I haven't gotten yet, but I think I'm gonna be going with the Nikon 5100. I ended up doing a side by side comparison of features. If a camera had a better feature than the other two, I gave that camera a +1. The D5100 and the T3i ended up tying for first place, so I'm gonna do the Nikon since its a lot cheaper. I'll be getting it for the wife for Christmas, so I'll post up pics after she opens it up.
thanks again for all your advice!
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