Hello tech lovers, a bit of a different video for you today. I have a new camera,
the Canon M50, and I'm out and about in the Yorkshire Dales to give it a good test.
So everything I'm gonna be filming is, mostly, on the M50 use in the stock 15-45 mm
lens. The background noise you can hear is actually a waterfall so I'll
get some shots of that in a minute. I'm not going to go over all the major
technical specs, there's plenty video that do that, I just want to show you what
this is capable of out of the box just for those people who are interested in a
bit of vlogging using a very affordable camera. So as well as the canon camera
I've also got this Orangemonkie mini tripod which I'm going to be reviewing
as well, it's a brilliant little tripod for this kind of stuff, and you can see
this is the setup I'm currently using out and about, Rode microphone on the top
it's a tiny little M50, screen on the back loving it so far let's see what you
take to the main footage.
So I've come to a slightly less noisy part of the water fall just talk about the camera.
So far I'm really enjoying it so the 15-45 has a good zoom on it
this is really great if you're out, you wanna do a bit of vlogging, it's just the
right kind of lens gives you a lot of options.
The camera is nice and light in the hand I usually use a Canon a 80D so this is
incredibly light in comparison and can easily actually slip it in a pocket as
well you can make the lens a bit more compact and it'll slip into my pocket,
or maybe into a bag, in a a bag such as this STM bag that I'm wearing.
I paired it with a 128 gigabytes SanDisk Extreme Pro memory card and that
should give me plenty of footage.
So we're now at Bolton Castle, just gonna test the changing light conditions, see how
the camera copes with moving to indoors from outdoors, you can see it's
quite bright out. Going up some stairs now and there we go, it has adjust.
Passing another light source so quite tricky for the camera, seems to be coping well
looking at the little screen.
So this is Richmond Castle, a different castle to the last one but again useful for
trying out light to dark and also image stabilization as I go up the stairs.
Go on speedy!
Time for the obligatory which looks best! On the left hand side and the right hand
side one of them is the OnePlus 6 and one of them is the cannon M50 which
looks best? Which is the most stable? Which would you like to record your
videos with?
So another day, another quick test and comparison. This time of the internal
microphones, so which microphone sounds best?
Here is microphone one and this is a very quiet reservoir area so there's
birds cheeping in the background but there's not much background noise
compared to the other day when, here's microphone two, when I was by a
waterfall, it was quite windy and that caused a load
of background noise. It was actually, when I listen back I realize it
perhaps was in the best location start a video, but there you go you live and
learn you gotta test these things out. So which microphone sounds best? The one on the left?
The one on the right? Okay just for the sake of completeness I've just
reattach the microphone. Here's the audio from OnePlus 6 again, I tend to
find the OnePlus 6 has been a really great mobile for vlogging. Here's the audio
from the Canon with a Rode microphone, still experimenting with the microphone
settings but hopefully you'll find this slightly crisper and clearer sound
quality compared to the mobile, but I don't know yet I've not had a good
listen so let me know what you think in the comments below: which sounds better
the OnePlus 6 audio or the Canon with a Rode microphone audio?
So I'm back from my holiday and I've been using the M50 now for a week. I have to say it is a
brilliant little camera it makes traveling photography and
taking videos very simple, it powers on incredibly quickly just as quickly as if
I was going to take my mobile my pocket and capture some footage. Things I like
about it the grip is really nice in the hand, it feels good in the hand,
considering its a small camera I didn't feel like it was a little toy camera. You
see I've got the neck strap on and compared to my 80D this doesn't feel
like it's gonna break my back when I've got it on. The stock lens is great for
video it gives a nice clear vlogging type shot and you can also zoom in and
pull back a little bit so you've got lots of
options on type of footage you're trying to capture so lots of good points the
battery lasted all day I did buy a couple of extra batteries didn't need
them at all and I was taking class of video and photo. As you saw in the video you
can get a microphone on top, the main disadvantage though Canon, for some reason,
rather than putting the input on top have put it at the side, I'll just plug that in,
and then it means it slightly blocks the screen. The screen is
brilliant, you can rotate that around so you can get different shots up, down,
and it's very useful then when vlogging because you can just flip that forwards
and see yourself. The other thing I wasn't too keen on was at the bottom
where the battery card placement is so I am used to having the battery at the
bottom but on the 80D the memory card goes in at the side and that
means it's dead easy to access when you want to pull some footage off. If I have
a quick plate on the bottom or if this is attached to a tripod if not using the
quick plate, just a straight attachment, the main problem you then get is you can't open
this little hatch to get out the memory card. It's not a big thing, not a major
problem, but it does slow down my workflow. The M50 is capable of 4k
shooting. I've not done so in this video, all my videos aren't done in 4k at the
moment, what I will do however is get a load of 4k footage together and I'll make a
little demo reel and I'll put a link to that above. For those of you who have
just been using a mobile for a while and will be new to this kind of camera it's
really nice to see Canon have included a load of helpful guides built in it to
the menu system and if you're moving from something like the 80D you'll find
the menus pretty similar overall I found my way around very quickly I'm no expert
but I managed to set up the microphone level and have a lot to play around with
some of the inbuilt effects. I must admit I wouldn't really use these they're
interesting effects but I would tend to take a picture natively and then edit it
afterwards if I wanted to apply effects. Of course being a camera you can also
take plenty of photos with this and 128 gigabyte card gets you an awful lot of
photos. An all-round great camera that's a great price point I love the fact you
can have a microphone on it, I love the factory small compact, if
you're going from a mobile and you want to upgrade this is a great option. If you've got an
80D and you want something that's much more compact and portable this is also a
great option and you can of course get an adapter ring that allows you to use
your 80D lenses on this camera. If you want to learn more about this little
camera I'll put links in the description below, if you haven't already click
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