hello I am Wanderer001 and this is a progression of how I made my
way from starting with a basic point-and-shoot camera all the way up to
it digital SLR now I had thought about doing a very click bait title but this
is actually just where I've ended up and where I think I'll be going in the
future so starting off way back when when I was in high school I took a
photography class and I wanted a film camera I'm showing my age there for
Christmas one year ended up with this guy here this is the power shot a five
twenty it is a basic digital point-and-shoot camera and come over
here I mean really really basic only four megapixels there teeny tiny screen
I use this purely for photography I did not actually use it for video recording
at all but I wanted something to be able to shoot photography on because that's
really where I started my journey here in photography a couple of years later I
worked my way up to purchasing this the canon powershot S3 IS so I wanted this
because it was a mega zoom camera it had a which was unheard of at the
time a flip-out rotating mini LCD screen there and this could take both
photography and video just like the original little guy here but this is
actually where I started making YouTube videos using this camera now back in
2008 I was really into nutnfancy videos so I liked all his knife reviews and
things like that I had just recently purchased a knife and I thought hey I
could be the next nutnfancy so I made a really bad video about my recon one
knife not the greatest of quality but it was my starting point now back in 2008 I
really didn't upload frequently with this camera I would do
something every now and then a new knife that I might have gotten a new tool
those videos really didn't take off but in 2012 still using this camera I made a
video about a Wi-Fi router the Netgear N300 and that video took off so from
that point forward I started concentrating more on technology reviews
because well one it was my background and two I really liked it a lot more
than I liked knives I like knives back then but I like technology a lot more so
from that point forward I started using the Power Shot s3 here to do all of my
YouTube filming well I came up with some shortcomings with this mainly being that
it was only 640 by 480 so I was not shooting in high def at the time and
because this was a camera first and a video option second any time I was
filming it would have a blinking light on the front of it and in those earlier
videos you can tell when I'm too close to something and it sits there and you
can see the blink well after that this guy started having
problems holding focus so at that point I decided that I needed to update the
video camera that I used I still use this for photography you know I even got
the fancy barrel there and filter and everything I still use this for
photography at the time but needed something better for video in fact I
still use this for photography up until the end of 2017 primarily because it was
easy to find batteries for this it was just ran off of four double A batteries
you could walk into any store and get those but after this had trouble holding
focus during video filming I moved over to this this is the handheld camcorder
Canon Vixia HF r400 and this became the staple of what I would film my YouTube
videos with I liked it it filmed in 1080 60 frames a second even when I started
off I still filmed in 60 frames a second full HD because well the algorithm liked
Full HD at the time just like it likes 4k videos now
so going forward this is what I use the videos that came out were very good the
one problem I found with this is when I would go away I would have both my video
camera here and still my point-and-shoot camera
ah so realistically the best camera to have is the camera that's on you and
carrying two of these was a bit cumbersome and I always felt awkward
taking out the camcorder to film something as opposed to when I did it
with the camera there people just thought you were taking pictures so
still using this for home video for YouTube videos and still using that for
photography moving on this is a stand-in for my Google pixel 2 in early 2018
I took my Google pixel to on a vacation along with the two other implements over
there and did not use either of these when I was on vacation I solely used the
pixel 2 in fact in Savanna there was a building that was in shadow I took a
picture with my pixel two again standing and I could not read the lettering that
was on this building but the pixels to using its good lens and machine
algorithm was able to show me what that looked like it was amazing to me so
later that year we went on a vacation and I did not take either of these the
camera in my cell phone could now take better pictures in the actual camera and
video camera that I had well not necessarily the video camera but again
the best camera is the one you have on you and if one like the cell phone here
can take pictures and video equivalent or better to those two items why not
just take one thing so we went my wife and I went down to Williamsburg and just
took our cell phones and 99.99% pictures videos came out fine
well pixel to audio quality can be a little shaky the image stabilization
because for this video I'm actually holding the pixel 2 so image image
stabilization is great but audio quality kind of suffers a little bit but there was
one picture in particular that I was trying to get it was in the governor's
palace and I wanted to take a fancy shot and I was trying to take it with the
pixel - and I realized something which was a limitation of a smartphone I would
pretty much have to be lying on the floor to get the picture that I wanted
so after that I invested in this the Canon Canon SL2 which is a digital SLR
primarily got this because it can shoot 1080pit does not do 4k videos which might be a drawback
to some but for me I hadn't thought I wanted 4k videos yet but it has a large
swiveling 3-inch LCD screen and that was the big thing I needed that LCD screen
then I could rotate for the pictures that I wanted now this does do very good
video too I started using it for some of my
youtube videos January 1st of 2019 you may have seen some of those don't know
if you can tell the difference between those and what I was getting for the hf
r 400 hopefully better autofocus but I've come back to a limitation with this
style of camera now it's not much bigger than my s3 was but I did forget a lot
that I dislike having this strap it interferes with what the my current
filming setup yes I realized I can take this off but I
like to keep this around my neck if I'm actually out and about because again I'm
going back to photography almost so that's actually one of the reasons that
I got this not necessarily for videos because I would have just got another
camcorder style but I wanted to actually take better pictures but I'm running
into a limitation with the SL2 because the mic input is over here and the way
that I film I do not just take this and flip it back into itself I kind of put
it at an angle and when I have a mic plugged into there it is blocking the
variable angle that I can get from this so if
anybody knows a workaround for something like that let me know in the comments
but yeah I wasn't trying to be Casey Neistat I wasn't trying to justify
getting a digital SLR for making youtube videos I really got one just to take
better pictures because that's where I originally started way back when when I
first started down this road was just photography granted YouTube has been
very good I've enjoy making videos that help people out but really I got it
to take better pictures I mean little rambling and not actually about video
but that's why I got it to take better pictures
it does excellent video the autofocus on it is sharp and quick and I love it
if you're looking for a digital SLR to take YouTube videos on I would recommend
it strongly but I actually got it to take pictures the video is just a happy
circumstance so I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions or
comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching