Suited for beginners but keeping the more experienced happy.
The Canon EOS 650D(Canon EOS REBEL T4i) is one of the most complete mid-range DSLR cameras in the market. What the manufacturer achieved to create is a successful combination of an easy to use camera with automatic shooting modes and a touch vari-angle LCD screen along with a healthy smattering of more advanced features. In this way is keeping beginners and experienced photographers happy. But we could say that the Canon EOS 650D has not the character to perfectly suit an experienced photographer and is not the perfect camera for a very beginner.
1.It has an 18-MegaPixel sensor
The EOS 650D, as the next generation of the Canon EOS 600D, is inheriting the 18-MegaPixel sensor with a quite evolved technology using the sensor as long as some of the pixels are dedicated phase detection tools and they are a part of the new camera’s Live View and video mode Hybrid AF system. However, comparing it with some rivals on the same price range, the 18-MegaPixel sensor on the way that is used is good enough but it could be much better.
2. There is not a headphone socket available
That is a practical issue that is noticed after shooting a video and everybody wants to watch the video and decide if it is good and it’s noisy and nobody can hear a thing from the video and immediately is mutually decided that the video is fine. And after a while when someone watch it on a different, video streaming, device hears an annoying voice on the background that ruins the whole moment that is captured. A headphone socket would partly solve this problem because it would be able for someone to watch it and hear it completely and clearly
3. Using Manual exposure mode, it is just not as intuitive as on a manual camera
As in every modern DSLR camera the more ‘traditional’ funs of photography have exactly the same problem. It just doesn’t have the same feel as a true manual camera. Even when you disable all the features such as AF, IS, auto focus etc.. The manufacturers should definitely keep these people on photography and develop a way that will make usable and practical a manual use of a modern DSLR camera.
4. No rating button
It seems like a small detail but the great difference is always hidden into small details. When the camera is fully used, it may have in the end of a long and creative day hundreds and maybe thousands of images to evaluate and save in a collection. Some of them will be saved and some of them will be erased. In any case the images will be seen and is very time consuming if you don’t have the option to rate them at the moment of capture.
5. The new Noise Reduction mode is only available in JPEG format
With the new NR mode the Canon EOS 650D allows every photographer that uses it to take good quality and nice pictures in long exposures, dark areas and drastically improves other under-exposed parts of images. However it is a pity that you can have this only in JPEG format. It is a very useful and nice option for every photographer and it should be in any possible format that can have it.