2:21 I've posted this on other channels, but it's worth repeating - I was shocked at how good the dynamic range is in the R8. It beats MANY other mirrorless cams. The quality of the noise, when it shows up, is also far more pleasing than most.

Nice review. I have the R6 MK II along with the original EOS R and have been very happy with them both. Cheers!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Just bought it and took photos of my wife and kids. What an amazing camera right out of the box. I’m completely new to cameras and photography. I had purchased a Canon Rebel T7 and returned it, so glad I paid a little extra for the R8 and an RF 35, 50, and 85mm f1.8

Great video and I agree to all you said about this camera. I own this camera very recently and I bought it after I had the chance to rent it. Before the Canon R8 I had and used a Nikon Z50 for 2.5 years more or less, mirrorless crop sensor. Good camera overall, with some pro functionality, small and compact. Also, I'm not professional photographer, I don't sell my work, but I know quite a lot about this domain. So, how I used it so far my new Canon R8: - rented, for a small party of one of my friends, celebrating birthday of 18 years old. A party with 30 people, indoor, during the night, so: low light, crazy lights from DJ flashes, a lot of action with people dancing. As lens, I used the Canon RF 24-70mm f2.8, rented as well. Autofocus was amazing. I just rented the camera in the same day, I didn't know to much about how to take shots of dancing people, motion etc. But camera helps a lot. - with the same rented combo (R8+RF 24-70mm f2.8), I played taking portraits of my wife and daughter, during a sunny beautiful autumn day; ---> When I put the pictures on the bigger computer screen - boom! I just was amazed by the quality, colors, and dynamic range of the pictures. Absolutely stunning. Far far away from my Nikon Z50. Incredible details of skin, texture, how easy for post-processing. Having this great pre-experience, I bought it immediately one week later (on black Friday), with the Canon RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1, and Canon RF 50mm f1.8. And I used it during a 3-days city-break in Malta island. Super travel camera, light and compact, the body and the lens as well. And yes, I had no extra spare-battery, neither an external powerbank, but the battery was enough for a long day of visiting and taking photos. I was surprised about that if we consider how small the battery looks. I love this camera. I took shots in a lot of different conditions: bright sun, shades, backlit, evening, night. It is absolutely amazing how good is dynamic range. I had a lot of shots in the sun which seemed with highlight blown up, but very well recovered in postprocessing. Also for the shadows. Yes, much much better than mine Nikon Z50. The overall details and texture of the walls, buildings, and all architectural stuff are much better than Nikon Z50. Also for the portraits, even with the "cheap kit" lens RF 24-105 f/4-7.1, the quality is great. The details and the texture of the skin is great. ---> Yes, I'm very happy with my Canon R8 and it doesn't compare to the aps-c sensor of Z50 (even I found a lot of opinions saying that between full-frame and crop is no big difference in image quality). I'm very happy I did the switch, even I was skeptical at the beginning.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

That's awesome! So glad to hear you are loving the R8.

Good job 🎉man love it❤

Love mine, thanks for your review and channel!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you’re loving the R8

Congratulations on your review! I hope you had a great time in Lisbon!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Really enjoyed this! Gave me the info I needed to go ahead and grab one. Looking forward to seeing if I prefer it to my 5D mark IV!

Nice video. I now feel good that i went with the r8. congrats on 10k subs!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Great video! would love to see the picture style settings for your sooc photos

Hope you enjoyed Portugal!!🇵🇹

I bought one R6II after watching your video😊

Nice colors!

@JamesReader

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Fantastic. You are the only person who's actually appreciated the R8's battery life. Great to know

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really can’t complain about the battery life!

This guy is class...

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

❤️

Just comment to help the algorithm turn that 9 into 10 quickly. Awesome review

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Is it perfect ? - YEEEESSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video and photos, thanks. The camera does allow you to shoot at 1/16,000th with the electronic shutter.

loved this review! im a commentary youtuber, but I'm getting more into photography and vidrography and just picked this bad boy up over the weekend. I've been using the Canon M50 for the past 2 and a half years, and I'm so excited to use Clog since my M50 didn't have it! also picked up the 35mm f/1.8 lens. Really hoping that this camera will upgrade my talking head shots exponentially. Thanks again for this review!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Julia! I think you’ll see a big improvement, the R8 + 35mm 1.8 for talking head will look fantastic!

Have shot with RP since it released and looking to upgrade but cant decide. R8 because I love the light weight for all day travel or put up with the heavier R6ii for mechanical shutter, joystick/scroll wheel, better grip with larger lenses like 24-105L and better EVF.

Cool review! I have got it recently and the single card slot to me hasn’t been an issue as I use it as my second camera for events. The R6 even with the years is still an excellent camera to work with. Cheers

@South-Hindians

Ай бұрын

Hi How is battery backup for video recording

@cfsrueda9349

Ай бұрын

@@South-Hindians Honestly I haven’t use the camera for video. I use it mostly for photos, but I will suggest you to always have two or three batteries as back up for this camera

Awesome as always and I love your b-roll almost as much as I love your photo portfolio. Btw, when you expose to the right for video, does that mean touching the histogram to the right side when viewed as a log profile on the screen?

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you DRIS! That's correct, I just expose so the highlights are just under clipping on the histogram. It's not an exact science though, but generally I over expose where possible whilst still protecting the highlights.

We waiting cross brand camera comparison, James. I hope you can. Good luck.

I don't often travel but appreciate the small size, just not quite enough to resist Canon's EG-E1 extension grip for my pinky finger (the champaign gold "Asian" version, for a dash of contrast against the black body!) Now it's almost as large as my 6D, a camera I thought was being replaced by my R8 acquisition. Nope, I'm now dedicated to learning how to best use the 6D within its focusing limitations, despite buying the R8 for its vastly better AF. I won't claim to be rational here, especially since after recently buying the R8 I fell into a rabbit hole of old CCD digicams. Don't judge me. I miss the rear control dial, despite this having a rear control dial. But c'mon, it might as well be a Nikon or Pentax or Sony rear dial. My Elan II has the proper, large dial. My 50D retained it. After that it began to shrink on the prosumer models. So Canon has been preparing me for quite a while.

Bought the R8 and it's been a really good companion! My other camera is a M200 that's really compact, but the R8 event being bigger, it's easy to carry and the weight doesn't annoy me. About battery, I noticed that it charges with around 8W, and I can use my phone (Samsung S21+) to charge when necessary. I didn't feel the necesssity to buy another battery yet. The only thing I miss is IBIS for night photography, but due to size and price, I think that's okay and in the future I expect to buy a lens with IS.

Im about to upgrade from Rp to R8 and thank for your videos helping me out! ❤

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching !

@aurelian_

2 ай бұрын

I have sold my RP and I am looking for new camera. Have you bought it? How is it?

Epic review broski! R8 looks like a great first camera, but still waiting on some 24,35 mm f1.4 primes canon.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Cheers Gerard! Yep Canon need to pull their finger out on the primes!!

And again - great as always!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

You should do contents about making cinematic film colors. The colors look amazing

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’ll be doing this soon

I can't tell you how much I love my R6 II so much so sometimes i feel like replacing my R with an R8 and my original R6 with another mark II. I use all 3 for weddings. I'm not too worried about the 1 card slot, but more the non matching batteries. But i need to see what will make more sense for me coming next year. Thanks for the great video as always

@portraitblake

7 ай бұрын

How do does your workflow allow for 3 cameras. I have a R5 and R8 but also I have R10 and have no idea how that camera fits in at the moment .

@shawnlabranche6852

7 ай бұрын

@@portraitblake I do hybrid photo and video, on those days I bring all 3. On just photo says I only bring 2, if the timeline allows I will bring the third one with a vintage lens for artistic shots. I didn't even mention the 4th camera I bring. My instax mini that's around my neck or pocket to print out a few shots on same day lol

I loved the transition of the scenes in the video, can you release this effect for us?

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Can you let me know a time stamp to which transition you mean?

Happy to see some shots from Elounda in Crete! 😊🙌

Отличный обзор. Очень хорошая съёмка и постпродакшен

Hello, thanks again for this great video. I must confess that the Canon camera that has the best color science for me is the canon m100. If you can see their jpgs, you will see that they are really beautiful. Even more than my R5 and other Canon cameras I have. The only bad thing is that it is very basic, but to go out and take photos on the street without attracting attention, it is the best option for me. Greetings.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

That’s interesting! Now I want to try out the M100 😂. Looks like a great camera. I hope to see Canon release a similar sized camera.

Damn lenses cost to damn much

Im thinking about getting the R8 as a vlogging/solo content camera. I have the original R that I bought in 2020. I really want the 4k60 no crop at 6k downsampled resolution. The R still holds its weight when it comes to photography (30mp more than enough). I believe the R8 will be a great B-Cam for my BTS of photoshoots and video event session.

@JamesReader

29 күн бұрын

I think you’ll love the R8! It will be great in combination with the EOS R

Can you do a video exposing Eos R8 night shoot , parties especially 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼please

What luts and post process do you use with the R8 on this video? Looks great!

Do you sell lugs? Love the colors

Thanks for the great video. Would you say the colors are much different compared to the original R6? ( not the mark ii)

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I think they are a little improved in the R8 over the original R6. A little more natural and accurate.

if you move to silent/electronic shutter only the speed will double maxing at 1/8000

This camera is good at sport photography ?

Hello excellent very useful video to learn from this R8 camera can you clarify to me how it is that the camera does not go well on sunny days with a Prin lens because of the type of shutter

Hello! Nice video🎉 What about the well known problems with the EFcs problems? Bokeh quality and underexposed images straight out of camera? Ik pple complained too much about the RP using the same EFcs

@abercrombie2684

11 күн бұрын

Hello. I'm choosing a camera and came across your comment. Can you tell me more about what you mean? It will be useful for me to know.

I am using R50 an waiting for a R8 Mark II. That would be my transition plan to full frame. Do you think they will release such a thing?

Hi james wnna ask u a question i been taking photos mainly on the iphone 15 pro max nd never owned camera before but now m considering to get one but dont wnna go for too beginner so could u recommend me any?? I loved ur R8 camera review so definitely for my use case r8 is in my wishlist i m a casual traveller but i like taking those type of pictutes which u have taken so pls reply thx

Is this a new model the Canon Airraid?

I’m definitely looking to get the R8 soon. I’m looking to get more serious into doing professional photography for portrait work and landscapes. In your experience with it, if I’m upgrading from an old canon rebel t5i, could this be my main camera for professional work? I’m not too concerned with dual card slots. Thanks for the great reviews!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. The Canon R8 will have you covered for professional work for many years in terms of its capabilities. As long as you are comfortable with the single card slot.

@Macfanize

2 ай бұрын

How does it compare to the t5i? I'm looking to upgrade too!

@rogergranquist

2 ай бұрын

@@MacfanizeI have been using my new R8 for a little while now and after using the t5i for so many years, it’s soooo much better!! I love it! I just used it also to get some Amazing pictures of the recent solar eclipse and it made it possible! I did have the t5i with me as a backup, but I didn’t even use it.

how does this compare to sony a6700?

Just grabbed this off canon 's refurbished store for $1070 shipped with taxes. Surprised it has dropped in price so much.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Wow! What a bargain. Hope you enjoy the R8

Your videos are very informative! I bought an R8 over a month ago. I noticed you mentioned that the R8 doesn’t have stabilization for video. Did I mis-hear or misunderstand? I know it does have stabilization for video.

@JamesReader

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! The camera has no mechanical stabilisation, only digital stabilisation.

@srinimaverick

6 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader thanks for that clarification!

Hello, great videos, I have a Canon R8, your videos have been helpful to me, were the photos shown in this video raw edited or direct from the camera? What profile do you use to bring out warm colors? because on my r8 they come out a little cold

@JamesReader

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! They are all mostly edited to my own style but I do use the “Camera Faithful” picture profile.

Thank you for the awesome review! Did you notice any difference in image quality between the electronic shutter and EFCS? And which did you prefer to use, the electronic or Electronic First Curtain Shutter?

@WhyIt_Games

7 ай бұрын

You loose a bit of dynmaic range with the electronic shutter verse the EFCS but its still pretty good. For wildlife the 40frames per second is amazaing though!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

I rarely notice a difference between full electronic shutter and EFCS in terms of image quality. However I always try to use EFCS just to be on the safe side.

Hi James. How was the handling with the big 50. mm 1.2 ? It seems the grip extension from the RP could help with that. Thanks 😊

@JamesReader

2 ай бұрын

The 50 1.2 handles great for me on the R8, one of my most used lenses on the camera.

Great Cam but no proper lenses. The Canon L glass is spectacular but would not want to have it on this body, I don't even like it on my r5 as it's top heavy and unbalanced. Canon does not have smaller/lighter quality F2 glass. They smaller lenses are sharp but lack contrast and color. For the results I would not carry around a camera system. And they locked out 3rd party like Sigma, Tamron, Zeiss which would cover that. It's a pitty as I love handling of Canon and their color.

Great info. By any chance, have ypu used the R7? If yes, what do you prefer between the R7 or R8?

@JamesReader

Ай бұрын

I personally prefer the R8 for my kind of photography, but The R7 certainly has it's advantages too.

I like your channel, do you have any problems with the 2.8 lens not having stabilization? I like that lens but hesitated to get it because of that. Thanks 😊

@JamesReader

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Do you mean the 28mm? If so, no I’ve found it to be great even without the stabilisation.

@filipart828

5 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader I can't figure out if it's a good lens for the R8, both being without stabilization, but I like that it's affordable 28mm

What would you recommend for portrait photography (I don't care about the video part) between r6 (mark 1)and R8? Both are the same price here. Or do you have another suggestion in the same price range. Thanks

@JamesReader

6 ай бұрын

Purely for portrait photography you could even consider the original EOS R. Between the R6 and R8, you won’t notice much difference in image quality in photo so I think the ergonomics will be the biggest factor. If I was shooting professionally I would go with the R6 for the slightly more comfortable body and dual card slots.

@nedelcugabriel3010

6 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader thank you so much! 😇

I see you swap between the 35mm and 28mm on your photos. What is the difference? I am a newbie to photography. Thanks a lot.

@JamesReader

Ай бұрын

Hey Benedict. They are just slightly different focal lengths. 28mm is wider than 35mm in the sense that it can fit more in the frame. 35mm is slightly more zoomed in. So each lens definitely has its own use case depending on the scene or the kind of shot you want to capture.

I would go with the R6 over the R8. Currently selling for £1400 and you get ibis, command wheel, joy stick, extra card clot and most importantly a mechanical shutter!

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

R6 is a great choice! Amazing prices on them right now too.

How is combination of rf 24-105 f4 is working with R8 Pl guide

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Works excellent. Great setup

@nitinbhide5964

7 ай бұрын

​@@JamesReaderThanks a lot😊😊😊

Would it be worth it to grab an R8 if I already own an R6 (the original)? I’m looking for something a wee bit smaller than my R6 that I can carry on me more often to document family life via photos & videos. Thanks!

@jasontippins6268

7 ай бұрын

I would say the R8 is a step down from the R6. No mechanical shutter, no in body ibis, no command wheel or joy stick and one card slot. R6 is currently selling for a bargain price of £1400.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

If you think the smaller size and weight will encourage you to pick it up more and get more enjoyment then definitely. The R8 would be an incredible camera for family photos and videos. I wouldn’t necessarily say the R8 is an upgrade in all areas from the R6 though, the R6 is a little more robust, dual card slots and IBIS. The main improvements for the R8 are in video.

Overheating is a deal breaker for me. R7 has no such issues

Man I really wish Canon would make some non plastic fantastic small and light primes like a 35 1.4, 50 1.4 etc. The colors are nice but you gotta admit those cheapy lenses from Canon have zero 3d pop and it makes the images look flat. Sony is really putting them to shame for small and light lenses. I enjoyed my time shooting the R5 and R6 but Canon forced me to switch to Sony by not opening up the RF mount along with not releasing their own glass for it.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree. We really need to see some 1.4 primes from Canon soon. Or let Sigma make the them.

@NickDelDuca

7 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader I would be super excited for a Sigma line. Their newest lenses for E and L mount are killer.

One thing I don’t get…you are talking about nice colours from the camera but anyway you use a preset on the photos from this video. Why?

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

Nice colours straight out of camera just make for a better starting point for editing

@silviugheorghe7118

7 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader I was hoping to see the real colours, but ok. I have the feeling that everybody just makes photos with no matter witch camera and just applies the filter/preset and that is it. All the photos are looking the same. I don’t see the point of making reviews if all the photos from all the cameras are looking the same. But is just me…

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

I understand that point of view, but I have 4 videos where I give out free RAW files from the R8 so it might be best to download those to get a feel for the straight out of camera colours.

@silviugheorghe7118

7 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader that is fair enough. Thank you. Keep up the good work!

What do you think about the RF 28-70 mm on the Canon R8? Especially for outdoor photography and traveling long distances. 0 IBIS and 0 IS

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

I think you would get exceptional image quality but yes especially on the smaller R8 body you will see some jitters in video. For photography I think you would be fine but it would be a very front heavy set up and the smaller grip of the R8 might make it quite an uncomfortable setup.

@candylisous6767

7 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader so would you suggest the 24-70 instead?

I can live without IBIS and other things, but I still do not understand why they decide to put such a crappy battery into R8. This is okay if someone has only one camera, but this is nonsense to have R8 as backup of R5/R6 cameras. In that case you have to thing about second set of batteries, charge them separately etc. In nowadays we often taking many time about our Mother Earth and environment and Canon not helping with this.

@18yearsoldnot

7 ай бұрын

Yeah with the a7c2 out now it’s a deal breaker

It cannot be understated how important it is to raise and lower your tone/voice to stress certain things, if someone makes a whole video in a single tone, 90% people will have no takeaways from that video

@JamesReader

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! And thanks for watching.

@dan_outside

6 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader I guess it’s what works for the watcher. I really enjoy your narration, and your channel. Thanks for the great work.

@JamesReader

6 ай бұрын

@@dan_outside thank you!

Why not shoot in electronic vs 1st curtain? For travel and stills? Subscribed thx . I just bought it. Only have 50mm 1.8 for now

@thenexthobby

7 ай бұрын

short version: You may get a skewed perspective with fast-moving subjects. This is not motion blur per se. long version: Electronic and mechanical are both focal plane shutters, where one curtain (or scan) opens (or looks at) part of the frame and the rest of the frame is captured as the shutter opening (or scan) passes over it. We're describing a "rolling shutter" overall, and electronic ones are more susceptible to that effect than mechanical ones are, despite electronic shutters able to "move faster" (more FPS) than mechanical ones. Mechanical shutters will be susceptible based on speed and motion, whereas electronic shutters will be susceptible to that AND how fast the thing can scan regardless of setting. The classic example would be an image taken from a car, where the telephone polls all look like they're leaning. --> With my R8 I can capture a tennis serve sequence using the highest rate electronic shutter without much noticeable issue. If using mechanical, I might preserve the shapes of both the racket and tennis ball better, but not enough for me to usually care, because with mechanical I wouldn't even be getting the shots where racket meets ball in the first place unless very lucky with the shutter button.

@bigbluerios

7 ай бұрын

@thenexthobby got it! Yes I have noticed that too. I can capture just about anything w the electronic vs the 1st curtain. I use electronic more often. 1st curtain for complete still shots . Street photos I use electronic amd it all looks fine

@thenexthobby

7 ай бұрын

And *I misspoke* in my depiction above. But I'll leave that comment as-is. 1st curtain here is still electronic, not mechanical. It's just that Canon have optimized it (or, limited it) to act as a low-cost mechanical, if that makes sense.

@JamesReader

7 ай бұрын

I think the electronic shutter is generally excellent for travel stills, you may see some skewing if there happens to be fast moving objects in the frame such as moving vehicles.

@bigbluerios

7 ай бұрын

@JamesReader yep I'm noticing that more and more as I shoot outside. But inside with lights you can see some of the bannding and I switch to 1st curtain with anti flicker on.

Hello, what color profile did you use in the photos in this video? How do you have it configured for those colors? Thank you very much I also have an R8 and I already watched a marathon of your videos haha.

@JamesReader

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! All photos were taken in the “Camera Faithful” picture profile.

@pabloglez9276

3 ай бұрын

@@JamesReader Thank you so much.