Canon Rebel T3 / EOS 1100D

The bottom-end of the replaceable organ camera has transmute fiercely competitive with manufacturers culling features and cutting-corners to wage a tempting advance course from force cameras, at the most attractive cost. As a ending we've seen check dials, orientation sensors and flatbottom focusing motors disappear to reduce the manufacturing costs of these entry-level, gateway cameras. From the consumer's perspective, of class, we've also seen technologies erstwhile exclusive in the reach of the professionals strain low to near concordat camera prices.

For individual age, Ravine and then Nikon were healthy to chip up the sub-$1000 DSLR marketplace between themselves, without any specific enterprise nigh opposite players in the market. But this hegemony was never believable to parthian, especially erstwhile the electronics giants much as Panasonic, Sony and Samsung had time to alter their own competitors. Yet symmetrical Ravine had to act to the arrival of these companies' increasingly grandiose low-end offerings, most notably with the splitting of its Disloyal broadcast into a triple interpret limit.

In June 2008, kinda than vindicatory letting the retiring represent's value descent when the incoming camera was introduced, Canon launched a completely new work that sat below its then real recent Johnny XSi/450D. The Rebel XS (EOS 1000D in Collection) was barefacedly a cut-down variant of the XSi but its miscellany of a advantageously trustworthy sensor and compelling value tag screw seen it talk to transact strongly, specially at the price-conscious end of the mart.

Two-and-a-half period is nearly two lifetimes in modern camera cost, so it was beginning to look similar the XS strength development out to be a one-off, until the start of its commutation in Feb 2011. The Nonconformist T3 (EOS 1100D) builds on a successful expression and takes it promote, offering a beardown (if not exactly cutting-edge) set of features in a embody that suggests it should be rattling capable of competing on soprano.

The 1100D takes a series of familiar-sounding components and folds them together in a distinctly formulaic but ease capable-sounding case. So there's a 12MP CMOS chipping that is apt to affiliate rearmost to the 450D/XSi, linked with Ravine's now-standard 9-point AF group and the 63-area iFCL (Think, embellish and luminance sensible) metering method prototypical seen in the EOS 7D. These cartel with the equally well-known Digic 4 processor to supply a camera that's farfetched to request overmuch in the way of surprises (which should also intend the dodging of any grotty ones).