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Despite its budget price-tag, the Canon EOS 1100D / Rebel T3 is a responsive and intuitive DSLR that offers many of the key features of its bigger and more expensive sibling, the 600D / T3i, in a smaller and lighter body. The lowest price of Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50) Body is P16,300 at widgetcity. EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50) Body is not available in other stores at this time. The latest price of Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50) Body was updated on Aug 13, 2018, 11:07. The Canon EOS 1100D, or sometimes called the Digital Rebel T3, is an entry-level camera from Canon that will amaze with its features. It comes in 2 colour variants, black and red.

Rather than introduce new dSLR models at bargain-basement prices as Pentax and Sony tend to do, Canon traditionally lets its slightly higher-end models gradually fall in price until they're the de facto entry-level models. But its current starter, the EOS Rebel XS, which the Canon EOS Rebel T3 replaces, has been around since the summer of 2008 and even Canon must think it's looking a bit dowdy compared with competitors that, though old, aren't quite that old. So Canon spruced up its low-end models a little with the latest imaging and metering systems--and somehow managed to produce a camera that still feels 3 years old.

That's not to say that the T3 is bad; it's not. In fact, the photo quality is quite good for the price, as we've come to expect from Canon. It has excellent midrange (ISO 400-3,200) sensitivity performance. JPEGs get a bit grainy, but remain very usable, up through ISO 800, and start to get soft at ISO 1,600. At ISO 3,200, the JPEG photos don't look terrible, but you can see some color noise and images develop hot pixels. As usual, Canon's JPEG processing is pretty good. I couldn't get much better results from processing the raw versions--I could get different results, but only by trading off dynamic range for color and grain.

Overall, the T3 delivers excellent color reproduction, though in shadowed areas the white balance gets a little too cool. The default Standard Picture Style pushes the saturation and sharpness a bit more than I like, but there are no wholesale hue shifts and the Neutral style works out well if you prefer. Metering and exposure are solid.

In its Standard Picture Style setting (sharpness at +3), the camera plus 18-55mm lens renders very sharp images--possibly a little too sharp. You can dial it back, however. The lens produces nice out-of-focus highlights, and at its widest the distortion isn't too bad. Like most inexpensive lenses, it's pretty susceptible to fringing. I didn't see any purple, however, and it tends to stay on the edges of the frame.

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. 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. 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. All of that is pretty typical, perfectly adequate performance for a low-end model. Continuous shooting, though, is a mediocre 2.9 frames per second, which is just as bad as the Nikon D3100. 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. And Live Mode autofocus is as slow as you'd expect.

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The T3's video capture is pretty limited: 720p, with exposure compensation the only control and no autofocus. That said, the quality is OK; it's suitable for capturing random clips.

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Though it's not the heaviest camera in its class, the T3's body is rather clunky. And while I like the rubberized grip, the whole camera feels very cheap and plasticky. The control layout is straightforward and functional. 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. All of the buttons are flat with little tactile feedback. The only buttons with any sort of travel are the exposure lock and AF point selector buttons, positioned for thumb-based operation. They still manage to feel mushy.