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Instead, Canon moved it to the bottom, in the battery compartment-a popular but annoying location. And you'd think there'd be plenty of room for an SD card slot in the huge grip.
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For the T3, Canon also made the flash button flat and moved it to the top right side I had to look up its location in the manual because it was so camouflaged.
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It's also relatively low resolution and difficult to see in direct sunlight.Īs I've often complained before, I hate it that you have to use a specific movie mode to shoot video, and I especially hate that it's on the opposite side of the mode dial from the manual modes. Since it's not 16:9 aspect, the 2.7-inch size isn't as small as it sounds (it's about as high as a 16:9 3-inch display), but it's another thing that makes the camera feel old. The T3 lacks spot metering, and I think it's because of the small viewfinder Canon tends to have large spots for its meter, and the combination of a small viewfinder and a large spot means you're already at the partial meter size, anyway.
It's easy to lose the nine tiny autofocus points against the scene, and I frequently find I've used the wrong point to focus and have to prefocus to light them up in order to find the center point. This one in particular is the most claustrophobic I've seen in a long time it's also got the lowest magnification of any Canon camera in the past few years. Lots of people don't mind them, but I dislike the low-end Canon viewfinders. The only buttons with any sort of travel are the exposure lock and AF point selector buttons, positioned for thumb-based operation. All of the buttons are flat with little tactile feedback.
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The four navigation buttons bring up ISO sensitivity, drive mode, white balance, and autofocus mode options, whereas exposure compensation, movie record/live mode, menu, Quick Control, playback, and display occupy other buttons around them. The control layout is straightforward and functional.
And while I like the rubberized grip, the whole camera feels very cheap and plasticky. Though it's not the heaviest camera in its class, the T3's body is rather clunky. That said, the quality is OK it's suitable for capturing random clips. The T3's video capture is pretty limited: 720p, with exposure compensation the only control and no autofocus. And Live Mode autofocus is as slow as you'd expect.Īll cross-type center dual cross to f5.6 In practice, that's just fast enough to capture kids and pets, but only if they're moving predictably, and with the knowledge that you may occasionally not get the shot. Continuous shooting, though, is a mediocre 2.9 frames per second, which is just as bad as the Nikon D3100. All of that is pretty typical, perfectly adequate performance for a low-end model. Typical JPEG shot-to-shot time rounds up to 0.5 second (raw is a bit slower at 0.6 second), and with flash enabled it-surprisingly-stays the same. Time to turn on and shoot runs about 0.4 second, while focusing and shooting in good light takes 0.3 second in dim light, that rises to 0.6 second. For the most part, the T3 performs like the rest of the budget dSLRs, although its burst speed is worse than the 3-year-old XSi and pretty much at the bottom of its class.
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