Canon Rebel T4i – A Review For The Rest Of Us
I am far from a photographer or videographer, however I do have a need to have some equipment. I started to realize that my Iphone and old HD Canon Vixia just wasn’t cutting it for my needs. The Iphone 5 takes awesome pictures, however I found myself is situations where the phone just didn’t work the way I wanted it to. For example, focusing close up is a real pain in the butt also the zoom feature isn’t that great. My old camcorder only recorded in 3. something megapixels. While it looks decent, I could tell when uploading it that I was loosing lots of quality.
After discussing it with a friend of mine I decided to go with the Canon Rebel T4i. Now I can kill two birds with 1 stone…
Canon Rebel T4i – Is It Good For The Clueless?
I will be the first to admit that I have no idea how to use this camera or any camera for that matter. It has lots of buttons and gizmos that do all sorts of things. The only thing I want to do is point and shoot. It took me about an hour to figure out how to take a picture, switch out lenses and shoot a video. Here is photo I took from my back yard.
Making Videos With The Canon Rebel T4i
I did shoot a video real fast just to see. I will mention that the auto focus is indeed tricky to work with. I was shooting the video in low light and at the time of the recording I didn’t realize that my fan was in the shot.
In my defense it was the first video I shot with the camera and I really don’t know how to use the equipment yet. I just pulled it out of the box and started pushing buttons 🙂
Rebel T4i Wrap Up
My final verdict is the Rebel T4i is perfect for a newbie, Connecting the camera to my computer to get my content was a breeze. The picture, video and sound quality is acceptable. If your looking for an affordable solution I recommend getting this camera…
The Dark Side:
Auto – focus is cool but isn’t great. You need to be extra accessories if you want to be able to stop/start your video remotely. For those of you who want to do video you can only do about 22 to 30 minute video shots at a time. I found a video online with a person that found a solution to the auto focus issue.
Here’s a cool T4i hack. One of the best things about the new Canon EOS Rebel T4i (650D) is that it can auto-focus in video mode. However, when you use this mode, sometimes the auto-focus wanders around and becomes distracting. So… a lot of people turn it off.
I hope you enjoyed this quick mini – review on the Canon Rebel T4i.
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i am currently saving up to invest in the Canon camera, looking forward to it as well as a 35mm wide angle lense! great review.
Great Summary with easy explanation All point of this article are valuable & useful.
those photos are impressive, great detail! i love electronic gadgets, and of course your Canon seems a cool gadget to buy. what i don’t like of latest cameras is that you can’t tweak anymore with filters and similar. I think they ended with the digital revolution.
Love your review and great way to explain things, thanks for sharing.
Just loved the “T4i”, It’s simply awesome.. great zoom with clear picture quality
i don’t like of latest cameras is that you can’t tweak anymore with filters and similar. I think they ended with the digital revolution.
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