earlier today I received an email and it
kind of went like this I've been looking
at getting the 90d but I see with recent
sales that the EOS r is only $600 more
should I get the EOS part instead this
is true
currently the EOS R is about $600 more
that's just for the body if you also
need to purchase a lens the difference
between the EOS R and the 90 d is more
like $1,100 and here's why the general
all-round purpose lens for the 90 d
which used the 18 to 135 this lens with
the 90 d costs about $1600 the EOS R has
the 24 to 105 RF as its general RL
purpose every day filmmaker type lens
and that kit sells for $2,700 I'm not
going to tell you what camera you should
get I'm gonna help you define the
capabilities that you're looking for in
a camera to help you choose so while
today I'm gonna focus on the 90 D and
the EOS are these techniques can be used
to assess what capable is it right for
you by looking at other cameras such as
the Fuji X t3 which is an excellent
camera sony has many good cameras as
does Panasonic both cameras have
excellent eye and face detection
autofocus the EOS our recently received
a firmware update that provides better
eye autofocus at a distance I believe
this is up to about 10 feet both cameras
also do very well in color accuracy
color accuracy is the ability to be able
to shoot something and then bring it
into the editing software and not have
to adjust the color balance or fiddle
with exposure too much both of these
camera provides excellent color accuracy
when shooting outdoors indoors it's a
different story you're definitely gonna
have to do some work however the EOS r
will come ahead slightly better here
because it is a full-frame sensor
although it does have a bit of a crop
and we'll talk about that later
the next capability here is detail again
I'm not talking about sharpness the EOS
R is the clear winner here and that's
because the USR can capture up
to 480 megabits a second that's an awful
lot of information that information
provides detail the OSR also shoots or
provides the ability to shoot in all I
whereas the 90 D only does IP B simply
put all I can taste 3 times the amount
of information and provides you better
detail and scenes where there's a lot
going on I don't know why Canon removed
all I from the 90 D it was in the 80 D
and the 70d that being said for most
ordinary filmmakers I don't think this
is going to be a major issue however if
you're looking at brewing your skills
year after year this is one of those
capabilities where you might be better
off with the EOS our IP B looks good to
most ordinary filmmakers in most
scenarios both cameras provide HDMI out
this is great for event filmmakers have
loggers HDMI output provides better
color accuracy better color depth and
increased dynamic range both cameras
offer this however if you're one of
those filmmakers that's running around
capturing your son or daughter moving
around a lot the last thing you want is
added weight and a cumbersome set of kit
so imagine your camera you've got your
external recorder on top of it takes up
this much space you've got a connector
here and then you've got a connector on
top for your Michael you've created some
other rig it's a little cumbersome but
it is nice that it has that capability
another way that the u.s. our excels
detail is it provides cannon lock not a
C log recording and C lock provides much
better dynamic range dynamic range
provides more information in the shadows
now when you preview video shot with C
log the image is going to look washed
out once recorded don't worry about that
when you take the video into your
editing software you'll bring that color
back using a lot which is on essentially
a lookup table it reapplies those colors
so for detail the EOS R is a clear
winner over the 90 D when it comes to 4k
both cameras offer 4k at 30 frames a
second and 24 frames a second us bar
does
the advantage of having a full-frame
sensor however when recording 4k video
it records it with a 1.7 crop now this
is important if you're the type of
filmmaker that's gonna shoot in 1080p
and 4k if you set up your scene or you
should have your camera on a tripod and
you've got your scene set up your
subjects running around and you're
shooting in 1080p once you go to 4k
everything changes
essentially what happens is the camera
zooms in by that crop factor as you can
see by the image I've got here
you're losing an awful lot of
information so it changes the dynamics
of that scene so if you switch from 1080
to 4k you either have to put on a
different lens that makes up for that
crop factor or you have to move the
camera now the 90 D does not record 4k
with a crop gives you the option to
record 4k without a crop however if you
accept a small crop on top of the
already 1.6 crop that aps-c cameras have
then you're gonna get a sharper more
detailed image so the biggest negative
here that I see is with soft 4k on both
the 90 D and the EOS R I lose that
capability to punch in to simulate
multiple camera angles if I'm already
dealing with a soft image and I punch in
I can only imagine the image it's gonna
be even more soft so in this video you
can see here shot it in 4k and each of
those separate cuts is me taking that
same clip and just punching it in I
haven't added I haven't removed anything
out of a frame I've just punched in I've
changed the angle and it makes it a much
more interesting scene and I was able to
do that because of the drone that I'm
using the Maverick Pro is detailed
enough that I can punch in zoom in and
create multiple camera angles to make
more interesting video that's why I
think 4k is such a very important
capability and why for me I can't go
with either of these cameras because the
four case a little too soft however the
wind does go to the EOS R because it
does offer selig which is provide you
with greater dynamic range both camera
provide access to canons many dozens of
EF and ef-s lenses that access on the
EOS R does require $200 adapter however
because
made by Kenan there are no issues with
autofocus not always pulling or being
slow however if you do take an ef-s lens
and put it on the USR the OSR is
automatic you can apply a 1.6 crop my
recommendation if you're gonna go with
the EOS are get the EOS RF glass or at
the very least use EF lenses the wind
goes to the EOS R in this case Canon
continues to innovate in its glass kenan
is coming up with focal lengths that it
hasn't tried before so with the eos are
you get those brand new lenses that can
this develop a but you still have access
to all those existing lenses that canon
has made for the EF mount today any
camera that doesn't offer 120 frames per
second progressive is behind the
technology good news is the 90d does
offer 120 frames per second however
there is no automatic autofocus and
manual focus is shut out so if your
subject is moving around you're not
gonna get good results however if your
subject isn't moving around too much for
that stationary these shutters and
detail on the 90 d for 120 frames per
second is very good and in a lot of
cases when you're shooting slow-mo
you're not looking to get more than a
couple of seconds so it might just do
the trick
however on the EOS R which was released
just a year earlier Canon offered 120
frames per second in 720p 720p is very
soft you can tell the difference this is
unacceptable a camera that was released
at a price back then of $2,500 and even
today at $2,000 this is not acceptable
this camera should easily offer 120
frames per second with autofocus in
1080p so Canon itd gets the win because
it's not as bad as the ESR in slow
motion as far as weight go
these cameras are virtually tied there's
about 41 grams difference between the
two but that all changes once you snap
on a lens the RF lenses are considerably
heavier than the EF lenses so it's gonna
end up weighing more but don't let this
weigh you down it's not like you're
going around with the Canon 1dx which
weighs 1
four kilograms almost three pounds
without a lens remember this is about
the capabilities you're looking for in a
camera so think carefully of what
matters to you does weight matter does
portability matter what I'm telling you
here today is more or less the
capabilities that I think are important
for the ordinary filmmaker as far as
1080p goes both cameras do quite well
here however I'll give the win to the EO
star simply because based on a lot of
the points I brought up before such as
better dynamic range C log and being
able to shoot in all I so those carry
down to 1080p in Canon doesn't really
good job in 1080p the 90 D is no slouch
it provides pretty good 1080p - but as I
mentioned better job on ESR or
capabilities it gets the win 95% of the
time that I'm using my camera I'm taking
videos but that other 5% I want to be
able to take very good landscapes and
portraits surprisingly the 90 d does a
better job here at 11 frames per second
with very good autofocus the 90 D does a
good job in most fast action situations
from water skiing to kids running around
playing sports
the EOS R on the other hand with its
full frame should deliver better
portraits and it does but when it comes
to sports you're lucky to get two to
three frames per second with autofocus
on I'm not making this up
Tony Northrup did a video in the last
year that looked at the actual speed you
get from the EOS R with continuous
autofocus so if continuous autofocus
isn't concerned not a big deal but in
this one the wind clearly goes to the
Canon 90 D because there are a lot of
situations where my son is running
around he's busy doing water skiing
boating or all the things falling around
where you want to capture at a high
frame rate like 10 frames a second so in
conclusion am I being too critical are
these bad cameras these are the wrong
questions to ask the right question to
ask is what is the right camera for you
in your use cases in your scenarios I'm
a hybrid shooter I shoot video most of
the time where my subject is in motion
I shoot outdoors 90% of the time both
the 90 D and the EOS are missed the mark
on key capabilities that I need I need
to have detail
4k at 30 frames and 24 frames a second
I need highly reliable continuous
autofocus for video where my subject is
always moving
I need 120 frames per second slow motion
in 1080p with autofocus and I'd really
prefer 4k without a crop 1.2 crop 1.1 I
can deal with that
I created this diagram that represents
the capabilities that I need this allows
me to visually compare them side-by-side
this is a heat map because it shows the
provided capabilities that the camera
has in green and those that are missing
in red this allows you to have a easy
simple visual and you can use this to
toss out the cameras that just don't
have the capabilities you're looking for
I then created another diagram that
shows priority so I listed all these
capabilities and some of them such as
zebras it's nice to have but I really
couldn't care less if the camera had it
or not sure it'd be nice but I've left 6
years without it and never really missed
it begin with really good autofocus I
don't feel I need that any capability
that is a must a mandatory that I have
to have that's in green so I've
structured these capabilities and three
priorities the ones that I have to have
I must have these the camera doesn't
have it I'm not gonna buy it the next
set are capable ones that the camera
should have I really really want these
capabilities but if the camera doesn't
have it I'll still buy it unless of
course it's missing far too many of them
and of course the low priority ones
those well if it doesn't have it no big
deal but it allows me to see all the
capabilities that it does have so what
do I recommend for you first of all
determine what capabilities you need out
of a camera apply a capability heat map
against those capabilities the ones the
camera has the ones that it doesn't then
create another heat map
that shows the importance the relative
importance and basically hind medium and
low or mandatory shot and don't really
care and then line up all the cameras
and see how well they do so for me I was
able to line up the EOS are the 90 D in
quaint simply see that well these are
both very good cameras I realize that
I'm ready for a more advanced camera so
there's a 90 D good for you or the EOS
are or what about the Canon EOS RP with
adding 24 frames per second to that
camera it makes it a more it makes it a
better option
what about frames per second you need 24
30 60 120 180 frames per second
if you're in PAL you're going to need 25
and 50 I'd also consider looking at the
Fuji XC 3 this is a terrific camera I
didn't have Kenan glass already I'd
probably buy this it provides so many
capabilities I could spend 3 hours
talking about this camera just and how
it shoots 4k video then of course
there's Panasonic star the GH 5 the Sony
a7 3 the a7s2 the e 6600 Sony's got a
lot of good cameras here and then of
course there's the Nikon Zed series I
hope you learn something useful from
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