Vicky
This is by no means a top of the line camera, but for the price and its competition, its pretty fantastic. The touchscreen and the touch to focus works great, and if you dont want to use that, you can still adjust ISO, aperture using the roll gear as well as the appropriate buttons to push. In normal lighting, it works fantastic. Pictures really pop, and using the Automatic(P) mode does all the things you want it to do. And if it doesnt, well you can auto focus it yourself simply by tapping on the screen. Normal light, works amazing. Taking pictures of lakes and mountains in during golden hour as well as clear weather with few clouds produce stunning images that a phone or digital camera simply cannot take. Long exposures with this camera for water, especially waterfalls, dont produce the smoothness one wants. At best, instead of a rolling cloud effect, shots are unable to blend the different streaks of water together, giving us what looks like multiple large streaks of water rather than a unified color. The camera also seems to have a hard time taking long long-exposures. At some point, it all seems to produce the same image, regardless of the timing you set for it, or if youre using the bulb mode. ND filters work perfectly fine with it, perhaps the ND10 filter was simply too much, and Ill have to update this later when trying it with other ND filters. Filters and lens covers and the whatnot all fit perfectly fine on the camera, they screw on easily and have had no issues about having the tread be off line or it getting stuck. Night time images are pretty solid, but then again, they are night time, so one does need to lower their expectations. In the city however, I did find night long exposures to be satisfying, and the camera does them quite well. Of course, if youre trying to take a shot with a lot of interference or just simply poor lighting, auto focus wont work. It just doesnt know what you want to focus on, and also doesnt know if the thing is truly "focused" or not, so you will see it over adjust and under adjust for what you want. Not a huge deal, it was honestly pretty expected. Switch the lens to manual focus yourself, and continue on your way. Night lighting is pretty good, but not great as one will see from a higher end camera, again, this is quite expected and for the camera type, it does great. If youre trying to capture lights streaking by, 10/10 will get the job done. However, it does work pretty darn good for light painting, also is highly recommended for that. The capacity of the included 32gb SD card holds about 600-700 shots when I save both JPEG and RAW which is more than enough for multiple photo shoots. Interestingly enough this bundle is now offered with a 64gb SD card which is a nice touch, but quite disappointing that I did only got a 32gb one with mine. It does have a time-lapse mode, and will get you about 4-5 hours on a single charge when I took an image every 10 seconds, and I got 6 hours when I took photos every 15 seconds. My results, may vary from yours. The video quality is fantastic, but as it is designed as a camera, I wouldnt expect to be vlogging or using it as an active video production camera. On the other hand, the screen does fold out and can rotate in the up/down direction, so you can see yourself if you do choose to use it as a vlogger/selfie camera. This camera also has the wireless communication feature, and it connects to the phone app when I want it to very consistently once you know what youre doing and what steps you need to take. Extremely convenient when you want to download a few good photos onto your phone or just see what it looks like on your phone. You can zoom in on the camera screen as well in case you want to check quality and make sure it isnt blurry zoomed in or the like. Now onto the bundle. The bundle was honestly much less useful than I expected. The mono-pod, I can honestly say I have never ever used it. Cant use it to do long exposure, doing anything else with it youre probably better off just holding it with both hands. Left it in the closest somewhere, and replaced it with a tripod instead. The filter kit is pretty basic with a ND4 filter I believe and a UV filter and one other. A nice touch, but I found the filters to be somewhat useless so I bring higher ND filters and the like with me anyways. The bag is a good for carrying the camera and just the camera around with its extra lenses, cleaning cloth, manuals. Fitting a tripod or anything larger than a lens seems neigh impossible. It also has just one strap, and Ive never gotten used to that feeling. It is adequately padded, and I feel confident that the bag will protect against any bumps/drops it may suffer. To walk around with it, I really dont know. Ive felt better carrying it around in a hiking daypack bundled in some extra clothes. I got the 55mm lens, but after using it for a while, I would highly recommend that others purchase the 55-250 or the 18-135 lens if they choose to be doing more landscape based shots. Having the 18-55 lens I find really hasnt been enough to capture certain images where I just wished to have that little bit extra zoom. All in all, great camera for the price, and it certainly lives up to the canon name that I expected. The touchscreen feature is huge convenience, and one of the main reasons I upgraded from a T6, as well of course the additional megapixels it gains, which is one of the reasons pictures appear so stunning. Great camera, and certainly worth the price and will do whatever you ask well if not great.