- So here we have the Canon R6
and if you saw my initial video about this R6,
you probably know that I wasn't a huge fan of this camera.
Color temperature's not matching all their Canon cameras.
And the biggest is probably the Autofocus.
Someone is calling me.
How dare you call me while I'm filming?
I don't know, it's an unknown number. Should I answer it?
- [Sam] Yes.
- [Woman] Fraudulent activities under
your Social Security Number
and to talk to our representative,
please press one.
- Yeah, lets do it
- [Woman] Social Security Administration.
How may I help you?
- Hi, what's wrong?
(cell phone beeps)
She hung up on me.
Man, I was really hoping to get my identity stolen today.
You know you're annoying
when the scam callers hang up on you.
(laughs)
But anyways, all my complaints are video focused complaints.
And I think that's the issue,
because this camera really was designed
with photography in mind first, right?
But I am a video guy.
So I was really reviewing this camera as a video camera.
But now I just wanna take a look
at this as a photography camera.
We went to go pick up that van all the way in Michigan,
had a 2,500 mile road trip back
and the whole time I had this in photography mode.
So let's go check out some of the photos we took.
Come on, Sam let's go.
What are you waiting for?
(Sam gasping)
And welcome to the van.
We have Sam behind the camera.
- Dude, I'm really straddling this tripod,
I think I'm gonna have to take it to dinner after.
- Yeah, nice steak dinner.
Some of the very first shots we took with the R6
was for this thumbnail here.
And this is just the plain JPEG straight out of camera.
Look at how sharp this looks.
Sam, you can see the photos through the iPad, right?
- Yep.
- All right.
Oh, by the way, we have Skylum sponsoring today's episode.
So we are gonna be doing a giveaway
with an iPad, 128 Gig version
so you can kind of do something like this with your photos.
Take a look at that photo right there.
I mean, that's pretty sharp.
Like we've taken a lot of photos on the EOS R
but I swear this R6 looks a little bit crispier,
a little bit cleaner than we were able to get with the R.
Don't you think?
- Oh yeah.
- I wonder why though, because the EOS R
is a 30.3 megapixel full frame sensor
and the Canon R6 is 20 megapixel.
So it actually has less resolution than the EOS R,
but I feel like it just looks cleaner for some reason.
So check out this photo with NERC here
and definitely a decent amount of detail
and 20 megapixels is plenty I think for most cases.
And getting real close to some of the propellers
and we shoot a lot with the EOS R with the same lens,
which is the 15-35 RF Lens.
Do you think that EOS R was this sharp?
- I mean, I've taken some photos with the EOS R,
I don't think I ever got it that sharp.
- I wonder if it's a sensor or maybe it's the way
they process the JPEGs, I wonder.
Next stop was Illinois,
so let's cut to some footage from there.
(upbeat pop music)
(camera clicking)
Are you leaving Chicago?
- Yeah, I wish we were staying a few days
to explore it a little bit more.
- It does have a little bit of a New York vibe.
- [Man] Hey yo, Gene.
- Hey, what's going on?
- Its chilly tonight, but it's like a tolerable chilly.
Like a nice, brisk walk in the park.
- Here's the deal.
I'll take a photo in every state we pass through.
- Yeah.
- All right.
- A photo of us?
- Yes, a photo of us or maybe just you.
What's really interesting about Chicago
is that their architecture,
half of it is super old and half of it is super modern, huh?
- I'm sorry I was pacing out.
I'm so sorry. (Gene laughing)
- Chicago has been great.
The pizza has been great.
- It's great, I wish we could stay longer.
- So last time I was here, I was here for work,
so I didn't really enjoy it nearly
as much as I enjoyed it this time.
So much better when you come here for fun.
So in Chicago, we did some night time photography.
This photo here was taken at 3200 ISO
and looks pretty clean. So let's go ahead and take a look
at the raw version of this.
Again, 3200 ISO on here.
And I kinda wanna see how much info
is in this raw image here.
I'm gonna go ahead and fix that white balance a little bit.
Let's make it look a little bit less crazy warm.
Let's put it right there.
I wanna see how much of the details
I can pull out from the shadows.
That's actually not bad, huh?
Look at that jacket.
- [Sam] Oh man, you can see every stitch, that's amazing.
- Yeah, see if I bring up the shadows a little bit,
I'm curious how much information
I can kinda pull out of there for the jacket.
But definitely not bad, 3200 ISO.
You can definitely see a little bit of noise,
but it's not bad, right?
So pretty decent on low light
but aside from that,
the IBIS was really helpful there as well.
These are half second exposures.
I have pretty shaky hands.
Any other camera,
the image would definitely come out looking pretty blurry.
For me, I feel like I have to at least
have it 1/5Oth of a second
for it to come out looking at a decent sharpness.
If you look closely,
you can definitely see some motion blur here and there
but for the most part
that IBIS was definitely saving me.
Without that IBIS, I would have been totally screwed.
(soft guitar music)
All right, so now we are in Iowa.
Look at some of these sunsets here though.
They look so good.
I wanna get a few self timer photos right here
of us on the van.
The only thing is the dynamic range is pretty intense.
Like the sunset looks so good all the way down here
you know, you get that red, blue and orange up there.
And the van's all the way down here in the dark.
So I'm gonna try to shoot these right in the middle
and hopefully there's enough detail in the raws to recover.
(soft guitar music)
That's pretty back lit.
Let's try a few right here.
This is looking pretty nice.
Photo time.
(camera clicking)
Look at this.
This actually looks like a Luminar Sky Replacement
but this is real.
The sunsets are beautiful out here in the Midwest, huh?
(camera clicks)
(soft guitar music)
(car engine revving)
(soft guitar music)
All right, so check out this photo right here.
This is the JPEG.
Sky's definitely really bright
and the van is in the shadow.
A lot of dynamic range did it here.
Here we go.
And processed.
- [Sam] Whoa.
- [Gene] Not bad, huh?
- Okay, I thought it was gonna be like,
"Oh yeah, that's good."
But it's really, really good.
- Yeah, so let me pull up Luminar.
Let me show you the edit here.
So like, the amount of detail there
that was recovered for Carrie was pretty good
and the sky as well.
And this wasn't Sky Replacement or anything either
it was more Sky Enhancer
so I just brought that sky in a little bit.
Check this out.
Boom.
Before and after.
- Gene I think you just dropped something.
My jaw, that's amazing.
(both laughing)
- I knew that we would be able to recover it to an extent
but I was definitely surprised
at how much we are able to actually recover.
We took a few more photos
where it was pretty intense dynamic range.
So I'm definitely happy with the amount of flexibility
that we have with these raw files.
All right, now we're in Omaha, Nebraska.
It's super windy out here.
Check this out.
(drone buzzing)
Its such a challenge to just keep this thing in the air.
Oh no, oh gosh.
Okay, huge gust of wind came in.
This thing came and whacked the microphone.
This is a bad idea I should stop flying this thing.
And apparently it's not just here that's windy,
back home too I guess.
I just got this video message from Sam.
- So we heard a noise outside bro and this happened.
It's pretty windy outside.
So I think the umbrella broke your table, don't know.
It's okay I'll clean it up.
- Oh man, I definitely should have rolled up
that umbrella before we left.
I found this random stranger
to allow me to take some photos of him.
Let me just like straighten this down.
Like, it just wants to split in half.
It wants to do this.
I need you to keep your beard together.
So I think we just need to braid it together.
There you go much better, much better.
So, hello strange man.
What are you about to do?
- Decorate myself with some video foliage.
(both laughing)
(camera clicking)
(soft music)
- So here I have the 24-70 Sigma F2.8.
It's not a bad combination though, huh?
I like that shot right there.
Like I definitely love the Sigma lens,
it's super sharp
but you can also kind of see that the boke
is a little bit sharper and a little more intense
but overall pretty solid looking image out of the R6.
We had Max throw some leaves up in the air.
I put the shutter on continuous
and just held down that shutter
and here are the series of photos that we came out with.
How do you like my braiding skills?
I braided his beard.
- Dude, he looks like a hipster viking.
Its awesome. (Gene laughs)
- So these images are the raws that were edited
and had the shutter speed up pretty high.
So you can see every little detail in the leaves.
I took a few shots in Colorado at our campsite
but we just passed through there real quick.
Although Colorado looked amazing.
We're definitely gonna have to do a road trip
there one of these days.
All right, we made it to Arches National Park in Utah.
- We're here.
- [Gene] It looks epic, huh?
- Yeah, it's so beautiful.
- [Gene] It's way bigger than it looks
like in the photos, huh?
- Yeah, the arches themselves are huge.
(soft pop music)
(camera clicking)
- Lets see if we could do something epic
with this photo here.
Let's go to Landscapes,
autumn colors, yeah that looks pretty nice.
Dramatic landscape, oh.
Warm sunset.
Let's start with Autumn colors
and just kinda tweak it a little bit.
There was no sky there really.
Dramatic sky one, too much.
Dramatic Sky three,
oh man, look at that.
That looks pretty sick.
Is that cheating?
- Well, it depends.
You're not like lying to people, you're--
- I don't always tell people that I use Sky Replacement.
I took this photo of Carrie and I sent it to her.
I didn't tell her I use Sky Replacement.
And then eventually she was like, "Oh yeah, huh?
"The sun doesn't set that direction."
This is with Sky Replacement and this is without.
This is actually already with Sky Enhance.
So, see how the AI Sky Enhance is already up there,
none and after.
Canon just has really good colors, don't they?
- [Sam] Yeah, it looks epic.
- Look at that, before, after.
Man, I just feel like this is cheating.
You know what would make me feel better,
is if we just go out,
shoot a bunch of sunsets, just the sky.
And then we use that sky and drop it into our own photos.
Like the top third of this photo,
I didn't take that photo.
So I feel like I can't take credit for this image
but if we went out and snapped a bunch of sunsets
and then we mixed it,
then it's like mixing two of your own photos.
But I didn't take that sky.
So I feel like I'm stealing but it looks so good.
And it's so easy to do.
- I feel like this is where the viking hipster will reel in.
- Yeah (laughing)
By the way, the software I'm using is called Luminar 4.
I like it, 'cause you can do all kinds of effects
with it really fast and really easy.
Literally the Sky Replacement is like one click
and it's made by our sponsor Skylum.
But they aren't sponsoring this video for Luminar 4,
they're sponsoring it for their upcoming software
that I haven't actually seen or tested yet
but I'm very excited about it.
It's called Luminar AI.
And it does share a lot of the characteristics
and abilities you can do with Luminar 4,
which is what I've been using primarily.
But there's a whole lot of under the hood improvements
and it should also be faster
and more accelerated to work with more of the modern chips.
And it's very cool because it's very quick and easy
to get all kinds of different looks.
So I usually just start by looking at the looks on here,
finding something that looks
somewhat along the lines of what I'm going for
but this is really just a starting point.
At this point, I can go in and make the adjustments
that I typically would make
and you fine tune everything.
But I do like the convenience of being able to just say,
"I want this kind of look."
Pop it on, try it out and then go
make adjustments from there
opposed to just starting completely
from scratch every single time.
They're telling me that every time
you open up an image in Luminar AI,
it's going to analyze the image,
get an idea of what that image is
and then suggest templates to you.
Which is kinda like these looks, kinda like filters
that you can apply, get in that ballpark
and then fine tune all your adjustment.
- Definitely a great way to up your Instagram game.
- Yeah, right?
So I'm definitely excited for what Luminar AI has to offer.
It's supposed to be coming out this holiday season.
I'll throw a link down there in the description
with some more info.
I wonder if the Sky Replacement
will also recognize these holes.
- I would be very impressed if it did.
I'm gonna say no though.
- Dramatic Sky 4.
- Oh! - Hey it did.
I'm gonna soften up the--
- [Sam] I'm not too crazy about this sky.
Can we change it to something
a little bit more, I don't know.
- [Gene] How about galaxy?
- [Sam] Now we're cooking and baking.
- But before we do that,
let's see if there's even actually a sky there.
Oh, there actually is a little bit there.
Check that out. And down the whites a little bit.
Actually we can just go into here,
enhance the sky and see what we get.
Oh yeah, there's a little bit there.
It's mostly cloudy, but--
- [Sam] Oh snap.
That actually looks really good.
- [Gene] Yeah, so yeah.
See, we don't always have to cheat with Sky Replacement.
- [Sam] Work with what you have I guess.
- I actually had a lot of fun being in photographer mode,
'cause I'm always video mode
but like, you kinda like change your mentality a little bit.
Now I wanna say, if you're purely focused on photography,
the R6 might be the best photography camera
I've ever used so far.
Now I haven't really used the R5
in photography mode very much,
but R6, I'm definitely loving the images out of here.
And even though it doesn't have
as high of a megapixel count than the EOS R or the R5,
the colors are rich and nice.
There's a lot of dynamic range and flexibility.
In the IBIS though especially when you have to shoot
with that extended shutter, loving it.
Giveaway man, tell us the details.
- Well, it's the iPad.
- [Gene] What is that pose?
- Well, I was gonna put an iPad--
- [Gene] There's nothing there.
- You get it by commenting down your favorite song.
- [Gene] Why do you look so confused?
- I didn't have enough time to practice.
(laughing)
- [Gene] Comment down below your favorite song
and you have a chance to win.
I guess that's what's going on?
- I think so.
- [Gene] Yeah, okay cool.
That works for me.
- Yeah, yay, giveaway boy out.
Oh now you're supposed to leave.
You're supposed to stay over there.
- So I've been informed that this video
is already really long,
so let's try to wrap it up.
Nevada next day early in the morning.
And of course the dynamic range comes in nicely here.
We have the bright sky
but still the city itself hasn't been lit up yet.
And then we stopped by the seven
arch, colors, rock something,
I don't know what it's called.
Usually it's pretty crowded there
but this was like 6:30 a.m.
So if you wanna get nice empty photos, go early.
And of course we have colorful rocks
with colorful Canon colors.
You can't go wrong.
And finally we have made it back here
to California with a new baby.
But yeah, overall as a photography camera,
I think you're gonna get great images.
But if I had to choose between the EOS R or R6,
strictly for photography,
I would probably still go for the R6
even though we have slightly less resolution.
I'm really digging the IBIS in there.
I feel like that really makes a difference
when you try to extend out your shutter speed a bit.
And I also like how many buttons
and switches and dials there are.
We got our joystick back
and we just have a few extra buttons here
on the R6 and we have a dial.
Would I buy this camera?
Not really.
'Cause I'm a video guy.
So I really care about the video features,
the Autofocus in the video side of things
just hasn't been up to par of where I need it to be.
I shot about three or four vlogs on the R6
and every one of those vlogs,
I wanna say there was a half dozen comments in there
just saying, "What's wrong with the Autofocus?"
So it is something that is being noticed
on the other side of the screen for video.
But when it comes to photography,
the Autofocus, no problems.
Anyways, let's wrap this up
by reading a few comments from my last video
where we put our red camera on an FPV drone.
"Oh man, I know what you're buying next."
He was right on that one.
Yeah, I immediately went out and got this thing right here.
This thing's pretty fun.
Nick says, "Please shoot a whole video only using a drone."
Hey, I'll take any excuse to fly this thing.
I've been addicted to flying FPV drones.
Sam will take over the comments.
- But I don't wanna.
- Please, do it.
- Let's read the comments.
(drone buzzing)
Mr. Marvel says,
"This video titles should be,
"How to fly your money at 100 mph."
(laughing)
- [Gene] Flying that red was kind of crazy, huh?
- [Sam] Alex W. Says,
"This is incredible to see this collab.
"Never thought I'd see NERC and Potato Jet together."
- [Gene] Yeah, NERC's awesome, man.
- [Sam] Yeah dude.
- [Gene] I wish he lived closer to Los Angeles
so we hang out all the time.
- [Sam] Yeah, he's a super funny dude.
Ryan Armor says, "Surely this can't go well.
"Edit, it went pretty well."
'Cause NERC was flying it.
- [Gene] I know, right? If I were to fly that thing,
it would definitely have gone wrong.
[Sam] Statement Prod says,
"NERC is very casual about putting
"the Red Camera on the FPV."
- [Gene] Yeah, he's kind of crazy, huh?
- [Sam] Yeah, I don't know how he just casually flies
around with like at least $30,000 worth of stuff.
- [Gene] Watch this and just free fall.
Whoa.
Oh my God, this thing freaks me out so much, I love it.
- [Sam] Dude, one of the craziest things about FPV drones,
is you just shoot up real fast and then just free fall.
Whoa.
And catch.
You don't do that with a DJI drone.
- [Sam] "Long time fan of NERC,
"really happy to see this collaboration."
Me too it was pretty sick.
- Oh.
- All right, well you're done.
- All right, we're done.
Yeah, we're done.
See you guys later.
(upbeat music)