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- What's up everybody!
Peter McKinnon here.
Welcome back to another video of
the most anticipated video of the year.
Total lie.
It's not at all.
It has been a highly requested video
and that is my thoughts on the new
Canon EOS R.
However, there are so many videos already out there,
going through the spec sheet, telling you everything.
I wanted to talk about my real world experience using it
to make a short film slash documentary-style video
in the mountains over the past week.
This is why it was really weird for me.
For four or five years now,
I have been using the CANON 1DX Mark II.
I know everything about it.
I can use it without looking.
My hands just know where to do all the different modes.
I don't have to look.
I just know where everything is.
It's like someone playing the piano.
You just feel the music.
You don't need to look at the keys.
They just play.
So it's been very hard for me to switch.
That being said.
We won't be talking about this camera today.
So I'm just gonna, I don't know where to put it.
I needed this space on the table.
Maybe I'll just... (swiping sound)
Okay, today we're talking about the new EOS R.
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[Peter] It looks like this.
You know why it's awesome too?
Because with the battery grip on it, and a nice lens,
it almost feels like the 1DX but it's still smaller.
If you wanted to actually use this without the battery grip
it's considerably smaller, just like this.
So that's a big change for me.
It feels different.
It looks different.
When we went to the mountains,
I still brought my 1DX with me as like a back-up.
I want to have my camera with me.
I should bring it around wherever I go
so that I can take shots with this and then switch over.
I left it in the room the entire trip.
It just collected dust in the bag on the floor
of my hotel room.
That was a big challenge for me.
That was me saying, okay I'm going to commit to this.
I'm just gonna use this new camera.
I don't care if it has limitations that I'm not used to.
I am going to use this thru in thru for this entire project,
and we did.
If you've you've seen the trailer, teaser rather,
for the upcoming film, 'Call it the Bucket Shot'.
It's on my channel.
Maybe you've seen it.
If you haven't, here's a little clip of that.
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[Peter] We're literally flying across the country
to take one photo.
It's all snow covered and it's foggy like that.
- It's like a Stephen King movie.
[Peter] It still moves.
I'm not going to play whole thing.
I mean it's only 34 seconds but if you want to see it,
there's the little icard. (woop sound with mouth)
You can click on that (click sound with mouth)
and go check that out yourself.
The whole thing was shot on the EOS R.
Everything.
Everything in that film from start to finish
was done with this camera.
We're still working on it.
The edit is very extensive.
You'll see more of that to come.
You'll see the film itself.
We're going to premier it.
It's going to be great.
Let's jump into these specifics of what I liked about this,
what I didn't like, what I think could be improved,
what I love, and why I might actually switch from my
1DX Mark II to this camera for the first time
in five years.
So we all know the specs of this thing.
You've seen it all over the internet.
That only thing that it would be lacking for me
compared to what I'm using now, is having 120 P.
As far as this camera goes in comparison to what I'm using,
what my needs are, as a photographer and a film maker
slash vlogger, because they're both very different things.
The only thing this doesn't have is 1080 P,
120 frames per second, and the fast frames per second
through photos in continuous shooting.
Those are the only things that would be really be
hard for me to get used to.
You guys know me and you watch this channel.
You know that I use 120 P slow motion video all the time.
It started off with just, hey this is great.
This looks amazing to then,
becoming part of what I feel is my style.
Then fans started loving it and it became like an
integral part of my film making process.
Therein also lies the issue.
I always want to be progressing.
I always want to be taking my own craft to the next level.
120 P for me was starting to make me become
a little bit of a lazy film maker.
I'll explain what I mean by that.
When I got to any type of shoot,
when I got to any type of location,
no matter where I was or what I was doing in the world.
One of my first just mindless instincts was to just
flip over to 120 P, throw in an ND, throw in there,
move that shutter to 250, and just start shooting stuff
in slow-mo.
That started to kind of push away the story telling side
that I have inside me.
It would suppress that because I want just worried
about getting everything in slow-mo.
Nah, it'll look dope.
This tasty, buttery, slow-mo clip.
The B Roll.
Don't get me wrong.
I love B Roll.
You guys know this about me.
It's my favorite thing ever,
aside my kids and my wife.
It's my favorite thing to shoot.
So how could you go to a camera that doesn't have 120 P?
Well because it's challenging me again.
I can still shoot in 60 P if I want.
If you did want to shoot in 4K,
this does crop the image,
so if you have a 10mm lens on,
that's going to be more like more like a 16mm lens.
You are losing more of the image.
Maybe this is why but then when you switch to 4K,
suddenly I'm much closer.
You can combat that by putting a wider EFS lens on.
For me that's not a deal breaker.
It's just kind of like a nice little package.
Quite possible my favorite part of this camera
is the fact that it shoots in 8-bit C-log.
It'll shoot 10-bit C-log, which is a little higher quality,
but you need an external recording to do that so
if you're just going to shoot in camera 8-bit C-log,
it's so great.
It's so, so, so great.
I'm so happy it's in this mirror-less camera
because I've been waiting for something like that
with my 1DX.
When they put out the firmware update with the 5D Mark IV
that had C-Log and I was like it's coming!
It just never came.
It was just like (sad sighs)
because the exposure that you get with the flat image
is so much better when it's shot in a Log Profile.
We would be in the car.
[Peter] You can still all the shadows.
You can see me exposed perfectly
but you can also see outside, and the sky,
and it's not blown out, and in the trees
and in the detail.
Having all those stops of dynamic range
which we've talked about before,
makes your stuff look so much more high quality,
so much more cinematic.
That's why this little teaser,
this documentary looks so cool,
because it's shot it in Log.
The whole thing.
I shoot all these tutorials in Log.
We've shown you that before.
Like watch, here it goes the color grade,
and now the color grade is back.
Shooting in Log gives you all that flexibility
when you are grading so that your stuff looks better.
Vlogs will look better.
Everything I do on this will look better with video
because it's just awesome okay.
I don't know what else to say.
One of the things I enjoy the most using this in the field,
was it just make my whole kit smaller.
7200 1DX Mark II.
Road video mic pro.
Huge gorilla pod.
All of those things things create a very large rig.
Carrying that thing around, it gets heavy.
Not everybody uses a rig that big,
but being able to just almost downsize everything
by like more than half,
but able to now just have a much thinner profile.
I've even been using the road video micro instead of the Pro
just because size factor.
I was like, okay if I can just make everything
a little bit smaller,
why not just get a smaller mic on there too?
This isn't exactly the smallest camera either
but it's for vlogging, it's a better set up,
to the point where I don't really need a gorilla pod.
I can just hold it up like this.
The mic is small enough.
It's a nice little package.
Your backpack can be smaller.
Your whole kit can be smaller.
Your back's gonna thank you for it.
Everything's gonna thank you for it.
This is my first time being able to use an actual kit
that's way smaller.
Man, I'm pumped.
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[Peter] Yes! (exhales low voice)
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[Peter] Okay, so let's talk about the lenses.
The lenses are a massive improvement.
There's the 50mm 1.2.
The 28 to 70 F2.
There's the 35mm and the kit lens,
which is a 24 to 105.
Here's the cool thing about the lenses.
They've started to do this new technology,
which is kind of like a throw back to old technology,
that everything that's old is new again.
You know what they say.
They've added this thing in the front
called the control ring.
This was never here before.
Let me throw this in the camera
so that you can actually see it better.
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When you've got the camera on your lens,
typically you're gonna change the shutter speed.
Boom, you're doing that right here.
You're going to do the aperture, and you're doing that here.
Like me on the 1DX, there's a wheel on the back.
ISO, you normally hit the button and then go over
the ISO that you want.
Select it.
Now they've got this control ring
and if you've seen any other videos online,
you may already know about this.
This is a whole new way of setting
any type of customization you want to this ring.
If you want this to be your white balance,
your exposure, your shutter speed, your aperture,
your ISO, and that just speeds up everything
when you're shooting in the moment.
We were like deep in the mountains
trying to shoot pictures of deer,
you don't have time to chimp,
essentially is what it's called.
You take a shot and you look at the back of the screen
and you take a shot again.
Look at the back of the screen.
Every time you're looking at the screen,
that's slowing you down and you're missing stuff.
You're missing shots.
You're missing footage.
You're just sitting here
while everything's happening in front of you.
Now that you don't even have to look,
because you've got that electronic view finder inside,
everything's updating in real time.
You're able to change the shutter, change the aperture,
and then use this ring for ISO.
Without even having to move or look down,
you're making those adjustments so fast on the fly
with this new ring.
I really like it and in addition to that,
it got this touch bar at the back.
That's right here.
You can either tap it on either side
or tap and drag to access also quick settings.
Maybe you like to shoot around 800 ISO's sometimes
and like 320 is your base ISO
that you don't like going below.
You can set each of those settings of ISO
to either side of that touch bar.
When you're shooting and you need a quick bump in ISO,
boop, you just tap that and you go right to 800.
You tap it back, (swoosh sound)
it goes right back down to 320.
You can set that as well to anything you want.
It doesn't just have to be ISO.
I'm just using that right now as an example
because that's how I've set this up.
These lenses are adding new speed features to your work flow
and shooting work flow in the field,
that are just making everything easier to use.
Everything is just happening faster, faster faster!
Which is great.
When it comes to capturing moments with photography,
you want to be as fast as you can.
Simple as that.
The camera can also fit your old EF lenses and EFS lenses
just by putting on a normal adapter.
That normal adapter gives you the
new control ring features as well.
You pop this on, boom.
Take your old trusty 16 to 35 here.
Pop that on and you now have usage of all the lenses
you already own.
I still want to use my 7200 and use my 85,
the B Roll king.
All those nice tasty, shallow, depth lenses,
that are very very fast and expensive
that you've collected over the years.
They're not forgetting that here.
Hug win.
Okay, you ready for this?
This is so good.
This is the EF lens adapter,
but it has a variable ND filter inside.
There's is little wheel right here on the side
and when you turn that wheel,
you're adjusting the amount of neutral density
that you're getting in your images and your video.
The best part about that, is you don't have to actually
put a filter on the front of the lens.
If you're using a lens like the 14mm
or the 11 to 24, that has concaved glass,
or just a lens that you don't have an ND filter for,
this will work.
It'll give you ND in stops of neutral density
on all of those lenses because it sits behind the lens.
The coolest part is they have different filters
that can slide in and out
so this is sitting right here.
I'm just gonna do that again so you don't have to rewind.
Look at this.
It just lines up and slides in.
Out, in, out in. (swiping and clicking sounds)
It's just a beautiful thing.
Filter locks on, (click sound)
and now right here, I have my ND filter.
I don't have to put my finger on the front and spin it.
It's just nice that it's just right back here by your thumb.
You just rock that right there and you've got ND,
and you're not going to get vignetting
because it's not in front of the lens.
It's behind.
I've already said like three times,
"this is my most favorite thing about the new camera"
but there's a lot that I like, as you can tell.
This here, is one of the biggest lenses I have ever used
and I've ever seen.
The branding is covered on it.
This was the production model that they gave me to use.
This here is a 28 to 70 F2.
It's F2 all the way through.
What that means is no matter if you're wide at 28
or zoomed in all the way at 70,
your aperture is still F2.
It's not gonna go up.
That is why it's so big, and so heavy, and so awesome.
This is a beautiful piece of glass.
Huge fan of this.
I believe this lens should be out sometimes in December
but don't hold me to that.
I'm not actually sure.
Also added, is the 35/1.8.
An amazing lens to throw in your kit.
This isn't very big at all.
It's very very small footprint.
When you have that on you camera without a grip,
it's actually a nice, small, little package there.
Super cool feature about this, it's image stabilized.
Yes, please.
Your 35mm.
It's great for everyday stuff.
Yeah, I can get on board with that.
The kit lens, is the 24 to 105 F4.
A little bit slower.
Still great for just versatility.
If you're shooting wildlife, if your shooting landscape,
it's kind of giving you the best of both world's.
This is what's going to be coming with the CANON EOS R,
that I'm giving away at the end of this video!
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This is the combo that you'll be getting.
Should you win, the giveaway.
New camera smell. (inhales deeply)
It's like, I just wanna hang that in my truck.
A few difficulties I had with this camera
when we were shooting, one comes to mind when I was sitting
in a doors-off helicopter over the Canadian Rockies.
That just sounds so good.
It was really, really, windy.
Really, really, windy and really, really, cold.
I don't know if that weather and that cold factor
was affecting the camera or if it was just
my inexperience with it,
being able to keep up with how fast I am,
versus what the camera is.
I just felt like the response time for photos
when I was shooting out of that chopper,
in that cold wind, wasn't as quick as I wanted it to be.
Both on the high speed mode and like the single shot mode.
When I went back though everything
when I got back to the hotel room,
all the shots were there that I was taking.
It just felt like they weren't going fast
as I wanted them to, as I was seeing the helicopter,
with the wind and everything like that.
Maybe that's just because it's a mirror-less camera
whereas, my 1DX kicks that shutter real hard.
You feel it.
You know that shot was taken so, I don't know.
My other gripe with this here, mirror-less camera,
is switching from photo to video.
I think there's a faster way to do it.
My friend, Jesse Driftwood, kept talking about like,
"oh, it's so great. You can switch so fast."
If I'm wrong, in the comments below, tell me how to do it,
because I'd love to know. (short laugh)
As far as this camera goes, if you're in video mode,
you have to hit this mode button up top
and then you have to hit the info button
to switch over to photo mode.
Whereas, in the old camera's you would just switch it.
If you just switch the video, it was just super easy.
You could just, boom, boom, boom, back and forth.
Now you got to hit mode and info.
Getting used to that was a little frustrating,
as well as speed.
I felt like it was slowing me down a few times.
I'd have to look and me make sure I hit it or
I'd miss if I was trying to do it and then not looking.
That was something that I struggled with a little bit.
Hopefully there's a faster way to do it.
Those were two of the issues that I was having
while using this, in pretty extreme conditions.
Those are my thoughts on the new R.
I really like it.
Honestly, I think I might give it a shot
for another few months.
I think I might actually just only carry this
for a few months to just like really dive into it.
Just explore having some new tech.
I just really enjoyed shooting with it in the mountains.
Again, hyped for you guys to see that final film.
It's gonna be amazing.
If you are interested in winning one of these kits,
you want the brand new EOS R with this lens
to celebrate hitting 2.5 million subscribers,
which is crazy!
To everyone watching right now,
if you've been here from the beginning,
if you just got here yesterday,
if you just got here ten minutes ago,
even though this video is probably longer than ten minutes
by the time you're watching this, whatever.
Welcome.
Thank you.
It's great to have you.
I appreciate you.
To everyone that comments and participates
and vocalizes their feelings with my videos,
and joins the conversation,
and actually involves themselves in this community,
sincerely, thank you.
Thank you very much.
None of this would be possible without you guys
and I'm just very very appreciative
and I'm very grateful,
that each and every one of you are here.
Hit that link in my description.
You guys know how the giveaways work when we use Gleem.
You've done it before.
We're doing it again.
I'm going to leave it running for two weeks
just in case people are on vacation.
They want to come back and like,
huuh!? (surprised gasp)
"I missed it by a day!"
Two weeks.
I will let this contest run.
Aside hitting that Gleem link,
and following the rules to win this camera,
I gotta point out if you try to contact me on any front
outside of Gleem with regards to this contest,
you will be disqualified.
No questions asked.
If you wanna win.
There's one way to do it.
It's clicking that link.
I love you guys.
Thank you so much.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you got something out of it.
Thanks for watching the trailer to the film.
Hope you guys are pumped.
2.5 million!
There's so many good things happening!
(banging sounds) (excitable exhales)
(swallowing water sounds)
I'm not going to make you sit through that again.
(laughs)
I'll see you guys in the next video.
Peace. (heavily exhales)
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