- It's just interesting, you know, both Nikon and Canon
finally decided to be serious about mirrorless camera
at the same time, and then when they finally released
their full frame mirrorless camera
everyone was so upset about them,
so bashing about them so hard.
And to be honest I was disappointed at first,
but is it really that bad?
This is what I'm curious about, Canon seems serious
about mirrorless this time, although on paper
it doesn't look good.
Now before I start, I have to thank Adorama
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Now let's start with the camera body itself,
because that's the first thing you pick it up,
I mean when you pick it up
that's the first impression, I mean.
And similar to my First Lok, first look, First Lok
in Photokina, when I pick it up it's just so familiar.
This is no mistakenly Canon.
I'm pretty sure if I close my eye and pick up
I know that this is a Canon.
I think, it should, I should be able.
It definitely even better than a lot of entry level DSLR.
Oh yeah, you only got one card slot, yeah,
well the 5D Mark 3 only got one card slot,
I've been using it for years.
And the flip screen, all the flaps on the left side,
SD card slot, it's all very familiar,
and including the battery door,
it's, it's the same, I don't have to look at it
to change battery.
I mean it just remind me of all of the years
I used 5D Mark 3 and two, two and three.
Now this has a new LP-E6N battery.
You can use your old LP-E6 battery with this camera,
but only this new camera could be charged with USB-C.
Charge with USB-C require a PD support,
power deliver support charger or power bank.
You can just use any USB-A to USB-C cable.
The vertical grip, sold separately, comes with
a USB-C charger, works as a two battery charger
and even show you which battery is being charged.
There are new and old stuff,
so new is this O-LED display,
this can display so much more details than other,
than older LED display, and you've got this familiar wheel
on top, and you've got this M function button.
And at the back you've got this button to choose AF points,
you've got this AE lock button, and then you've got,
you also got this AF on button that lots of people
would like with the back button focusing.
The info button, the quick manual, it's all really familiar.
You can almost pick it up and then use it like any other
Canon DSLR right away, almost.
Because there are things that's quite changed, quite a lot.
For better or worse.
When you change mode on this camera
you have to press the Mode button before you change it.
Another difference is that you use this M function button
to access or this ISO drive.
It seems quite difficult to manage.
Actually when you look at the back, it's easier, I think.
Now first, you change mode from here,
that's easy to understand.
You can also tap it with the touch screen obviously,
and when you press the M function button
it's actually easier to understand from the screen here.
And also, what I love about is this new flexible priority
AE mode, now you don't have to change from P, AE, TV mode
anymore, you use this button to switch between all this
shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation
and so for example, if I wanted to choose my aperture
I just switch it to here, you see, it's just orange,
now you're changing aperture.
You want to change ISO, flip it to here,
and change your ISO.
Now I've just realised I totally forgot to mention
about that M function, but well, because I tried,
I tried to like it but I just don't,
I just don't find it useful at all.
I basically turned it off and then totally forgot about it.
I mean the button, the hardware itself actually works
really well, responsive, sensitive,
but I really wanted to have physical dials
just maybe just two more function buttons,
because on a camera when you're grabbing it
it's just too easy to accidentally
press that function bar thing.
I mean people don't like the touch bar on MacBook Pro,
but at least when you're using it you're not grabbing
that area, you're not going to accidentally touch anything
on the bar and then the bar itself is a display.
I appreciate to try new things, but that's just.
As I say, so many people are disappointed
about the EOS R when it's a lot, include myself initially,
but it's still their only first full frame mirrorless camera
and obviously this is not aimed for professionals.
After all, when you're shooting with it
it is a pleasure to shoot with.
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Now this is the reason I chose to shoot this video
in the dark, in nighttime because the AF is so good.
Now Canon famously have the Dual Pixel AF,
it got focusing points on the sensor,
but what's different than other brands,
other brands they have to sacrifice some imaging pixel
to be able to do phase detection, focus points.
For Canon, all of their imaging pixel can be used
to focus as well.
So there are actually 13 million points you can use to focus
and on the system you have over 5,000 AF points
you can choose from.
Obviously they don't let you choose from the 13 million
points, it will be just too much to handle.
Oh, back alley again.
Focusing is simply dark magic.
I am really impressed especially in such dark environments.
I have to say dynamic range don't impress me.
The low light performance is average for today's standard.
The lens and camera combination is not light.
I mean maybe because it is so front heavy
I don't feel too much different than using a 5D.
The combination of this compared to a 5D
with an equivalent 294 to 105 F4
this would be 300 grams lighter.
But that's the whole weight, the total weight
will be lighter, but it's still really front heavy.
And for some reason all these new lenses coming out
from Canon for this EOS R, they are all huge.
I really hope that they give you a pancake to choose from.
But no.
So it's just one thing I don't bother to test is the burst.
The burst is like single AF, 8 FPS,
and then if you want tracking, 5 FPS.
So no, it's just not for burst,
it's just no for anything spotty.
I think that single shot will be fine.
Oh yeah, it's good with native lens.
What if something that's semi-native?
24-70 f/2.8 with an adapter.
And this adapter even let you use EF-S lens,
so for the first time you can use EF-S lens
on a full frame Canon.
It make it even longer.
Actually back to the original thickness.
Okay, a little bit different.
It's still workable.
Noticeably it's lower than native lens,
but perhaps just because native lens performance is so well
in comparison it make the adapter solution looks bad.
Now okay, video feature, I have to admit that
I was furious when I heard
that this 4K still got cropped.
I mean come on Canon! You put 4K in it,
finally, finally full frame mirrors,
why is there crop to it?
But let's go through what this camera do first.
4K/30p, 1080/60p, 720/doesn't matter,
8bit internal, 10bit output, it's all pretty standard.
One good thing is it can do C-Log internally, finally.
It's just it's only available in M-Mode
and that's no flat picture profile
there's no cinelike, cine profile.
It's just C-Log or no log.
Now I talk about operation, when you switch from still
to video, you just have to press Mode, Info,
and you are in video mode.
Also, when you can see here is that record,
movie record with C3 setting,
that means for example, you are in photo mode,
when you press Record button,
it use your preset custom mode.
I like this a lot.
Something really nice about manual focusing is that
it got a custom, not custom, it's got distant scale.
Also, when you come to this custom settings
and you can see here, "RF lens manually focus
ring sensitivity," because here this
"Linked to rotation degree" is what it like perform like
on manual lens, which is so much easier
to do manual focusing.
Thanks God for that.
Too bad it don't have zebra, I don't know why.
It has histogram, but not in any other mode,
other than manual mode, look at that.
Why can't I have that on for example, TV mode,
shutter priority.
Whenever I want to, when I set my shutter
I still want to set my exposure compensation sometimes.
So histogram would be useful. And zebra.
Something about this electronic levelling, now it's here,
when I switch it to face and tracking, which I usually use
for vlogging and a lot of time doing reviews as well,
disappear, like why is that?
Why can't I have the levelling in here?
Continues with this weird restriction,
when you use a crop lens it don't let you shoot 1080/60p.
Why, don't know.
It just don't.
So almost boarding time, yes, I am taking this to a trip,
I am taking this to a really short Malaysia trip,
and I am leaving my Sony a7SII at home,
this time only with this Canon EOS R, with a crop lens,
EF-S, 10-18 crop lens on adapter.
So it kind of like, just I really want to find out
does it really work for vlogging, like it got,
the lens got a 1.6 crop and then it kind of fit
to the EOS 1.7, 1.8 times crops, you no longer
I mean this is the first time you can put a crop lens
on a full frame Canon, before that you can only put
full frame lens on full frame Canon.
Now I put this EF-S lens and it's really light on this
always think this is the best way to test a camera,
actually use it for a few days in different situation,
yeah, to test every single, every aspect of it,
so let's go.
Okay, I know not everyone are into vlogging
but this is still a really good indication
of how does it perform when I rely on camera to focus,
pick its exposure, and the image stabilisation.
Well let's start with the good, the EFS 10-18mm
gives me equivalent 18mm at the widest end
which is great for vlogging
One way to work around with a 4K crop,
I always preferred Canon in-lens IS,
it's not the most stable, but I think it's the most
natural looking IS, even without in-body stabilisation
it's as stable as my Sony.
Needless to say but I'm still going to say it,
Canon Dual Pixel AF is still the industry gold standard.
And Canon colour is just so much better than the Sony,
even in difficult artificial light.
And the battery life is so good I can get by
with just one battery for a whole day.
Maybe one spared just to be safe.
Put it in perspective with my Sony
I have to use three batteries and stretching it
with a power bank.
Low light performance is alright, nothing special here.
Now let's talk about the bad.
Dynamic range, it's definitely behind Sony,
especially if you are like me if you don't want to use
log profile, Canon don't provide
any flatter cine profile.
I see a lot more backlighting or overblown highlight
than my Sony and these are with contrast all the way down.
Of course, having to use 1.8 crop means you don't get
as much shadow depth of field as full frame.
Despite it is a full frame camera.
So the EOS R, I have said that I was disappointed,
and then I also said that it's a pleasure to shoot with.
So what do I make of it?
Well I really think it all depends on what is important
to each of us and then what are we,
we all look for different things from cameras.
Like I use the Sony because of the low light,
because of full frame, and then good dynamic range.
People who choose GH5 because of 4K 60p
and then a really good IS, and people who would choose Canon
maybe just because of Canon colour.
So this EOS R for myself it haven't got me to rush out
with my credit card to buy it, shut up and take my money,
as I mentioned before, the EOS M, the cropped sensor EOS M
it looks more like PowerShot with interchangeable lens,
but this EOS R actually feels like and looks like a DSLR,
and I think that means Canon is actually serious
about mirrorless this time.
And this is actually has got me more excited about
than the camera itself.
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