so guys in my recent eos r review i got a comment from romaine asking me whether i prefer the canon
eos r or the fujifilm xt4 since as you guys know if you watch the channel i just sold
my fujifilm xt4 and kept the eos r so i thought it's the perfect time to actually talk through
this choice and why i made it what is up creators this is tom welcome back to another video come for
the tom stay for the richardson as always i create videos here about filmmaking content creation so
hit that like button and let's get into it so for anyone who hasn't watched any of my older videos
i actually owned the fujifilm xt4 for a few months at the start of the year in the end what happened
is i ended up buying or managing to get quite a good deal on a canon c200 and what i do mainly
for my professional work is video so that was too good of an opportunity to turn down so i picked up
the c200 and then what i was faced with was that i needed a really good b camera you can't do all
of the work you need to do on a camera like the c200 as much as anything i actually shoot a lot
of stills professionally so i needed a really good b camera that could do a good high quality video
but take fantastic professional level stills and that really was between whether i keep
the canon eos r or keep the fuji xt4 first of all i don't actually have the xt4 obviously in
my hands anymore so it's not going to be a sort of super technical side-by-side comparing footage
type of video but what i do want to do as someone who has worked professionally with both of these
cameras talk about my experiences and why i made this choice i'm sort of going to be waving around
the canon eos r because it's kind of the only sort of prop that i've got like i said i don't
have the xc4 in my hands anymore but let's sort of delve in into some of the reasoning behind
why i stuck with the eos r because on the whole the xd4 the fujifilm xt4 is the superior camera
it is a newer camera it is a technically much more proficient camera especially when it comes to
video the xc4 pretty much just runs rings around the canon eos r it shoots um fantastic 120 frames
a second and 240 frames a second video the canon eos r shoots 120 frames a second but it's at 720p
this maxes out at 60 frames a second in 1080p the xt4 shoots a fantastic 4k60 and all of that
footage is recorded in a beautiful 10 bit 420 internal codec so the video quality that you
get out of the xt4 is absolutely amazing all of the video that you get out of the canon eos r
is 8-bit footage unless you shoot to an external recorder so it is like night and day a better
video camera the xt4 is compared to the eos r and there's even a pretty massive aggressive
crop even when you're shooting in 24 frames a second in 4k with the eos r it's something like
a 1.74 times crop so a massive massive crop the 4k footage you get out of the osr is beautiful and
really really high quality but you are sacrificing a lot to be able to shoot in that 4k codec
and you can't do it at 60 frames per second when we're talking about stills these are actually
a lot closer in my opinion the reason that i've actually stuck with the eos r is because it is a
fantastic stills camera this has a beautiful full frame sensor it takes fantastically high quality
images and the biggest difference between the eos r and the xc4 in this sort of stills department
is obviously things like colors and things like that but it is the fact that this is a full frame
camera so you can get beautiful full-frame stills whereas the uh xt4 is an aps-c sized sensor camera
so you're not getting quite as much detail if i can go into and do anything like restaurant
interiors or anything you need a super wide angle for the eos r is definitely going to have an edge
over something like the xt4 which has that more aggressive crop on it so that full frame look is
actually one of the main reasons that i decided to stick with the eos r even though this camera only
shoots in 1080p at that full frame field of view having the flexibility and the option to shoot in
that full frame view is a massive advantage for the type of work that i do then if i'm doing and
shooting something where the crop isn't like a big deal at all i can just shoot in that beautiful 4k
resolution another reason that i've stuck with the eos r and i talked about this briefly in my eos r
review is that the battery life is absolutely incredible on this camera like you can pretty
much run this camera with two batteries for most of the day and that is absolutely exceptional
far better than the xc4 which battery probably lasts like a couple of hours the battery life on
the eos are just a massive lifesaver i can bring four batteries in my backpack and just never have
to worry about running out of juice throughout the day another thing is this is a b camera and this
is not going to be a factor for everyone but when you are working with a camera like the canon c200
having a camera that can be easily color matched is quite a big deal i if i was to use the xt4 and
the c200 alongside each other and maybe shoot an interview it's going to be a harder time
for me to get those colors looking and feeling like a similar shot and then finally we have
the autofocus and this is just an absolute night and day winner where the eos r comes out on top
and it's not even close the auto focusing system on the xc4 was one of my biggest letdowns about
that camera i talked about it in my video review of that camera so go ahead and watch that if you
are interested but the auto focus on that camera just not reliable i wouldn't ever use it in a
professional setting because you might be getting you might be filming a shot like this and then in
the end you're getting sort of auto focus hunting uh halfway through your shot and you're not sort
of totally realizing because you're not glued to your monitor maybe you're interacting with your
subject you can't risk that on a professional interview shoot and the auto focus on the canon
eos are absolutely amazing much better even than my canon c200 which has exceptional autofocus they
both use dual pixel autofocus from canon and is one of the best in the game so to wrap up and
answer your question remain if i was only buying one camera i would buy the fujifilm xc4 i think
it is a better deal for a similar price and that you can actually pick up an eos r2 and xc4 the
xc4 is slightly more expensive but they are over within the same ballpark the xt4 is a way better
deal in terms of the technical specifications and the just the amount of camera that you're buying
for that money however for someone like me and the work that i do this camera the canon eos r pairs
exceptionally well with the canon c200 and that is why i decided to go for it it is a fantastic
pro high quality professional stills camera and it makes a very good b camera to something like
the c200 so i hope that answers your question if anyone has any thoughts or comments please let me
know down below in the description i'll love to be down there i will always be answering comments
and responding to you guys thank you so much for watching and i'll catch you guys next time you