Canon Rebel T2i

I believe that we live in an exciting age of technology and particularly in Camera DSLR technology. It is only the die hards and perhaps a few super detail fanatic professional photographers who still hold on to film cameras. At what MP rate will they be happy? Since cameras became capable of 2 MP or more the DSLR’s started replacing SLR’s at the professional level. Megapixels have become so ubiqutous that it is no longer much of a selling point. Of course if you want high quality printed images these devices soon show their weaknesses.

MP’s have proved just one piece of the puzzle for quality photography . Sensor size, quality lenses, exchangeable lenses, frames per second and a lot more are important. As high MP cameras became a dime a dozen, DSLR companies focused on a variety of other elements. 2010 Seems to be the year of leaps in Video or Movie technology being incorporated in DSLR’s and the winner by a long shot was the Canon Rebel T2i. The Canon Rebel T2i was a recognised pack leader and a best seller for Canon. This was a good victory for Canon.

The stand-out features of the Canon EOS Rebel T2i are 18MP, APS-C sensor, Canon Ef-S and EF lens compatibility, State of the art 920 Pixel LCD screen, and most remarkably, Full HD Video capability. The Canon T2i offers a choice of video frames per second and pixel density, leaving the user the choice between ultimate quality over storage capacity. The user can take a large number of totally acceptable videos on less storage or, if saving on storage space is not an issue the user can take take professional quality movies. With this new level of HD Movie functionality, Canon has stolen market share from both DSLR and Video camera players.

Other features that make the Canon Rebel T2i impressive are a new, smudge free Liquid Crystal Display, light weight, the full spectrum of auto modes as well as manual modes for those that know what they are doing.

Even if you only have a few hundered Dollars to invest you can lay your hands on feature High Definition Movie technology. The reviewers that called the T2i the “best consumer DSLR” had good reason for their praise.

The Canon T2i is sold in North America as part of the Rebel range. In Europe and elsewhere this range is not differentiated. The T2i it is sold as the Canon 550D outside of North America. It is widely available through Amazon and other on-line stores and is stocked by all reputable Camera stores. The price is pretty standard and has come down somewhat after the announcement of the Canon T3i (600D) early in 2011. The Canon 600D offers slightly advanced HD movie capability and more importantly a Vari-Angle Screen. The new announcement offers a further upgrade to the Canon T2i but is in no way a replacement.