I've added a 7D to my arsenal and have been shooting with it a lot during the last six nonths. I'm about ready to buy a 2nd cam, and have been thinking about a t2i instead of another 7d. One of the main concerns I have with the t2i is the lack of kelvin option for wb. Someone told me that you can adjust kelvin on the t2i, but only in a menu. Is this true? Kelvin adjustanbility is very usefull when I'm doing a 2 camera shoot ( interviews, fo example) with challenging mixed light situations.

The other concern is the lack of seperate shutter and iris wheels. For video, that's not a problem, but for shooting photos, I like to have the 2 seperate controls.

Right now I keep my 7d on a Marksphoto bracket, ready for tripod or shoulder rig. I wanted to use the 2nd cam for both video and photo.It's hard to justify an extra $800 for the 7d, but I just might go trhat way.
Any thoughts?
Bruce Yarock

You don't have Kelvin temp adjustments on the T2i but I don't find the aperture shutter speed a big deal. Its a little slower than the 7D though. You have one dial for both -Default is shutter - when you hold down an "Aperture" button on the back the dial switches to aperture. No big deal.

I found a way to make Kelvin type warm cards for the T2i that I'm thinking of selling if I can figure out a way to sell downloads over the web.

Leonard.
I agonized over the choice, and yesterday decided to go with another 7d. I couldn't really afford it, but really wanted the 2nd cam to be exactly like the first, My reasons are:

1- I really need to be able to move quickly, especially on 2 cam interviews, etc. This way, I can use the same exact settings on both cameras and be confident that they'll match.

2- Though shutter speed really doesn't change while shooting video, I also shoot some photo events. I need seperate wheels for iris and shutter, and would find the lack of that feature ( along with no kelvin) to be cumbersome. Before I switched to canon, I shot with Nikons ( d80 and d200) and couldn't imagine not having seperate shutter and iris controls.

3- I've also been experimenting with multi cam situations using the 7d, my A1 with the Letus extreme, and the Canon H1. Having a 2nd 7d will make this an easier task.
Bruce Yarock

2- Though shutter speed really doesn't change while shooting video, I also shoot some photo events. I need seperate wheels for iris and shutter, and would find the lack of that feature ( along with no kelvin) to be cumbersome. Before I switched to canon, I shot with Nikons ( d80 and d200) and couldn't imagine not having seperate shutter and iris controls.



Honestly, it becomes second nature to use the exposure button as a shift key, but if you need kelvin WB, makes sense.

One thing might help you make up your mind, my T2i overheat faster than my 7D, 7D had never overheat on a job, only at home testing with old firmware, but my T2i overheat at a job before so now I will have instant ice pack available just in case, but everything on the 7D is better except for the LCD, T2i is a little sharper.