The camera that I'm filming right now on is my Canon 70-D. And I also own a Canon
80-D. I've owned both of them for many years. And I recently was about to
upgrade my 70-D to have another 80-D but I was talked out of it by the camera guy.
And I'm going to share with you why and why you may or may not want to upgrade your
70-D to an 80-D. When the Canon 70-D came out, I was fired up because this is the
first time that an amazing DSLR camera like a canon that's meant for just
taking beautiful photography could really be used effectively in video. I
had an auto tracking focus. So, that if I come up to the camera like
this, notice how blurry the background gets. And it just tracks me automatically.
And if I come back here, it tracks my face. And it just stays
in focus. I mean that's awesome. And the Canon 70-D revolutionised DSLR
videography, okay? I was so excited about the 70-D. This is the same camera that I
originally had that we're filming on right now. Now, when the 80-D came out, it
actually was at a time where I needed 2 cameras. I needed a second camera. So
naturally, I thought well let me buy the the latest and greatest. So I got the
Canon 80-D. The 2 main features that I knew about is that the 80-D can film at
60 frames per second. So, when I'm filming B-roll or something where I just I need
to use this camera and I want to be able to create some slow-motion or
use b-roll where I slow it down to 50%, so it's a 60 frames per second is quite
handy. And I also remember reading about that the auto-focus, that auto-focus
feature was improved on the 80-D. Now, a couple weeks ago, I was filming with my
great friend Katie. You might have seen some previous videos on my channel where
there was an auto focus issue. We set up interview style but there was no one
behind the camera. Had flip screen. Just like I'm here. I'm
filming this myself. And I can see to the side of the lens me. Yeah, it's got the
flip screen. So, Katie and I were sitting side by side. And I was just looking at
the screen to make sure. But from this far away, I can't tell what the focus is
doing. And behind us... Just like there's a window there, this window as bright as it
looks. There's actually a shade that's come down. The window that I was filming
up with Katie was bigger and it was much brighter. And the window was kind of
between. I made this mistake, okay? The window was between Katie and I. So, the
camera would focus on one of our faces and then because they're such contrast,
it would focus on something else. And then it would come back to our faces and
would focus on something else. And we filmed 15 episodes with that
error. And I apologize. Totally apologize. If you watch those other videos and it
was irritating to you to have me go blurry and Katie go blurry all the time.
That's why. And I was I was upset about it because you know, I traveled out to Miami
when we filmed all those videos. And I thought my cameras always been so trustworthy. And
so I... The other day, I went to Picture Line. One of the best camera stores here in
Utah. And I was about ready to buy an 80-D and trade in this 70-D. So, then I would
have to 80-D's. Where's my 80-D, well I have a filming team and they have my
other camera. So that's why I'm filming with my 70-D right now. They're both
amazing cameras. Why is it tracking me just fine now? Well, because I don't have
as much contrast in my background. So, I went to Picture Line and I explained why
I was looking at doing the upgrade from this camera to the 80-D. And I said, "I
just want to know for sure. Is it just me or was it because it was
too bright on the background?" And he said, "Yeah, it probably was an issue of it
being too bright." And I said, "Okay. Well, can you back this up? is the autofocus
feature better on the 80-D than the 70-D? And he said, "Well, it is for still
photography. But I don't think it is for video." I'm like, "Oh, well let's look it up." So
we started looking up. I was looking up on my phone, he was looking it up on his
or the computer. And we found confirmation that for still photography,
the different focal points or whatnot, whatever the
term is. The 80-D is better than the 70d for that focus on still shots. But we
couldn't find anything that indicated that they were different for video. So, I
chose not to upgrade. And I chose this week for all the filming that I was
doing this week. We actually filmed 20 episodes, Tuesday. 20 episodes yesterday
and today, I'm up to 12 episodes for my channel here. And I haven't had any
autofocus issues. I've been paying attention because of that error a couple
of weeks ago. So, I guess the moral of the story is it may not be necessary. If
you've got a 70-D, depending on what your reasons are. If you needed that extra 30
frames per second, so you could film at 60 and do slow motion, then yeah. That
might be worth the upgrade because the Canon 70-D can't do that. All the other
features seem pretty much identical to me. And if you're doing still shot
photography, well then there's your answer. But if you're doing video like I
am, the 70-D is an amazing camera and it will save you a few hundred bucks. I know
that if I were buying a brand new camera, say I needed a third one. I would buy the
80-D. In fact, I probably would own a third one if canon would come out with
the 80-D but also with 4k or with even more frames per second. So when Canon
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