- [Man Robot] Three, two, one.
- Jen is gonna be upset at first,
but then I think she'll be excited.
I'm driving to Best Buy, I'm going to buy a Canon 80D,
yes, I know, another camera, an older camera,
why am I buying an 80D?
Well, I'll show you in this video.
(bouncy music)
- [Man Robot] Welcome to the machine.
- [Man] Anything else in the store you wanna look at?
- [Host] Uh, no, that's it for today.
Can you come here a sec?
Look what I got.
Are you excited?
Are you mad?
- Yeah?
- To which one?
So, she actually was a little mad,
but let me explain why I bought this camera,
the Canon 80D, two years after it came out,
two years after I reviewed it,
and when I own a bunch of other cameras.
So the first reason is: after buying this,
I was going to meet up with some people
that are working on what I'll say is a camera accessory:
something to help vloggers out,.
And, I won't say anything more than that about it,
but I wanted a camera of this size, to test it with.
So that was the first reason.
Reason number two is that I think the Canon 80D
is actually the best vlogging camera
that's out right now, in March 2018.
For a lot of reasons, mainly because external audio,
great face-tracking autofocus, lightweight lenses and build,
has some slow-motion, kind of, with 60P,
it has time-lapse, so it has all these features
that are perfect for vlogging,
and so that's the main reason that I got this camera.
Reason number three is that I get way too precious
with my camera here.
I have more expensive cameras.
I have a RED camera, I have a Canon C100,
I have another Canon C100, and I lock those up,
I'm afraid someone's gonna steal them,
I am really careful when I use them
and that actually keeps me from making videos.
Specifically for somewhere like YouTube,
it keeps me from putting videos out,
from hitting record, from having just the camera
ready to go with memory cards and batteries in it,
so I can put more stuff out for you guys.
That kind of perfectionism
actually keeps me from publishing.
So I don't know what keeps you from publishing,
but I'd love to hear in the comments below this video.
You know, what keeps you from hitting record
or getting more videos out on somewhere like YouTube?
The fourth reason is, I already have a lot of Canon stuff.
I have a bunch of EFS lenses that are perfect
for something like a crop sensor canon 80D,
like this 10 to 18, which is super wide and awesome,
this 55 to 250, which on a crop sensor
goes all the way to 400 millimeters,
so if you're out and about and you're trying to snipe
a shot of someone, this is a great combo.
So between this 10 to 18, and this 55 to 250,
and then the 18 to 35 that comes with it,
these are all stabilized, which is perfect for vlogging,
for running and gunning and getting your shots,
and it's a wide focal range, it's just kinda perfect,
and these are lightweight, versus my L Series lenses,
which are really expensive and heavy,
and if they fall, they break.
That's thousands of dollars for some of them.
So, I just want some lightweight, easy-to-use lenses
that are cheaper, that if something happens to them
when my vlogging rig falls over,
I don't have to worry about it too much.
I also have a ton of these:
these Canon LPE six batteries.
I don't know, I probably have like six or seven of these,
between owning a 60D as my first DSLR
and then we have a couple 5D Mark IIIs.
So we have a bunch of these, makes it super easy
to just have a bunch of the chargers,
have a bunch of these ready to go,
when I need to record something,
you just throw one in the camera,
this camera can take pretty much any SD card,
this card's probably about five years old.
Put that in there, ready to go.
Now we gotta throw the lens on here.
Got that.
Cap off, I'm gonna use a Rode Videomic Pro.
This isn't the newest one that turns on automatically,
maybe eventually Rode will send me that one,
or I'll get to use it, but this one
I always gotta remember to turn it on,
put it there in the hot shoe, screw it down.
Let's go to the mic jack, it's all set up.
Turn this on, put it in manual mode,
and we're ready to rock.
With he face-tracking autofocus, and the decent sound
with the Rode mic on top
this is kind of the perfect vlogging rig
in my mind, minus 120 frames per second,
which I can live without, honestly.
So the fifth reason why I wanted
to pick up a Canon 80D in 2018 to do some vlogging
is because I just wanted a dedicated camera,
only for picking up, filming YouTube videos,
and just being a little bit more raw.
One thing I struggle with,
on the Internet, on social media, on YouTube
is being completely polished
with everything that I put out there.
Everything has to be perfectly lit, perfectly framed,
perfectly in focus, perfectly perfect.
And this is something I'm trying to do better at,
and to be okay with something
that's a little less polished,
to get more stuff out there that can help more people.
It's something that's been holding me back.
So my first-world YouTuber problem
is I now have a camera specifically for that,
and I have cameras specifically for my client work
that I do, that people pay thousands of dollars for,
and that's okay, because they need it to be
in 4k, they need it to be higher-quality visually,
and I'm okay with that.
But for my stuff, I can just focus on the content,
the things that I'm sharing with you,
the things I'm trying to teach you how to do,
with your cameras, and go from there.
So even when all my cameras are packed for a shoot,
and it's the night before I fly somewhere,
like I'm going to New York City in a couple days,
this camera will still be there,
ready for me to be able to film something
and put more out.
So hopefully you will see the quantity of videos go up
on this YouTube channel, hopefully you will see
the storytelling be a little better,
'cause I'll be more mobile
and I won't always have my cameras
down on a little tripod like this guy,
but overall I really just want
to be putting out more stuff for you.
So I'd love to hear in the comments below this video
what keeps you from recording videos.
I kinda wanna make a video that's just
all the different little things
that keep me from pressing record on a video,
like shaving my head
or being dressed, I mean I'm usually wearing clothes.
You know what I mean.
And maybe putting in my contacts, you know,
all the little things that keep me
from making a video, because I think
people can relate to that.
What keeps you from making a video?
I'd love to hear in the comments below this video.
Oh, and one more thing: I'm gonna try to show more
behind-the-scenes, when I am doing a client shoot.
Try to show you my process of what equipment I bring,
how do I pack it, how do I travel with all this stuff,
how do I do the shoots that I do for my clients?
So, got a couple shoots coming up,
like I said this one in New York City,
one up in L.A. soon.
And they're not, like, high-profile
music videos or commercials or something like that,
just talking head, testimonial-style
online course videos for the type of clients that I have.
So I'd love to show more of that process.
And if you wanna see more of that too,
let me know in the comments below,
and I hope to see you in those videos as well.
Peace.