The Photo Times: Canon EOS Rebel T5i (EOS 700D)

Exceptional
Auto-Focus

9-point, All Cross-Type AF

Amazing Hybrid CMOS AF System

Of course, you need a world-class auto-focus system to take full advantage of a class-leading 18.0 megapixel sensor, and the EOS Rebel T5i excels here as well. When shooting through the viewfinder, the EOS Rebel T5i advanced auto-focus with a 9-point, all cross-type AF system (including a high-precision dual-cross f/2.8 center point) delivers accurate focus whether the camera is oriented in portrait or landscape position. An AI Servo AF system achieves and maintains consistent focus for moving subjects, with an exceptional degree of reliability.

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The EOS Rebel T5i also features Canon’s amazing Hybrid CMOS AF System, perfect for shooting photos and video in Live View. By integrating phase-detect AF elements directly on the CMOS image sensor, this system combines the best of both phase and contrast detection systems, for faster and more accurate focus.

With Hybrid CMOS AF, specially-configured pixels on the CMOS image sensor itself help track and predict subject motion across the frame. Thousands of pixels spread across the sensor’s surface provide unprecedented resolution and accuracy for predicting subject position and distance. The result is quick and accurate continuous focus tracking in video recording, and improved focusing speed.

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True HD
Performance

Full HD Movie Mode

Flexible Exposure

Movie Servo AF

Full HD Movie Mode, your choice of frame rates

The EOS Rebel T5i makes it easy to capture true professional-quality video. Choose from full 1920 x 1080 HD video at 30 fps, or record at 24 fps for a more cinematic look. Or, switch to standard 1,280 x 720 HD at 60 fps for super-smooth action. You can even shoot PAL video at rates of 50 and 25 fps for use outside the US.

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The EOS Rebel T5i gives you video exposure options ranging from fully automatic to fully manual, including ISO adjustment from 100 all the way to 6,400 (12,800 if ISO expansion is enabled) – your creative vision no longer has to end at sunset. Have as much control as you want, when you want it; professional-level features at an affordable price.

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Continuous Focusing with Movie Servo AF

Canon’s Hybrid CMOS auto-focus system enables Movie Servo AF, a breakthrough in AF and subject tracking for movie recording. Phase-detect and contrast-detect AF work together to continuously and precisely track subjects as they move through the frame. With the camera handling focus, you can concentrate on getting the shots you want. The stepper motors in Canon’s new STM lenses make continuous AF tracking smooth and quiet. The EOS Rebel T5i with an STM lens attached is the standard for SLR movie-making performance!

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Pro-Grade Audio

The EOS Rebel T5i has audio abilities to match its stellar video skills. For quick and easy recording, just use the built-in stereo microphone (with wind filter) and let the camera set audio levels automatically. Or, you can take full control, with 64 levels of manual adjustment, and a 3.5mm jack for an external microphone.

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Vari-Angle LCD

The EOS Rebel T5i comes with a Vari-angle Touch Screen 3.0-inch Clear View LCD monitor II. Displaying fine detail (at approximately 1.04 million dots), this screen is perfect for composing and reviewing images. Thanks to a new, solid construction between the monitor’s resin-coated cover and the liquid crystal display, reflections are minimized, and the display can be viewed, without glare, from any number of angles. The LCD’s surface is treated with a smudge-resistant coating to minimize fingerprints and maintain a bright, clear image display.

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Touch Screen

The EOS Rebel T5i comes with a Vari-angle Touch Screen 3.0-inch Clear View LCD monitor II. Using capacitive technology similar to today’s popular mobile devices, this screen is touch-sensitive and intuitive to use, with familiar two-finger touch gestures for zooming or changing images. Menu and quick control settings can be accessed, and both focus point and shutter release can be activated with the touch of a fingertip using Touch AF. The LCD’s surface is treated with a smudge-resistant coating to minimize fingerprints and maintain a bright, clear image display.

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Amazing Effects

Handheld Night Scene

HDR Backlight Control

7 Real-Time Creative Filters

Great night-time photography, without a tripod: Accessible right on the EOS Rebel T5i Mode Dial, Handheld Night Scene mode captures nightscapes with bright highlights and detailed dark areas, delivering results previously impossible without the use of a tripod. By shooting, micro-aligning and combining four consecutive shots at a shutter speed fast enough to avoid camera shake, the EOS Rebel T5i Handheld Night Scene mode makes dramatic nighttime photography simple.

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Also accessible right on the EOS Rebel T5i mode dial, HDR Backlight Control mode ensures that backlit subjects are not recorded too darkly. By shooting three consecutive shots at different exposures (underexposed, correctly exposed and overexposed) and then combining the images, the final result maintains detail in both the shadow and highlight areas, ensuring the backlit subject is properly exposed. All this happens automatically, producing a nicely balanced image straight from the camera.

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To add to the fun and creative possibilities available with the EOS Rebel T5i, the camera has seven different creative filters that can dramatically alter the mood and visual effect of any scene. Creative Filters include Grainy Black and White, Soft Focus, Fisheye Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Miniature Effect, Art Bold Effect and Water Painting Effect. Each effect can be applied in three different levels (low, standard and strong), and easily previewed on the LCD panel in Live View. Since the filters can also be applied to an image after shooting, it’s easy to try several effects on the same shot during post-processing.

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Canon T5i Hands-On Preview

by Dan Havlik and Roger Slavens
Posted 03/21/2013

The 18-megapixel Canon Rebel T5i is essentially the same DSLR camera as its predecessor — the Rebel

T4i that was launched early last summer — but with a few key changes,

including a new kit lens, real-time viewing of creative filter effects, an

improved Mode dial and a revamped rubber grip. That all might not sound like

enough upgrades to warrant a brand new model — especially the rubber grip part

– but it’s evident that Canon wanted to deal with an issue that plagued the

T4i and effectively replace it with a new flagship Rebel model.

You might remember that the T4i had a strange issue where the handgrips on both sides of the camera could become discolored even after brief use and could potentially even cause an allergic reaction in very sensitive individuals. Evidently, zinc deposits left by an overuse of a rubber accelerator during production of the DSLR caused its grips to turn white. Canon issued a repair recall for T4i cameras that experienced the problem. During a pre-launch briefing with Canon where we got to try out a Rebel T5i prototype, we were assured the new grip would not have the same issue.

Design and build. The prototype Canon T5i we got to take pictures of and shoot with, was a dead ringer for the T4i except that it had no badge bearing its model name. We were told this was because the T5i was a pre-production model, and the North American version of the final camera would have eventually bear EOS Rebel T5i branding when it ships at the end of April 2013.

One of the most apparent changes in the design of the T5i is the new,

improved Mode dial that rotates 360 degrees and adds a new Scene mode option.

The dial looks nicer and is easier to read, with more recessed icons and

sharper detail for the various modes.

The new T5i grip felt the same as the previous model: ergonomic, comfy, and surprisingly robust for a consumer camera. (And, thankfully, the grip did not change color or cause an allergic reaction in the brief time we tried it!) In addition to the grip, Canon also upgraded the overall texture of the T5i’s camera body with a coarser, almost gritty feel that makes it easier to grip and puts it more in line with Canon’s professional DSLRs.

The camera’s weight felt about the same as last year’s T4i, with the T5i

tipping the scales at 20.5 ounces (580 grams) with the battery and memory card

loaded. For comparison, however, the T5i weighs more than six ounces heavier

than the small-and-light Canon Rebel SL1, which was announced simultaneously

with the Canon T5i. The camera measures 5.2 x 3.9 x 3.1-inches, almost

identical to the T4i.

Sensor and performance. The new camera functions the same as the older model, boasting an 18-megapixel, APS-C CMOS sensor with a DIGIC 5 image processor and the ability to fire off five frames per second in continuous shooting mode. The Canon T5i’s sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 to 12,800 (and even higher, 25,600 in H mode), and its fast-focusing dedicated phase-detect AF system uses 9 all-cross-type points. The Rebel T5i prototype we shot with did indeed focus quickly and, it seemed, accurately using the conventional AF system. We did try the on-sensor Hybrid CMOS AF system using Live View mode, and it seemed better than we remember on the T4i — especially with the new 18-55mm STM lens — but we didn’t spend enough time with it to make a fair evaluation.

The 3-inch, LCD touchscreen monitor is the same as the one on the T4i,

offering 720 x 480 pixel resolution (1,040,000 dots) and the ability to flip

out, side swivel, and tilt into different positions to help compose shots from

difficult angles. In addition to still images, the T5i offers Full HD video

recording at up to a size of 1920×1080 and frame rates as fast as 60 fps

(1280×720 size).

Real-time viewing of creative filter effects. A nice, new touch on the Canon T5i is the ability to preview in real time what your image will look like if you chose to apply one of Canon’s seven creative filters. We liked that you could do this before you take the shot, instead of having to apply them afterwards. The Canon T5i’s creative filters include ArtBold, Water Painting, Grainy Black and White, Soft Focus, Toy Camera, Fish-Eye and Miniature.

Other advanced shooting modes include Handheld Night Scene, HDR Backlight Control and Multi-Shot Noise Reduction which take multiple images and merge them in-camera to help create shots with the correct exposure or dynamic range, although (understandably) these modes cannot be previewed.

New kit lens. We tried the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

STM standard kit lens — which is compact and lightweight — and found that it

focuses extremely quietly and smoothly, thanks to its silent Stepping Motor.

The stealthy AF is great for shooting 1080p HD video with the T5i without the

distracting background noise of a focusing motor. The 18-55mm STM lens also

offers four stops of image stabilization. (Note: the lens will be available

separately for an estimated retail price of US$250.)

Overall first impression. The Canon T5i doesn’t feel so

much like a replacement for the T4i — although it is exactly that — but a

minor upgrade that has been released mostly to take advantage of the new

18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM kit lens and to step away from the rubber grip problem

of its predecessor.

Pricing and Availability. The Canon Rebel T5i starts shipping April 2013 in the U.S. at an estimated retail price of US$750 for body only, US$900 kitted with the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, and US$1,100 with the EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens.