Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Today we'll be looking at the Canon EOS
Rebel SL2 in detail. I picked this up for my YouTube channel
specifically. It has that dual pixel auto-focus that is really amazing in
video work. Especially in certain situations like vlogging or doing this
type of filming where I'm filming myself. So I'm not using this at the moment, but
this has helped a lot to make it very convenient. And quicker.. easier to film
this type of stuff. But it is of course a standard camera.
You can take photos with it, which I'll be looking at that as well. But all
different features. All the good, bad, that I've found so far with this camera I'll
be talking about in this video. So let's get started.
Very nice grip on this
camera. Especially considering the size. Works well in my hands. Of course it's
not super tall, but still a very nice deep grip. Build quality feels solid
enough. It is plastic of course, but no creaks.. no strange issues with build
quality. The battery door is a little bit flimsy, but works well enough. The three
knobs on the camera are some type of metal. Very nice and solid feeling. They
have a strong click to them. Very confident to use. Of course, on the main
dial you have: manual, aperture, shutter, and program mode with all the extras.
I mostly use this camera for manual video work, but I have used it for photos. In
that case I usually use aperture priority or the shutter priority. Button
layout is very decent for a camera of this level. The live view switch, which
also works for video recording... It works well in those two situations. ISO button
is a little odd because you have to press that and then use the dial. Of
course, this camera has a touch screen and that's a big feature, but we'll get
to that later. Overall, I'd say the button layout is very nice. The main switch.. I
can sometimes hit that on accident, but it is confident in the clicks between
the different modes. So it does work well enough. One of the big features of this
camera is the fully articulating screen. That means you can adjust
in so many different positions. Towards the user. Towards the lens. You can angle it
in a direction that makes it more convenient. Kind of like shooting from
the hip. Or you can tilt the camera sideways and then face the screen
towards you. The screen is, of course, a touch screen. The nice thing about Canon
cameras with their touch screens is that they're extremely responsive. They work
well. They work in every situation. If you're going through the menus they work just
fine. If you're trying to touch-to-focus that works as well. So many different
options with a screen like this. I'd say it is really one of the best designs for
a screen you can get in in camera.
Just keep in mind your mic port is on that
side. So if you don't have an angled connector on your mic... You might have
some issues with screen blockage if you are doing some type of vlogging
situation. But I do have one connector for my smaller microphone, and it is
angled. That helps out a lot to not block the screen. The battery port door is a
little bit flimsy, but it does work. Keep in mind if you do open the door when you
are taking photos or something it will turn the camera off.
But besides that the memory card is in there as well. Not the most convenient
spot. I would have liked that to be in the upper grip area, but it is a cheaper
camera. So they usually stick the memory card down there with the battery just
for I guess cost-effectiveness. Ports wise it has HDMI, USB, the microphone port
(which is a vital feature for me), and also one for a wired shutter release. The
strap lugs on this camera are the lower end cheaper version, but honestly I
prefer these most of the time. I'm not a huge fan of the smaller lugs that more
expensive cameras usually have. With the port covers of this camera, they're very
simple. But you can pull them out far enough to basically get them out of the
way in most situations. This camera is, of course, APS-C size you have the 24
mega pixels. It is not really of the level of Sony's best most recent sensors, but I
think it's good enough in many situations for still photos and video, of
course. I'm not gonna get too much into image quality
but I'll have a few sample photos you can check out if you would like. The
viewfinder is pretty simple. Of course, it has the auto-focus points in there
and a bit of other information. It is relatively small, but decent enough. The
auto-focus system on this camera is not amazing. It has very few points on it but
it seems to work relatively well with the kit lens and the other lens that I
have. Of course, if you're trying to do action photography it's probably not the
best camera to do that with. I do have a few third-party batteries for this
camera. They seem to work a little longer than the standard battery. And they also
don't fit quite as perfectly as the OEM battery, of course, but they do work well
enough. The biggest issue with those batteries, at least I think currently, I
don't know if any others exists. But these ones do not charge in the OEM
charger. So you have to use a different charger. Canon has a very nice phone
application. You get the live view. You can pull photos, images.. whatever from the
camera onto the phone. Of course you can use the HDMI to get a preview if you are
doing some type of filming. But very nice app. It works well in my case. Especially
for video stuff where I can change settings. I can see live preview. It updates very
quickly. I can even change the levels on the microphone, which is huge. It works
really well once it's all set up and running. This camera is very compact for
a digital SLR. Almost close to the mirrorless cameras, but still a little
thick, of course, because of the mount that it uses. And it has a standard
viewfinder and all that. So basically it's almost similar to their M series
cameras. It just has a few extras. A few traditional pieces still left to it. The
cameras menu interface is very smooth. Very easy to use. It's quick.. it works
with the touch screen of course. Or you can use the buttons if you like.
Sometimes the buttons actually are a little bit quicker to cycle through
menus and things, but I do you tend to use the touch screen because it's just
right there. It's quick in some situations as well. This camera has a
decent amount of adjustments. You can change, of course, all of the video modes. All of
the photo modes. You can adjust levels for the microphone. You can go into the
custom and adjust a few more obscure functions and features to the camera. So
that was a Canon EOS Rebel SL2. Very nice compact lower cost camera.
Great for 1080p video with the
auto-focus. That's a big reason I picked it up and it works very well in that
situation. Of course, the photo side of thing this is pretty decent. The
auto-focus system and the phase detection system is lower end, but it does work
well enough for most situations. So, it's all in there. The sensor itself is decent
for standard photos. But like I said, great for video 1080p you can even do 60
frames a second. Slow that down, which I do a little bit of with this camera as
well. But the vlogging. The filming situations like this.. extremely helpful.
The app that makes it even more convenient to do the video stuff and of
course photo stuff. So that was SL2. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did please
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