Canon EOS R6V | 7K, Open Gate, IBIS, and a FAN?!

Look at this Canon R sixV. But wait, L series 20 to 50 power zoom. So, what is the R sixV? This is essentially bridging the gap between the R six Mark III and the Canon EOS C50, which I'm actually filming this on right now. At first glance of the specs, you might assume it's basically just the R six Mark III. Why would I be excited about this? But I promise you it's not. This is a hybrid camera, but it's a little more video focused. From first glance at the specs, it is essentially the R six Mark III. It shoots 32 megapixel stills, although it's just electronic shutter. This is a 7K full-frame sensor. It allows you to shoot in open gate up to 30 frames per second. In 16x9, you can shoot 7K up to 60 frames per second. When shooting in 10 bit, you can shoot 4K up to 120 frames per second or drop down to 2K and shoot up to 180 frames per second. Now, one thing worth mentioning here is you're not getting the full cinema menu system like you do in the C50. It's just the mirrorless menu system. So, if you're not used to having the cinema line menu system, then this doesn't really matter. If you are used to the C50, you're not going to get that out of this. Now, one benefit to this is switching between video and photo is going to be instant since we're not loading that other menu system. So, looking at the exterior of this camera, the R sixV basically looks like the perfect blend between the R six Mark III, the C50, and the R50V. The C50 is obviously a little fatter. This is a little more slim. The R six naturally is just going to have a little more curve to it. The C50 obviously fatter. It has larger vents. It has time code right here, which the R6V does not. The grip's a little bigger here. You have a vent right here on the C50. The grips a little more shallow here. And this is a little bit lighter than the C50. C50, 771 g with the battery in. RV, 696 g with the battery in. R six Mark III, 713 g. Running through the exterior of the R sixV. Starting with the top, we have our smart hot shoe here, which will communicate with the task cam audio interface or the shotgun mic. It'll read that, but it won't read a flash video and still switch. All of our custom buttons here. So, five, six, 7, four down here, which is manual or function. And then our record buttons here. We don't have a separate record button like you do on the R six Mark III. It's going to be more similar to the C50. On the side, full size HDMI, USBC for power delivery or sending data. Um, if you want to stream, you can just plug in right here. 3.5 mm inputs for your mic, for your headphones, and then this little guy. I don't know what it's called, but you have that for your shutter release or intervvelometer. Right here, kind of a new addition, similar to the C70 or the C80. We have a quarter inch thread right here for mounting vertically. Just makes it much easier. Right here, CF Express TypeB SD card on the bottom. Single 1/4 in. And you can see the vent down here on the back. Nearly identical to the C50 minus uh there's no vent and there's no speaker there. Toggle here. Scroll wheel here. But check this out. If you can hear that, this is now a four-way selectable button. So, we can still use our dial to scroll, but we can also select through the menu system using that, which is awesome. low light performance in this camera. Similar base ISO that's in the R six Mark III. It is 800 and 6400. That's where the switch happens. That's also the same as the C50. The only difference is in the R six Mark III and in the R sixV, you can't change it. So in the R in the C50, you can change your base ISOs. But in these cameras, it's just automatically there. So you'll notice a shift whenever you go from 5,000 ISO to 6400. That noise floor kind of drops or resets. That's where you move up to 6400. So specs-wise, very similar to the R six Mark III, but much more video forward in the sense of some of the things that are in it. One being it has active cooling. So this actually has an internal fan in it much like the Cinema Line just like the C50. So you can record for much longer times without it overheating. There is a setting called auto power off high here. You'll want to make sure you have this setting on here regardless. It's just a precautionary thing that I guess protects the camera. However, when I turned it too high, I had no issues. The fan was able to keep this camera cool for a pretty long period of time. All right, to test the fan in this camera, I'm going to leave it outside, which it worked out because it's 98° right now. So, this is going to be baking in the sun. I'm shooting in 7K 10 bit, which is more of a realistic situation that I would record in and probably most of you watching as well. So, I have a fresh card, fresh battery. Let's see how long it runs. All right, 16 minutes in. Two bars on the temperature indicator. By far my least favorite test to do with these cameras because I have to be outside when it's 98°. Let's see if we can get a read on the laser thermometer. 147 165 172 on the lens. Oh my gosh. But we're still doing good. All right, this seems to be holding strong with like three bars left on here. I'm at 49 minutes. It hasn't moved much. So, I'm going to swap this over to RAW, and I'm just going to let it rip. 2600 megabytes per second, full RAW, 7K open gate. Let's just see if it does anything. Uh, otherwise, I'm going to call this a 6S and get this camera inside because it's really hot. It hasn't moved. All right, I'm gonna stop this here. Oh my gosh, that's hot. Okay. All right. Now, time to test the R six Mark III. Same situation. Fresh battery 7K 10 bit. Um, super hot weather. See how it does. All right, we are pretty much exactly at the 20 minute mark. Maybe 21 minutes and we are moments away from shutting off from overheating. All right, overheated. Just checked the time and it was like literally 20 minutes on the dot. Consensus. If you have the auto shut off set to high, this is going to last you a long time thanks to the fan. Real quick, if you are enjoying this video so far, please consider subscribing to the channel. Every time I put a call to action like this, a lot of people subscribe to it, so you should be one of those people. I'm on the road to 50,000 subscribers, and I would love your help. So, we have active cooling, which is very helpful for shooting video. But one thing the C50 does not have is IBIS, which in certain situations is very great to have. One thing that the R sixV has is IBIS. So, this camera, just like the R six Mark III, is stabilized. We finally have IBIS in a camera that is a little more video forward. All right, this is the C50 on a 14 to35. I'm using the stabilization just in the lens. I don't have digital stabilization on or anything else. So, this is just the lens working. How does that look? This is the R sixV on the 14 to35 F4. Everything is stabilized. How is the wobble? It might be pretty bad. It might look okay. C50 50 mm no stabilization. Oh yeah, you can really see that R sixV on the 50 mm. Not a stabilized lens. So, now we have active cooling, which means longer record times, more reliable in video situations, and a stabilized sensor. Those two features alone make this a very capable hybrid camera. Quick battery test. Shooting on an LP6, filming 4K fine, which is down sampled from 7K. I got about an hour and 53 minutes of recording before the battery died, which is around 20 minutes longer than you get from the C50. Now, if you are thinking, why wouldn't I just take the R sixV? It doesn't overheat. It still takes photos. There are still some things to consider depending on your use case. When it comes to the stills side, this obviously takes great stills. 32 megapixels, it's the same as the R six Mark III, but it is electronic shutter only, if that matters to you. On the photography side, it would most likely matter to you. For someone like me who does stills very lightly, it doesn't really matter. Um, the stills I get from the C50 are incredible, but we obviously don't have a viewfinder. That's huge if you are doing a lot of stills work. And this hot shoe, although it is a smart hot shoe, you cannot use a flash. I've tried this with the C50. I tested it on this. You cannot use a flash with this hot shoe. So, there will be limitations on the photography side with this camera. So, you really do have to take a look and figure out what you need more. So, you can buy this camera by itself or you can get it with a lens package and you can get it with this 20 to 50 F4 power zoom lens. This is Canon's new L series lens and this thing is awesome. This is a 20-50 f4 constant, which is not usual for a power zoom lens that they've come out with in the past. 20 to 50 is a really solid focal length. I love shooting vlogs and YouTube content typically on a wider lens. Right now, I'm on the 14, so it's extremely wide, but I like to get a little tighter, but still maintain some of that width. So, 20 is kind of that perfect in between the 24 and a 16, let's say. I feel like 20 is the perfect focal length for everyday content creation, vlogging, um, giving you a wide shot while still kind of being in that middle ground. Now, you probably noticed if you have a C50 or any of their newer cameras that they have these kind of zoom rockers right here. And the reason for this is for their power zoom lens. So, so looking at the lens here, you'll notice we have this W and T. And then we have our 20 to 50. Right here on the side, we have this switch. We push it down and now we're in PZ mode. And now this is, you can see here it kind of is more of a toggle. You can zoom in and out and it just goes back to the middle. In the settings, you can adjust your speed. So in standby mode, you can make it faster so that way you can just find your shot quickly. And then when you go to record mode, it'll slow down. So you get these really nice optical zooms. You can have a lot of fun with this lens by doing dolly zooms and just other optical effects that you would have a little harder of a time doing by hand with any other lens. I ran around with this lens on the camera just shooting everyday kind of vlog style content and I found it to be kind of the perfect lens for the setup for everyday filming. Everything is so small and compact, so this doesn't feel like you're carrying around a huge mirrorless camera. You can buy the R sixV for $24.99 USD. You can buy the lens for $13.99 USD or you can buy it as a kit for $36.99. So, if you made it to the end of this video, first off, thanks for putting up with me. What do you do with this information? Should you get the R sixV? Should you get the R six Mark II? Should you get a C50? There's so many like pros and cons to each. Hopefully throughout this video, I've made some of that clear. Let's look at it just straight from the money side first. For $24.99 body only, you can get the R sixV, a very capable video forward camera that still gives you some stills options. For $300 more, you can get the R six Mark III. This is going to give you more of the photographyheavy side. You still get great video functionality. if you're just kind of shooting B-roll, runand gun stuff, not a lot of like long form takes, so not doing a lot of interviews or probably not setting it up for a wedding and hot environments, this is probably going to be perfect for that. Now, back to the video side. If you want just a full powerhouse pushing more into the cinema side, you want the full EOS cinema menu with just the bells and whistles that come with the C50, you have to go up to $38.99. There's a $1,400 discrepancy there. That's the price of a lens essentially. I think it all just comes down to your use case. For me, I would take this on a lot of shoots. I wouldn't take this to every shoot because it lacks the cinema menu. When it comes to commercial work and some of the stuff that I do, having the full cinema menu in the C50 is so important. I need to be able to toggle on and off false color and use all of the different markers and just the ease of using the tools in that camera. It's a lot easier to maneuver than using the mirrorless menu system, but I could see this camera fully taking over all of my YouTube content, all of my smaller social media ads, things where it's just a camera and a lens. Let's go out and shoot it. And again, for me, someone who does photo so much lighter than video, I'm okay with some of the sacrifices that come with shooting on a more video forward camera. That may have been a big yapfest and you ended up more confused than before, but hopefully some of that kind of makes sense. I say this in every video. It probably upsets some people, but you really have to do your own due diligence on whether or not a camera is going to be right for you. I personally think that this camera is more fitting for me than the R six Mark III. I had an R5 Mark II. Loved that camera, but I ended up selling it because I felt like the C50 kind of took over most of the needs that I needed from it. I'm more video focused, so I'm going to go for the more video focused camera. Now, what I think is an awesome pair is the C50 with the R sixV. I think throwing this as a B cam, especially if you do a lot of like corporate interviews and stuff, having this as a B camera, just knowing that it's going to be able to handle a lot better than a camera without a fan system if you are outside filming. And I think that the R sixV paired with the C50 would be a killer combo. So, yeah, that is my long quick roundup of the new RV. I want to thank Canon so much for allowing me early access to check out this camera. Super awesome that I even get to do this stuff. The fact that I'm even somewhat a part of this circle just blows my mind. So, I want to thank all of you for watching because the only reason I get to do all this stuff is because you watch these videos. I work really hard on them. Thank you so much for watching. If you're not already, please hit subscribe. Let's get to 50,000 subscribers. Um, let me know about this camera. Hopefully it has better reception than the C50 initially did because that was brutal. Thank you all so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one.