- Hey guys, welcome to Travel Feels.
Today we're gonna be talking
about this guy, the Canon C200.
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So Canon announced the C200 and immediately
I was super excited about this camera.
This is probably one of my favorite reviews
I've done so far and the reason for that
is usually when Canon releases a new camera
the specs aren't that crazy.
But once you use it you start realizing
that this is a really good product.
But for this camera the specs are actually super good.
So I just wanted to see what is it like actually.
The other week me and Peter were supposed
to shoot something and out of nowhere
he surprised me with the C200,
and I was just super excited to try it out.
Especially because the camera hadn't even launched yet.
So we had one of the first models of the camera.
And it's actually a production model.
The outside just looks a little bit different
from the actual one that ships.
We took it on a shoot telling the story
of the youngest person to fly solo around the world.
- [Man] When I was 18 I read this story
about a guy from California who was 20,
who was gonna go set this record
as the youngest person to fly solo around the world.
And I just kind of thought, well gee I can do that.
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- Which you can check out on Canon's website.
And I also took it out on another shoot
to test it out on a gimbal, the MoVI M10.
I've owned the Canon C300 Mark II
which I'm shooting on right now for about a year,
so I as really curious to see where does the C200 fit.
It seemed to be a mix of really high quality
with the RAW light, and then a little bit
lower quality codec when you don't want to blast
through all your memory cards.
So after a couple shoots these are my thoughts
on the Canon C200 from the perspective
of a DP and a YouTube content creator.
So let's start with the basics.
The first thing that I really like
is the newly designed LCD screen.
I really like that you can move it around
to pretty much any position you want.
And the best part is you don't have to
loosen or tighten any screws.
You just move it to wherever you want it to be.
That's super handy for me especially
when I'm filming documentaries.
I just need to be able to move around
the screen really quickly and not have to use
two hands to undo something,
and then move around the screen,
and then tighten it back up.
I can just move it really quickly, really easily,
super handy, really appreciate this.
It's also a touchscreen which is really nice
for the auto focus, another great feature.
And ah the auto focus on Canon's cameras
is just really good.
And if you haven't used Canon's auto focus
you're probably thinking,
ew I would never use auto focus.
And yeah, that's what I thought too.
But Canon has really done well with the auto focus
and the C200 is no exception.
The auto focus works really well.
And the one thing that people really don't realize
is that even if you don't use the auto focus,
the focus guide is so handy.
It tells you if you're in focus or not.
So let's say you're in the middle of an interview,
you can see when you're in focus,
and if you're not in focus it'll tell you
how much to change the focus by,
and then it'll tell you once you're in focus.
That's super handy.
I use this all the time on all my shoots.
Next I really like that the RAW light
goes onto the CFast card,
and the mp4 clips go onto the SD cards.
This is just a really nice way
to separate the files,
and also you have the dual slots
for SD so you can just continuously
be recording a lot of footage onto those cards.
I also like that the XLR inputs are now
in the camera body and not in the LCD monitor unit.
This is really handy just in case
you don't want that handle, or that LCD screen,
you can still have the XLR input,
I really appreciate this.
Whereas on the C300 you always have to have
that monitor unit to have XLR input.
And also real quick I like that
the batteries are the same as for the C300,
so I don't have to get any new batteries
I can just use the same batteries, really handy.
The C200 is a really nice size.
I like the ergonomics of it.
It's smaller than the C300
and it's just a really nice camera to use.
Now let's get to the juicy stuff,
the stuff we all want to know about,
what's the image like?
When I'm looking at the image of a camera,
I'm really looking closely at the colors
and dynamic range of the camera,
and I'm really picky about those things.
And the C200 does really well in both of those.
For my videos I was mostly recording
in RAW and then I was converting into ProRes,
and the footage is just really good.
It's so nice to color grade,
no issues at all color grading
and working with it in post.
I was never having to fight with the footage
trying to make it look natural,
or trying to make the skin tones look good.
They just look really good straight out of the camera,
which is really not a given for a lot
of the cameras out there right now.
A lot of them need a ton of work
to get the skin tones really nice
and natural looking.
I recorded in all the different formats,
in 24 and 60 frames, in RAW.
I use the 120 frames per second.
I also tried to do some tests with the mp4 footage.
And they're all really good
and they all serve a different purpose.
I'm still amazed that a camera this size,
and this price, can internally record
such a high quality RAW image.
It seems almost too good to be true.
I wish that everybody could just huddle around
my computer and check out the footage,
because YouTube really doesn't do justice to this footage.
So the image looks amazing, super impressed by it.
I also really like the slow motion,
60p and 4k is really handy.
We used this a lot in the profile of Matt,
the solo flyer, it just has a really nice look to it.
And there's something about Canon's slow motion
that just looks really nice, and smooth, and buttery.
A lot better than a lot of the other cameras out there.
Not to mention the 120 frames per second.
This camera just has a lot of amazing features.
Even the mp4 codec really surprised me.
I thought that this was gonna be
a pretty low quality codec
that I wouldn't be using at all,
but I could actually use this for a lot of things.
Especially for things like interviews,
or YouTube videos, where I don't need that RAW quality,
but I still want a really nice image.
This mp4 codec is really good for that kind of stuff.
I think it was a really smart thing from Canon
to introduce a really high quality codec,
and then have a little bit lower quality codec
for projects that you don't need
all that quality, and you don't want to take up
as much space on your hard drives.
I'm actually really surprised that they put
all of this technology into one camera
at a really affordable price for this kind of camera.
So it's safe to say I'm really impressed by this camera.
And now, let's get into the negatives.
And those are the negatives.
I'm just kidding, but honestly,
it's really hard to find anything
to complain about with this camera.
Probably the only things that you can complain about
are that the RAW files are still fairly big in size
and that's just the nature of the beast
when you're recording in RAW
even with this RAW light codec.
You can't have amazing RAW quality
and not have bigger file sizes.
For me I also don't really like having
an EVF on the camera.
I find that it just gets in the way.
I never use it.
Especially for gimbal work it just
always seems to be in the way.
But luckily they also offer a version
where you can get it without the EVF
and that's actually really handy.
I would almost consider just buying that one.
I also do wish that it had two CFast card slots,
just because the file sizes are so big,
and I've also just gotten used to it on the C300 Mark II.
But I get it, it's a small camera,
you can only pack so much into one small package.
But it is nice that you have the two SD card slots also.
So when we're talking about the negatives
there really aren't that many for me.
But the big question is who is this camera for?
And it's actually really interesting,
I think this is the first camera
where I can see just a really wide variety
of uses for it.
I can see so many different users
really liking this camera.
I think it's an amazing doc camera.
I'm definitely gonna be using
this camera for documentaries.
There's just so much packed into a really small body.
The dynamic range, the color science,
the auto focus, slow motion, low light capabilities,
all that stuff I can really say
this is gonna be one of the best
documentary cameras there is right now.
I can also see a lot of higher end
YouTubers using this camera.
Because you get to use the RAW light
for your really impressive stuff
that you need really high quality footage for,
but it also has that mp4 codec
for your more normal things where you
don't need all of that quality.
But you still want a really nice image,
and all of those nice features of the camera.
Being able to plug in your lav,
or your shotgun mic, and having everything
in one package is just so handy for YouTube filmmaking.
I already love using the C300 Mark II
for YouTube filmmaking, and I get it,
a lot of people can't afford it.
But the C200 will be a really good option
for higher end YouTube filmmakers.
Also a lot of people that have been using the 1DX Mark II,
this will be the perfect step up for those people.
You have a lot of the same kind of features,
but in a real video camera package.
And everything's just stepped up
a little bit more on all those areas.
Also for people who make short films,
or narrative stuff, this is gonna be
a really good camera for you
because of the RAW light codec.
It's just so high quality that if you need
the best quality for your short films,
this is gonna be the camera for you
if you're looking in this price range.
I still can't believe how good
the footage looks out of this camera.
It's pretty crazy how versatile this camera is,
how much is packed in, and it's safe to say
that I really like the Canon C200.
I'm probably even gonna buy it
as soon as it comes out,
because it really is a great camera.
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