Canon T2i Features Video Zoom, 1080p At 30FPS
The new poster boy for Canon — the Canon T2i — blends the line between a high-quality DSLR camera and an HD video camera.
The T2i looks to be the next step in bringing HD video to the masses. Debuting at $800 ($900) with a lens kit in March, the camera is leagues beyond its similarly-priced counterparts. The Canon T2i can do up to 1080p video at — compared to other still cameras — a blinding fast 30 fps. It also does 720p at 60 fps.
On top of all that, the T2i can also zoom automatically while shooting video. Other still cameras along with the T1i were very difficult to focus while shooting video since photographers were forced to focus manually with the lenses.
The T2i also features “Movie Crop” mode:
Another feature debuting in the Rebel T2i is Canon’s new Movie Crop mode, where the user can achieve 7x magnification when shooting SD video for a significantly increased “telephoto” effect.
Unlike the digital zoom feature found in many compact digital cameras, Canon’s new Movie Crop mode actually crops the image directly from the CMOS sensor at full SD resolution to preserve maximum image quality and provide additional zoom power.
Oh, and to make up for the typically awful sound taken via still cameras, the Rebel T2i features an external stereo microphone jack on top of the onboard mic.
Oh right, it’s a camera too:
The EOS Rebel T2i DSLR features a newly developed 18-million-pixel Canon CMOS imaging sensor providing outstanding resolution and light sensitivity for amazing poster-sized prints with fine detail and stunning color.
The camera exhibits exceptional low-noise performance incorporating many of the same technologies used to reduce noise in professional cameras such as the EOS 7D. The Rebel T2i camera’s basic ISO range is an amazing 100~6400, and via a Custom Function, it can be extended to ISO 12,800.
Taking advantage of the video functionality, the T2i still camera is extremely fast, shooting at 3.7fps of continuous images.
So yeah, I want it.
