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[cameraclicker]

I have not tried the Digital vision lenses, so I can’t comment on them.  I use a teleconverter that mounts on the body when I want to have a lens appear longer than it is, and on a crop body, a 10-20 mm lens when I want a really wide angle lens.  10 mm gives an angle of view of about 90 degrees on a crop body, the same as 16 mm on a full frame body.

Your T3i has a “flash commander mode”, it can fire some flashes while they are off camera.  Compatible flashes include the Canon 430 EX II, 580 EX II and 600 EX RT/600 EX.

Another piece of hardware worth having is a tripod.