- Okay, we got a new video today, obviously.
It'd be weird if I uploaded an old video.
We've got Mark here from Mark's Camera Crisis.
- [Both] Mark Bennett's Camera Crisis.
- My God, I'm glad to be able to give Gerald
a little boost in the ratings here.
- Double N, double T, right?
- Double N, double T, that's right.
Get it right.
- You're gonna have to spell it perfectly
because of how poorly optimized it probably is
in YouTube search, right?
I'm just kidding.
Mark's got a great channel.
If you've never seen it,
which I'm sure you probably have, it's great.
Go check him out.
You can get like a Newfoundlander yelling at you
way too fast, right?
- Yeah.
- Anyway, today we thought it'd be fun
because Mark's channel focuses maybe a little bit more
on the budget side.
- So Gerald is calling me cheap.
He thinks I'm a cheap son of a gun.
- That's right. - But he's right.
I love a good value, you know?
Listen, look at me.
I can afford anything.
I can afford what I want.
You know, I got money coming out of my butt.
But I choose, I want to, I want, I still have the feeling
that I need it to be a good value.
- We're gonna go to the local camera store.
I live in London, Ontario, Canada,
and there is a camera store here called Camera Canada.
- That's right.
- They distribute like wide,
but their main office is here in London,
which is where they keep all the cameras.
- That's right.
- Looked on their website
for all the cheapest ones I could find
that you could actually shoot video with.
And I thought I'd let you choose,
and then we'll see what we can do with it.
- All right.
- Does that sound like a fun idea?
- No.
- Okay.
So first up, we've got,
this might be the more expensive one,
but I just chose it 'cause it's a Pentax.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- It's a Pentax KF.
It's a DSLR, and it comes with a bonus 35 millimeter lens.
That's 929.
All these prices are Canadian, so I don't know,
divide 'em by two if you want, like U.S. (laughing)
- 30 bucks, U.S.
- Yeah, I think it's like, actually for people
who wanna know, I think it's more like a 1.33 something.
So this would be, you know, $700 U.S.
- 700 bucks.
- Next up we have an Nikon Z30.
Now I figured you might know something about this.
I've never done this camera.
- Yeah.
- What do you know about this?
Have you done a review or anything?
- I have.
I own this camera.
- [Gerald] You own this camera?
- [Mark] Yeah, yeah
- [Gerald] Well, then we can't do this,
- Oh, I shouldn't have said that!
- [Gerald] Have you ever played with the Realishot DC8200
compact digital camera in silver?
- That's the main shot I use in my studio.
That is my-
- The only problem is this one says it's on order.
- [Mark] Aww.
- [Gerald] So it might not actually be there.
What about the Ricoh WG-1000 camera in gray for 300?
- Wow.
- [Gerald] We've also got the EOS R100.
Have you ever played with this one?
- No, not the 100, no.
- This, to me, feels like
the mirrorless version of like a Rebel.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- [Gerald] Yeah, we've got an open box with an 18 - 45.
Or the T7.
Classic.
- [Mark] Classic.
- It's a Rebel, you know?
- And so I guess this would be the DSLR version of that.
- [Mark] Of that same, yeah.
- [Gerald] But maybe, and this is 619.
It seems like you gotta pay a little bit more
to get the mirrorless version,
or this crazy underwater camera.
- [Mark] We're sure that that's like a 1080 full HD?
- [Gerald] It said full HD movie recording.
Oh wait.
Maximum duration, 30 seconds for recording.
(Mark laughing)
Two minutes minutes for play-
- Two minutes for playback.
- (laughing) We'd have to do everything
in 30-second intervals.
- 30 seconds per recording.
Well, why don't we do what's most beneficial
to the folks out there?
There might be some people who would wanna buy the R100.
You know, they probably won't buy the other ones for video.
- True, but I've never actually tested this camera.
And it seems like it's using a modern mount.
I assume it's on their RF mount, or something.
- Yes, it is.
Yeah, yeah.
The little silver one is not in stock, eh?
- No. - Oh.
- That would've been the funniest choice.
- It would've been the funniest choice.
Okay, fine.
Instead of being funny, we'll be useful.
- Okay. - You know what I mean?
- So we'll see.
So what's the plan here?
We're gonna get an R100.
- Yeah.
- And we can test it in a studio environment.
And do you want to check it as like
a little vloggy camera too, or something?
- Oh, we could do that.
Yeah, we can vlog it.
- I don't know about we; you can vlog it.
- That nice, tight, 18 millimeter lens.
You're the one with the giraffe arms.
You can, you can-
- Giraffes are known for having long arms, are they?
- Yes, they are.
Okay, we're here with Gerald Undone.
- Howdy.
- [Mark] He's driving a car.
He has a license.
- I do.
- [Mark] So this is new information for me.
And where are we headed, Gerald?
- Camera Canada.
- [Mark] Camera Canada.
- Wouldn't we have said that in the previous scene?
- [Mark] Oh yeah, well, I like to be redundant.
- Okay.
- [Mark] So we're going off to Camera Canada.
We are going to see if we can find that camera
Gerald's talking about.
- Yeah.
(Mark laughing)
Good vlogging, Mark.
- [Mark] Thanks, buddy.
(Gerald laughing)
This is good content.
- You think so?
- [Mark] Yeah.
- All right so we did find the R100
with the 18 - 45 kit lens.
But remember that silver one
that we were talking about for 179?
We found an even cheaper one for 149.
It's still an AgfaPhoto Realishot WP800.
I think this might be like the cheapest camera at the store
that has video, like, you know, full HD video.
So maybe we can give this one a try, too.
What do you think?
Should we do it?
- [Mark] Yeah.
- Okay.
- Oh, look at this: bag.
You don't always get a bag with a camera,
I'll tell you that much.
- Oh, this camera's small.
- It is small.
Oh yeah.
- Do you know?
- No, I've already, I've already cheated.
No, no, it's just, I know the R50's super small, so...
- Look at that.
Like that is, I wasn't expecting that small.
- Wow.
Ooh, shiny.
Check this out.
- Look at this thing. (imitates gunfire) (laughing)
And then it goes back in and back out.
So it retracts, and then you put it to 18,
it like fully extends, and then it goes in
as you zoom to 35,
and then back out a little bit to 45.
- Yeah.
- [Gerald] This is the Canon R100.
On this side we've got a mic jack.
Let's make sure it's a full 3.5.
Looks like it.
3.5 millimeter mic jack in.
Remote port.
- [Mark] So no headphone jack.
- No headphone jack.
Unless there's one on the other side.
No, on the other side we've got HDMI and USB.
And that is micro type D HDMI, and USB type C.
I'm curious to see if we're getting any kind
of power delivery on the USB.
- Yeah.
- [Gerald] The screen is fixed.
So no vary angle screen-
- [Mark] Is that right?
- Fixed into the body.
It's large for the size of the camera, but it's fixed.
Little D pad.
And that's honestly it.
On the back you don't have like a joystick or anything,
just that D pad.
You do have, no, that's just a mode selector.
So you really only have one-
- [Mark] You have the one dial
and then does it have a jog wheel on the back?
- No.
It's just like, just the D pad style.
- So there you go.
So this explains why this is cheaper, so far,
than the R50
- Built-in flash.
Show us what you got.
- [Mark] I've got an AgfaPhoto,
and it is a shiny cherry red, (Gerald laughing)
and it has buttons.
- What do you got for ports?
- Ports?
We don't have-
- We don't have those.
(Gerald laughing)
Oh, that's a handsome cable.
- Thank you very much.
This is the Gerald Undone USB-C cable, which, you know,
this is an opportunity while we're getting these charged up,
this video's not sponsored by any sponsor,
but if you wanna support the channel, we have a wide variety
of Gerald Undone cables available
on the Kondor Blue website.
We're constantly adding new cables, you know, like I said,
right now we've got the-
- We are.
- Yeah, Mark.
Mark got the four-foot USB-C.
I'm working on a really long one to,
'cause you know how I have these cameras tethered,
so I can use like power over long distances.
We've now got long HDMIs, as you can see,
like 15-foot, I think they are,
HDMI cables for that purpose.
And then obviously a whole lot of HDMI cables
for camera-to-monitor, including if you want micro
for these ones, or full size, or whatever.
So check it out.
I'll put a link in the description, or,
yeah, that's right.
- Yeah, link in the description, yeah.
- And maybe Gerald will finally start,
he'll stop charging his guests for coming here.
I had to pay a pretty penny just to show up today-
- It wasn't cheap.
- So if you buy some cables, might make some freebies.
- There you go.
- Oh yeah-
- I thought I'd be able to charge, but-
- No, it doesn't.
Doesn't support charging or powering to the camera.
- So as much as I love my USB-C Undone purple cable,
it's useless on these two cameras.
- But that's not your cable's fault.
- That's not my cable's fault.
- Still go buy the cables.
- You know what, these will work with?
Good devices.
So let's talk about what this AgfaPhoto can do.
- Well, we have a selfie screen on the front,
which that will make this the better vlogging camera.
- But are you all set up here?
- No.
I am trying to find a way to navigate the menu.
- Are you even in video?
- Um, I am not.
That's a good call.
I'm in photo.
So let's see if I go into my mode button-
- Now you're in video.
- Now I'm in video.
- It's funny that you can shoot higher than 1080;
you can shoot 2.7k.
- Can, but shoot 2.7k.
- Let's do it. - I'm doin' that.
- So apparently, you know how we get used
to different exposure methods?
- [Mark] Mm hm.
- It's like, oh, what's your aperture and ISO, or whatever?
- I'm using a plus two lighter.
I am using the lightest, relative to what?
- How'd you set your exposure?
Normal.
- [Mark] Normal. (laughing)
I went with normal.
- [Mark] We got 2.7k.
Hi.
- [Gerald] There's your thumbnail. (laughing)
- Now they're supposed to have a selfie screen button.
- There's a button here that looks like it switches.
So if we press this, oh, there we go.
So it's not simultaneous though.
So you turn it off- - You get one or the other.
- Yeah, you turn off the back.
Also for sound, there's no sound in.
So you're just getting whatever you got.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
Your mic is, yeah.
- There is a quarter-inch thread on the bottom though,
so get your little vloggy stick out.
- I have a selfie stick that is
10 times the size of my camera.
- Why are you holding it? (laughing)
- Hold it the wrong way.
Okay, what's up everybody?
Oh, look at this.
Auto exposure.
This is the best your channel's ever looked.
- Looks wonderful.
- Wonder how the audio's coming out on this.
I can't see it.
- Field of view is fine.
- Field of view.
- How do you normally,
what length do you normally hold your arm?
- Yeah, like this is the closest I would hold it.
Normally I'm out here, like, look at that.
That's a pretty wide lens.
- Yeah, that's as wide as you'd want.
That's as close as we're gonna get to match the uh,
Oh, I'm drifting here. (laughing)
That's me full extended, trying to match the framing.
Compare that to the a7 IV.
How does that look for $179 versus,
I don't know what the hell that costs over there.
A few grand.
- Yeah.
- All right, there we go.
You know what else you can get with Gerald Undone cables
of the Kondor Blue website?
- Eternal life?
- You can get micro HDMI to full HDMI
in both this angle and that angle.
- Ah, like right angle.
- So with the Canon cameras, or this one at least,
now we can go like that.
Now we're cleanly coming off the camera there, you know?
- Wow, now where can I find these cables?
- Oh, you can find them in the link in the description,
or possibly in the pinned comment.
All right.
This is what the camera sees.
Much bigger, nicer screen, and now it's a very angle.
- Yeah. - You know.
So right now we're in Full HD 29,
but we can go all the way up to 4K, 23.98.
Picture style, we'll just put it on standard.
Image stabilization is on.
There doesn't seem to be much in the way of,
you basically just have picture style.
You're not shooting C-Log, or anything like that,
as far as I can tell.
So this is just auto built-in mic.
How does it sound?
It is funny how we can cheat
'cause we can see it in that monitor.
- Yeah, oh yeah. 'cause I just filming my chin.
- This is as wide as we can get.
Okay, so we will, the digital probably adds a crop, right?
Should we turn it off?
- Digital IS?
- Yeah.
Well, we could leave it on and just turn off digital, right?
Because then you'll still get the lens.
- Yeah, now we're talkin'.
- And we have a tally light.
Not really, but because we could see it in the monitor.
That's the thing, there's no indication
that it's recording on the front either.
As far as the vlogging camera goes, you know?
- Not ideal for a vlogging camera.
We're testing the mic on this right now, right?
- [Gerald] Yes, we're testing the built-in mic
with the audio set to auto.
- Audio is set to auto.
Only I am in the frame, which is probably preferable,
but let's see if I can sneak Gerald in.
- And this is what my voice sounds like from this distance.
You're getting a bit shaky at that distance there.
Mark, you want a little help here?
From a long, what'd you call me, giraffe arms?
- Giraffe arms. (laughing)
- And also I can't see, so we'll see.
If I were to try to frame myself up,
I would guess like that.
And if I wanted to include Mark in the shot,
I'd probably go like that.
Let's put on the shotgun mic now, and then
let's actually set the audio this time.
- Okay, now I am vlogging in the Undone studios.
Vlogs Undone right here.
This is the sound of the mic.
Let's hear Gerald's voice.
- Hey, this is Gerald's voice.
I have no idea if I'm in the frame.
I feel like I'd be right about here.
I'm not cheating.
I refuse to cheat.
Okay, I'm using the camera as it would be.
And this is what I sound like.
So, there you go.
- Terrible.
Sounds terrible.
Now let's try it at the end of your giraffe arms.
- Welcome to the vlog.
Here we are with Mark.
- Hey.
- And we're about to eat a hundred hot dogs.
And so let's jump right into it.
- And at the end of this video,
one person will be voted off this island.
(Gerald laughing)
- Let's put on a tripod,
and see how it looks as like a main studio cam.
- Main studio cam.
- So I'm trying to frame up the shot
the same over here, right?
- [Mark] Yeah.
- I got a 35 over here.
This were set to 18 on APS-C, it should be 27?
- [Mark] 27, yeah.
- And we turned off the digital stabilization.
But I'm looking at a really tight shot,
which is making me think that maybe the 4K?
Canon's done that before where the 4K adds a crop.
I put the shelves right along the left-hand side.
I'll record a clip.
So now the people at home can see this is one framing.
Now let's put it in 1080p.
Oh boy, we're talking massive difference.
Okay, so we can't see what we're looking at on this one.
But there's that camera there.
How does, I don't know.
Does it look good?
Audience, this is a pretty rudimentary test
just to be like, look, the lighting in here is decent,
we got good sound, can you use a,
if your lighting and sound is good.
- Right.
- Can you grab a, what was it, six, 700 bucks-- less in U.S.
Right?
Be like five, 600 U.S.
- Yep.
- Can you grab one of those cameras, throw it on,
and you're making YouTube videos, baby.
That's the question.
- Yeah, we're not trying to do crazy color grading.
We're not using Faithful profile.
Just Standard profile.
This is what you're gonna get.
- I think it's auto white balance.
- Yeah.
- Like auto everything.
- Yeah, all you need is Gerald Undone studio.
And he will let you use it any time you ask.
- But it goes the show because the stuff in the studio,
like if you bought a $6,000 camera.
- Yep.
- If you didn't buy that and instead you bought this,
you could probably do all this for like,
all my stuff is probably a few grand,
and you can easily spend a few grand on a camera.
- Yeah.
So you'd be better off spending it on this stuff here,
and cheaper camera.
- That's the argument.
- And then 'cause then over here you've got
thousands dollars in cameras, same lighting and everything.
And over here you just,
you saved going from here to here.
This is the question.
Here to here, you're dropping three, $4,000 in savings.
Do you feel like that was a good way to save your money?
- And I haven't seen it yet.
So the answer may be yes.
(Gerald laughing)
- The answer may be spend more.
- Spend more money on your camera.
- We'll leave that up to the audience.
Okay, let's do one more vlog test with the 1080p
just to see if it's doable.
- Yeah. - Okay?
- So there you go.
This is the 1080, which has a lot more room.
A lot more room right there.
- Yeah, it's surprising how much the 4K crop was.
And if you use giraffe arms.
- Yeah, giraffe arms.
- I don't know, we're probably both in the shot now.
- Oh yeah. - Yeah?
Does that look good?
- Whole world is in there.
- All right, so this might be more
of a 1080p camera for vlogging.
Okay Mark, welcome to the editing desk.
We got a tight little shot.
This is meant for video calls, but just me, you know.
But- - I think it's nice.
- Let's take a look at this little red guy's footage first.
This is bad rolling shutter, right?
- Yeah.
- And that's the least of the problems.
- It's a little overexposed.
It's uh...
- And changing.
- Yeah, I really like the May 2022 burnt right in there.
- Oh yeah, I didn't... (laughing)
Maybe that's why there was date on and off was an option.
It was like on and off I think.
Okay, so let's assume you can turn that off.
- Yeah.
- But this gives us, (laughing)
(nonsensical giggling)
This would be a perfect camera for like found footage.
You know, like for a found footage doc.
You notice how crazy, once the light's hitting it,
it's like, "Oh, I've got plenty of light.
"I'll give nice skin tones."
- Yeah.
- And then when you block the light it goes,
"Let's make those cheeks, like, glowing."
- Yeah. (laughing)
- Look at the grill and the microphone here.
It's just as sharp as like your facial hair.
- Sharper.
- Yeah, sharper. (laughing)
- Sharper than my face.
If you want background focus, this is your camera.
- So there is a minimum that you need to spend.
- Yeah.
- This is below that.
Use your phone, don't, right?
- Use your phone.
- Okay, let's see how the Canon did.
(Gerald speaking off-mic)
- Not ideal for-
- You're drifting out of focus.
- Losing focus, yeah.
Is this one of those cameras where the focus
isn't actually like phase?
It's like contrast when you're in 4K,
or something like that?
You know what I mean?
- The M50, when you switch to 4K, it cropped in,
and it did only contrast-based.
- Yeah.
I'm wondering if we're getting some of that.
Let's look at the background.
- The frame, which is probably preferable.
- Yeah, you see how much it's pulsing?
- It's pulsing, yeah.
- And this is what my voice sounds like from this distance.
You're getting a bit shaky at that distance there.
Mark, you want a little help here from a long-
Whoa!
That jello right?
That jello.
- I almost vomited.
- The average vlog is gonna be terrible for that.
- Yeah.
- And it's so tight.
Like yeah, the image is sharp when it's in focus
and it looks nice.
But this is not usable.
- You can't do- - For vlogging.
- No, you can't do 4K vlogging.
- This was your vlog at 1080, right?
- We're just wanna see what's at 1080.
- The autofocus is way better.
- Yeah, yeah, way better.
- I think we do have a 4K, contrast thing going on.
And the rolling shutter doesn't seem as bad, either.
- This is a 1080 camera. - 1080 camera.
- If you're gonna vlog, for sure.
So I mean if you are willing to manually focus
and you have some nice lights set up,
you could get a nice image out of this camera.
- 4K, yeah.
- In 4K.
- I think the 1080p is usable.
- Yeah.
I would probably just want my autofocus,
so I would just upscale my 1080 to 4K for YouTube.
- Yeah, and some of those AI, whatever,
Topaz, things like that do a pretty decent job.
Probably lower the sharpness, upscale it,
and then you can get away with a $600 camera,
whatever it costs.
- But if you're hoping for a good-looking 4K
with good autofocus, this is not your camera.
- This is not it.
This is not a 4K camera.
So I guess the final question is this,
which is what we posed over there.
The price savings.
So 1080p for that.
But buy all the lights and audio, or spend more money,
you can get 4K and do there's,
and there's fewer limitations on the camera,
but you have less audio and lighting.
- Yeah.
- Which is the better use of money?
- I would still have the nicer image
with all of the lights and do 1080.
But I would also maybe try to borrow some money
from my mom and get the R10.
- Fewer compromises.
- Right.
- And it's not much more money.
- So which one's your favorite between the two?
- I like that I can go under water, like this one.
- And you can burn the date and time right into the video.
(both laughing)
- Burn it right into the video.
- And then make a worried face.
- [Kyle] Pretend you just pooped yourself.
Didn't have to pretend.
(both laughing)
If you come to Gerald's studio
and spend your whole day making a video for him,
he will give you these cables.
Okay?
- Worth.
- Worth it.