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It's so massive.
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But let's talk about these
two cameras for a second,
the Canon M6 ii and the Sony a6600.
I actually bought both
of these in an attempt
to find the perfect super compact everyday
carry mirrorless camera.
This is the iOS our setup
that I usually carry around
pretty much everyday now.
It is just big enough to
the point where people are
always looking at it, they think
it's a professional camera,
kick you out of places
that you're not supposed
to be filming in.
Let's cut to the overhead and
just look at the difference
we're working with here.
So, what I want to get to the bottom of is
which one of these two
is the better camera.
Now, I can tell you right now
that I've made a full review
on both of these cameras separately,
and they're both awesome cameras,
but there are some major
differences between the two.
Let's start with price
real quick, Canon M6 ii
which is $849 for the body.
The lens I have on here is the 11 to 22
which is a $399 lens.
So, combined for this
camera right here is 1248.
Now check it out the a6600
body comes in at 1198.
So, a bit more for the body
and the lens I have on here
is the 10 to 18 f/4 and
that is at $898 lens.
So, quite a bit more for
the lens and combined,
it's gonna be $2,096.
So, that's actually quite a
difference there in pricing.
Now, the reason why I
went with these lenses is
because it seemed like the
best altro wide angle lenses
available for each mount natively.
And native lenses are nice
because without adapters
you're gonna keep these
lenses nice and small
and you're more likely
to get better performance
in the autofocus which is also important.
Let's start off by taking
these two cameras out
and recording some side by side footage
with their out of the box settings.
I'm not gonna tweak any
of the color profiles
or anything I just wanna see
how these cameras look out
of the box, now before I
tell you guys which camera is
which round you take a
pick out which camera
you think looks better.
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So, have you decided which
camera you like better, camera A
on the left or camera B on
the right, don't forget to hit
that poll right there let
me know what you guys think.
I am very curious what
the results are gonna be.
For me personally it's a close call here.
I would say in some shots the
one on the left look better.
Some shots the one on the
right look better, but overall,
I would say camera A would
be my preference mostly
for how much the colors tend to pop.
It looks a little bit richer.
So, you ready for the grand
reveal the camera on the left
or camera A is the Canon M6 ii.
But I would have to say
from a technical standpoint,
camera B on the right, which
is obviously the Sony a6600
is the better camera in terms of sharpness
and Dynamic Range.
So, let's start with sharpness here,
they both look pretty nice.
But if I do a 500% scale up
to this little balcony here,
you can actually count
the number of railings
that they have opposed to the Canon M6 ii
where kind of looks like a
blore you can't really tell
how many individual posts
there are and then looking
at the shot of the power lines again,
they both look pretty good.
But once we punch in 1,000% on the Canon,
you can't really see what
that yellow label says
you can kind of tell it
starts with a V and then an O
and it's just a blur.
But on the Sony it's
pretty easy to read that
it says voltage so a lot
more detail in the Sony.
I'm not 100% sure if this is
a softness in the lens thing
or a sharpness in the camera thing.
We'll figure that out later.
Now, looking at this shot
of my truck underneath
this overpass I'm looking
at Dynamic Range here half
of this shot is blown out
highlights its direct sun
on a sunny day and the
other half is underneath
an overpass in the shadows,
you can really start to see
how much more detail there
really is in the shadows
of the Sony while the Canon
it tends to kind of crush
everything and the detail gets
lost pretty quickly there.
So, I find that a lot of
the shots I actually wanted
to overexpose the Canon
a little bit in the Sony
you can kind of keep it in the middle
'cause it will capture
what's in those shadows.
So like I said, with
the Sony you're getting
more Dynamic Range and
also a sharper image
is just overall better.
But Canon's definitely nailed the colors
they have for a long time.
I mean just looking at this shot here.
The sky looks nice and blue.
It looks very true to
me opposed to the Sony
which seems to have a little
bit of this hint of purple
inside of the sky that I
think kind of turns me off
a little bit on this shot here we have it
on the shady white
balance on both cameras.
And I wanna see the
Canon just tends to pop
a little bit more but of
course it's gonna do that
there's more contrast
in the Canon's image.
Here's a good example
the shot of the wheels
if you look inside the Sony
you can see much more detail
inside that tire because the
shadows don't get crushed
as hard.
Now, here we have the white
balance is set to sunny
and if you look at the very
front of the car in the shadows,
it goes to a blue
opposed to the Sony where
I just see a hint of
magenta kind of throughout
the side of the car and also the front.
So, if you're looking at shadows,
I always tend to prefer the bluer look.
Now, all that footage so
far was 4K but let's look
at some HD footage 420 frames per second.
I think the biggest
noticeable difference is
how much darker the
shadows on the Canon are
on the D fault look, by the
way, how many of you guys
noticed I'm editing on a brand new
38 inch ultra wide display.
This is the monitor that ViewSonic sent me
and they actually sent me another one,
which was in that mystery box,
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in the first 12 hours
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And one of you lucky guys will get this
and we can be monitor twinsies.
Now this specific one is
the ViewSonic Vp 3881.
And they all come with a color
calibration factory report
because for people like
me color accuracy is one
of the most important things
you have in a monitor.
And these all come with a
delta E of less than two.
That is amazing.
Delta E is basically how much
variation or color could have
and you want that as low as possible.
It's the worst trying to color grade
on an inaccurate monitor because
it may look great on here,
and then you render it out watch
it somewhere else mean like
why does it look so terrible,
but also we want good
luminance and color uniformity.
So, not only are you guaranteed
very accurate colors,
but also very good consistency throughout
the whole monitor, love that.
I was kind of torn
between the curve screen
or getting the traditional 16
by nine 4K display those
technically have more pixels.
But of course having
this 38 inch has given me
so much more real estate to work on.
And this is my fifth project
now editing on this monitor
and I love having this extra space.
I don't know if I could go back.
I'm definitely willing to
trade those vertical pixels
for how much space I get here
for my color grading panel
and my extended timeline
and it just looks cool.
Come on this curve is just oh,
I was a little concerned about you know,
curved monitors because
they do tend to catch
a little bit more glare
than a flat monitor
but I don't have any
you know, bright windows
or anything like that.
So, I've had no issues with that.
Also, thanks again ViewSonic for sending
this over, sponsoring this video
and also hooking us up with
a giveaway unit, by the way,
for those of you who don't know
yet that Tesla right there,
it's ours.
We picked it up the other day.
And finally we get it.
We know why people are so crazy
about Tesla's it
literally feels like a car
from the future like it
teleported into our car
to save planet or something like that.
There's all of us trying
to look super cool
in front of a Tesla, because you know,
that's what you do when
you have a Tesla, right?
Oh, there goes Sam again,
as usual, making things uncomfortable.
But it is a fun car for sure.
It is wicked fast.
All I can think about
right now is going out
to the driveway, getting in
it and driving it somewhere.
Like it's so much fun.
Should we go do that real quick.
And then we'll come
back and we'll talk more
about these cameras.
I promise, all right, let's go.
I really wanna test out the
autonomous driving feature
on this thing.
This might be awesome
for stop and go traffic,
especially in Los Angeles.
There's so much of that.
Okay, it's driving okay, so far.
Yeah, I mean, it's just
doing it all on its own
and it's really doing a pretty good job
of analyzing the
environment and everything.
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Oh man, I'm still freaked out, man,
they kind of goes into turns pretty quick.
I mean, the car can obviously handle it,
but it's still scary, like.
But I think over time, we kind
of learn to trust it, right?
Okay, so you automatically
turn on the left turn signal
for me in this thing.
Oh, snap, okay, it's I mean, it's fine.
It's just, I'm just scared
the car is driving fine.
If I had more confidence,
this would probably
not be a problem, but I
am spooked soon enough,
it's gonna just be at
the point where it's like
you just turn on the
car, put in an address,
it'll just do the rest for you.
This is the future guys.
This is the future.
Now let's take a closer
look at the camera buddies
themselves.
Now, they do both have
a cage attached to it
made by small rig and I
have that because both
of these cameras have a flip
up display or post or flip out.
So, if I've tried to see myself
I can't really see anything
but with these cages, you have
the option to throw the mic
on the side like that
or up top on the side
where it's not in the way of the monitors.
Now, the Sony does have a
much bigger grip right here
which is nice because it's
easier to hold on to but
that houses the much larger
battery which is great news
because that means better battery life.
Actually, I've been really
impressed with the battery life
on the a6600 so, that takes the wind.
Now, both of these cameras have
a mic jack here on the side,
but the Sony has a headphone jack as well.
So, that might be a necessity depending
on what kind of shooting you do.
The M6 ii has the mic
jack but no headphone jack
so you cannot monitor
what you're recording
out of this camera.
Now one of the things I
really like about the Sony is
that it just feels very
limitless all the features
that I want out of a video
camera, it's in there.
For example, when it
comes to picture profile,
you have all your typical
gammas that you would see
in these cameras I often use HLG2.
It gives me a decent
Dynamic Range to work with
while still being very
easy to color grade S-Log2
is also a very popular option
for them for this camera
just keep in mind that you will have
a minimum ISO of 500 when in S-Log2
so you definitely want some
ND filters if you're gonna be
shooting outside and
also Sony's used to have
this weird problem where
if you put into S-Log2
the autofocus will go to crap
on the camera but luckily
on this a6600 they seem to fix that S-Log2
to autofocus seems to
work flawless for me now.
If you love shooting slow
mo you can switch this to S
and Q immediately jump
into 120 frames per second.
So, that's great much
easier than diving deep
into the menu changing all
these different settings
to turn on hundred 20 P,
so I definitely love having
that feature right there.
And also when it comes to
shooting video for exposure
I usually shoot in manual but
sometimes I've been shooting
in auto when I'm vlogging
and I don't wanna worry
about the exposure but
not just regular auto
I like to set it to shutter priority.
So, basically locks in your
shutter speed everything else
automatic and it works
pretty well for those times
where you really wanna just forget
that the camera is there,
you just wanna let it do its own thing,
but you still want to maintain
that 150 of shutter speed.
Now, Canon does also have
this feature for photos
under TV standing for time value
or basically shutter priority.
But as soon as you hit the record button,
it automatically jumps to auto exposure.
For movie recording options,
we have auto exposure and manual exposure.
That's it, there's no in
between like time value
or shutter priority, which is a bummer.
I wish it was in here.
I have tried shooting in
auto exposure a little bit
just to see what it does.
I was not happy with the results.
The shutter speed was way
too high almost all the time.
So, just basically turned
it off and then just had to
manually expose everything in every shot.
Like I said, the Sony just feels like
it has less limitations, on the Canon,
it generally does what I needed to
but there's a lot of times where I'm like,
oh, it doesn't have that feature.
Oh, it can't do that.
I mean right now it doesn't
even have 24 frames per second.
I switched this camera over
to power mode to get it
to shoot 25 frames per second.
Now, 24 frames per second
is supposed to be coming
in a future firmware update.
It's supposed to be coming real soon.
So, I want that to hurry up
and get in this camera because
that was a stupid decision to
exclude 24 frames per second.
But Canon's kind of reverse that train.
But one positive about
the Canon M6 ii is that
it does have a pretty nice
to navigate menu and also
everything is touchscreen.
I'm still not 100% sure
why Sony doesn't just
make their menu a touchscreen,
above these cameras
do you have a micro
HDMI out which is cool.
The Sony even if you output HDMI,
this monitor back here still works.
So, you can still use it
the same way you naturally
would.
Canon on the other hand,
you plug in an HDMI out
and then all of a sudden
this screen in the back
will shut off on you.
And what's interesting is that
I always thought of Canons
as the cameras that do not
overheat like the Canon EOS R
is a hank and then Sony's tend
to overheat pretty frequently,
which was terrible,
but now it seems that they flip flop.
Let's go take these over to the incubator.
Lemme show you what I mean.
So, check it out, I got these
cameras in the incubator
about 40 degrees Celsius or
about 104 degrees Fahrenheit,
basically a really hot day.
And that's the top of the
recommended operating temperatures
for general consumer cameras.
And what's weird is that the Sony a6600
actually overheated first.
Now, I'm confused because
all the other times
I've had them recording for
an extended period of time
the Canon always overheated, first.
Is the top shelf a little
bit harder than the bottom
because heat rises, I really don't know.
But I'm sure it's not that
much of a difference, right?
Honestly, now I have no
idea what's going on.
The Canon is destroying, it's
been in there for 40 minutes
at this temperature.
I have it on the top shelf now
and not even a temperature
gauge popping up.
But I've seen it overheat very
easily before in the past.
So, was that just a fluke?
I don't know.
So, I'd say the verdict is inconclusive.
Sometimes the Sony overheats faster,
sometimes the Canon overheats faster.
I think we have to get more scientific
to really get down to it.
I have to probably take all
the cameras and put it in there
a dozen times and then get an
average to really find out.
I don't know, should I make
a whole video about that?
I mean, I've got the time now,
I'm stuck in this house
for the next couple weeks,
if not the next couple months, but yeah,
sometimes they both like to overheat,
and sometimes they're both fine.
We'll come back to this.
Now, let's talk about
stabilization for a second.
The Sony has IBIS which is nice.
In theory, it's the better
way to stabilize an image.
The Canon on the other
hand, does it digitally.
But looking at some walking footage,
I actually think the Canon
looks a tad better the digital
stabilization appears to
just be a bit smoother.
It just takes out more
of the bumps from walking
and all that so I actually
don't mind the digital
stabilization that's on the
M6, I would actually say Ken
is the winner on this.
Another advantage the Canon
has is the rolling shutter.
Neither of them perfect,
but the Canon seems to limit
that more than the Sony.
By the way, I should also mention that
all these downtown shots
were filmed before the whole
lockdown situation happened.
We are being very responsible
staying in, being super bored
and social distancing.
But geez, I can't believe that this
was just a few weeks ago, we
were just walking around town
like nothing was wrong.
I mean, crazy times
we're living in, right.
We should throw a huge party
that day they say, all right,
go outside, have fun, do whatever.
But anyways, you've
kind of gone over a lot
about these cameras.
So, let's try to round it up and start
with the Canon M6 ii.
I think the biggest advantage
it has is the price point,
this camera and lens combo
is almost $850 less expensive
than the Sony so that
is pretty significant.
The colors also line up a
little bit more in the way
I like my images to look and also
I like the image
stabilization a bit better,
just comes out a bit smoother.
And of course if you love doing wet pans,
you're gonna get slightly
less rolling shutter
out of here.
Now, let's move on to the Sony
I see the biggest advantage
of the Sony a6600 is the
sharpness, the lenses
do play a pretty big role in
it if you put a sharp lens
on the Canon M6 ii,
it does definitely get
a whole lot sharper.
But when we put the same
exact lens on both the cameras
the Sony still has the
sharpness advantage.
You also get more of those
video specific features like the
different color profiles
this S and Q switch is nice
and of course, no record limit opposed
to the 30 minute record
limit on this camera.
So, every 30 minutes this camera will cut
so, you have to go back to
the camera hit record again,
this just let a roll and
they're both APS-C size sensors
but not all APS-C
is the same sensor on
a6600 is a bit bigger
and as long as you're shooting 4K 24,
you don't have to crop in at
all you crop in a little bit
if you go to 30 frames per second,
but it's still not a big deal.
I did a little poll on
Instagram the Canon one
by 54% the Sony got 46% of the votes.
That's actually a pretty close match.
I wouldn't be too surprised
if the Sony actually won
on this YouTube video
because people on YouTube
are gonna be watching it on
a larger screen most likely.
So, maybe they're
catching on to this sharp,
this difference there.
I don't know if you guys
can already go and check it.
I can't you are from the future.
Even after making this
whole review I'm still torn,
which camera to use as
my everyday vlog setup.
Help me out guys.
Which one do you think I should be using
what I kind of liked about
the Canon is the Canon look
that I'm so used to and comfortable with.
So, I know that I can just
hit record on it, edit it,
upload it and I'm done.
But on the other hand if I were
to get a job from a client,
I probably take the Sony
a6600 I think I'll shoot it
in log format and then spend
some time color grading it
and I think if you put
in some work into it
and know what you're
doing with color grading
you're gonna get better overall
results after you put in
the work with the Sony, this
video getting crazy long.
Let's wrap this up with some comments.
Imagine the world burning
down and this guy just chillin
driving with one hand.
Yeah, Harvey, he's probably
in the middle of his pandemic
just chillin, sipping
whiskey or something.
A couple of keys to real
success in a creative realm
is just time devotion.
You just have to master your
craft, you have to devote to it
you have to work hard every
day from when you wake up
to when you go to sleep to
really carve out a space
for yourself.
That was a great quote by
Harvey, I definitely agree
with him there and yeah, one
of the most valuable things
you can have that's more
important than a camera
is your skill set and really
to build that it just takes
a lot of time and devotion so I have
a lot of time right now.
I'm not going anywhere.
Hey, Jet no shaking of hands.
Okay, I filmed that video way back, okay.
Sir, tell me about the
Zhiyun Crane 3S Gimbal.
I am waiting for that
to come in, actually,
can't wait to get my hands
on it to test it out.
Looking at the videos,
they have some huge setups
on that thing.
Is it real?
I don't know.
We'll find out next couple
of weeks of filming videos.
It's all gonna be filmed
here in quarantine.
So, hopefully I don't
get too claustrophobic.
We'll see.
But everyone stay safe out
there and see you guys later.
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