it's Tuesday and Tuesday usually means that it's a teaching video but I
feel like talking Tuesday I feel like talking today I just feel like chatting
because there's been some gear announcements from Canon that have
excited me and annoyed me so I want to talk about the canon EOS RP and what I
love about it but also what makes me so mad about it so let's get into it
first of all what I love about the canon eos RP and if you guys want more details
on this fro from jared polin froknowsphoto.com in that stuff go check
that out if you want rambling and ranting here anyways the canon eos RP
when i saw the announcement i was like a full-frame camera for $1,300 i think
personally that this is gonna be the highest selling mirrorless camera ever
made or at least made to date it essentially gives a massive amount of
people access to full-frame cameras that they wouldn't have had before I think
its massive and I think it's gonna be massive for Canon and yes the specs
people and the specs guys that hang out on YouTube channels and the forums are
gonna talk about things like a lack of 24 frames per second at 1080p they're
gonna talk about the fact it's got a 6D mark 2 sensor which never got great
reviews but the average consumer doesn't care they're getting a full-frame camera
for $1,300 that's incredible and that's what I love about it but it's kind of
also when I hate about it I hate the fact that I paid full price for the
Canon EOS R which was $1,000 more expensive when I don't feel like there's
$1,000 worth of value in this compared to the RP that's what makes me mad about
the RP if we think about the things that this has that the RP doesn't yeah it
does faster frames per second photo wise yes it can do 24 frames per second at
1080p yes it has this manual function bar which I could really live without to
be honest and it's got the LCD on the which again I can live without but
doesn't really have a thousand dollars worth of value more just because it has
a better sensor and because it could do 24 frames per second at 1080p I really
don't think so and it almost makes me think that Canon released the are with
the idea that this was gonna be like a prototype to show off some new tech as
well as a data generating tool where they could throw this out in the field
and then see what people really thought about it what they liked about it what
they hated about it and then improve in the future but I don't want to be a part
of an experiment as a user I just want the best product and I almost feel like
canon shouldn't have released the are what they should have done is they
should have released the eos RP along with like a big-time super pro version of the
are like a 1 DX replacement and have both sides of the spectrum they could
have had the entry-level and they could have had the pro the R which i have and
i purchased kind of lingers in this in-between area where it doesn't really
have any any need i guess as soon as the pro version comes out anyway so it kind
of annoys me that I have the EOS R but that being said it has grown on me so
much and even though I think it's probably now overvalued I do love it and
I do think that I even like it more than my 5d Mark 4 I'm also mad because I want
the canon RP and I'm mad because I just bought the R and AM at myself because I feel
like I'm falling into this trap of consumerism where I just always want the
newest thing all the time and I'm mad because I do think I can actually
justify it because I have a YouTube channel that I can talk about it and
then I can kind of use it as an investment in my business and I do think
that I probably will get the RP despite the fact that I feel like I kind of got
ripped off so let's talk about that let's talk about the future of my gear I
have right now the 5d Mark for which I've been shooting stills on I have the
EOS R which I've been doing vlogging and video on as well as street photography I
think that i'll buy the eos RP I get to Singapore at the
start of March and I think I'll probably buy it there and I don't think I'll get
rid of the 5d mark for just yet but I do think that if I really am happy with the
video quality of the Canon EOS RP i will probably ditch the 5d Mark 4 and then
just kind of like simultaneously vlog with both of the arm mount cameras I
like the fact that the RP is only 440 grams and super light because I'm
finding my Ronin s to be really kind of almost a deterrent to filming yes it's a
brilliant tool but it's really hard to vlog on it's really hard to film myself
on and by using the lighter RP I feel like I could you know switch to a
lighter gimbal like the we bill or something like that and then of course I
can still use the Ronin for really epic cinematics if I need it so I think that
that's probably the way I'm leaning I'm also really excited about a couple
of the lenses that are coming out let me talk about those really quick as well
Canon announced the development of six lenses that are gonna come out hopefully
by the end of 2019 there's two on that list that have me just like so excited
one of them is the 15 to 35 millimeter F 2.8 and the reason I'm so excited about
that is because I feel like it'll allow me to actually get rid of two lenses
I'll be able to get rid of my 16 to 35 f/4 and my 14 millimeter of 2.8 I kind
of used those lenses for totally different things essentially I only use
that 14 millimeter for Star photography whereas with a 15 to 35 of 2.8 I can
essentially merge those two lenses into one and it would save room in my bag the
other lens I'm so excited about actually is the 70 to 200 F 2.8 I didn't miss my
70 to 200 F 2.8 for a really long time I switched it in preference of the 100 to
400 which I really love this lens but since we've been in Asia I've been
missing that lens I've really been missing the F 2.8 especially out in at
nights or in lower light situations and stuff like that so I feel like I want
70 to 200 again but because of the amount of space it takes up in my bag I
don't feel like I can really justify it until now and I'm not sure if you guys
have seen photos of this 70 to 200 so I'll lay one out over my face now but it
looks like it's gonna be one of those lenses that you know pushes in and out
and it should save space in my bag because the problem with my bag isn't
necessarily the weight of it it's just that I don't have room because when you
have telephoto lenses like this they need to lay flat in a bag like this and
it essentially takes up two or three slots that you can put in Al and the 70
to 200 potentially looks like I'd be able to stick it in my bag like this
which means that if I got rid of the 14 millimeter I could replace it with the
70 to 200 and not really add much in terms of size to my bag so those things
got me really excited I'm excited about the Canon EOS RP I think it's gonna be
probably the most used vlogging camera on the market especially once you know
things like that 24 to 240 millimeter lens come out I think that pairing will
be huge in the vlogging world I'm excited about the future again and I
mention this on the EOS our video when I talk to of my thoughts they're the thing
that excited me most about this camera wasn't anything in this camera it was
more just about the future and what was coming and the things that are coming
out right now and that are being developed they're really exciting and
I'm super stoked for the future now I want you guys in the comments section to
let me know what gear you're excited about I don't care if it's Canon or Sony
or Fuji or Pentax or Nikon in the comments let me know what gear you're
stoked about right now what gear you're thinking about buying and also let me
know your thoughts on the canon eos RP as for the vlog in a couple days i have
a vlog where i'm going to talk about taiwan and my photos from taiwan kind of
the mini portfolio i put together from my time in taiwan and then after I'm
heading to botanas here in the Philippines to do some landscape
photography and some nature photography and it should be a lot of fun so I'll
see you guys there peace