trade in that Sigma 100 to 300 millimeter F/4 lens. Pretty nice, worked well over
the two years or so that I had it.
But a little inconsistent and I wanted to use
that money for this camera I picked up.
It's a Canon SL2. So their entry level
camera but for Youtube videos, which I've been doing more lately and I want to do
even more.... I think this is the best option
price-wise and performance wise. Doesn't have 4k of course, but I was kind of on
the fence on 4k. I really just wanted to use it for cropping and not for posting
of 4k videos. And it has the fully articulating screen. So I'm seeing myself
being filmed. I'm seeing that I'm in focus. Also, it has the dual pixel AF which
appears to be very good so far. With those two things it's a huge improvement.
I've had so many issues over the years with filming myself and doing other
types of video where the autofocus is a problem. Pre-focusing which I do with my
Nikons is big hassle and I usually screw it up...
So I get a pre-focus right here and then I end up moving back a few inches and all
those situations where it's just a big hassle. Even the Fujifilm in.. they have an
app with video recording. But 1.. the focal length is not amazing on my X100F
for that situation and 2, it seems to jump with focus when
So that's a big hassle I've screwed up some of those with the Fujifilm. Just
the past few videos... Sometimes I stick some b-roll on the top of it when I can.
Or the... Or I just toss out the clip because it's useless if it looks terrible.
Anyways, with the hassles of my current gear I really wants something
seen so far is third party batteries are kind of iffy...
I did order some, but you can't charge them in the Canon charger, which
all the features. Of course, this is a zoom lens the kit lens. Can easily zoom
in and it focuses pretty quick. Zoom back out. So that's nice to have if I want to
do something like that. And touch to focus, very quick as well. And I can even
change a few settings while I'm recording if I wanted to. But you have
even a few more settings. The microphone I'm using a Takstar microphone currently.
Also with a lav mic to see which one sounds better. So there are definitely
really help improve my videos and make it so much easier to get nice footage of
situations like this. And I'm sure there are quite a few other situations where
those two things... The screen and the auto focus should be very very helpful.
So that's about it. I found this interesting. I don't really care which brand of
camera I use. I just needed to work. Work how I want it to work, and in this case I