1.The camera has a Creative Auto mode which is targeted at
beginners who have grown out of using the Scene Intelligent Auto mode, allowing
you to change a few key settings using the LCD screen via a simple slider
system for changing the aperture and exposure compensation, or Background and
Exposure as the camera refers to them. Creative Auto has been extended with the
introduction of Basic +. Essentially a more extreme version of the
well-established Picture Styles, this offers nine options including Standard,
Vivid, Soft, Warm, Intense, Cool, Brighter, Darker and Monochrome, all of which
can be interactively tweaked to suit your taste.
2. Reflecting its more consumer-friendly nature, the 600D
offers a number of creative filters, as previously seen on Canon's range of
compact cameras. Soft Focus dramatizes an image and smooths over any shiny
reflections, Grainy Black and White creates that timeless look, Fish-eye mimics
the distortion provided by an expensive fish-eye lens, Toy Camera adds
vignetting and color shift, and Miniature Effect makes a scene appear like a
small-scale model, simulating the look from a tilt-shift lens. All of these
filters can be applied to both JPEG and RAW files either before or after taking
the picture.
3. The available white balance settings are Auto, Daylight,
Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent and Custom; there is no way to enter a
Kelvin value manually. You can fine-tune any of the presets using the White
Balance Correction feature. The ISO speed can be changed by pressing the ISO
button and turning the control wheel in front of it. You do not have to hold
down the button while turning the wheel. The ISO speed can be set from ISO 100
to ISO 6,400 in full-stop increments. If you turn ISO Expansion on in the
Custom Functions menu, you can even dial in ISO 12,800; a boosted setting. Auto
ISO is also available. The chosen ISO speed is also displayed in the
viewfinder.
4. The Live View button is within easy reach of your right
thumb. Using this button it is easy to enter Live View, but it takes a
surprising amount of time for the camera to actually display the live image
(think several seconds). A grid line display and very useful live histogram can
be enabled to help with composition and exposure, and you can zoom in by up to
10x magnification of the image displayed on the LCD screen. Focusing in Live
View has been simplified, you no longer need to use the * button to initiate
auto focus but can use a half-press of the shutter release as normal.
5. Once everything is set up, you start filming by hitting
the Live View/Record button on the back of the camera. The EOS 600D / T3i will
not automatically adjust focus during filming, but you can initiate auto focus
at any time while recording a clip. However, be warned that this can do more
harm than good, as the microphone can pick up the sound of the focus motor, and
the subject might even go out of focus for a few seconds. Setting a small
aperture and relying on depth of field for focus is a better idea. Of course
you may wish to utilise the DSLR's ability to produce footage with a shallow
depth of field, but in that case, it might be a wise idea to purchase a couple
of third-party accessories that make manual focusing and focus pulling easier.
6. The EOS 600D's built-in pop-up flash now features a
built-in Integrated Speedlite Transmitter for controlling up to two groups of
off-camera Speedlites without the need for an external transmitter. Note that
it doesn't have a more advanced PC Sync port for connecting the camera to
external lights, limiting the 600Ds use in studio environments. There's also
the expected hotshoe for use with one of Canon's external flashguns.
7. the Canon EOS 600D / Rebel T3i to be a responsive and
versatile camera that almost never got in the way of picture taking. As noted
earlier, the auto focus was fast when using the optical viewfinder, and not
always painstakingly slow when using Live View, either. Its continuous shooting
speed is about average for its class, though its six-frame raw buffer is
smaller than we'd like. It takes a bit of time for the camera to fully start up
if you wait for the sensor cleaning cycle to be completed, but as sensor
cleaning can always be interrupted at a half-press of the shutter release, this
is not a real issue. The only thing we found to be truly and somewhat
inexplicably slow was entering Live View - it invariably took several seconds
for the camera to raise its mirror and display the live image.
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