Transition to DSLR and External Audio (Canon T4i)

and so i eventually graduated onto another camera this was my next setup that i had and this is the canon t4i and i'll tell you why i moved to this and how i ended up moving to this setup right here from a 75 camera to that thing so i was eventually quite a few years ago i was invited to a youtube event where i went there with 60 other youtubers at that point in time and i was really small i had about 20 000 subscribers at that point in time and i'm i'm getting close to 400 000 now but um i went there and i had they told you to bring your video equipment because we're gonna talk about video and and making quality video and coming up with quality sound and and so i had this thing in my back pocket and we did this round table thing and but it was interesting the the crowd of youtubers that were there at the time and there was a couple of big ones steve ramsey was there at the time only had um about 350 000 subscribers he's got several million now fro knows photos jared polin was there so i met some of those big guys there but everybody was walking around with uh these devices right here this was the camera of choice by uh majority youtubers it was a canon t4i with a rode shotgun mic on it and um fro jared polin from frono's photos i spoke to him and this is what he recommended at that point in time i had no idea about cameras i no knowledge about cameras at all had no idea why use this mic or why use this i mean i thought this is just for taking photographs but based on jared's um recommendation and what everybody else was doing i went and bought this thing and so what i'll tell you is the difference number one is sound quality so i used to get a lot of complaints about my sound quality for one thing um i was very shy in the beginning i was very soft-spoken and so that contributed to sound quality but a rode mic this is a mic that's not internal to the camera the internal cameras just pick up everything a shotgun mic is more directional sends the sound out to the or the the mic picks it up you know directional so it just a lot better sound quality video quality is a lot better with a t4i it's still this is a 1080p but one of the things that i really really liked about this setup is um the the screen comes out flips out and i can see it so i can set this up i can be out there and i can see myself whether i'm in frame or not when this thing was sitting there pointing at you you had no idea whether you're in or out of frame and stuff so just a little bit more…