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Advise for a budget EOS camera

Started Jun 7, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP airforce1 Junior Member • Posts: 25
Re: SL1 (1) Touchscreen (2) Continuous AF in Video (3) Quiet STM lens
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007peter wrote:

T2i: 18MP. Digit 4, ISO 100-6400. 77% DPR Gold Award

OLD. Great camera 4-5yrs ago, but why buy outdated tech with high shutter-count?

T3i: 18MP. Digit 4, ISO 100-6400 expandable to 12800. 77% DPR Silver Award

OLD. Great camera 4-5yrs ago, but why buy outdated tech with high shutter-count?

has articulating LCD....however, T3i do not do Continuous AF in video. You have to manually hit the shutter to get it in focus. Not good for making vlog.

SL1: 18MP, Digic 5, ISO 100 – 12800. 78% DPR Gold Award.

Digic 5 processor is so much faster and speedier in menu

most importantly are these 3 features:

1. TOUCH-SCREEN. Very important in making video, enable easy focus-pull (AF focus selection) with a simple finger touch.. On older T2i/T3i DSLR w/o touchscreen, you have to manually focus using the MF ring. This create camera shake that is recorded on the video. That is why videographer have to invest in complicated & expensive focus/pull mechanism like this to avoid inducing camera shakes. With a touchscreen, I don't have to used these bulky setup anymore.

2. Continuous Live View (Video Tracking focusing)

T2i/ T3i do not do Continuous Video Tracking in video. You have to manually press the shutter to get it into focus. If the subject moves about, then you have to press the shutter again. With newer Canon DSLR (T4i, T5i, T6s, T6i, SL1) you don't have to do this anymore.

3. Quiet 18-55 STM lens

T2, and T3i comes with the old and loud 18-55 lens. There is a night/day difference in video recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7pwnl0Wmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXq6HC3V9g

Hi Peter, thanks for the advice but as I stated earlier video is not important to us.

In any case, it looks like the Canon SL1s with STM lens kits are all out of stock.

We just bought a NEW body with accessories on Amazon.  OTD price including shipping to out next of the woods was $380.....certainly better than the quoted refurbished version on the Canon website for $330 + shipping.

Thanks everyone for chiming in!

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