- What's going on everybody?
I hope you're having a awesome day.
The auto-focus, it's trying to focus on this monitor.
Here, lemme try to shuffle it around.
It'll eventually come to me.
We'll eventually get this video started,
I just, I'm literally moving,
oh, now it locked onto my face.
There we go.
We are filming on the Canon M50 Mark II.
Pita just wanted to say hi real quick.
All right, the original M50
is really what I started this YouTube channel with,
and honestly, it was a really good camera for the price.
It was very simple to use,
and it just looks good just straight out of camera.
This is also a Canon M50 Mark II.
Yes, I have two of them, this one and this one,
because I kind of broke this one.
I mean still kinda works, but we'll get to that in a bit.
Now the difference between the original M50
and the M50 Mark II which came out more recently is,
honestly I don't know, there's very little difference,
but the price difference is like 20 bucks,
so it's almost like eh,
just might as well just pay a little bit extra
and get the new stuff.
But the reason why I still keep recommending this camera
to so many people when there's so many really powerful,
awesome, low-budget options out there
is because it just gives you
a really good image very easily, like right now.
This image, pretty good, right?
And I did not change any settings.
I'm not color grading anything.
This entire video is gonna be shot on either this
or this Canon M50 Mark II.
I'm not gonna color grade anything,
it's just straight out of the box color.
Recently the Sony ZV-E10 came out,
and it is a little bit more expensive than this M50,
but it has a lot more power,
so where does that leave this Canon M50?
We're gonna go over all that stuff, but first,
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with a bone stock Canon M50 Mark II with the kit lens,
everything's auto-exposure, the color is auto,
the white balance, everything just 100% auto.
I'm treating this camera like a point and shoot,
and here's how it looks.
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(humming)
(laughs)
Wait, so it's this, this, this,
this, this, this, - (laughs) I don't remember,
you, no, you skipped - this, this,
ay, Macarena. - somewhere.
You're supposed to go like this, you (beeps)
- I haven't done this in a while.
- And we're back now.
First of all, you gotta admit,
Dylan's the best at doing the sponsorship reads.
I think he's just gonna have to do all of them
from here on out.
But also the footage looked pretty good,
especially when you consider that I touched no settings
on the camera, I just attached the kit lens, the kit lens!
On the camera, I hit record,
I did put it into 24 frame per second.
That's the only thing I changed,
but everything auto-exposure, auto-white balance,
literally touched as little as I could.
And with the kit lens!
I mean that's why I think the Canon M50 is so good
for a total beginner, someone
that has never really touched a professional camera before
and they just want to improve on the image quality,
and of course this being a mirrorless camera,
you can improve on it, attach different lenses,
learn the settings, and grow with it as you go.
For example, this Canon M50 Mark II,
I have a Viltrox speed booster on there,
which gives it more of a full-frame look,
and I have a Sigma 20 mil f1.4, and as I mentioned,
this camera is kinda broken, well it's obviously working,
I'm recording with it right now,
but the back LCD does not work
so I have an external monitor attached to it
so I can reference that.
How did I break it?
Well I went to Portland, Oregon for our friends' wedding,
and it actually felt kinda like a reunion of our friends
that went to Mexico with us.
I put the Sigma 24 to 70 f2.8 on there,
and I set the camera to 60p
so I could get a little bit of that slow motion.
The 60p, I think it looks pretty good.
It's still 1080p, you still maintain that auto-focus,
and again, color, I'm not touching any of the color
in this video.
That's definitely gonna save me a whole bunch of time
in post.
Cruising around, exploring the town
on those rental scooter things,
that you gotta be careful on those things.
I was going around getting my shots,
I felt a little inferior
because all of the guys brought their fancy R5s
and the a7S and the Panasonics and all the full-frame stuff,
but I, cruising around with the M50,
but it's probably a good thing
that I had the cheapest camera,
because I was riding one-handed and I hit a bump
and then I dropped the camera.
You can kinda see,
this piece of plastic kinda chipped off here.
I don't think it's gonna be major repair,
I think it's just replacing this plastic, I don't know.
Kinda sad about it 'cause this is a lens
that I did personally buy,
it wasn't sent to me or anything like that, so tears.
But yeah, in terms of the camera, I might go ahead
and set it up as a permanent overhead angle,
I might set it up somewhere high, 'cause those,
I don't really use the LCD anyways,
I'll feed that down to a monitor regardless,
so as long as I don't need the LCD,
this camera's still useful to me, so you know,
it could've been a lot worse.
Maybe wear neck straps if you're riding scooter.
Actually, you know what, if you're riding a scooter,
just put both hands on the handlebars.
That's the safest.
Now the good news is that these Canon M50s,
they're super easy to find,
so we realized there was a Best Buy nearby,
picked up another one, and we were back in business,
and also, we were in Oregon which has a 0% sales tax.
I should've bought like 20 iPhones there.
Anyways, now it was time for the wedding,
and I wanted to keep it super simple,
so went with just a single prime lens, an 85 f1.8.
It's an EF lens, it's pretty budget-friendly,
so I took this EF lens, and this is an EF-M mount I think,
EF mini or, I have no idea what it stands for, but anyways,
you needed an adapter for it, so I used a speed booster.
I also set the camera to 120 frames per second,
and you do lose image stabilization and auto-focus,
so I was manually focusing this,
but let's go ahead and roll the shots.
(laid-back guitar hip-hop music)
That's 720p footage.
Yes, it's only 720p, which is pretty lame, but the footage,
it looks decent, right?
That's the thing with this Canon M50
is that it's not really a powerful camera,
but the footage looks pretty good.
It's just a really pleasant camera to use,
I mean everything about it, the LCD looks nice,
the menu is nice and simple, and of course,
just because you can shoot fully automatic
with this doesn't mean you always should.
While we were shooting Dylan's thing,
I was getting a little bit of inconsistencies
with the white balance shifting around,
and also you could notice
that the close-up shot is much brighter than the wide shot,
and that's because of the way the camera exposes.
If I was in manual mode there,
I would've definitely locked in that exposure right there
in the middle.
I thought the close-up was a little bit too bright
and the wide shot was a little bit too dark, but overall,
with all that being said and done,
I still think this might be the best bang
for the buck beginner camera.
Now keep in mind, the ZV-E10, it has more performance,
but it is a camera that takes a little bit more attention
to get really good results out of,
and it will surpass what this camera is capable of
if you work it right.
I feel like there's two types of vloggers,
nerdy people like me where I want the best dynamic range,
I'm gonna shoot in log so I can color grade it
and I want the best resolution, all that stuff,
and yeah, you're gonna get better image quality out of that,
but it does also eat into your attention,
like the capacity of how many things you can think about.
We all have a limit there, so it does eat away
at that a little bit.
The alternative are the vloggers that are just like,
I have no idea what this camera's doing,
but there's a red dot there.
But there's nothing wrong with that actually, I mean sure,
maybe your white balance
or exposure might run wild once in a while,
but you have your mind free to not think about it
and you could focus on what you're filming,
and sometimes that's more important.
So if that's the kind of vlogger or filmmaker you wanna be,
I think this might still be the champion of budget cameras.
All right, so now that I have the 11 to 22 on here,
and this is exactly how I used to run this vlog camera,
you can kinda see through the mirror, got a big mic up top,
I would probably use a smaller microphone
if this was my blog setup, 'cause it's,
the microphone's literally bigger than the camera,
but yeah, this is the setup I used to run.
I got a little cheap Amazon ND filter on here.
Look what we're riding today.
Hey Dylan.
- 'Sup?
- We rented this 'cause we're doing a shoot this weekend
and I wanna get some really nice and low car-to-car shots,
and there's this nice opening on these Polaris Slingshots.
(engine revs)
- That's different.
(metal clanks)
(laughs)
I didn't know - Wow, I thought you knew
how to drive stick. - it was touch to start.
I thought I did too.
(laughing)
Just like adjusting to a different stick shift,
you know? - Yeah, sure,
that's what it is.
This is gonna be awesome for filming cars,
because I can just literally hold the camera nice
and low and get outside like that.
Dylan, you've driven this for two minutes.
What's your review?
- Maybe a seven?
- A seven? (laughs)
But yeah, as a vlog setup,
I feel like this is a pretty nice simple little solution,
and I do have stabilization onto enabled.
There's also enhance, but here, if I do enhance,
it's gonna corp in, so ready?
And enhanced.
So this is the type of stabilization you get out of enhance.
It's probably a bit better, but it does crop in a bit more,
or if I completely turn it off, we punch back out to here,
so widest angle with no stabilization,
I'll go back to enabled, so little bit of a punch in,
but not bad, right,
and I get that little bit of stabilization.
Dylan, I feel like you really want sunglasses.
Dylan lost his sunglasses recently.
Here, you can wear this and you can look cool there.
Yeah,
that's very fitting for you. (chimes ring)
Oh yeah, dude.
You need to go start a GoFundMe for a new pair of glasses.
But a big crop definitely comes when you go into 4K,
so I don't really use 4K with this camera.
I mean, I guess it's all right,
but it's just a heavy crop, so here.
If you go ahead and punch into 4K real quick,
and there we go, so now we're in 4K.
Wow, that's a pretty big crop.
I'm almost in a close-up now, even I'm at 11 mil.
For me, even when I'm shooting with my C70 or A70,
I'm still shooting HD most of the time.
And yeah, we're back in HD.
This is where I personally feel comfortable.
Man, Dylan, you look so cool with those sunglasses.
- I try.
- You gotta pull a couple screen grabs out of this,
and put it on Tinder.
But overall, this camera, super easy to, like Dylan,
he doesn't really know much about cameras,
but here, you could just take it and you could vlog with it.
- Oh, I haven't broken it yet.
Tight. - Yeah, if you're like Dylan.
- Yeah.
Pretty easy, nice and light.
Now I'm a vlogger. - Professional vlogger.
Put that on your LinkedIn,
just like, I'm a vlogger. - Oh, professional vlogger.
- Yeah.
All right, so that just about wraps it up,
but we are funding another project for the Potato Farm.
Whose project are we funding this time?
- Ben Ellefson of Iowa.
Ben says, "My friends
"and I have these trips we go on called mystery trips
"where one of us gets randomly selected out of a hat
"to plan the next trip.
"We set a per person budget amount for all costs,
"like flights, accommodation, food, all that,
"and the person plans everything
"without telling everyone else.
"The rest of the group
"gets a packing list a week before the trip,
"but they don't know where they're going
"until they show up at the airport ready for the flight."
It's pretty exciting, and he's been selected
as the lucky planner for the next trip.
Wanna use the budget to show how awesome this is,
and yeah, excited to see that.
- That actually sounds fun.
Would you be down to go on a mystery trip
where it's just like,
just show up to the airport - Oh yeah, dude.
What if you're ready - and you're like,
where are we going?
- for a tropical place, like no, you're going to the tundra.
- I feel like there's a little bit of pressure though.
What if you plan it and everyone shows up
and everyone's like, no one wants to go there.
You know? (laughs) - Yeah, right?
It's like oh, but the money's spent,
so. - But that's awesome.
That sounds like a cool film to,
it's almost like a Yes Theory type of thing I predicted,
but it'll be cool.
Congratulations.
We're funding your project,
and if you have an idea you wanna pitch us,
link in description.
All right.
That's it.
Peace. - Later.
- Bye.
I think I got cheese on my lip.
Cheese is the best though, do you want a piece?
- I'll get my own.
No, no, no. - Here, have some.