- Welcome to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
It is super hot and humid here,
so that is why I'm wearing this tank top.
Every time I put this on I feel like a bro,
like aye, let's go do some keg stands.
No, but seriously, it's like crazy hot
so I'm gonna be as close to naked as possible.
So this is the Canon G7 X Mark III.
Let's go explore the rest of Mexico.
All right, we're here in Tulum
and we got the whole gang with us.
You guys have to act more excited.
All right we just got to Tulum
and we got the whole gang with us.
(crowd cheering)
Sam's loving this right now.
- (laughing)
- You probably have like 800 photos of yourself
- (laughing)
- like in that six seconds you stood there.
- I'm gonna do a slideshow on Instagram just of myself.
(laughing)
- Sam has way too much footage from this trip
of just him looking exotic. - I'm single and I really need
really good Tinder profile pictures.
- Your Tinder is gonna be so lit when you come back.
(groovy guitar music)
Luckily we have a gaffer on this trip with us.
You guys are gonna have an interesting
photo library after this.
- [Group] Yeah, seriously.
- You guys wanna know the best part
is these guys pay to come work here for...
(laughs loudly)
- Hey we have to do a potato Jet calendar.
- Yeah.
(sighing) Anyways, apologies for my sweat,
I realize I sweat a lot.
Everyone's fine and I'm just like;
Now after using this Canon G7 X Mark III
during this trip,
there's a lot of things that this camera does really,
really well but, there's three things about this camera that
I never thought I'd have to say about a Canon Camera.
And unfortunately, they're not good things.
Which really sucks to say because Canon,
I love Canon, obviously.
I mean, this EOS R that I'm filming on right now,
I would not trade this camera for any other
YouTube camera out there right now so,
I really love their cameras.
I use them all the time, but, (frustrated groaning).
Ah, anyways, let's start with the basics.
It has one inch sensor, it does 4k,
and that footage comes out beautiful.
The lens opens up to an f/1.8
when it's zoomed all the way out,
and then when you zoom it in,
it goes down to a 2.8 which is still pretty solid.
Those three things combined into this little package,
I mean that's bangin'.
Check that out, that's something you don't see everyday.
(laughing)
Realistically, a lot of people are just gonna
pull this camera straight outta the box
and just leave it on fully automatic and hit record.
'Cause it's a point and shoot.
That's exactly what they want to do.
They just wanna point and shoot.
So straight out of the box,
the colors are very rich and vibrant.
The 4k looks great.
We can also pop it into neutral mode
to get the slighter, flatter look.
And one of the things super cool about this
is that it has an ND filter built in.
What!
- Whoa.
- Do you even know what that means?
- Yeah that's the little thing that you put on the
end of your--
- She's learning.
She's learning.
You guys see that?
- That you like turned it, and you're able to like
see me through the car window.
- Yeah, oh no, that's the polarizer.
- Okay,, edit that part out.
- And the ND filter's definitely really nice to have
'cause this aperture, even though it opens up to f/1.8,
which is really impressive, but it only closes down to f/11.
So once you start getting a lot of sun like this,
then the ND filter really comes into play.
One thing that's really cool about this camera is
it can do 120 frames per second in full HD.
It's pretty impressive.
The more I play with the 120 frames per second,
the more I fall in love with it because it looks beautiful.
And 120 frames per second, I mean come on,
everyone wants that awesome slow mo.
While we have this boat,
I think we should make a couple (beep) boy videos.
- Let's do it. - Yeah!
(upbeat music)
The lens is an equivalent to a 24 to 100 millimeter,
which is a nice, mid-range lens to be at.
You can hold it out just like this and still
film yourself pretty comfortably.
And of course that flippy screen,
you can see exactly what you're filming.
Very, very nice.
Awe man, you can see all this sweat.
This is damp now.
I'm gonna stop.
You're gonna have to just deal with my sweat
for the rest of the video, unfortunately.
Oh I got swim trunks here, I'll just use this.
Most of the time I don't really care about auto exposure,
but again, I'm point and shoot.
It's kind of important, and it works pretty well.
So you can be filming a bright place
and then all of a sudden switch into a darker room,
and it's going to adjust fairly quickly.
So that's a good thing.
And another thing is the image stabilization
is actually pretty solid on here.
See, I'm not having it attached to anything
and it's okay, smooth,
as long as you're not shaking around too much.
I have pretty shaky hands so this is a big plus for me,
and I can move around.
See, there you go!
Cause with small cameras, you're always doing these
little teeny shakes and that'll show up on your footage.
So this image stabilization is doing actually a
pretty decent job at making this shot look fairly stable.
And a lot of people have been asking for the mic jack.
Which they included, which is a nice touch.
There's no hot shoes,
so you can't really mount a giant microphone, but you know,
there's a lot of small ones that you could just plug in.
It just sticks out a little bit.
And it's going to give you much better audio quality.
So that's a really nice touch.
Awe man, there's giant ants here.
I think I gotta get outta here, let's move.
What's up, Sam, how was the Cenote day?
- Oh man, it was so beautiful, it felt like so wise.
- Yeah right, you weren't feeling anything.
You were just like,
'I'm getting a pretty cool picture right now' huh?
We got Jean-Paul here, came with us to Mexico
and he worked on Final Cut,
and knows a lot about a lot of stuff.
Final Cut won an award, right?
- Yeah, - An Emmy?
- I won an Emmy in 2002 and so that was a technical Emmy.
The funny story about that is,
well I don't know if it's funny or not.
But it was right after 9/11
and so they wanted to check the Emmy in our baggage
and we were like, no, it's an Emmy,
we're taking this on the plane
with us. - Really?
They should have been honored.
You'd be like are you kidding?
I want to walk this onto the plane!
Can you tell me why 24p is so important?
- When we were sitting around campfires back in the day,
you know, we had this notion of
sort of a mesmerizing feeling as we looked into the fire.
And people would pass down stories.
And so 24fps emotes that same thing for our brains.
It allows us to have that suspension of disbelief.
- And then 30p is almost like information overload you said.
- It's TV, it's what we see.
It's how our brain is analyzing the world.
And so when we see 30 frames per second,
it really tells us that this is reality.
And so, we're much more critical of the content.
- What do you think about cameras that
don't have 24 frames per second?
Cause the G7 X Mark III does not include it.
- As storytellers, our job
is to really get people mesmerized
by what we're trying to tell.
And so by not allowing that inside of a camera,
it's just an immediate no for me.
- This video you're actually watching
is 25 frames per second.
'Cause you can actually switch the camera to PAL,
and then shoot 25.
I'm not necessarily gonna buy and use the G7 X
for cinematic footage,
but all my videos are 24 frames per second.
So I just like to set all my cameras to 24.
Including this camera, the EOS R over there, the Digimatic,
my Go Pros, everything's set to 24.
But when I have the G7 X Mark III that doesn't do it,
I kinda have to accommodate for it.
A lot of times you might not even notice
that you're just kicking out that one frame.
But if you're trying to do a nice fluid motion,
a lot of times you'll see a fluid motion
clip, clip, clip. - And then a jump, yep.
- That's one thing I never thought I'd have to say
about Canon cameras, cause they kinda really made
24 frames per second accessible to everybody.
Now they're kinda pulling it back.
Even though this camera's like $750 bucks
and that's not a cheap camera to not have 24.
My phone, my iPhone has it.
There was a drummer down there?
- Yeah - Oh man, that scared me.
Next thing, I would love it
if I could be vlogging with it right now, but, you know.
(scared screaming)
The reason why I'm not using it right now is because
I actually can't use it for very long because of this heat.
I barely recorded on this camera.
- E6500, still running 4k.
- Has anybody else had a camera that overheated?
- Nope, not yet. - Nobody's cameras overheated?
- Nope. - No.
- Maybe there's a bigger chance
that you just broke another camera?
- That's probably it.
- Like 20 cameras out there, even like 10 of them are Sony.
Nobody over heated yet, except for this one.
- And that's another thing
that I've always praised Canon for.
Is that they don't overheat.
My Canon EOS R never overheated on me
and I've taken it to a lot of hot places.
I kinda feel like they felt the pressure to shoot 4k,
and they had to include it even though it wasn't ready.
And the amount of times I've seen it overheat
during this trip, is just nuts.
How come you're not sweating?
- I am. - How do you do that?
- I am sweating.
- Like you look a little bit glossy.
I am a waterfall.
And finally, there's the auto focus, it's not good.
And that's one of the top reasons why
I've always praised this Canon EOS R M50.
I still stand by that.
But auto focus on the G7 X Mark III, no good.
Hey, has your G7 X overheated yet?
- Absolutely not, it's still good to go.
- I'll trade you, hey it's newer and shinier.
- Not worth the trade.
- One of the first things I noticed about this camera,
is I feel like the auto focus
has actually kinda gotten worse.
The auto focus works okay if you're in photo mode
but once you hit record, everything slows way down.
See how out of focus I am?
It's actually kinda good that I'm outta focus
'cause you can't see how much I'm drenched in sweat.
The focus box is around my face right now.
And I'm just waiting for it to focus.
I'm gonna half press that shutter
to see if I can get it to speed up at all.
I don't know if it's even doing anything but,
it's coming, it's on its way, come on.
- Slowly but surely.
- Look at that.
- Well, slowly not surely.
- Yeah, it's not, and nothing is happening.
It's got its focus on you. - It's focused on me though.
- It is focused on you but it's not trying to focus on you.
It's trying to focus on me.
- Yeah.
- Check that out, it's just so slow.
Oh, there we go, there we go.
- Wow, finally. - It focused on me, yeah.
So I kinda have to like really force it to tell it,
like hey you're really out of focus.
And then eventually it was like
oh, I guess I'm gonna try to shift over.
But if you do like minimal shifts, like this,
where, see how I'm clearly out of focus?
All right, so let's try the G7 X Mark II real quick
and see what the speed difference is.
In you're on face detect?
- Yep.
Yeah, that's way slower right there dude.
- So G7 X Mark II auto focus.
Man, yeah, G7 X Mark II is quick.
You've been happy with your G7 X Mark II though?
- Oh, absolutely, you throw a wind muff on this thing
and it's a little beast.
- It's a lot slower than the old one
and I've tried every single setting.
I've tried face tracking and center focus
and I've tried it in macro mode, normal mode, everything.
And it just takes so long for it to switch
from a close up shot, to a distant shot.
So the trick is to focus,
prior to hitting that record button,
and then the footage should come out good.
But if your plain of focus does shift around,
while you're recording,
there's a good chance you're going to struggle
getting that focus to move around.
So honestly it's almost like it's better to go manual focus.
Which is something that nobody wants to do
on a point and shoot camera, right?
- Full blast.
(loud sighing).
I'm sorry guys, this must be pretty disgusting.
I'm just like talking and just (babbling)
this entire video, ha, ha, ha.
I don't think we need to go see those ancient ruins, do you?
- Just stay in here? - Let's just stay in here.
Yeah, are you guys down, lets do this.
- This is exciting enough.
- Yeah, oh look, you can see there's a peacock from here.
Yeah, we're on a safari, literally though,
I wasn't making that up, you can see a peacock (laughing).
Mexico is a crazy place.
Yo Frank.
- What's up brother?
- Can I borrow this microphone for a second?
- Yes, of course.
- All right, so I got the microphone plugged in.
Does it sound a little bit better?
Let's close this video out
by reading a few comments, shall we?
Top comment, new gimbal for my phone,
it better step up my video game.
DJI finally put you up on the list huh?
That's an achievement, pretty up there.
I'm done, I'm done.
Oh, interesting, this camera
just locked up on me for a second.
Which seems to be working again, all right.
But man, the camera is actually starting to feel
kinda hot in my hand.
I'm sure we're only moments away from overheating.
I need to get in this shade.
Let's finish this up over here, what's up guys?
Ardia says, sadly I just bout a new Osmo Mobile 2 today.
Sad, it's okay, I'm fine, nevermind.
No literally every time you buy a piece of new tech,
the next day something new will come out.
That's just unfortunately how life works.
Frank Torres says, Dude seriously, your video sucks.
All of them suck, get a real job, loser.
Wait, Frank, is that you?
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