- What's going on everybody?
Right now I am filming on the Canon EOS RP.
Let's see how it does when we take it around the city,
does it, oh, ah, it's so bright.
Is that the sun I've heard so much about?
The dogs are loving it, they always just hang out
right here and just soak in all the sun.
Los Angeles has actually been like really wet this winter,
like a lot more rain than usual.
(rustling)
I probably should have thrown this on this on the tender
but let's see, hopefully it still runs.
(motorbike engine roaring)
Oh yeah.
Oh, I missed you.
(motorbike engine roaring)
Let me just start off by saying this.
I, myself, would never ever buy this camera,
that's why I've convinced a friend to buy it
so he can deal with the regret.
And the reason's very simple, it's because there is
no 24 frames per second, which is what I like to shoot in,
in HD, which is a really, really weird thing for
them to exclude and obviously they're doing it so that
more people would buy the more expensive cameras
like the EOS R but keep in mind that I am a film maker
that almost exclusively shoots video and I dabble a
little bit in photography, primarily just for Instagram
so I obviously care a lot more about the video
functionalities of the camera.
So with that in mind, again, I wouldn't touch this camera.
That could change, just kinda like this lighting
that just changed on me, there's a cloud.
Ooh, at least I got more diffusion on my face now.
Before I go much further, check the description
because if they do release a firmware update for this
then I will include it in the description and
that kinda changes a lot of things.
It's just so dumb that that's what they decided to cut out
because obviously the camera is totally capable of
doing 24 frames per second, it's not really a hardware
thing at this point so I wouldn't be too surprised
if people figured how to to hack the RP just to
get that 24 in there like Magic Lantern.
But as of right now I'm shooting in 25 frames per second,
man, this lighting keeps changing on me.
Now the reason why 25 frames per second exists
in this camera is because there's two standards for video.
There's NTSC and there's PAL.
Depending on where you live,
you're gonna have different standards.
So here in the US, we're NTSC, so we go with 24 frames
per second or 30 but PAL uses 25 so you can actually
switch this camera over to PAL mode and then access
25 frames per second.
But enough babbling, let's take it for a spin, let's go.
Sam's got the EOS RP on slow motion and he's gonna make
me look really cool while I get ready.
(laughing)
(upbeat rock music)
(motorbike engine roaring)
- The higher the pinky, the fancier you are.
- [Potato Jet] That's one high pinky.
Are you excited for escargot?
- I have no idea what that is.
Is that like a french car?
- Yeah, it's like a french car.
I feel very inadequate here.
It's very fancy.
Everyone else is wearing like mustaches and stuff.
- It smells pretty good,
and it looks pretty good too.
- I think this, you use this to pick it up.
These are some massive snails.
- [Sam] Eat it.
- That it actually really bomb.
- [Sam] Are you lying to me?
Are you just gonna be like it's really good and I'm
gonna try it. - No dude, this is
actually really good.
- It's like a pizza pocket.
- Aside from the fact that it doesn't have 24 frames
per second, it reminds me a whole lot of the EOS R.
Sam's about to get another tattoo.
- Yeah, I always get a little bit nervous
just because of the pain.
Like, it hurts for like a little bit and then your
body is like okay I guess you're cool with this.
It's going right here in between my Jason and my lotus,
like this area.
- Alright, so now let's take a close look
at this 4K shot of Sam trying his best not to cry.
It's pretty much right up there, in terms of sharpness,
with the EOS R.
Of course, the EOS R still has an advantage by having
C-Log and higher codex.
The deal breaker for the RP is that there is no
Dual-Pixel Auto Focus in 4k.
So basically if good auto focus is important to you
then don't even touch that 4K mode.
If you're trying to use the 4K auto focus regularly
you're gonna hit some serious road blocks.
And, of course, just like the EOS R, when you do go
into 4K mode there is a crop.
But if you're willing to do that manual focus
it's definitely not terrible.
Oh my god, I'm out of focus for this whole thing.
See useless!
So I just switched the camera from 4K to HD,
so when you're filming yourself like this and you plan
on moving around a little bit this is probably
the mode you're gonna wanna do.
We get that Dual-Pixel Auto Focus back so we're
nice and sharp.
Aside from the fact that there's no 24, urgh,
the HD out of it is actually pretty solid.
Quality is right there neck and neck and even in low light
they're pretty comparable.
The beauty of full frame sensors, including the RP,
is you can bump that ISO way up there all the way up
to 12800, which is insane by the way.
It doesn't look beautiful, a lot of noise but hey,
you can still see so that's pretty amazing.
So if you're 100% sure that you don't need
24 frames per second and you're just gonna shoot
everything in 30 then you are getting a pretty good
value outta this because you're essentially getting
very, very similar HD outta this camera but just
at a much lower price point.
And there's other weird things like this EFS lens,
which is for crop censored cameras,
if I put this on the EOS R, yeah it fits on there
but you can't shoot full HD, you can shoot 4K
or you can shoot 720P but you can't shoot 1080P,
just weird limitations that doesn't really make sense.
Alright, so let's circle back to shooting 25
frames per second and it looks so similar to 24,
I personally can't tell the difference,
it looks really good and can definitely look cinematic,
it's only off by one frame per second.
So I'm shooting in 25 frames per second,
I switched my other cameras to 25, I edited in 25
and I uploaded to YouTube, which accepts 25 so
the whole pipeline actually kinda works.
But the issue really comes in different workflow scenarios.
Sure, you could take this 25 frames per second and just
edit it in a 24 frames per second time line but there's
a few issues there because you have that extra frame.
Every second it's just gonna ditch a frame so usually
you can't really notice.
So, here, I'll just cut out a couple of frames here
and there right now, there's a few frames being cut.
Sometimes you can catch it but sometimes you can't,
it's like did it happen, did it not?
Most of the time it just goes over people's heads
so they don't even know that they saw a glitch but
sometimes, especially if you're doing like a dolly
or Gimbal shot where there's smooth movement,
it's gonna just interrupt that a little bit,
every second just tsh, tsh, tsh, tsh.
So some people might be like, urgh, doesn't bother me
too much, some people would be like ah, I can't stand it.
You could also interpret the footage as 24 frames per second
which would essentially just be slowing down the footage
by a few percent.
So I'll try that right now.
So now this footage is being interpreted at 24 frames
per second and it might not be very obvious but I'm
in slightly, slightly slow motion right now.
The most obvious giveaway is usually my voice,
it does sound a little bit slower because it's like
whoa, slowing it down, you could just adjust that pitch
a little bit.
So, yeah, there are workarounds but it's just one of
those things like why are we even dealing with this issue?
But, again, this is from my perspective from someone
in the United States but if you live somewhere where
PAL is your standard then congratulations,
most of the stuff that I've been complaining about
doesn't really apply to you so, lucky you!
Honestly, I would rather just shoot on an M50
with a speed booster and I did a whole comparison
video with this against the EOS R so you can
check that out.
Definitely not saying you can't get cinematic footage
out of this camera, you definitely can,
there's just a few weird loopholes you have to jump through.
After all this complaining I've been doing,
who is this camera good for?
And I would actually say if I was getting into
photography and I was like I just wanna get some really
nice looking professional photography and I have about
like a $2000 budget, I would probably actually get this
for $1300 and spend the rest of the budget on a
couple of prime lenses and you could really do a lot
with the still aspect of this.
Now I do all my photo editing in Adobe Photoshop
and as of right now they haven't released the software
that allows me to open up the RP raw format so I've
had to do the editing off of Canon's software and it is
called Digital Photo Professional,
it's free off their website.
So I've been playing with the RP's photos on there
and you could definitely push the images pretty far.
You know, the R still has that higher megapixel count
and I do feel like I can still push the images
a little bit more but again that's to be expected
because this EOS R is $1000 more than the RP
and the photos out of the R themselves are insane.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just cheating because I'll
just take a very average photo and then in Photoshop
I can really bring out all the details.
So the EOS R still has it's advantages in the photo world
but the RP definitely is to the point where I'd be
pretty happy with it.
I'm gonna switch to the EOS R real quick so I can actually
show you the body.
And here we go, this is the EOS RP.
I've been taking it around like this.
We've got our mic jack and our headphone jack and
an HDMI out but I did notice that when I plug
that HDMI port into here it shuts off the LCD on the back,
which might affect some of you guys.
Like right now I have the EOS R with a little flip screen
and I like it 'cause I can always just tap that
little screen in case I need to focus on something
but I could also give myself a little signal over to here
so I can generally see up close on a bigger screen
what I'm doing.
Also the RP does not come with that cool little thing
that protects the sensor that the R does.
Apparently for some early buyers it comes with this
little extension grip and a lens mount for free,
I don't know exactly how long that offer is gonna last
but if you're gonna have the RP, you definitely need
an EF mount adapter 'cause there's just not that many
RF lenses out yet.
Battery life on this guy, not great, this is about
7.5 watt hours, you're definitely gonna need to keep
a couple on yer.
It is really small and it's pretty comfortable actually
and I don't actually feel like I need that bottom
grip on here, I would actually take it just like this.
So we're talking just a little bit bigger than
that Canon M50.
The grip was kinda useful a couple times when I put
it on a Gimbal because the lens itself will actually
protrude past the bottom of this so if you put it on a
flat surface or try to mount it on a tripod plate,
it'll actually rub against the lens so by extending it out
a little bit it is easier to mount onto other things.
The LCD display on the back here is noticeably not as good
as the one on the R, kinda minor but, again, noticeable.
You have your different modes, I got my aperture program
back here, my shutter right up here and enough buttons
to where I can feel pretty comfortable with it.
And, of course, the most significant thing about this
is that it's $1300 for a full frame camera.
So if photography is your primary focus and you might just
once in a while dabble in video, kinda the opposite
of what I do, then this kinda becomes a very
serious option to look at 'cause this is definitely
very, very capable of a camera.
(rustling)
Whoa, that is dark, maybe black wasn't the best color.
(laughing)
See, you look cooler 'cause you got the tattoos,
it kinda fits your vibe but I'm too dorky and goofy.
It doesn't work for me.
- I'm telling you, you need a choker,
you need eyeliner and you'll look great.
(laughing) Do a little mohawk.
- Maybe we should put the orange back up.
(laughing)
Now bring up the exposure in the back a little bit.
Hey, there we go.
With just a slash it looks kinda dark and morbid.
Boop!
Now it's all bright and happy.
It's much darker than my other colors but it's kinda cool,
I could always just bring up that backlight,
brighten things up.
Whenever I'm talking about something like happy
I'd be like hey guys, and then I'll just like start
talking about something really serious and we get
kinda nice and dark.
That actually looks pretty cool.
Hey, maybe with this lighter colored shirt it might
look a little less gothic, I don't know.
How does it look?
What do you guys think?
Should I have gone the brighter shade of purple?
It's funny how different the mood is as soon as I change
the color of that piece of paper.
Let's see what people are saying in the comments.
My last video was a video sponsored by Sennheiser
and there is a giveaway that's still up for grabs.
A brand new G4 Lavalier set with an XLR transmitter,
pretty cool stuff.
Top comment was from FlybyFrancis.
Potato Jet is gonna be casted in Crazy Rich Asians 2
with all the money he's making from these sponsorships.
(laughing)
Heck yeah, I will except it for it'll probably be more
like crazy mildly successful Asians.
instead of us throwing extravagant parties it'll be like
me going to Whole Foods and then like buying
the organic spinach, it'd be crazy.
I'm just kidding, Whole Foods is way too expensive
for my blood.
(laughing)
I still always look for the cheapest wine.
Like, if a bottle of wine is like three bucks,
I'm like that's my (beeping).
Timothy says that mic is so small I could put it up
my nose and hear my thoughts.
Let me out, I'm stuck, help, somebody help!
All those haters that click the dislike button
must have meant dis I like.
That's what I tell myself all the time.
Connor says glad to hear Potato Jet is still employed.
He was starting to upload so often I was wondering
if he got fired and was trying to do YouTube full time.
I can't believe people hire me still either but it is true,
I have been focusing more on YouTube.
I still like doing my production commercial work
but at the same time YouTube is just so much more flexible
and I love how I could just shoot and I could literally
upload whatever I want, I don't have to like go through
an approval process and do something that I think is
really cool and then have someone say oh this,
change that, I don't like that.
This is definitely not for all clients but when that happens
it's just like your soul just gets sucked
out of the project.
And that's the beauty of YouTube is just like
no-ones ever allowed to tell you; hey change that.
That's why I'm allowed to stick lavaliers in my nose,
that would never fly anywhere else.
Sebastian says why haven't you made a Galaxy S10
versus RED/ARRI video yet?
Well I literally just got this package like 10, 15
minutes ago so I'll get started.
I'll see you guys later.
(upbeat music)
(laughing)
If you have a girlfriend could you get a lap dance
at a bachelor party?
Corn dog
(laughing)