just like me you've been looking for inexpensive cameras to film your YouTube
videos with well I put in a little bit of research and I've actually come in
under $200 let's take a look today at the Canon t2i I'm Shmojoe14 and today's
the day I upgrade
this will be my first enthusiast level camera and by enthusiast I mean not a
smartphone so in my research I decided I want to be able to shoot 1080p at 30
frames a second or 60 frames a second at a lower resolution luckily this thing
fits the bill so a nice feature that this camera is equipped with is an
external microphone input this afternoon on ebay I purchased a takstar shotgun
microphone with a dead cat assembly I plan on hooking this thing up getting my
audio through that this camera comes extremely well equipped more so than I
know what to do with I downloaded the user manual and it's 260 pages long I've
made it about halfway through and fell asleep three times so the camera that I
ordered came with the kit lens it's an 18 to 55 millimeter lens and if you see
my previous videos I have no idea what that means I can tell you that there is
autofocus as well as image stabilizers built into the lens itself we have a
manual ISO adjustment as well as aperture a manual movie mode that we can
use as well as a manual picture mode they also made the thing idiot-proof and
put a bunch of automatic modes into it to help guys like this dude the price
tag for this camera came in a hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents
shipped if you saw my last video I unbox the camera and all the accessories that
came with it but just to recap I got the camera itself the kit lens the battery
grip which holds two batteries instead of one what's nice about the battery
grip as well is that it allows for vertical shooting it comes with a
shutter button and a roll selector as well it comes with other adjustments as
well I haven't really learned exactly what those are doing yet also comes with
an on and off switch so you're not accidentally bumping the shutter button
while you're screwing around with it as you can see two little extra girth on
the bottom I got the tripod the tripod tripod the tripod the tripod mount that
is currently equipped the tripod the tripod mount that's currently on it did not
come with it this is for it doesn't matter this camera may not come with the
bells whistles of all the newer equipment that's out there but it also
doesn't come with a five hundred dollar price tag but for under two hundred
dollars you're gonna be able to come out with video that's comparable to any of
its counterparts and just because I missed this function and it looks really
neat the flash alright so that's enough screwing around
let's get this thing on the tripod and get some video out of it what do you say
all right ladies and hooligans here it is we're up on the tripod now with the
Canon t2i hopefully the video is looking pretty decent at this moment but I'm not
honestly gonna have a clue until I put it into the computer and take a look at
it having the thing up on the tripod feels
a lot more professional and a lot more intimidating for the time being I'm
using the standard picture profile on this thing with the custom white balance
already set for the lighting I have we're gonna go ahead and hope that this
video is looking decent the ISO set at 3200 which I feel like might be a little
bit too high it could make the film grainy again there's a lot of settings
that I'm gonna need to play with before I actually master this camera now as I
learn the features and settings of this camera I hope to improve the quality a
little bit every single time I use it it's a lot of functions to master but I
hope to make good use of it I'll be doing more videos down the road as I
achieve those holy crap we doing more videos down the road as I get the
settings master to get the final look I want it to
I also want to install a flat picture profile that way I can color grade the
footage to my liking afterwards now can you tell the difference between the
iPhone 8 and the camera that I get up on the tripod now now I think that you'll
find under the $200 mark that this camera footage is more than acceptable
perfect for any kind of vlog setup or anything like that now I'm wondering if
one of the features down the road that I'm gonna be missing is having a
flip-out screen function it does come equipped on the Canon t3i which is just
a model above this one but I'd say overall for a nine-year-old camera this
thing doesn't do too bad now in the shotgun microphone gets here we'll do an
apples-to-apples comparison and my lavalier mic to the shotgun mic itself
but for the time being it's getting really late tonight and I actually
worked 40 hours a week now as this video comes to a conclusion if you can like
comment subscribe give me any suggestions or feedback you got in the
comments I'll do my best here to get this video edited pretty quick problem
is I'm still running on DaVinci Resolve haven't heard back from Filmora yet
we're gonna see what we can manage in that video editing software and like
always guys thanks for hanging out with me