Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Today we're taking a look at the Canon EOS 90D.
Thanks to Camera Craft in Rockford Illinois for let me try this out at their shop.
The 90D has an aps-c size sensor like the previous versions,
the 80D and 70D. In this case, it is a new sensor on there around 32.5
megapixels. So definitely a very dense sensor. I did bring along a second Canon
EOS M50. It has their older 24 megapixel sensor in there. So I'll do a little
comparison of image quality with that and the 90D. Of course, I'm not going to
be comparing the cameras very much at all. That isn't the point of this video.
In the case of the 90D you have a traditional digital SLR. That means
optical viewfinder. An autofocus system dedicated to that optical path with a
mirror inside that flips up and down. However, in this case you have all of the
functionality of a mirrorless camera in there as well when you go into live view.
You have a standard EF mount, which means a ton of lenses that have been out for a
very long time. Of course, you cannot mount RF lenses on this camera. If you
want something smaller. You might want to consider that EF-M camera with the same
sensor. It's the M6 mark II. So different lenses, but you can adapt EF lenses
with the proper adapter on that camera.
It does have a built-in flash. On this level
of camera, I don't know if it's necessary. But it's in there and if you're into
that it is definitely a nice feature for some situations. Kind of an odd thing to
mention, but I do like how Canon designs their simple strap lugs. They're easy to
use. They're wide. They don't have like a clanking extra piece of metal to them.
There are ample ports on the camera. You've got the microphone port ,headphone
port, which is nice to see. Cable release, mini HDMI... which is not the smallest one
so a little bigger with the HDMI port which is nice. And the USB port. The grip
on the 90D felt pretty average. It was pressing a little bit on my
middle finger when I'm holding it. I think with even larger lenses there
would be more of a problem. Of course, this is a personal preference
and how your hand is and all that. Just something to keep in mind. As expected it
uses the LP-E6N battery. Very standard. Nice to see that they didn't try to
change that up. Looking in the battery compartment I can see additional
contacts in there. So there should be a battery grip option. One of the nice
benefits of Canon cameras that they seem to put in quite a few of them is that
vari-angle screen. Fully articulating screen where you can face towards the
lens. You can adjust it vertical, below, above.. it just gives you a lot of options.
Of course, that works really well with vlogging in similar situations.
As expected the back screen is fully touch enabled with menus with the on-screen
display. Definitely a very nice way that Canon sets up their touch screens on
their cameras. There are ample buttons and dials on the camera. If you like
that direct control with a physical button you should be pretty fulfilled
here with that. However, it does not have a third dial which some cameras do have
to do the full exposure triangle. So you do have an ISO button instead that you can
use with the dial. It's nice to see that it has a joystick for adjusting auto-
focus point and it is a button itself. If you do photography in extreme conditions,
having those direct buttons is much easier to use than a touch screen. If you
are into back button focusing, there is a dedicated button for that. There is a top
LCD on the camera. A traditional DSLR feature on there with a lot of buttons
up there as well. Actually, you can flip the back screen back into the camera. So
you can protect that and then just use the top LCD, use a viewfinder. The ISO button
has a little bump on it to help you position your fingers if you're looking
through the viewfinder you won't have to pull the camera down. On the top there
you have AF selection, standard AF button, drive mode, ISO, and metering. There
is a physical Q button. With the Canon cameras it's a quick menu that gives you
a lot of options. You can either use the touch screen to get to that or use this
dedicated button on the camera. On the front of the camera near the bottom of
the grip, on the side of the mount area, there is an additional button you can
adjust. On the 90D you have one of their more somewhat traditional controls.
You have a wheel with a four-way joystick plus a center button on the
back, in addition to a lock that you can make sure that it's not going to change
on you. The mode dial is pretty standard. You have some auto modes plus the
standard PSAM. In addition to the C1 and C2 custom modes. Those are always
something I like to mention. Because you can push settings into groups. Save those,
adjust your settings. Switch to C1 or C2. So if you're trying to do a specific type
of photography it's nice to push a group of settings into those and go
back to them. With the info button you can switch to a built-in electronic level in
the camera. Just a quick note on this lens. It's one of their kit lenses with
the camera. It is pretty large, but it was pleasant to use. However, I would have
preferred something a little wider than 18. 18 is okay, but a little challenging
to do some types of wide angle stuff on there. I would have preferred around 15
or 16 millimeters, but 18 is alright. They do have the built-in Wi-Fi and
bluetooth capabilities on the camera. You can use their Android or iPhone app. It works
pretty well. Has a lot of features, a lot of functions. You can do full adjustment of
settings in the camera. You can select the autofocus point through the app. So it
works pretty well. Let's go over some of the menu settings and features in the
camera. With RAW files you do have a compressed raw
option. Which is probably a pretty good idea with these large megapixel files.
One of the more useful features on the camera has a minimum speed setting
related to the ISO. If you go auto ISO you can use a minimum shutter speed. So
it doesn't go below of that setting. Super useful in aperture priority. So
the camera won't use a shutter speed to slow for what you're trying to do. You
can also use an even easier feature that gives you a seven value weighted
preference if you don't want to put an exact value in there. Some of the other
interesting features, you have multiple exposure mode. So if you want to join
multiple photos together with either additive or average...
There is an HDR mode.
If you're interested in that type of stuff it's in there check it out. You can go
auto plus 1, 2, or 3 Ev.
It has an interval timer. Good for
time-lapse right in the camera. So you can select the amount of time between
photos as well as the number of photos.
The camera has a ton of features related
to adjusting autofocus preferences, settings, just a lot of things in there
if you want to fine-tune your autofocus settings on the camera. There is a MY MENU
feature on the camera. It's a way to take some settings from the menus and put
them together into groups. Works pretty well in some situations. For example, when
I have one of my M50s in a b-roll mode, I stick all the settings related
to video in one group. So you can do the same thing with a 90D. The camera does
have a built-in feature to clean the sensor, but you can
pop up the mirror in a manual mode to clean it physically if you need to
do that. I did take various simple photos and did some video tests with the 90D. In
one case with the video I was using the M50 and the 90D together doing that
vlogging test as usual. Three different types... First one, I did 30 frames a second
with full manual settings.
The second one I did 30 frames a second with auto ISO and digital IS. That
first setting, not the enhanced one.
And then for the third one I did 24 frames a second. Of course, you'll need to
update your firmware in this case to get 24 frames a second. But it is now an
option on the 90D. I think Canon kind of took a step back and realized that some
settings.. some options.. are important to the customers and definitely the
feedback they got was a large amount on the 24 frames a second. And they did put
it back into quite a few of the cameras, which is nice to see...
The 90D does have 4k modes.
There's actually a full sensor version and also a crop version.
So if you want really high detail and you don't care about a crop, you can
use that mode. Or you want the full sensor readouts, use the standard
4k mode on the camera. It does have the 120 frames a second at 1080p. Not gonna
have autofocus or audio recording in that mode. Of course, I took various
samples with the camera. I'm limited in what I can do with these cameras for
these specific videos. But some samples...
Gonna go full view of each one and then
100% crop. Also, I'll be comparing it to the M50. Now, they'll be different
megapixels sizes, just keep that in mind. I'm putting this in there because I'm
curious to see how they relate. Of course, I did use different lenses.
I do see this as kind of a peak of digital SLR technology with a 90D. If you have a ton
of EF glass, again, the 90D is a great option for you. Now, if you're interested
in using the RF lenses... Getting the 90D doesn't make any sense because some of
these new RF lenses are very unique and very specialized. In a way this camera
achieves kind of an ideal level of technology with both the digital SLR side...
That standard viewfinder and the sensor based autofocus with the nice Dual Pixel
on the sensor and all that. That was a look at the 90D. Again, thanks to Camera Craft
in Rockford Illinois for letting me try this out at their shop. I'm Scott from photography Banzai.
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