camera out in a huff and the camera fell out although why it was out of the case is beyond me. He kind of fixed it but I took it on a school trip to Italy this year and I'm sitting on the bus on day and it just falls a part in my hands. I put it back together best I could but it can't hold a charge any more and the pictures were trash.

And that's a really long story. Sorry for that. If you don't mind my asking what makes the rebel T2i better?

 

[photo_chick]

The T3 is a solid, basic DSLR. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the T2i and T3i have or quite the ISO range, but that doesn't make it a bad camera. Just a more basic camera at a lower price. It will give you control over the variables and it has solid ISO performance. It's got everything you need to make great images, you just have to supply the know how.

A lot of people say they want a camera to grow into, or that they've grown out of what they have. But to me really it's more a matter of wanting newer technology and/or more features. I know people who still shoot very happily with entry level DSLR's from 5 or 6 years ago. It all comes down to what fits you. No one else can tell you what fits you either. It's like shoes.. you need to try some on for yourself.

If you have the budget for a T2i or T3i you might give them a look. The features they have are really nice. But those features are not necessary to take great photos.

 

[bob100]

I'm thinking about buying a Canon Rebel t3 can anyone give me their experience with the camera or what they think of it. I've only used point and shoot as of now but they keep breaking, because I keep giving them to friends to take pictures and the drop them and break them. Sorry for the rant but if anyone could give me a hand I would appreciate it. Please and thank you.

The T3 is OK but like others have said, the T2i (550D) is probably a better value because of the features, e,g, higher "burst rate", buffer, resolution, etc.
The T2i is around $550 with the 18-55IS lens at the Canon store