hey guys what's going on my name is alex and in this video i'm going to be talking to you
about why i switched from the sony a7 iii to the canon r6 one year ago and what some of the pros
and cons are and whether or not those cons are a deal breaker for you because this camera is
so close to perfect not quite perfect but so close now here's the best part about this video
is that posh detailing has invited me to their posh lab where they have this very beautiful
car the amg gt black series i'm going to be showing you around the canon r6 how it works
and what i like the most so let's dive into that so the first thing that drew me to switch from the
sony a7 iii to the canon r6 a couple of them are pretty obvious the canon r6 offers 4k 60 frames
per second and of course it only has hd 120 frames per second but what it does have that is a step
up from the sony is that it has 10 bit colors so when you're using c log 3 which is now in the
canon r 6 you can retain those colors and really bring back the life to the image which to me is
way more important the second thing that i really love about the canon r6 that is very obvious is
that it has the flip out lcd screen and it's touch screen you don't really get that on the a7 3 you
can kind of touch where you want it to focus but some of the focus features on the canon r6
are absolutely phenomenal one of my favorite features about the autofocus is that it has
automatic eye tracking so again it naturally will lock onto your eye and keep your face in focus
or any subject that you want you can just tap on the screen and it will focus and lock on to that
subject which is pretty invaluable when you're doing you know car photography or any kind of
photos or videos actually where you want to track a subject and the autofocus is really really good
super easy to use and customize any of the buttons on the back here it also has this cue button that
brings up pretty much anything that you would need to function really really quickly on the
back of the touch screen which to me is invaluable and again in contrast to the sony menus it's just
a little bit more simple to navigate another great thing about the touch lcd screen is it actually is
zoomable you can touch pinch it's amazing the things that you can do when you have a touch
screen and flip screen great for vlogging any of those kind of things and even if you're shooting
low or high you can tilt that screen any way you want and it actually makes making b-roll or photos
so much easier now again as we compare it to the sony a7 3 this is a 20-megapixel ish camera
that is quite good in low light compared to the r5 that we're actually filming on right now the r6 is
slightly better in my opinion in low light than the canon r5 is because there's less megapixels
in the sensor so therefore those megapixels are larger and able to intake more light into the
sensor and there is a noticeable difference with the canon r6 sensor that is quite good in low
light which i've been super impressed with the ergonomics of the camera are phenomenal it fits
really really nicely into the hand i just love how easy this camera is to use compared to the
sony a7 iii now what i use the camera for mostly is automotive photography and videography i'm
a hybrid shooter so almost every time i'm out shooting a car i'm generally flipping between
photography and videography seamlessly and that leads me into actually some of the cons of the
comparison between the sony a73 and the r6 is that the custom dials on the r6 you can
only set to photography mode which is mind-blowing and awful and so dumb please canon can you change
that because i want to be able to switch with just those custom dials to my video mode that
to me was the greatest disappointment when i got the canon r6 tried to set up my custom modes and
i couldn't change it to video that was a little bit heartbreaking for me and may have actually
been a deal breaker for me when i was buying the camera if i hadn't known that but i am hoping that
later on they will actually feature and put that into some of their firmware updates in some of
their firmware updates they've also downsized to like a 4k 60 like ipv light is what they call it
which is kind of nice then you can still get the quality footage in a lighter file format but again
that brings me to another con of the r6 is that the files when you're shooting in 4k ipb they're
quite heavy for editing in their computer so if you are looking to get into the canon ecosystem
and some of the newer codecs they are quite heavy i highly recommend a computer that can handle that
namely like the apple m1 chips or whatever beyond if they're beyond that now but they're awesome
and they cut through the footage no problem i am curious however to see when the sony a74 comes out
i think that's gonna be a really great camera for us hybrid shooters now one of the last
cons that i'm sure you guys are already aware of because when this camera came out it was
all over the internet is the overheating issue now for me personally the way that i shoot it has not
been an issue at all i haven't been shooting long form aside from talking head stuff like this for
youtube it does have a limit of a 30 minute record time so if you're doing anything longer than that
keep that in mind how i film however is in b-roll so i'm doing a lot of b-roll and i have had zero
issues doing some short clips here and there um i've never had any issues with it overheating it's
definitely something to keep in mind depending on the style of shooting that you're doing but
i know a lot of people that have these cameras that shoot weddings and other types of genres
of photography and videography that have had zero issues with overheating one thing i think
about often is if i had to buy only the canon r5 or only the canon r6 which one would i get
and honestly i'd probably get the canon r6 the reason for that is with the canon r5 i actually
rarely shoot in 8k raw the file sizes i don't really need to manage having 10 bit color is
enough in 4k when your average person only has a 4k monitor anyway so i find that the canon r6
checks all the boxes for me but the only con the only thing that i would request to make this the
perfect camera is to have those custom functions be able to switch for video so canon please
switch those custom buttons over to be video as well that would make this camera absolutely
perfect we're going to do a startup on this beautiful v8 all right derek give her the beans
there you go guys we just had a beautiful chance to film this mercedes-benz amg gt black
series so huge thank you to posh detailing for having me out to shoot this almost 500
000 car guys that's insane um make sure to like subscribe and leave a comment down below of
if you like the r6 if you're a sony person i just leave something down there
let me know what you think of the video go check out posh detailing they've got their
own youtube channel they work on some of the most amazing cars in edmonton and in calgary so
check them out on youtube and uh if you want any ppf wraps clean your car
just want to hang out with some cool guys go check them out too but otherwise thanks guys so much
for hanging out with us and we'll see you in the next one peace so the first thing that i'm going
to show you is getting my foundation layer with this we're going to kind of paint a streak behind
the coin around the car at about the same level because you just want to be a nice clean line