How's it going everybody? Potato Jet, here and this is the brand new Canon M50.
I've been testing this camera out for the last two weeks I've been taking it
hiking, I took it on a boat, I took it camping, and I really believe
that this could possibly be the best vlog camera out there. Right now I'm
actually filming on a Canon 80D. I've used this camera for every single video
that I put out to date. You've done a good job, but now it is time to retire and let
this guy take over, the Canon M50. Now, depending on who you are, you're gonna
have different opinions about this camera. Maybe you're a vlogger, you want
to film yourself, or try to just capture memories. For that you probably want a
camera that you can just turn on, hit that record button and get a pretty damn
good image. Or you're a filmmaker or cinematographer and you just want
something to get some professional results out of. I try to do a little bit
of both, so before you run off and buy one, let me tell you guys what I found
with this camera so far. As a vlog camera, think of this as a cheaper and smaller
Canon 80D. If you were looking for a huge leap in image quality or hoping for
a 4k vlog camera, you aren't gonna find that here. This camera does have 4k, but
it doesn't really work for vlogs that well, because you lose the really really
great dual pixel autofocus, and also the sensor crops in a bit, so it becomes
harder to like, film yourself because it's in so tight. On the other hand I
think the 80D might be one of the best vlog cameras out there, so having that in
a smaller cheaper body, I mean that's awesome! So even though the 4k in here
isn't spectacular, don't let that be a huge turnoff. A lot of great vloggers
shoot their stuff in HD. I mean yeah, 4k looks sharper, but it's also huge file
sizes, a lot more processing on your computer. Right now I'm shooting on HD,
but if this were 4k, I would have filled up so many memory cards by now. You know how
many crappy takes I've taken so far? I mean there's so much footage on this
camera! I'm terrible at this! I've said each thing five times just to get this
take! This take took me five tries! But one added benefit that the M50 has that the
80D doesn't, is the super slow motion at 120 frames per second. Pretty cool, you
can definitely capture some interesting moments in this frame rate. But the
downside is that it does drop down to 720p, which becomes a little bit
noticeable, but it's really not bad. I've been happy with the test results. First
impressions, I love the size of this thing. It is nice and small. I have the 11
- 22 millimeter on here, which is what I would recommend
for vlogs. Just because it's wide enough to be able to record yourself like this
and get like a nice frame. I'll put the links to all this stuff in the
description. When I pull off the lens it's almost the same size as my point and
shoot, my G7X mark ii. Check that! And the more you use these cameras, the more you'll appreciate
the size and weight difference of these cameras. Camera is definitely super
lightweight. We're doing this hike, but it's a lot easier to carry this along
with me instead of an 80D cause it's so much lighter. I have the 11 to 22 millimeter
lens on here, and I'm just holding it straight out and I could get both of us
in the frames. And also I have a Zhiyun Crane V2. But I was never really able to
balance the 80D on there well, but now with this M50, it balances on there so
easily. And just little things like that. I mean, it is just awesome! The size
difference mmm I love you! Taking a look at this low-light capabilities, it's no
surprise that the M50 and the 80D are very very similar. Both are set to 6400
ISO. F-stop about 4.5 with a standard color profile. Really dark right here, but
we have the ISO max out at 12,800. The shutter at
1/25, F-stop at F/4. You see a little bit, it's really grainy but it's also really
dark. F4 is gonna be the biggest limiting factor here, so I'm gonna throw on a 1.8
F-stop lens real quick and I'll show you guys what that looks like.
Okay now we're at F 1.8. - It's completely dark right now. Can you see me? -Would you be surprised if
I can see you? - Yeah. (laughs) I'd be really surprised! O My gosh! You could see
me oh my gosh! It's crazy! - To me everything's like, really dark, I could
see more through this camera. - It's definitely darker. - Like I can't really see your face
right now it's so dark but, on this camera I can kinda see a little bit of
it. Oh yeah. Just to give you guys an idea of how
dark it actually is right now, this is what my iPhone sees. It's like, pitch dark.
I mean, you can kind of see a little bit of the sky, but once you turn it over,
to like Kari over here, you can't see anything with the iPhone.
A small issue, usually when I'm filming with this camera I open up the screen
and just have a little tilt on it, just like that.
The problem with that is that's right where this mic port is. So when you have a mic
plugged in, it kind of blocks it and limits that motion a little bit. I mean
you could get used to it after a little while. Another little thing, I can see the
audio levels on this 80D while I'm filming. So check this out,
this is the Canon 80D that I'm filming with right now. And that is the audio
levels. I can literally watch the audio levels as I'm talking which is awesome. I
like to always keep an eye on that, because if the audio is blown then your f#$%#$
The issue with M50 is I can't monitor the audio levels as I'm recording. Like, I can
go into this screen here and watch the audio levels, but as soon as I hit the
record button, it switches back into this screen, and I can't get the audio levels
to pop up here. So that's kind of a downside, but again I've been using it
for a little bit, and it's generally pretty predictable, so it hasn't been too
much of an issue. But I really think it'd be awesome if they could just put the
audio levels right here, cause I like to watch that thing.
Technically the M50 has a weak sauce battery compared to the canon 80D's. I
took the M50 the 80D and the G7X, I put them all on 1080p, 24 frames per
second and IPB codec and I just let them record for as long as they can. And
on one battery this was able to record about two and a half hours of footage in
HD before the battery died. It's pretty good, but nonetheless you're definitely
gonna want a couple of these. The 80D can get about three hours and this records
about an hour and 37 minutes. Now what if your goal isn't to shoot vlogs, but to
shoot cinematic looking professional video? Then you're gonna want to switch
it into manual mode, and just dial in all your settings. Now the 4k starts to
take place here. Over there! Just go be a good model and just sit
there! Oh yeah! Aw who's a good model? In the 4k settings there's definitely
improvements in the sharpness and quality. The larger your computer screen
or TV is, the more noticeable it's gonna be. If we do a 10 times zoom in, sure it
becomes a little bit more obvious, but again, there's a time and place for 4k
and I don't think vlogs is where it's necessary. But I'm curious what are you
guys seeing on whatever platform you're watching on are you noticing a
difference between HD and 4k here? In the US version, you could only record 4k at
24 frames per second, you can't do 30 or 60. So unfortunately you don't get that
flexibility, but honestly if I could pick one frame rate to have, it would be 24, so
I'm good with it. 4k out of this thing's really good and you could really
achieve a lot. I would say get this body and then just get a couple of awesome
lenses. I also installed Technicolor Cinestyle on here, which definitely helps
open up that dynamic range a little bit. Cinestyle is a free color profile that
you can download and install onto your camera. It makes your image much more
flat, which means you do have to put in a little bit more work to color grade it,
but it also does give you a little bit more control over the image. I hope you
guys are enjoying Steve's sad attempts to do Blue Steel. And in case you guys
are curious, this is how my much more expensive Red looks like. Definitely much
sharper and has a much nicer highlight roll-off, but it was definitely
surprising to see how close it could get. If you guys are curious enough to see a
full video comparing these two cameras, let me know. If you're like me and you
already have a lot of Canon EF glass, then it's definitely worth getting this
adapter. This one's one of my favorites it's the 18-35 Sigma, 1.8. This adapter
lets you put any Canon EF lens onto this M50. And it's great because the
autofocus and all the controls work just as well on here through this adapter as
it would on this 80D Like the autofocus of switching back and forth between
Steve's stupid face and the background, it reacts pretty quickly and pretty
accurately so I'm impressed. One of the big complaints about the 4k in the M50
is that you don't get that dual pixel autofocus anymore. So your focus isn't
gonna be nearly as good. It's always hunting, it's always blurring out. I
wouldn't recommend using it so much, but that doesn't really bother me too much.
Like I said, if I'm shooting in 4k I'm not trying to shoot like a vlog style. I
try to get more cinematic footage. So I'm willing to put a little bit more work
into that, so I go fully manual. Whenever I shoot on a professional camera
like this Red camera, I'm shooting in manual focus anyways. Instead of having
good autofocus in these cameras, they give you tools to get really precise
manual focus. And that's exactly what this M50 does, it gives you something
called focus peaking, which is basically a red outline around everything that's
in focus. This is really hard to tell what's in focus on this little screen, so
it helps a lot. And with focus peaking you can usually get some super precise
footage. And the focus peaking on here is pretty decent.
There is also an HDMI port in case you want to feed a signal to a monitor like
this, but it does pull the signal out of here, so you can't use an external
monitor and this rear screen at the same time. In terms of image stabilization,
most of that happens in the lens, so a lot of that's going to depend on what
kind of glass you throw on here. But the M50 does have an added option of a
digital stabilization. I tried it out for a little bit but I got this weird warpy
effect. I was not a huge fan of it, so I turned it off and I don't plan on using
that. My guess is that the 80D would be a little bit more durable. The housing is a
little bit bigger, so I assume that this is a little bit more fragile, this feels
more compact and more precise. I wouldn't feel too comfortable dropping this thing.
But so far the build quality feels pretty solid. While we were on the beach,
a huge gust of wind came by and sandblasted us, including this camera a
couple times, and I was a little bit concerned about that, because sand is a
camera's like worst nightmare but, it survived. But I'll keep you guys posted
if anything happens to this later down the line, which hopefully doesn't! But I'm out
I gotta go, it's hot! The air-conditioner is not working! So I was gonna end the
video here, but I realize I'm really close to making this video ten minutes,
so I'm just gonna draw this video out by showing you guys a little bit more
footage from the Canon M50.
Yeah oh that beautiful Jeep! Look at that beautiful, hey! Get out of here, you'll ruin the shot!
Hooray we made it past ten minutes! good work team!
Bye!