- So I live in New York City.
- And I live in San Francisco.
- And I'm more of an a7S or 35 millimeter type of shooter.
- Also, I'm the type of shoot who brings
way too much gear to every shoot.
- But whether you believe that mirrorless cameras
are the only cameras we're gonna be using in the future,
it's clear that the competition
in the mirrorless world is heating up.
- It's been Sony's game for years,
but now Canon has decided to play with the EOS R.
Without a mirror system to reflect
your frame up to the eyepiece,
mirroless cameras can be more compact and faster.
- And the electronic viewfinder
can show you exactly what your shots gonna look like
before you even come close to hitting the shutter.
- Canon has put up mirroless before with he M line,
but has a smaller APS-C sensor.
But the EOS R has a full frame 30 megapixel CMOS sensor
and some pretty flashy RF mount lenses to go with it.
- Flashy, but a bit limited with two primes and two zooms,
but Canon did get a little creative with these.
- [Vjeran] All of these lenses have a control ring on it.
It can be customized to settings such as
ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and more.
- [Becca] But instead of having image stabilization
integrated right into the camera body, such as Sony does,
they decided to put it into the lenses.
- [Vjeran] That means it depends on which lens
you're using whether or not it's stabilized
and the majority of existing lenses are not.
- Body-wise, it's pretty similar to most Canon cameras,
it even keeps the same batteries
that a lot of Canon DSLRs have.
It has very similar button layouts
and a familiar menu system,
but what they've added is this multifunction bar.
You can't push the button in,
but you can set it to do many different functions.
- It has a moveable touch screen
that cal flip around for logging
with a touch and drag autofocus system as well.
But in order to actually test this thing,
we should go out there and shoot.
- Blessed.
What do you got?
- I hear you've been hating the subway lately,
so I want to rekindle your love.
Why don't you test the video quality
in the depths of the New York City subway system.
- I'm really interested in this third ring on the lenses.
I want to know if it's gonna make you a faster shooter,
if it's just easier.
Why don't you head to like the skate park
and test those things out.
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- Hey V, so what's the vibe?
- Let's talk autofocus first.
- Yeah, let's dive in.
- [Vjeran] So, I think it's one of the best
ones I ever used.
It's super fast, it was very reliable and accurate,
even in low light, and it's very customizable.
Maybe too customizable?
- Yeah, that is an interesting thing about this camera
is that it's so familiar button-wise and menu-wise,
but then extremely different in such minute ways
that it really can throw you off.
- Yeah, I when I grabbed it, I was like,
oh, I know exactly what this is
'cause I've been shooting Canon most of my life,
but once you actually like try to do
the things that you're comfortable with,
you realize that a lot of the things actually changed
and you need to adjust a bit.
- I think another way that it's
like super different in a minute way
is like this whole extra ring on the lens.
I quickly got really used to it and was loving it.
- I also love it.
I think it's like one of the best things
that came out in photography in general.
It's already on the lens, it's not too far on the lens,
so you don't have to like adjust your hand.
Alright, since you did more video,
I'm curious, did you rely on the electric viewfinder
or we're you using the flip out screen?
- I'm a huge fan of being like
really immersed in my camera.
I don't really love it when other people
are seeing what I'm getting,
so I was all up in the EVF,
but there was sometimes where I popped out that screen
and it's movement is so familiar to the C100 Mark II,
that I felt right at home.
The thing I will be nitpicky about is the 4K crop.
And I know that you can like, you know,
plug it into an external recorder
and get the full 10 bit 4K output,
but like I shouldn't have to do that
if I'm paying $2,300 for a body.
- That's right.
Also, the body that doesn't have
image stabilization built into it.
- So this video I shot 4K crop
and I was holding in front of me
doing like the selfie cam kind of look.
You can almost see the rolling shutter.
- In your defense, like the lenses that we got are massive.
The bounds between the body weight and the lens weight,
it's just all over the place.
I can see your hand also just getting tired after a while.
- So the 5D Mark IV and the R have super similar sensors.
I mean, the R is updated just a tad,
but did you notice a difference
in image quality at all?
- Yeah, the image quality is similar
to what you would get to 5D Mark IV,
which is a good thing because those photos are just great.
This camera is more about like getting used to the buttons
and getting used to the redesign that Canon's introducing
in the mirrorless line.
- [Becca] Okay, so would you put this camera in your kit?
- I think I would for Canon's first
true full frame mirrorless camera,
it's a pretty good camera.
The body's smaller, it fits everywhere, it still feels good.
Besides, you can also use your old lenses on it,
which is a big plus.
- Yeah, I guess my hold up here
and why I don't think I would get this version,
Canon's video definitely has drawbacks.
I mean, only being able to shoot 120 in HD
and not full HD or, especially, not 4K is limiting.
And then when you look at the a7S Mark I
that came out in 2014,
like so much has changed in a short amount of years
and so I have this problem with buying
the first version of any camera.
- And I think the most important thing here
is that we're seeing a blueprint
of what Canon is going to do with the mirrorless line.
- Hey, thanks so much for joining us.
This is kind of a new camera review sort thing we're doing.
Basically, V and I just want to shoot more together,
but let us know if you liked it.
- Also, if you want us to review something else,
let us know in the comments.