T2i Or T3i!!?? I have to decide by tonight!

The T3i's movie-mode AF is not good enough to be used seriously. t4i touchscreen is meh (you'll still be faster when you get to know the buttons intuitively on a more advanced camera aka 60d 7d). The 1.3fps difference in burst rate is meh (between t3i/t4i). The only real difference is the AF points and higher expanded ISO range.

Touchscreen is awesome for playback, don't know what you're talking about. I think we disagree on what 'matters.' The 1.3 fps does matter to me. That's a ~40% increase in framerate. It brings the T4i up from rebel to XXd status almost when it comes to sports capability. The expanded ISO is useless imo. I shoot raw, and the expanded ISO just means there are more crappy ISO's I won't touch.

The 55-250 is an excellent lens.

T2i is a great camera but no wireless for flash like the T3i
i feel i want to buy it again after i sold it

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h4ppydaze wrote in post #14706424
Actually the differences are pretty minor... the flippy screen and the wireless control of flashes using pre-flashes (yuck, I'd never trust this over getting a set of triggers). Everything else is the same. The difference between the t3i and t4i are much bigger. T4i boasts much higher framerate, 9 cross type AF points instead of 1, continuous movie AF, a brilliant touchscreen... Yea the t2/3i difference is incremental compared to the t3/4i difference.

The problem here is that in your opinion, both the flippy screen and the wireless flash control are worthless as considered by you. Quite to the contrary- the flippy screen is useful for any number of situations- and being able to take the flash off camera with the wireless control - without buying a master or some set of wireless triggers ( and the good ones cost significant amounts of money to retain certain features of your flash ) - well- maybe you already had the triggers- I don't know. But because a feature is useless to you does not make it useless to others. It's like the movie enhancements of the t4i- maybe of use to you, as you seem to like them, but to a guy that takes only pictures- it's totally worthless !

Like I said, we disagree. Flippy screen? Yea I can actually see a good use for that. Personally, I like optical finders but yes I've been in situations where a flippy screen would be nice. If it's worth $100 to you, it's worth $100 to you.

But wireless control of your flashes? They only work when they're in line of sight, and there's no guarantee they're gonna fire. It also uses those annoying pre-flashes which just aren't good for any living subjects. No way I'm going to trust that at a shoot - it's a last resort. Plus it adds another second or so to the shutter lag which is ridiculous. If you're dabbling in off-camera flash, you might as well do it the right way and do it manually, and at the very least with reliable and instantaneous triggering. Just my two cents on the matter.

As far as the huge upgrade in AF and fps between the T3i and T4i, maybe that doesn't matter to you. This is just another place where we disagree.

It makes perfect sense to include a feature like a master in the pop up in an intermediate model like the T3i and T4i, because it means you can get your customers interested in developing their flash skills, and get them buying the necessary hardware to do so without having any prohibitive initial expense.

It means they can start experimenting with strobism, and only have to buy a single relatively inexpensive speedlight that can function as a slave. Maybe you dislike that system, maybe it isn't as effective as other more expensive solutions, but I don't think it can be argued as anything but an overall value add, if not to the prosumer models then at least to the intermediate ones.