Canon 1200D review

Maybe this will be the next Bailey's first camera?

By Amy Davies
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Canon 1200D review
The Canon 1200D is an SLR, so it has an optical viewfinder - and you can use interchangeable lenses.

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Colours straight from the 1200D are bright and punchy, with Canon's characteristic warm tones.

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Picture Styles allow you to shoot with different creative effects, such as Monochrome, while also keeping the raw format "clean" file to work with later if you decide you want the colour shot.

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There are a huge number of lenses available for the Canon EF-S mount. This image was captured with a Sigma 10-20mm f/4.0-5.6 lens.

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Fine detail is captured well by the Canon EOS 1200D.

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The camera's metering system seems to do a good job of providing accurate exposures.

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The 1200D copes reasonably well in low light, high sensitivity situations. If you examine this image at 100%, there are examples of image smoothing and noise appearing, but at normal printing and web sizes, the image has a good overall appearance.

Amy Davies
Amy Davies

Amy has been writing about cameras, photography and associated tech since 2009. Amy was once part of the photography testing team for Future Publishing working across TechRadar, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N Photo and Photography Week. For her photography, she has won awards and has been exhibited. She often partakes in unusual projects - including one intense year where she used a different camera every single day. Amy is currently the Features Editor at Amateur Photographer magazine, and in her increasingly little spare time works across a number of high-profile publications including Wired, Stuff, Digital Camera World, Expert Reviews, and just a little off-tangent, PetsRadar. 

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