Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to this video
which is a pilot for a new series I'm hoping to produce for new users to the
Canon ESM 50 camera now I hope this camera since its launch about eighteen
months ago I've already on the m1 the m3 and I
currently own the m5 as well so when the m50 was released with the option of this
no fold-out articulated touchscreen and the fact that he could shoot 4k video
meant that it was a no-brainer for me I just have to have the camera having
bought it I'm absolutely pleased with the results that are coming from it in
both terms of video and in stills you know there are a lot of critics for the
crop that this gives you as well as a lot of the other Canon cameras over the
extra 1.5 x crop or 1.56 x crop that's added when you shoot in 4k video mode so
that means something like a 24 millimeter length native lens becomes a
39 millimeter lens once you start to apply the image shake reduction so one
month's meters another man's poison so if your landscape super shooter that
lots of field of view is a problem but if you're a wildlife shooter that extra
1.56 x crop can mean all the difference between getting a good video image and
not at all so it's horses for courses as I say anyway this camera has a 24
megapixel aps-c size sensor and that's made up to 6,000 by 4,000 pixels
in a three-to-two aspect ratio so it fits the old 35 millimeter format film
aspect ratio now the camera has what's called dual pixel autofocus so half of
the pixels are used in light gathering and the other half of the pixel is used
in part of the autofocus determination now the autofocus is built up in number
of areas now it depends on the lens you got connected to the camera as to which
areas it supports something like this kit lens the 18 to 55 only supports a
ninety nine area autofocus method if you switch to other lenses like the 18 to
150 or the 55 to 200 this opens up the AF points to 143 and in fact if we use
the EOS adapter which converts your EF or EFS lenses back to EOS m then again
you'll be using 143 AF points so substantially up numbered the number of
points that you can use for autofocus now it's phase detect autofocus so that
means the camera will actually drive to the focus point and it will stay locked
on when you're shooting 4k video unfortunately it doesn't use that dual
pixel autofocus system it uses contrast detection so that means the camera has
to hunt for that particular focus point so it drives to the point slightly above
it and then it brings it back to get the actual focus point so you see a little
bit hunting in the autofocus mode in 4k but shooting 1080p you using the face
detect and you get superb lock-on focus every time in terms of shooting video
this camera will shoot 1080p at 24 25 30 50 and 60 frames so you've got a whole
range of frames that to suit pal or NTSC formats or we can use those to slow down
your footage for slightly slow motion effects if you shoot 4k then you're
limited to 24 or 25 frames per second with this camera go to the 720p mode
then you can go up to the higher frame rate of 120 frames per second but
obviously there's no autofocus and there's no sign with it but it's nice if
you want to use something like a 4 x reduction for slow-mo now the camera
does have a silent mode of operation now unlike some mirrorless systems it's not
enabled by a button or a menu setting it's actually enabled through the scene
mode on the top of the camera so you turn the mode down to see and then
select silent operation now unlike some mirrorless cameras it doesn't give you
an increase in the maximum shutter speed so it's still a fully automatic
operation almost like a P mode doesn't give you a burst mode it doesn't give
you you're thought of focus when you're
shooting so it is limited in what it can do but in those situations where a
mechanical shutter is undesirable such as a museum or a wedding or a church
then you can use this silent mode and it will give you the electronic shutter and
a very silent operation but do be warned that the electronic shutter does suffer
from a very slow reader so if there's any subject movement in your frame you
could end up with some tilted diagonals as the subject moves across the frame
because of this slow readout from bottom to top of frame so with electronic
shutter be aware that unless you've got a static subject you could see some
jaggies or rolling shutter effects now the screen on this particular camera is
1.04 megapixels so it's a touch screen and 3:2 aspect ratio so it mimics the
actual sensor itself touch screen operated so all the menu functions are
available through the touch screen in fact that is really the only way you can
access some of the menu functions on the camera there's only one programmable
hard button which is the MFN but in the shooting mode you can actually program
the trashcan as another fixed button as the trashcan isn't used during shooting
you can actually assign a program feature to that trashcan icon so you've
effectively got two buttons that you could assign to a shooting operation so
maybe you want to have the ISO on your top button and the AF modes on the back
button say there are so many options that you can program until I saw your
buttons that is really up to you how you deploy that
now with the menuing system on this camera if you're new to canon then the
guided mode is probably one you want to use but it does mean there are some
extra buttons to press when you want to change menus or you're changing from a
mode to TV mode you'll find that you've got to press a few more buttons to get
into the options but if you're a previous canon user use the standard
menu and you'll be familiar with all the layout that the Canon usually uses with
its camera so for example I've always used Canon camera so I dismiss the
guided mode it just to gimmick it to me I've gone straight into the standard
menu mode and I've learned my way around those menus and what to set in addition
to that there's what is called my menu temps so you can actually set up your
useful features in your own custom tabs so if you only want things like the
autofocus method the aspect ratio video size you can program those into your own
tabs name them to one of you want and then you have a reduced set of
instructions available over three tabs you're not looking through all those six
pages of setup menus to find the one that you want you've got it directly
where you want in your own particular setup so that's a basic introduction to
the camera the current lineup for lenses for the camera is quite restricted at
the moment there are only seven lenses in the ESM range but using the EF or EFS
- AFM dr. you can use all your existing EF or EFS lenses or any third-party lens
which has the canon EF or EFS lens flange it does mean that you can use the
extended range of lenses something like my 50mm millimetres F 1.4 is fantastic
for low-light photography you've got that nice bright 1.4 aperture which is
always a bonus when you want to shoot in low light in addition to the standard
adapter there are several adapters on their market now which are copies of the
metabones feed booster in fact I've got a built ox in my bag which is 0.7 times
speed reduction so it does mean that you get in the concentration of a full frame
lens concentrate it down to the aps-c size sensor so you
effectively getting a 1 f-stop increase in light levels on the sensor so it's
that's why it's called a speed booster it also maintains that the actual focal
length of your lens so if you put in a 70 to 200 lens on the camera it is in
fact a 70 to 200 and you're not using the 1.7 x crop that you would normally
do if you're applying a full frame lens to the crop frame body so the speed
booster has two benefits which you might want to consider and I'll be touching on
those in a later video so let's see what this camera can do I've shot some stills
and some video today with the camera just to give you an idea of what's
available from the camera in terms of image quality and video quality and in
the next video we'll be looking at how to set up some of the menus my menu for
example to give you the best settings to use when you're out and about
remember exposure it depends on just three elements aperture which governs
the amount of light reaching the sensor and it controls image the depth of field
the shutter speed or the TV mode in the Canon series of cameras determines the
amount of time that that light falls on the sensor and it's responsible for
arresting or creating subject motion blur so for example in this picture of
the waterfall with a very fast shutter speed you can actually see the droplets
in the air that the cameras captured change that shutter speed to a longer
shutter speed and you can see streaks of those droplets where the camera has
actually created this smooth effect so shutter speed can be used very
creatively as well say again in later videos where were looking at capturing
fireworks or star trails or light paintings so we can use the shutter to
be very creative now the ISO I normally dismiss because I
like to keep the camera set down to its lowest on native ISO so in this case
we're talking about ISO 100 once it's down there we've got the maximum dynamic
range so that's the range of tones that the camera will capture and it gives us
that lowest noise in our image so we're getting the best possible imaging from
that sensor now this camera does support raw as well and it also supports a mode
called compressor or in using compressor or the file size is reduced by about 25
percent so if you're limited by memory card size for the number of
pictures that you want to shoot on that occasion then you can use the compressor
or obviously you need to have a program that will decompress that either the
supplied software from Canon with a Canon professional or one of the later
Lightroom or Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CC to enable you to decompress
the cr3 file that the camera's generating so that's it for this
introductory video to the Canon EOS m50 I will be developing more as the series
progresses if you have any ideas or any features that you want covered please
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gives me the authority to give you emails so that's it for the video enjoy
the pictures and video that I've taken and what I want to show you is the speed
booster whether 50 millimetres F one point four lens and very shallow depth
of field you can get by using that particular lens so let me set that up
and shoot some verts Stills and video with it and you can see the effects you
can get with these speed boosters and using full-frame lenses on this crop
range sensor body so until the next video thanks very
much for watching please do take care and I hope to see you all in the next
one good bye for now
so this is the canon EF 50mm e2f 1.4 with the ville trucks EF m2 adapter
no the lens is currently set to an aperture of f28 oh my exposure is 1/3
20th of a second at ISO 100 so you can see the amount of depth of field that's
available with this lens now the background is nicely out-of-focus so you
can see this is a great lens for portraiture outside in video mode so
this is a 50 millimetres F 1.4 that's F 2.0 so I'm going to change the lens all
the way down to F 1 because with that extra 0.7 times magnification we're
reducing that full frame circle down to the 1.7 so we get that extra stock of
light so I'm going to change this down to effectively what is F 1.0 and we can
see the amount of depth of field that's created by doing so now the cameras
showing me an aperture of f10 the lens itself is an F 1.4 lens but it's
calculated to be F 1.0 because of the circle of light that's normally
projected onto a full-frame sensor it's concentrated down to cover the 1.7 times
crop of the aps-c sensor so we're getting that extra concentration of
light which gives us that extra stocks worth of light so that's why we're
ending up with the F 1.0 aperture so you can see we've got a much
shallower depth of field compared to the f 2.0 that i showed you in the previous
example i know switch the lens up to a smaller aperture I'll select f/8 and you
can see that the background becomes less blurred we get a much sharper background
by using that smaller aperture so now change the lens to an aperture of f/8
but because of the lighting situation we're nearly approaching dusk here in
the woods and I've had to drop my shutter speed to one sixtieth of a
second but to get the exposure I've used the ISO and I've boosted that to ISO 250
to get somewhere in the same exposure so you can see now my background is much
sharper than we were shooting with F 2.0 or the maximum of F 1.0 calculated
now a typical use of this m50 camera is for video logging and I've got the
camera set up in a typical V logging mode so I've got the 11 to 22 mil lens
sound shooting in 1080p I've got the enhanced image stabilization turned on
so that reduces a lot more of the handshake that you sometimes get when
you're holding these cameras for the audio I'm using the rode videomicro
mounted into the hot shoe of the camera so this is a typical video login setup
and you'll find that most people are doing walkabouts and talk to camera
using this sort of rig the little bit of handshake you get is probably going
unnoticed but with a gimbal you can actually get that reduced to zero but
for handheld this enhanced electronic image stabilization is probably good
enough for most video logging applications