...The camera takes quite a few
features from
Canon's EOS 7D,
including an almost identical sensor, the selectable frame rates, and
the stereo mic jack. There's also a new widescreen LCD and button
layout to differentiate it from its
T1i sibling
-- which will stick around on the market to pick up the poorer Canon
lovers among us. The shooter can capture 18.7 megapixel stills at 3.7
fps, with better, 7D-style light metering and an expanded ISO range of
100 to 6400. Video is even more thrilling, with the addition of 30 / 25
/ 24 fps 1080p (the T1i was limited to a silly 20 fps at that
resolution), along with 720p at 50 / 60 fps and VGA at similar rates.
The camera can also do an ultra-zoomed "movie crop" function that
actually does the cropping on the CMOS sensor to provide about 7x of
additional zoom without losing quality in SD. The T2i will hit retail
in March for $800, with a EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens kit at $900.
PR is after the break.
