today we're going to compare the sony a74 and the canon r6
see which one of these might be the right camera for you
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two fantastic hybrid cameras obviously one from canon one from sony they're both uh the 2500 range
but we're gonna see how they compare how they stack up against each other and which one might
be the right camera for you in the past sony and canon has been a very hotly debated topic
especially when it comes to things like color science things like that but that
gap between the two cameras has shrunk considerably in the last couple of years and in
some cases i don't feel like there's a difference at all especially when it comes to autofocus
when it comes to photos the canon r6 shoots 20 megapixel stills they're great as they
should be canon has always had fantastic photo quality i feel like you get a fairly
really good amount of dynamic range and the low light performance in my opinion is pretty good
here you can see a photo that was shot at f4 but also 3200 iso where with the sony a74 you get 33
megapixels the low light performance is absolutely stellar you can see the same photo shot here
3200 iso very low noise but you definitely get those extra 13 megapixels which is great
and so when it comes to photo quality well i feel like the sony has a little bit of the edge
just because it has a higher megapixel count and maybe a little bit better at low light performance
both of these cameras are absolutely stellar photo cameras and they take
fantastic photos one thing i forgot to add is that the canon has a much higher burst photo
mode at 12 frames a second raw with mechanical shutter or up to 20 frames a second with the
electronic shutter whereas the sony is limited to 10 frames a second regardless of what mode you use
video quality is a little bit different you get 4k 30 4k 60 you get hd up 320
in both of these cameras so here you can see an example of the hd 120.
and here you can see an example of 4k 60.
the downside of the 4k60 and the sony is that you do have that aps-c crop that crops in 1.5
times so you have a little bit tighter but it does look really really great the 4k looks fantastic
the canon the r6 the 4k looks really good as well it's uh definitely really nice but you also don't
have to deal with the crop factor in 4k 60. for an example of the crop right now i'm shooting
on the sony a74 this is 4k 30. this is 4k 60. i'm standing in the same spot but you can see how much
it crops in so this is the 4k 30 on the canon um i'm not shooting an s in log or anything like that
this is just standard and now we're in 4k 60. same distance i'm standing the same play of spark so
that's a big difference there if you want to be able to shoot 4k 60 with no crop
the canon r6 is definitely the leader in that pack but there's also things
like autofocus and a few other stabilization things like that which make a big difference
at the active stabilization on and the in lens stabilization just enjoying a little walk down the
beach here how's this for stabilization handheld active stabilization and inland stabilization is
on just walking down the beach not bad right yeah i feel like it's okay this is just the uh
the normal stuff here i don't know it's definitely better not as cropped in same thing
handheld walking down the beach the active steady shot and the inland stabilization
is turned on and yeah i feel like the cannon is a little bit smoother i just feel like it's a little
better the difference is pretty clear i think canon's a winner on the stabilization overall
it definitely does just a little bit better but there is a way that the sony can do as well as or
maybe even better than the canon in some cases and that's when you use the gyro flow where you turn
the stabilization off in the camera and you go into catalyst browse in post and you can stabilize
it in post and get really smooth footage so for example this is the stabilization with gyro flow
no other stabilization the lens stabilization the ibis is turned off everything's turned off
but this is how smooth of a shot handheld walking you can get with the gyro data and
using catalyst browse but it does add extra work and an extra step to your workflow so if
time is something you don't want to spend doing things like that then this is definitely not a
way you want to want to use the camera but it does give you options for being able to get smoother
footage handheld as far as colors go sony has really good color science now they've continually
improved it over the last couple of years and even in the standard color profile i find the colors
look very true to life you can obviously shoot in slog3 so this is the sony in s log 3 which
has a tremendous amount of dynamic range when you're color grading in post i'm curious to see
how much range this has as opposed to canon log in the r6 canon has always been known for fantastic
color science really great skin tones really great everything right out of camera and you can
see here in the standard color profile it looks really really good you also have the canon log
one and three option i've from what i understand canon log 2 is actually a better codec or a better
log profile but that's not an option on the r6 but when it comes to dynamic range the a74 has more
dynamic range it especially in slog3 it just has a much broader dynamic range than the canon does in
the standard profiles i'd say they're pretty much right the same but when you're shooting log s-log
3 is really really incredible with the dynamic range and what you can do with it in post another
big difference used to be autofocus but honestly right now the autofocus on the a74 especially
because you have iaf animal tracking iaf and bird tracking iaf you have the same thing on the canon
both of them grab the focus really fast and lock focus really well regardless of the conditions
you're shooting in so at this point i don't even know if we can say that one focus system is better
than the other they're both incredibly good and incredibly quick at grabbing autofocus and locking
onto your eye or whatever you're shooting one more difference between these two cameras especially
when it comes to video mode is the canon has a 30 minute recording limit so if you do long
form stuff at all sit down interviews anything like that you're going to really run into that
30 minute record limit a lot and it's going to be a real issue another thing that happened when the
r6 and the r5 were first released is they both had overheating issues and whether it was overheating
or just an internal timeline timer that canon had set they definitely both ran into issues with that
a lot of that's been solved through firmware but one thing i have had no issues with overheating
on the sony and i've run it for well over an hour it had no problems at all um obviously right now
overheating is almost a non-issue for me because everything is cold and frozen it's winter time in
alaska now when you shoot a lot of video you're obviously probably shooting also audio with that
and so each camera has their own onboard preamps i'm using an external mic with all these because
the onboard microphones of cameras never sound good but this is an example of what the sony
sounds like so this is the sony in s-log 3 which has a tremendous amount of dynamic range when
you're color grading in post and then here's an example of what the canon sounds like with exactly
or at least as close to the same settings as i could possibly get this is the canon r6 and it's
uh set as close to the same as my sony is with the mic preamps and then i've got the ddd3 pro plugged
in set exactly the same way that it would be and or is plugged into my uh sony so how's it sound
then we come down to things like weather sealing user experience usability things like that there
is a lot of differences personally i prefer the sony a74 it has a lot more customizable controls
it's probably partly the fact that that's what i've been shooting so i'm a little more familiar
with it and how to use it and set it up but i do like the fact that i can use the different dials
and dial in the shutter speed and all of that really quickly just using my hands and the dials
now where the sony fall short is on the menus and the touch screen menus
it's just nowhere near as good as canon steel they've made great strides in the last since the
a7 iii or a7s3 because it is partly touchscreen but it's not completely touch screen yet
but also that's where canon still really shines like the canon has always had a fantastic
use interface and the fact that pretty much everything on the camera is accessible through
the touchscreen if you want to change something you tap on it you change it and it's done it makes
it really nice really easy and very intuitive to use whereas sony you still have a little bit of a
learning curve learning how to set it up and how to use it the way that they want you to use it
but then there's also things like weather sealing both of these cameras are weather sealed
canon i know from experience because i've shot canon for a long time does a really fantastic
job of weather sealing their cameras i mean their cameras are like as close to bulletproof
as you can come when it comes to operating in conditions like this where it's really cold
and the weather's not so great um but honestly since the a73 especially since uh the a7s3 the a74
or a7r4 the a74 the a1 are really well weather sealed and i have tested them
in some extremely harsh conditions and environments here in alaska and they've
held up well and continued to shoot and worked for me well for years even my a73 worked for years for
me no problem before i finally gave it to somebody else if you want to see other comparisons between
different types of cameras click or tap right there i put together a small playlist that'll run
you through like the a7s iii and the canon r5 and some other cameras that i've compared as always if
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and the sun's starting to set so it's time to go i'll see you soon in the next video cheers