Camera

At the heart of the Canon EOS 1200D is an APS-C-sized CMOS sensor with a resolution of 18 million pixels. This sensor has a significantly higher resolution than the 12.2-million-pixel sensor featured in the EOS 1200D’s predecessor, the EOS 1100D. Also, with its dimensions of 22.3×14.9mm, the EOS 1200D’s sensor is a mere 0.1×0.2mm larger than its predecessor. The same DIGIC 4 processor remains inside the new EOS 1200D. This is capable of shooting at a speed of three frames per second in continuous mode for a total of 69 JPEG images or six raw images.

As a kit, the EOS 1200D comes with an 18-55mm f/3.5-f/5.6 IS III lens. With the 1.6x crop factor of the APS-C sensor, this is equivalent to 28.8-88mm in 35mm. Canon says the image stabilisation allows a slower shutter speed of up to 4 stops.

Like all Canon APS-C-sized-sensor cameras, the EOS 1200D features an EF-S lens mount, which is compatible with Canon EF and EF-S lenses. There is an enormous range of excellent lenses to choose from, with an option to suit most people’s budgets. Canon has made significant improvements in the area of video, with the camera now featuring 29.97fps, 25fps or 23.976fps at 1080p resolution video shooting, with an option for video snapshots.


On top of the camera is a pop-up flash with a guide number of 9.2m at ISO 100. The Canon EOS 1200D also features a hotshoe that accepts all Canon-fit Speedlites from the compact Canon 90EX, which costs around £35, to the flagship 600EX-RT at £469.

Canon has rated the EOS 1200D’s battery as lasting for approximately 500 shots in 23°C temperatures, or 410 in 0°C conditions. While this is far fewer than the 700-650 shots rated by the EOS 1100D, 500 shots should be sufficient for most day-to-day shooting and additional batteries can be bought separately.

For those who wish to shoot raw images, Canon has supplied its Digital Photo Professional editing software with the camera. This is capable of adjusting features such as exposure, white balance, tone-curve and dynamic range. In addition, there is Image Browser EX, Photo Stitch panoramic image-stitching software, EOS Utilities and Picture Style Editor.

Although the Canon EOS 1200D doesn’t boast Wi-Fi on its spec sheet, it is still fully compatible with Eye-Fi memory cards, and Eye-Fi transfer can be enabled or disabled in the camera’s menu. Eye-Fi cards support wireless file transfer to a smart device via an Android or iOS app, and can also wirelessly transfer images to a computer."

Looks fine to me, kazz............but it all comes down to your choice and thoughts.

 

Can you perhaps pop into a store such as CEX and have a play with a few models? It does make a huge difference as to how it fits your hand etc

 

No worries. The earlier comment on how you feel about the camera is pretty accurate so worth a trip!

 

Don't Jessops quote a higher price in the shop and a lower price on line? I remember some complaints about that practice in the Amateur Photography Magazine.

 

Where you buy from is different to trying out the unit. It's just to get a feel for the camera in your hand then buy it from wherever.

I bought a lens from eglobal incidentally. Took a long time to arrive but was as described

 

Yes, I use Affinity Photo for my JPEG shots and it is very good, Kazz. You'll need to look at a few tutorial videos that they supply on the Web, but at £48.99 on offer at the moment it's a good deal. It's the "Photo" version that you want, there are other versions but Photo is the one you need. I've got Lightroom and Photoshop, both were bought before they decided to rent it out making it more expensive. I reckon it's as good, and as powerful, as Photoshop so it's a one time buy bargain. One last thing it needs a 64bit system and won't work with a 32bit.

 

Look under system information which you can get to after pressing windows key+i as memory serves...

I'd assume if you install on pc then it will only be available on pc

 

The PC version is also for Laptops and that is on my Laptop which is used solely for my astronomy processing of images taken with my Telescope Camera. There is a version for I.Pad but I don't think there's a version for Mobiles. To be honest I would only use a PC or Laptop for processing images as they have more power, RAM, and storage. Having said that, Affinity Photo wouldn't have made a version for I.Pad if it wouldn't work