Canon EOS Rebel T3i 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera and DIGIC 4 Imaging with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens,2.0 out of 5 stars A wildly overhyped camera, November 15, 2011

I spent hours and hours, days upon days, weeks upon weeks trying to get good jpegs and videos from my T3i to no avail. Sharpness was only fairly good (even when manually focused) with two different lens - not razor sharp like most of my previous Olympus cameras. Colors were not fully lifelike so the images looked "digital" instead of filmlike. Here again I was spoiled by my previous good experiences with Olympus cameras. I did generally like the T3i's video, but here again colors were often inconsistent and the .mov files were huge and a pain to work with.

After three months of fustration I bought an inexpensive Olympus Pen camera and was delighted with it's still image color and sharpness.

And I also bought an inexpensive Panasonic SD90 camcorder for video because it's delivers superior image sharpness, image stabilization and zoom capabilities compared to my T3i in the more efficient ACHVD format. I will sell the T3i because I want top quality still image and video and the Canon T2i, T3i, 60D and 7D deliver only mediocre quality in my opinion.