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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Cameras / Lenses => Photography Equipment => Canon => Topic started by: madelaide on March 18, 2011, 17:18

Title: B&H review of the Canon T3i
Post by: madelaide on March 18, 2011, 17:18

http://photography.bhinsights.com/content/canon-eos-rebel-t3i-hands-review.html?BI=7777&kw=Article_T3i (http://photography.bhinsights.com/content/canon-eos-rebel-t3i-hands-review.html?BI=7777&kw=Article_T3i)

Do I understand it right, you need to focus manually for videos?  :-\

Title: Re: B&H review of the Canon T3i
Post by: sharpshot on March 18, 2011, 17:28

There is auto focus that you can use before taking a video.  It's slower than focusing when taking stills and it isn't worth using during the video, as the hunting for focus will ruin it.

Title: Re: B&H review of the Canon T3i
Post by: helix7 on March 18, 2011, 17:51

Sad they haven't improved that over the T2i. Figured they would have.

Still, it's actually not that hard to focus manually. I use the zoom button (not lens zoom) before shooting to get focused, and then as you go along it's not too hard to re-adjust. Of course there are limits to what you can successfully shoot in this way. I wouldn't try chasing the kids around the yard, trying to manually refocus all the time. But for what I use the camera to shoot (landscapes, interviews, etc.) it's easy enough to do.

I feel like I just got my T2i yesterday and here's the 3 already. Crap this stuff moves faster all the time.