- All right, we are recording.
This is my very first time with the Canon M6 Mark II.
So I haven't adjusted any of the settings yet,
all I did was switch it into 4K
and this is honestly a very promsingin little camera.
And I don't have any sort of accessories attached to it,
or anything like that, we're just literally out of the box.
I have an 11 to 22 milimeter on here, and honestly,
it's lookin' pretty good so far.
I think once we start fine-tuning
some of the settings we can get it to
look a little bit better,
but I just love how immediately out of the box gives you
those nice rich Canon colors.
Anyways, I just got a call from the shop telling me
that my Jeep tires are installed oh ho ho.
I need a ride.
And right now we are shooting
in 4K 30 frames per second 'casue the 24
isn't in here yet ,
but they have told us early 2020
that we will get a firmware update
where we will get 24, so this is very likely
to become my top recommendation for kind of the sub
$1,000 vlog camera.
When Sam sees the Gladiator with the new wheels
finally the Lego jokes you're gonna
regret that, okay?
- We'll see.
- There she is, I see the orange.
I see the orange.
- [Sam] Oh damn.
- Oh.
Does it look like I'm compenstaing?
- [Sam] Yeah.
- Feel like I'm driving a monster truck sorta.
This is a lot higher than I thought it was gonna be.
- [Man] Dude, you had a climb up there.
- Yeah, I had to climb up there like
a little step ladder, yeah. - It took effort.
(cool rock music)
- All right, so now I've got this camera
set in manual mode and I have it in the
neutral color profile and an external
mic so this should theoretically be a
pretty good image and sound quality.
By the way I have something really, really cool
I want to show you guys.
I've been working on this really hard undercover
for the last 18 months.
So I'll go I need a video about the ultimate camera bag
and I had a lot of boxes I wanted to
check off and I figured why don't I just
make my own and I do a whole lot of
traveling so I need a bag that's tough.
So finally after lots and lots of hard
work introducing the brand new potato sack.
It's got everything you might want in a backpack.
First of all, it looks dope.
It has a removable waist strap for when
you need to carry a huge load.
We also have a chest strap here
and we have handles in every corner of the bag
and it feels so nice.
Oh also I was talking about these fastened tensioners,
fasheners, fasteners?
- Yeah, no, they're they're called tensioners
but this, this looks a lot like my bag.
- No no it's not your bag 'cause yours
has some like wacky like signature on here.
I mean this one has like--
- I mean, it feels like my bag too.
Well yeah, we might have used a very
similar product that just yeah I only
made two of these.
- Well that's awkward.
- It's just is this sometimes it's just
like not fair you know like you have
this cool new bag and was like I want to
be Peter McKinnon in it nobody says I want
to be Potato Jet.
You already like you already have ND filters,
you need a bag too?
Just.
- I mean you have like roommates, (laughs).
A great personality.
You have a nice backdrop.
- You have four million subscribers.
Well, it's, oh yeah, I did just hit four million.
- Yeah, congratulations.
- You've got, how many do you have?
- About 10% - Okay.
- Of that.
- You've got 10% of four--
You've got a great smile too Gene.
- Well thanks that,
that makes me that makes me feel much better.
And you've got the brand new
Peter McKinnon nomadic backpack.
Fly the flag.
- Oh, I forgot to put a sticker on there. (both laugh)
- Looking back at the footage this Canon M6 Mark II
is a solid, solid camera.
It's got dual pixel autofocus in 4K
which doesn't have a crop.
Flip up screen, mic jack,
and the body is priced at 849 US dollars
which is definitely fair.
Again this camera doesn't have 24 frames per second yet
but they are saying some point in 2020
next year this will have that capability.
So if you need 24 frames per second
right away in 2019 I would skip this
camera for now but it is coming in a
firmware update and this camera can also
do 120 frames per second in full HD.
What the hell not even my EOS R can do that.
A lot of people are gonna love
having a 120 frames per second in full HD
so they can make that legendary
Peter McKinnon B-roll sequence.
(dramatic music)
I was actually really excited I was like this one has
full HD in 120p.
I could do that Peter McKinnon B-roll stuff now
and then now you're telling me you don't use 120P.
- I still love it.
It's still a part of who I am.
And what's funny is I literally
haven't been using it for like a half year,
just didn't say anything and no one's even realized
that I haven't been shooting 120. (Gene laughs)
- Not bad 120p right?
The only downside is that dual pixel
autofocus decides to dip out when you
get to 120p so you're definitely gonna
want to go to manual focus mode.
I think the biggest advantage this Canon EOS R
has over this M6 Mark II is that C Log
which is that super flat color profile
in that super beefy All-I codec so you
can color grade it a little bit heavier,
the M6 is not as powerful but you can
pop it into neutral mode and here are
the settings that I set for the neutral
color profile to just give me a little
bit more flexibility with that footage.
The dynamic range is not gonna be as
good as the EOS R because some of the
shots did come out a bit overexposed if
that was C log it would have been no problem at all.
But with this neutral color profile we were able
to at least correct it enough
to where it didn't look absolutely terrible.
If you need to go up to high ISOs
for low light the noise correction
that's built-in's not too bad,
here's what it looks like at 1600 ISO.
So as long as you pair it with the right lens you
could definitely get some pretty good
shots even after that sun sets.
One complaint is if you try to mount an
external microphone on here like that
then this screen will not be able to
flip up all the way and if you're in
Vlog mode not only is that screen covered,
but it actually will not flip
completely upside down until the screen
is completely flipped off.
So if you guys can see you're looking at an upside down
image all the way until I get it all the
way up and then it corrects.
So unless you have the screen all the way up
you're looking at an upside down screen.
You can get clever and try to figure out
how to relocate it yourself,
but hopefully soon enough someone will make
a little relocation kit for this camera.
It does also use a pretty dinky little
battery so definitely gonna want to get a couple spares.
Internally it's very very similar to the 90D,
but I especially like this for this Canon EF
and mirror-less mount.
Like this 22 millimeter F2 lens.
Like, look how small that is.
Sigma is also putting out some prime lenses
for the EF-M mount so I imagine
those are gonna be great.
So you'll also get an adapter
to put an EF mount lens, so the same lenses
that you would put on an 90D you can
throw on here as well.
But I think it gets really interesting when you start
looking at speed boosters.
It's kind of like a magnifying glass.
So you take a small sensor like this
and it kind of emulates a larger sensor.
So with this on, instead of having a crop factor
of about 1.6,
we're looking at something closer to
about 1.1 to 1.2 which is not that far
off from this full-frame sensor.
Hopefully all this crop factor
and technical talk is making sense,
if it's not I have a beginner's camera guide
down below it's a video course.
But now we have a almost full-frame sensor
with a huge variety of EF lenses anything
from this super cheap 50 millimeter
prime lens to something quite a bit fancier.
So with this, we're getting 4K
with dual pixel autofocus with almost a full frame look.
So in some circumstances this camera might actually give you
better footage then even this EOS R,
'cause this one has a crop in 4K
and also at 120 frames per second
it's down to 720p so this is impressive.
You know what?
Right now I'm shooting on this EOSR
let me put this camera there in its place
and see if it maybe even looks better.
And there we go.
Now we are looking at footage from the M6 Mark II
with the speed booster and it might
actually look even a little bit sharper
than the EOS R,
'cause with the EOS R I usually keep it in full HD
just so I can utilize that full frame but here,
we're in 4K, no problem.
And even with the speed booster this auto focus,
not bad it's locking on just fine.
Still not used to this 30 frames per second
how everything looks so smooth and video-y,
but again that 24 frames per second is
supposed to be coming did notice that
when I plug in this HDMI cable to feed
this camera to an external monitor
the monitor does shut off on the camera,
so that is one thing to keep in mind if you
do use a lot of external monitors.
Man, you got a love dual pixel autofocus from Canon,
it's just it's so good at locking
onto stuff this is an SD card that I
broke by the way I chipped here and now
none of the cameras are recognizing it
but what's inside of here?
Should we open it up?
What the heck?
So this is just a big enclosure for this little teeny chip,
that you only use that little teeny part
of this whole SD.
That was interesting.
Honestly, I was not expecting that.
Ayways, let's wrap this up by reading a few comments
from my last video which was the iPhone 11 Pro Max
versus the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K.
Top comment on the iPhone there are way too many
artifacts if something is moving quickly.
Yeah, totally that is definitely one of
the downsides of a phone camera,
it's still not gonna be as good as something
like a cinema camera or even something like this.
ApertureAce says in summary the iPhone is truly amazing.
The Blackmagic Pocket is better.
Yeah that's, that's pretty much the entire 15 minute video
summed up in one sentence.
That is definitely one thing I'm trying to get
better at is speaking more concisely
like straight to the point.
I just talk in circles,
I could talk forever.
Henry says my color grading skills
are just as good as my dating skills.
Pretty freakin' bad.
Does your color grading kit work on other camera footage?
So I actually try to make different lots
for different cameras,
links in description if you're like
Henry and you have pretty bad skills.
I'm talking about the color grading skills.
If you have bad dating skills that,
I don't, I can't help you there.
I want to hear your voice over again.
It should be on all of your outros.
I'll do it for this one.
One last time though, here we go.
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