Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today we're taking a look at these nifty little
camcorders from Canon this is the XA 11 and the XA 15 the only difference
between the two being simply the SDI port on the front the 15 has it and the
11 doesn't have it so these are the small little camcorder successes if you
like to they're very popular x8n they were released at the beginning of the
year alongside the XF 405 which I've covered several times on this channel
and that's sort of overshadowed these a little bit particularly for me I was
focused quite heavily on that camera with its nice big one-inch sensor but
these are actually really worthy little successes to the x8n they've changed an
awful lot here and made it definitely better so I thought I'd do a quick video
here running through the main differences between this and the
previous x8 10
perhaps the most obvious difference with these new cameras is the lens on the
front the x8n had a 10 times zoom lens whereas here we get 20 times so double
the zoom range of the previous generation now that's a really healthy
zoom for us camera this size in super 35 millimeter equivalents that is about
twenty six point eight to five hundred and seventy-five millimeters which is a
really healthy zoom range indeed it does ramp a little bit it goes
from F 1 point 8 2 F 2.8 but if you keep at F 2.8 it says it manually to that
you're going to have no ramping at all as you zoom in and out which is great to
have they've changed a couple of other things as well they've changed the
minimum focal distance so it now goes down to 10 millimeters so you can have a
subject a centimeter away from the front of the lens and it will still be able to
focus on it which is crazy I don't see why you would ever even need to do that
but just in case you do it can do it that's only at the wide angle of the
lens normally when you're zoomed in a little bit it would be 6 centimeters
away so 60 millimeters and they've also changed the aperture so the x8n used to
be able to close down to f/8 this can now go to f-16 which is going to make a
huge difference if you're outside in bright light maybe in the desert
somewhere like that or a beach where it's really bright really sunny you're
going to want it for your big wide shots just stop the camera right down stop
that lens right down and that is going to make a huge difference to your shot I
think I'm really impressed by how much of a zoom range kind of have packed into
this tiny little camcorder you sort of expect it on there maybe a little bit
bigger ones like the XF 405 and even bigger than that but on something this
small really quite impressive
Kanon have used the new digit d4 processor here which enables a little
bit of a boost in processing speed which enables things like better low-light
performance but also some bumping codecs and data rates you now get mp4 as an
option alongside the AVC HD of the previous cameras and in people's gray
it's a really nice convenient option particularly for people who are fairly
new to dealing with video files the extra data rates come in this mp4 mode
and 24 frames a second or 25 frames a second you're going to do 24 megabits a
second in terms data and then at 50 P because you can now do 50 P with this
you can do up to 35 megabits a second so it's really nice that they've been able
to pay 50 P for high frame rate recording for either slow motion or
because that's what you want you're too liberal to be to be you are still
limited to 1080 P though they haven't quite put in enough processing power for
that the XF 405 can do 4k and I guess that's part of the trade-off between
this being a much more affordable camera than that one but it is still plenty of
market for decent 1080p cameras around and particularly in the types of work
that this is really well-suited for nearly everyone is still shooting in
1080p and so I don't think that's going to hinder the camera too much right now
whether or not that's that will still be in the case it may be four years time
who knows because these cameras do tend to have a very long life cycle but right
now I'm not too bothered about the lack of 4k and I think the extra processing
power that they've put into here has enabled some really clever things
so one thing Canon have unfortunately taken away is the inbuilt storage the
x8n used to have 64 gigabytes worth of inbuilt memory storage as well as the
two SD card slots here we just have those two SD card slots it's this a
problem I'm not sure I mean having inbuilt storage is fantastic it means
that you if you get caught without any media you're going to be okay but most
cameras really have only those two card slots and there is two so it's not like
there's only one single card slot I don't think it's that
a problem but that was a really nice thing on the x8n which unfortunately
hasn't carried across one thing I really do like though is the new touch screen
it is smaller and not quite as high quality is the one on the XF 405 but it
still feels just as responsive and nice to use as that one and it's used for
controlling the menus and the autofocus system it's not the canons dual pixel
autofocus like it is only XO four or five again this one is just a regular or
a focus system like the same almost other competing cameras but it's very
easy to control it's exactly the same interface camera wise those cannons dual
pixel autofocus so if you use those cameras you're going to be very familiar
here but it's just not quite as quick and as reliable as that autofocus system
it's still very good though you'll see here with these examples it is very
accurately and not hunting at all when it's moving between these two tripods
here that I was filming but it would be nice to have canister your pixel
autofocus the same as it would be nice to have 4k and it would be nice to have
a bigger screen things like that but that's what the XF 405 is we've got to
remember this in position in canons lineup and the XO 4 or 5 is after all
quite similar camera just with those that bigger sensor dual pixel autofocus
and 4k recording so this strips those away and keeps it
for those people which only need or want 1080p in a really small easy-to-use
camcorder so what do you guys think of canons X 11 and X a 15 is this enough
for you in this day and age Georgie would you miss things like 4k in the
dual pixel autofocus do you think there's still a use for this really
small video journalist style camcorder can you see it fitting into your
workflow let me know in the comment section down below overall I think it's
a fantastic upgrade to the XO 10 if you want to buy one of these of course the
links are in the description down below this video thank you very much for
watching and I'll see you in the next one
you