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The Canon EOS 1100D is Canon's entry level camera, and is the second camera to be introduced since the 1000D. As the 300D through to the 600D range improved over the years, Canon increasingly came under pressure from other entry level DSLR models, often priced at a lower level than the range, therefore Canon introduced a new entry level model, the 1000D nearly three years ago.

The Canon EOS 1100D is also known as the (US) Rebel T3 and (Japan) Kiss X55

Canon EOS 1100D Features

• 12-megapixel image quality
• On-screen Feature Guide
• Creative Auto and Basic+
• HD video capture, 25, 30fps
• ISO 100-6400 sensitivity
• Wide-area 9-point AF system
• 63-zone iFCL exposure metering
• 6.8cm (2.7”), 230,000-dot screen
• Use with all EF and EF-S lenses

How does the Canon EOS 1100D Digital SLR compare to the Canon EOS 600D? Here's a quick overview of both models, highlighting the main differences, with the highlighted green item being the best:

Canon EOS 1100D	Canon EOS 600D
12mp CMOS	18mp CMOS
2.7 inch screen, 230k pixel	3.0 inch vari-angle screen, 1040k pixel
3.2fps JPEG, 2fps RAW	3.7fps (34 jpeg, 6 raw)
9 point focus	9 point AF
1280 x 720, 30/25fps, 17min max	1080p 30/25/24fps, 29min max
ISO100-6400	ISO100-6400 extendable to 12,800
DIGIC4	DIGIC4
Pentamirror, 95% coverage, 0.80x magnification	Pentamirror, 95% coverage, 0.85x magnification
700 shot battery life	440 shot battery life
129.9 x 99.7 x 77.9 mm	133.1 x 99.5 x 79.7 mm
495g including battery and memory card	570g including battery and memory card
Flash guide number 9.2	Flash guide number 13
£420 with non-IS kit lens	£660 with IS kit lens

While we are at it, I thought it would be worth comparing the Canon EOS 1100D, Canon's entry level ~£400  camera, to Nikon's entry level ~£400 camera, the Nikon D3100, both aimed at the beginner or entry level market:

Canon EOS 1100D	Nikon D3100
12mp CMOS	14.2mp CMOS
2.7 inch screen, 230k pixel	3.0 inch screen, 230k pixel
3.2fps JPEG, 2fps RAW	3fps (RAW + JPEG)
9 point focus	11 point AF
1280 x 720, 30/25fps, 17min max	1080p 24fps video, 10min max
ISO100-6400	ISO100-3200 extendable to 6400, 12,800
DIGIC4	EXPEED 2
Pentamirror, 95% coverage, 0.80x magnification	Pentamirror, 95% coverage, 0.95x magnification
700 shot battery life	580 shot battery life
129.9 x 99.7 x 77.9 mm	124 x 96 x 74.5 mm
495g including battery and memory card	455g excluding battery and memory card
Flash guide number 9.2	Flash guide number 12
£420 with non-IS kit lens	£420 with VR kit lens

For more details see our Nikon D3100 Digital SLR review.



The Canon EOS 1100D is available with the non-IS Canon EF-S 18-55mm kit lens or alternatively as an optical image stabilised Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS II.



The biggest appeal of buying an SLR or ILC (interchangeable lens camera), as the name suggests, is being able to change lenses, and the Canon series offers an excellent range of lenses, starting with the 50mm f/1.8 lens available for around £90 to the ultimate L series lens, the Canon EF 800mm f/5.6 L IS USM Lens priced at nearly £10,000 pounds.



The pop up flash is shown here, and automatically pops up when needed, or when you press the flash button.

Canon EOS 1100D Handling

Feel and build quality: The first thing I noticed when picking up the camera was that my trigger finger (index finger) didn't naturally rest on the shutter release. I noticed this every time someone else picked up the camera to take a photo as well. Everyone seemed to expect the button to be slightly closer to them. I don't know whether this was just a case of user error, smaller than normal hands, or whether the design takes a while to get used to. However, once over this first hurdle, I found the camera comfortable to use, although the body, despite being solidly built, didn't inspire confidence. The overall feel of the body was one of a budget plastic body.  The slightly rubberised / rubber coating to the hand grip and rear of the camera helped a little.


Ease of use: The live view button blends in with the rest of the buttons, whereas on the 600D the button is designed to stand out from the rest. The flash button also blends into the camera body - I tend to expect to find it to the left of the pop-up flash as per the 600D and other SLRs and ultra zoom cameras.

Menu systems: Canon has a logical well laid out menu system, with the shooting menus colour coded red, playback menus are colour coded blue, setup orange, and my menu is colour coded green. The my menu allows you to add all your favourite settings onto one page, so that you can quickly access the most regularly used settings. The camera also provides a quick explanation of each menu item, and this all adds up to make it a very easy menu system to use.


Battery life: The battery life of the 1100D is very good, allowing you to take over 700 shots before the battery will go flat thanks to the 7.4v 860mAh battery. I took over 700 shots and still the camera seemed to have a lot of life left in it. The camera battery is rated at 700 shots according to CIPA standards.

Speed: Here we've tested the 1100D and compared it to the 600D, to see if there is much difference in performance. We've also tested the camera in live view mode as this can dramatically affect focusing speed.

	Canon EOS 1100D	Canon EOS 600D
Shutter response (SLR, Live)	0.1	0.1
Focus - wide, shutter response	0.2	0.2
Focus - telephoto, shutter response	0.25	0.25
Focus - live view (wide)	1.3-1.5*	1.3-1.5*
Switch on time - taking photo	0.3	0.35
Shot to shot - without flash	0.5	0.4-0.5
Shot to shot - with flash	0.6-0.7	0.6-0.7
Continuous shooting - JPEG	3.1fps	4fps (unlimited?)
Continuous shooting - JPEG with Flash	2fps	0.6-0.7 between shots
Continuous shooting - RAW	2fps	3fps (6 shots)

Testing on JPEG, Review off, live view off, flash off, unless otherwise stated. Thankfully the shutter response is still very quick in live view mode even though the focusing is much slower.

*These were the average results assuming the camera locked focus on the first attempt, if it failed, then it could easily add another second to the focusing time.

Canon EOS 1100D Performance

Exposure: Exposure is excellent, I took hundreds of photos and never had any concern about exposure, although occasionally I set the exposure compensation to -0.3 to help keep highlight detail in scenes of  contrast. The camera coped very well with these shots below, producing well exposed images with high levels of detail.

Wide	Telephoto

Focusing: Focusing is excellent, very quick, accurate, and successful, however using live view mode focusing is much slower and occasionally unsuccessful, and under trickier lighting situations best avoided.

Thoresby Hall	Thoresby Hall water

Colour reproduction is excellent, with accurate, rich colours, and excellent detail, thanks to extremely low noise levels.

Resolution: Example photos are shown below, click to view full size.

Wide	Telephoto

The camera produces very detailed images, and despite the "low" resolution of only 12 megapixels. JPEG images can be up to 12mb in size, especially when particularly detailed with content like trees, while RAW (CR2) files can range from 13mb to 26mb. Slightly sharper results can be produced by sharpening, although images don't need much sharpening. You can alter the sharpness setting in the picture style menu (the options are sharpness, contrast, saturation, colour tone), however the default settings are very good.

Noise: Examples are shown below, click to view full size.

ISO100	ISO200	ISO400	ISO800
ISO1600	ISO3200	ISO6400

ISO100 - ISO800 - Very low noise, smooth images, with excellent colour. ISO1600 is where you start seeing noise. ISO3200 more noise it noticeable, and there is some colour desaturation, but images are still very good. ISO6400 results are very good, however, black and white spots start appearing in images.

Additional Photo Features: The camera features "Auto lighting optimizer" with four settings: Off, Low, Standard, Strong. Here are some examples showing what this feature does:

Off	Low
Standard	Strong

The feature is similar to Nikon's D-Lighting or Olympus' Shadow adjustment technology and is designed to retain detail in the shadows and highlight areas of the image, and works well, although contrast does appear to drop slightly when using this mode.

Waitress	Aston Martin light

Picture style modes: The camera features several options for picture style, such as standard, portrait, landscape, neutral, faithful, monochrome, and three user defined options, where you can set the sharpness (0-7), contrast, saturation and colour tone (+/-4).

Type	Cutlery

The camera does not feature any additional "creative" or artistic filters or editing options in camera, for that you will need to go to the 600D as that features playback editing of photos.

White balance: examples are shown below, click to view full size images.

AWB - Tungsten	Tungsten - Tungsten
AWB - Fluorescent	Fluorescent - Fluorescent

The camera's auto white balance and preset white balance settings are quite frankly excellent under these lighting conditions - I had to double check the EXIF data on the images to make sure I had actually changed to the presets.

Flash performance:

Flash group shot	Flash group shot

The camera focuses well when subjects are in the middle of the frame, however, on the second shot the camera struggled to correctly identify the subjects and the focus is slightly off. Fortunately this is not a regular occurrence, and flash performance was very good lighting the subjects well without overexposing and the skin tones are particularly accurate. Red eye is also very low, and there is a good level of background light.

Macro performance:

Red flower macro	Dandelion macro

Lens: For our test we used both the IS and newer IS II version of the kit lens, the Canon Zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS lens, and the Canon Zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS II kit lens. We found both lenses to be an excellent combination with the 1100D and 600D. Both lenses coped very well with macro subjects such as those shown above, and can give brilliant detail when used at the telephoto end of the lens, and is capable of pleasing bokeh. We did not test the non-IS kit lens so are unable to comment on the quality of images from that lens.