So I'm here at the Sinnissippi riverfront. with the Canon EOS Rebel SL2.
Try to take some night photos see how it goes!
So far so good.
Only camera I have to film myself and take photos, so that's a little challenging
to make it interesting.
But I've been using the screen exclusively to take the
photos.
And it's pretty nice.
I haven't even looked into the film side of the
camera with the optical viewfinder.
Because the autofocus and live view is so good...
So I'm going to try to take some artistic video as well and see how that turns out.
So far so good with SL2.
It's working pretty well in these cold dark conditions.
The interface is really nice.
I've just been using the touchscreen.
I was using it without gloves, but now I put my gloves on and it actually works...
As you can see touch off on my face.
Do it again.
I don't think my gloves have any type of material that makes it work with,
you know, most touchscreens need some type of special material.
But it's working.
So regardless of how it's doing it it is working very nicely with the
gloves.
So I'm keeping my gloves on.
Even though it makes it slightly harder to do
things with the gloves.
But I'm liking it.
At some point I'll try the actual view finder and things, but I don't think I'm
gonna do today because I'm really enjoying the touchscreen.
This could basically be a really nice mirrorless
camera as is.
Which is odd because I've seen reviews of their M series.
And for some reason it's the focus and
everything just not as good as this one.
So it's odd.
But do have one subject out here.
I'll show you in a second.
This guy!
This is a classic sculpture of this area.
Used to be in our downtown, but someone graffitied it.
And it moved out here.
So hopefully no one will do that again.
But you can see someone put some type of
scarf on it.
Anyways, lots of wind, but so far so good with the camera.
I think that it will be very helpful to me moving
forward with all this video on YouTube.
Right now I just have it in aperture priority in movie mode.
So what you do is you just have that main dial.
That you select either movie or photos, and then
you select the actual mode.
So it's a very easy simple to use interface in that
case.
I'm gonna go in some light around here.
So you can see what.. who's talking to you.
But like I said it's a very easy to use interface
in that case.
I'm gonna take some more photos, and probably call this a day
pretty soon.
Although the weather is not bad right now.
It's around 40 maybe 37 degrees or so Fahrenheit.
So it's not too cold, and of course by now we're all used
to the temperature being zero negative negative 10 or something like that.
So 40 is a really big deal to enjoy at this point...
So I'm gonna take some more photos.
So with the autofocus it decides things.
It does a lot of decision for you, which is good and bad.
I'm sure there might be some type of setting to adjust that.
But in this case I'm just touching spots and then taking
photos.
And then it kind of adjusts things, or especially in video the camera
and autofocus is deciding what it's...
What's good, what's bad or just what what it should be taking photos.
Or take it..
Taking videos on I should say.
That's fine and it is definitely good in most
situations.
But I could see you want to definitely change your settings and get
into more manual control.
Which what I've done in the past is flip the manual
switch on the lens itself.
That way you quickly can use the manual stuff when
you need to, and of course the camera won't try to do anything at that point.
So maybe I'll do a little manual focus test
here with trying to pull focus with the sculpture here.
Actually that light is so strong that it's hard to tell what's going on.
So not too bad.
So I can't really do the pulling focused test here easily because it's dark and
the camera does...
It's set to auto exposure so when you focus into
something close...
It really makes everything...
Something close as I can see it, which is a light for the most
part.
It makes everything in the background very dark.
So it's not gonna work out too well.
Maybe a few more photos other stuff.
And I think I'm going to get a photo of this, and then call it a day or night.
Saw this tree wanted to get a photo of it.
Trying to find a good angle.
I was first over there on that path, but I'm gonna try
this spot because that was too far.
Right over there.
Because I want to potentially cut out that lamp.
See if I can manage it.
So that's about it for the SL2 out here.
At Sinnissippi riverfront.
Great park.
Nice little camera.
Definitely want to take it out more in the future.
I don't know about nighttime photos we'll see how these turn out.
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