Originally Posted by DeanCapture

I bought a T3i that I use only for video. I bought it as a backup for our 5D Mark II, which we also only use for video. It's not quite as versatile as the 5D Mark II but it makes an excellent backup camera for our needs and would be excellent as a main camera for some other peoples needs.

One of my gripes about it is that you can not set the actual kelvin degrees for white balance. You can only use the camera presets or do a custom white balance. When I shoot video with the 5D Mark II, I like to actually dial in the kelvin degrees that I want to use.

My other issue is that the ISO settings that are offered are not as complete as the 5D Mark II. You have a small variety of ISO settings that are possible like ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 etc..etc. These ISO settings are set up as 1-stop adjustments. In the 5D Mark II, you have 1/3 adjustments, which really come in handy.

So those are my biggest issues with the Canon T3i but for the price and gorgeous video that it shoots, it's a small trade off.

I haven't shot any pictures with it yet so I can't critique that....but I've heard others talk about the picture quality and from what I understand - it's just beautiful!