- I was not gonna do it
I was gonna be responsible,
pay off my credit cards, ya know,
save that money,
maybe move into a new apartment.
It's kinda crammed in here.
We were like walking down the street
back from pizza and this guy
just like, looks at us and he goes like,
"Hey, keep flexin' fool!"
And pulls out a gun
and then like, walks away
and we're like, that was random.
So, ya know, I'm tryin' to save up for
a nicer apartment, ya' know.
If it's big enough
we could have like, dance parties there and stuff,
like, you guys will be invited for sure.
EOS R, this is happening.
Guess we're gonna be in this apartment
for a little bit longer.
As you guys know, I've been hesitant about switching
to a full-frame camera.
It's gonna be quite a bit more expensive
and not only for the camera body
but also for the lenses.
And a lot of us are gonna try to take
good care of our gear, as much as possible,
but anyone that's done vlogging regularly,
knows that your camera's gonna get
beat up at some point.
Like when you're vlogging, it's important
to be able to catch like,
a lot of that spontinuity.
So, you know, you're not gonna have this
like, packed away nice and safe all the time.
I think the Canon M50 is still awesome
because you could fully kit it out
for under $1000 and get
a pretty good image right out of the bag
and let's say you were to like,
break it or somethin' like,
that would suck but,
it wouldn't be as bad as breaking this thing.
A lot of people were let down
by this camera because everyone was looking
for that Canon that shoots 4K,
with a full-frame sensor,
with a flip-out screen.
It would be like a YouTuber's dream camera.
Canon was tryin' to do that but they said
in 4K, in full-frame mode,
it overheats the camera.
It would have been awesome to have that
full-frame 4K out of this thing but,
at the same time, I do appreciate
that Canon doesn't really release anything
until they're fulling capable of doing so
without any issues.
At least I know I can go and do a shoot
in the blazing heat and not have an issue with it.
So here's a question that I think
all of us need to be asking, right?
Is that do we actually need 4K or do
we all just think we need 4K?
So, here's what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna shoot a bunch of
files in HD and then I'm
just gonna output it in 4K.
So all I'm gonna do is just
take that HD file and stretch it out
and then I'm also gonna shoot some files in
actual 4K and then we can kind of
compare the two and see if it's
that noticeable of a difference.
So now's the time to go into
your settings, put your
YouTube player at 4K playback.
And let's start by looking at this first clip.
Do you think this is HD or 4K?
And if you guessed 4K then congratulations!
You're an idiot!
Please like and subscribe.
Also, this is what it looks like in actual 4K.
Okay, how 'bout this one?
This is also HD.
And this is what 4K looks like.
Again, pretty minimal difference.
Now you are watching it after YouTube's compression
so it is harder for you guys to tell,
but even on my 4K display I'm pretty surprised
at how little difference I'm actually seeing.
Like, you have to take a really close look at it
to actually even tell that there is even a difference.
So it's not like if you switch it into 4K
you instantly get a magically sharper image.
We kinda have to take a microscope to it.
So let's do a two time zoom.
Still not a huge difference.
Alright, five time zoom, let's do it.
Okay, I'm startin' to see a little bit of softening.
Ten times zoom.
Ha! There we go.
Only took a thousand percent scale up to see the difference.
Alright, so here's an interesting one.
Which one do you think looks best and which one
do you think looks the worst?
To me, they honestly don't look significantly different.
On the left, is HD.
On the right, is 4K.
And in the middle is HD in IPB format
which is only 30 Mbps per second.
Pulling out the microscope with a five time zoom,
yeah there's a difference but, nothing crazy, right?
So keep in mind when you pop your EOS R into 4K,
yeah, you're getting better quality,
but the difference between these two shots
is 16 times the file size.
So let's say it takes you an hour to fill up
a memory card in HD, then you'll run out
of that same card in under four minutes.
Now I'm not saying 4K is totally useless,
I shoot on 4K all the time,
but only really on my professional camera.
It's important to recognize that
aside from your resolution and bit rate,
there's a whole lot more that goes on
in the camera to make an awesome image.
A good example is the C100 Mark II
which is a $3,500 camera,
only shoots in HD at 28 Mbps.
If you just looked at that spec sheet,
you would think the camera's a joke but,
it's a solid camera.
The HD out of the C100 Mark II is
better than the 4K out of most cameras.
Here's some HD footage out of my favorite camera,
the Arri ALEXA and I think this shows
that you don't need 4K to get awesome looking footage.
All you need is Chris Rollins to be the wind machine.
But yeah, back to the EOS R.
Can you spot which one's in 4K?
And the fact that you're looking very closely at
your screen right now tells me that for YouTube
I'm totally fine with HD.
I personally don't do a 500 percent punch in
to justify the 16 times larger file size
as in four times longer rendering time.
So why the hell did I just spend thousands
of dollars on this new set-up
when I already had a Canon M50 that was great?
And yes, I did have to pay for this one,
I get no love from Canon.
So one of the big draws for me is the fact
that it is much more of a professional camera.
What I mean by that is when you first turn it on
and just start going through the menu
you realize, whoa, there's
a lot more options and settings in here.
Which can be a good or bad thing.
It would be a bad thing if you were a consumer
looking for something kinda simple
like you start going through this camera
and get really confused, really fast.
And on the other hand, if you're a professional tryin' to
fine tune everything in your camera,
then this has those options.
Also, I love that you have the option
to shoot Canon log or C-Log,
which we use all the time in the C100 Mark II
and even C300 Mark II.
So that fact that you could use this
as a B or C camera on a shoot with much bigger cameras,
and the colors will still match
as long as everything is set to C-Log.
Another professional feature that I really like about
the EOS R is that you can plug in an external monitor
through HDMI, kinda like what I have right here
but it doesn't pull out the image from this LCD screen.
Canon 80D and the M50 can also send a signal to the monitor
but as soon as you plug something in,
it shuts off this monitor.
So that's a really nice feature to have
because I can still watch this monitor
and still feed a signal to like, an AC
who's pulling my focus or somethin' like that.
Whoa, even though it's this dark
the EOS R is still doing a face track on me
for auto-focus which is pretty impressive
that it can even tell that there's a face here.
So that's pretty cool
but as you guys have probably guessed by now,
that I really didn't get the EOS R
because of it's 4K.
I will be using the 4K once in a while,
especially for jobs or if I'm shooting something that's
gonna end up being played on a big display
or projection then yeah, I'll shoot on 4K in C-Log.
But for YouTube stuff, I'm less interested in the 4K
but more for the full-frame factor of this camera,
which should give me some things, in theory,
like better low-light.
I mean, right now look at this.
Just one candle.
Its at 8,000 ISO.
Not bad considering the circumstances.
And also full-frame cameras should have better advantages
like, should give us shallow depth of field,
and just more clarity overall but, I don't know,
I still have to do some testing.
I think I'm gonna need to do a whole test with just the
EOS R versus the M50.
I don't know, is that something you guys wanna see?
Anyways, let's wrap this video up with
the usual reading of the comments.
I wonder what camera they used on
filming the movie Up.
If you guys could just do me a favor
and just never mention the movie Up,
ever in my comments,
that would be fantastic.
Thanks a lot, Joshua Condeza.
I can't believe I just watched 31 minutes,
I thought it was 10.
Yeah, my last video was RED versus Arri, 31 minutes.
Longest video I ever posted on my channel.
And that video was using like,
4K Arri footage and like, 8K RED footage
and making that into a 30 minute video,
it literally took me like,
seven and half hours to render that video.
My gosh, I'm never doin' that again.
I think that's really why I hate 4K so much
is because of that experience of waiting
for my computer.
It was interesting to see how many of you guys
actually like the look of the Arri ALEXA more.
I thought it was gonna be more down the middle,
like 50/50 but it was like 80/20.
(door creaking)
- Welcome home. (laughing)
And that's actually another good point,
is my last video was Arri ALEXA versus RED
and you know, RED has a lot of resolution,
up to 8K and people still generally
like the Arri ALEXA better even though
that has technically a 3.2K sensor.
So, another reason why you don't need 4K or 5K or 8K.
Wow ALEXA rocked!
It's just superb especially in low light!
Which is actually interesting because
even though the Arri ALEXA's crazy expensive
cinema camera, this camera is actually
a better low-light camera 'cause the Arri
just maxes out at 3,200 ISO.
So, if we were shooting on the Arri right now
this is where the ISO would top out
but, look at this, we can just keep goin',
we can just keep goin', let's keep goin'
oh my God, I didn't even.
Oh that looks terrible but still, look how bright it is.
I'm out of stuff to talk about so,
sorry for the abrupt end.