The Live View button is within easy reach of your right thumb. 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 via a half-press of the shutter release as normal. During Live View recording you can also use the touch-sensitive screen to change AF point, and to fire off the shutter release if you want to. This setup can be particularly useful for macro and still life shoots, where you’re using the camera on a tripod and don’t want to look through the viewfinder. With plenty of detail and nicely controlled noise from its 24-megapixel sensor, image quality was good, too. In fact, it’s on par with cropped-sensor SLRs costing much more. Nikon has a slight advantage for low noise at fast ISO speeds, though. First time incorporated into an EOS DSLR, Creative Assist and smooth skin feature would allow you to achieve desired effects on your photos and easily take picture perfect selfies. Stay connected to the camera with the Low energy Bluetooth connection and send images to your mobile devices as you shoot for ease of sharing. Take complete creative control of your images with PIXMA and imagePROGRAF PRO professional photo printers.

There are a number of drive modes available on the Canon EOS 200D / SL2. These include Single Shot, Continuous Shooting, Self-timer and Remote Controlled Shooting. In Continuous Shooting mode, the camera can take pictures at a speed of 5fps for up to an unlimited number Large Fine JPEGs or 6 Raw files. Switching to video mode is easy enough from the on/off switch and the video options you’re most likely to need are easily accessed on screen. A button at the top of the app lets you switch into Movie Mode, again with full control over exposure and other options; you can also use the phone’s screen to pull-focus remotely while filming. Whether shooting stills or filming video, the files are always recorded to the camera’s memory card, but as explained above, they’re easy to subsequently access from the Images On Camera option in the app. Canon is well aware of the fact that operating a DSLR via its touchscreen alone won’t be for everyone and has had the foresight to include an option to disable touch control altogether.As mentioned earlier, you can also use Wifi to wirelessly remote control the EOS 200D / SL2 using the free EOS Utility application for Windows and MacOS computers. The EOS Utility is one of the lesser-known highlights of owning a Canon DSLR. With the camera connected to your computer, whether wirelessly or over USB, the EOS Utility lets you remote control pretty much any function or setting of the camera that doesn’t involve turning a physical switch or dial – so you may not be able to remotely change the exposure mode, say from Aperture Priority to Manual, but you can control pretty much anything else. As an EOS DSLR, the 200D / SL2 features a standard EF lens mount with native compatibility with the entire Canon EF lens catalogue, including EF-S models designed for its smaller APS-C sensor. This is the key benefit of the EOS 200D / Rebel SL2 over rival formats, especially youthful mirrorless ones: native access to over 80 lenses from the enormous Canon catalogue without the need for an adapter or compromised AF performance. I should also add that some of the budget lenses are much more affordable than mirrorless alternatives, in particular models like the EF 50mm f1.8. See my Canon lens guide for the lenses I recommend. The new Canon EOS 200D represents a big step forward from the 4-year-old 100D / SL1 model, with a deeper hand-grip, vari-angle LCD screen, faster Dual Pixel Live View auto-focusing system, 1080p movies at 60fps, Bluetooth connectivity and longer battery life. The smallest Canon DSLR camera isn't the cheapest (that title goes to the EOS 1300D), but we'd definitely pay the extra and choose the Canon EOS 200D. ISO sensitivity can be set between ISO 100 and ISO 12800 in full-stop increments, and a boosted setting of ISO 25600 is also available. Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting, with JPEG on the left and the RAW equivalent on the right. These figures confirm what I experienced in practice, and also roughly what Canon quotes for the camera. When set to JPEG you should be able to keep shooting indefinitely at around 5fps, although if you want 5fps with continuous autofocus you’ll need to use the viewfinder and as noted earlier that means relying on the central AF point only for the best results. When set to Live View, the 200D / SL2 can maintain 5fps, but only for fixed focus – once set to continuous, the speed falls to around 3.5ps in my tests. And as for RAW? The buffer is too small to make it practical, with only six frames available at the full speed.

Michael can manually zoom his lens and look through the viewfinder and see the refults while the power is off. I tested the EOS 200D / Rebel SL2 with a variety of lenses including the EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 STM, EF 50mm f1.8 STM, EF 85mm f1.8 and EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM II. The STM lenses feature the best focusing performance in live view and movies, so if you intend to film lots of video or shoot using the screen, I’d recommend going for them over non-STM lenses. Semi-transparent LCD in viewfinder that can overlay grids, different AF points, an electronic level, and more I have briefly touched on the fact that it’s a small camera, but its physical dimensions are very slightly larger than the EOS 100D’s. It measures 122.4×92.6x 69.8mm opposed to 116.8×90.7x69mm. I should also point out that it is smaller than Canon’s EOS 1300D and it’s a camera you’ll really want to get in your hands first to find out if it’s going to be the right choice for you. Canon EOS 800D is better for landscape or sport photography; Canon EOS 200D is instead your choice if you shoot street photography or for everyday use.To be fair, a DSLR could only allow an electronic shutter in live view, but it’d still be a useful feature to have. I should also add the 200D / SL2 does actually deploy an electronic shutter when capturing a timelapse video, but you can’t use it in normal live view shooting modes. Based on the CIPA Standard and using the batteries and memory card format supplied with the camera, except where indicated Returning to the app, the Remote Live Shooting option allows you to remote control the camera with your phone. You’ll see a Live View of the scene on your phone, and you can tap anywhere to refocus on a different subject, or double-tap for a magnified view. Depending on the camera’s shooting mode, you can also remote control the exposure, including the shutter, aperture, ISO or compensation, as well as White Balance, metering, AF mode, drive mode and image quality. Taking the app beyond most rivals, you can also adjust the manual focus of the lens in a choice of three increments in either direction – just like the ‘grown-up’ EOS Utility running on a Mac or Windows system. If the camera’s mode dial is set to Manual, you can also set the shutter to Bulb and tap once to start the exposure, and again to end it, complete with a handy timer on your phone’s screen; this is some compensation for the camera itself not featuring its own Bulb timers.