Reason why I purchased the canon rebel T3 is because I fell in love with that camera when my friend let me take a nice photo shot of a frogspawn in he's 90G tank. So ever since that photo I took I have loved canon =D
I gravitated to the T3i because it had more megapixels and the screen comes out to allow for angles where i cant look thru the viewfinder but i never actually used the T3 and was curious if there was anything superior about it. My T3i has difficulty focusing when using the screen to take photos.