WEBVTT 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:19.800 welcome to my unboxing of my new camera and I call this my new camera because uh 00:00:18.279 --> 00:00:24.279 not because other people won't be allowed to use it but because they don't 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:28.080 want to I'm the only one who works here who actually cares that we just got 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:35.120 ourselves a Canon xa2 so the xa2 is the upgrade from the 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:36.920 XA 10 the the old formerly only camera 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:40.879 that we really had that was better than like a pocket point and shoot so it 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:45.000 comes with a massive user manual which I think most people probably won't look at 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:48.760 as well as a data import utility but quite frankly if you're using like 00:00:46.559 --> 00:00:51.879 canons included you know Zoom browser equivalent or whatever it is that they 00:00:50.199 --> 00:00:55.960 have these days you should probably just go find a new line of work um so let's 00:00:54.520 --> 00:01:01.559 just put all of that aside and have a look at all the goodies that are 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.680 included in inside the box of the xa20 so in front of us we have the Fairly 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:09.799 large accessory package that comes with the xa20 first is a full four pole 00:01:07.479 --> 00:01:15.759 adapter to composite video out as well as left and right audio next we've got 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:17.280 an AC power cable that goes with the DC 00:01:15.759 --> 00:01:20.720 brick right there that we can use to power the camera for longer shoots in 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:25.600 the studio for example this is an interesting inclusion so they now 00:01:22.119 --> 00:01:27.680 include an HDMI to Mini HDMI cable which 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:31.840 is great because it has a mini HDMI output I really wish they would have 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:35.880 upgraded that to full HDMI it includes one of their new even more intelligent 00:01:34.399 --> 00:01:40.759 batteries and I'm going to take a moment to kind of rant about this because um 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:45.119 you can't use XA 10 compatible batteries with the xa2 Canon has basically 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:49.680 implemented a system whereby if you install an older battery into the newer 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:52.280 camera it'll say oh sorry it powers on right and shows you an image oh sorry 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:57.079 this battery is not compatible with this camera and it just turns off Canon dick 00:01:54.600 --> 00:02:00.360 move you guys dick move uh because being able to reuse your older batteries and 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:04.479 upgrade your equipment is a very good thing and it could have just said hey 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.079 look the uh the the the level readings aren't going to be accurate with this 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:10.399 older type of battery but instead you just had it turn off um So currently 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:13.640 there aren't any cheap thirdparty alternatives to the Canon batteries 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.920 which are like a 100 bucks for an extended battery so once again dick move 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:21.200 Canon uh they've got one of those uh magnetic sort of or iron or whatever 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:25.200 they are anyway the theory is they reduce interference on cables uh in 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:30.360 practice I suspect your USB cable doesn't care if you install one of those 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:32.000 they've also got a USB a to Mini cable 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.400 for pulling data directly off the camera but that's not your only option more on 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:39.519 that in a moment a lens Hood which is really cool because it's got this little 00:02:37.160 --> 00:02:44.400 flip out dudad right here that allows you to instead of installing a lens cap 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:49.159 just have a flip of the switch protected or ready to rock sort 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:54.239 of functionality which I think is fantastic they include a shotgun mic 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:58.400 shock mount however it's really nothing special that's very hard rubber as well 00:02:55.959 --> 00:03:02.680 as a couple of screws to install it and finally a remote that allows you to well 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.879 remotely control the camera but that's not your only option for that either so 00:03:05.799 --> 00:03:11.720 okay things you have more than one option for data transfer all of a sudden 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.440 Boom the xa20 has Wi-Fi I'm going to start pulling the camera up Canon also 00:03:13.799 --> 00:03:19.280 almost got uh great points for environmentally friendly packaging but 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:25.640 they did include a little bit of plastic so it has Wi-Fi now which supports data 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:27.799 transfer even to an FTP which is 00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:31.360 incredibly cool so being able to just kind of go look here's my FTP login 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:36.280 credal IAL automatically throw all my footage on there absolutely huge thumbs 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:40.560 up you can also use Wi-Fi to control the camera using a smartphone which is very 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.760 cool as well so you can adjust your focus or start and stop recording using 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.439 a supported phone it just says supported phones on their apps but I'm going to go 00:03:46.239 --> 00:03:52.959 ahead and try a couple of different devices with it over the next little while here so that's in addition to the 00:03:50.519 --> 00:03:57.680 remote not only that but it has a lan C connector so you can also use that to 00:03:55.480 --> 00:04:00.239 control it using supported uh using supported accessories as well I haven't 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:05.959 actually found it yet but you can see I pulled out the body of the camera as well as 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:09.760 the handle so we're going to take a much closer look at them once I go ahead and 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:12.920 show you guys so that just slides into the shoe Mount right there the two 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:17.759 built-in screws at the back go here and I really don't recommend using the xa20 00:04:15.799 --> 00:04:21.959 without the handle because it includes not only a handle for holding on to the 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:26.160 camera but also some pretty important functionality so right here it's got 00:04:24.440 --> 00:04:30.400 your control for your microphone so you can either have phantom power or not 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:35.160 have phantom power you can switch the two different inputs on or off just like 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:40.199 that and then you can also switch to recording using the built-in stereo 00:04:37.080 --> 00:04:43.080 microphones here and here but uh I mean 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:47.800 they're okay they're not great but they're okay and then next you have 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:52.600 analog controls for the levels on those two XLR inputs that are on the other 00:04:50.520 --> 00:04:56.960 side over here last but not least you get ah yes okay so you get a pass 00:04:54.440 --> 00:05:00.039 through for that shoe Mount as well as start and stop you can lock this off if 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:03.759 you don't want to accidentally press as well as Zoom control so it really is a 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:08.400 great little accessory it comes with the camera you should pretty much always have it on there so now we've got the 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:12.479 camera geared up it's time to take a quick tour of it so first things first 00:05:11.039 --> 00:05:17.800 this is what this looks like installed on the camera it uh quite effectively 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:22.479 blocks out the light completely from being uh transmitted it's kind of a one 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:25.800 or the other with the hood and the lens cap because you can actually see right 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:29.160 here even if I wanted to put the lens cap in I wouldn't be able to so I 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:34.319 wouldn't imagine myself using the lens cap ever again again which means I'll probably lose it so here just guys 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:37.919 remind me if I ever ask where it is I put it in the Box for the xa20 so that I 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:43.520 wouldn't lose it all right so let's go ahead and have a look at controls to 00:05:40.039 --> 00:05:45.520 start with so the menu is much much 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:50.080 better than last time around and the main reason for that is a couple small 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.000 tweaks and layout for where you can uh where you can change settings and the 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:58.039 biggest one is that it Now features a capacitive touchcreen instead of a 00:05:55.880 --> 00:06:02.520 pressure sensitive touch screen so that makes scrolling through menus much much 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:06.400 easier compared to the previous gen product you don't feel like you're like 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:11.639 mashing on the screen in order to select anything or change a setting um it's 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:15.319 also just you know smoother to scroll through so that's that's more natural 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:18.000 they've also moved around quite a few of the adjustments that you can make such 00:06:16.599 --> 00:06:21.960 as switching between autofocus and manual focus and part of the reason for 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:26.319 this is that they've changed that the way the that the way you switch between 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.120 manual mode and automatic mode so it used to be on the old camera the XA 10 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.960 the power button when you when you turned it on you actually had to decide 00:06:32.039 --> 00:06:39.440 am I in auto mode or manual mode that's not the case anymore so now you've got 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:43.319 off camera mode and Media mode which makes sense is like how every other 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:47.599 camera in the world works the XA 10 had a button here for playback and review 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.560 which is random I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before now 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.880 there's just a switch for auto mode manual mode and Cinema mode so Cinema 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:59.960 mode we're not going to spend too much time on cuz basically all it does is 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:05.080 give you sort of some filters that you can put over top of your footage which 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:09.599 um I mean might help a little bit in postprocessing so filter one right here 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:12.599 is a cinema standard so it's just a bit of a flatter profile so you can play 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:16.000 around with color a little bit more on post Vivid you can actually see previews 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:21.639 of these over to the right here so we'll point out some stuff as you can see Vivid is much more Vivid uh dream just 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:25.800 puts kind of a goofy looking vignette around things and then there's a bunch 00:07:23.960 --> 00:07:29.240 of other filters that you can you can set up um the next thing is layout of 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:34.800 the buttons makes things a little bit easier easier for you as well so the buttons are now user configurable they 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:39.080 have five programmable buttons two over here to the left of the LCD one on the 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:42.879 inside right here that's button number five and then two more back here at the 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:47.639 back of the camera so the fact that you can reconfigure those to whatever you 00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:49.879 want is a huge huge upside to this 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:55.840 camera compared to the last gen product back are the dual SD card slots so these 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:57.639 support SD XC A and B and they support a 00:07:55.840 --> 00:08:01.840 couple of cool modes actually a few cool modes so with the new dig 4 video 00:07:59.599 --> 00:08:04.400 processor that's inside here you can not only do what you could do on the 00:08:03.080 --> 00:08:08.560 previous product which was you could record simultaneously to both cards so 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:11.680 that you have an automatic backup or you could record to one and then the other 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:17.759 and you could actually swap them out in the middle so you could record continuously that's all supported now 00:08:15.159 --> 00:08:21.840 you can actually record in two different bit rates at the same time so you can 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:25.319 have low bit rate working files or web ready files and then you can have full 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:31.800 bit rate ones one on one card and one on the other card which is a very very cool 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.479 feature it does have an infrared um mode 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:36.880 just like the old camera did moving further around to the back we've got a 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:41.039 little toggle switch here that actually allows you to change the functionality 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:44.560 of your focus wheel between focus and zoom whatever you prefer so if we go 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:49.480 around to the front of the camera that basically allows you to kind of go okay I want this to be Focus I want this to 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:54.000 be zoom in the menu you can configure which way is which for both of them and 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:58.920 then there's also aha this right here is a dedicated button for gain now you used 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:02.440 to be able to control that with the LCD screen but you had to choose between 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:07.640 gain and something else can't remember what it was anymore it's been a long time since I've used the XA 10 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:11.880 extensively but now you have a dedicated wheel for that so if you kind of go okay 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:15.399 my focus ring is focus and it's a it's an infinite Focus ring guys so you don't 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:19.399 you're not going to have like that muscle memory ability to focus which is 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:23.920 really unfortunate I wish they had just made it linear um anyway so you've got 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:27.959 your focus ring for Focus you can adjust gain on the fly right here and then you 00:09:25.880 --> 00:09:31.040 can use the zoom rocker for Zoom which actually has a variety of different 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:36.399 speeds that it can operate at you can either have it be linear and you can select up to 16 different speeds or you 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:40.200 can press it harder for more and press it softer for Less uh whichever you 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:44.440 prefer this gives you a much greater degree of flexibility while you're 00:09:42.079 --> 00:09:48.800 runand gun shooting compared to the previous camera so why did we go with 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:52.040 this versus something like a DSLR or a Blackmagic pocket cinema camera or 00:09:50.680 --> 00:09:57.000 something along those lines there's a couple of reasons so that runand gun 00:09:54.640 --> 00:10:01.160 aspect of it it makes it ideal for things like um you know event coverage 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:05.600 where you're not carrying around some bulky thing or external adapters you 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:09.079 just get one file at the end of it which might not be as flexible as what you 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:13.240 might get out of a DSLR it might not have that same cinematic look and 00:10:10.959 --> 00:10:16.880 shallow depth of field like a DSLR it might not have the same uh codec support 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:21.800 as something like a black magic pocket Cinema but what it is is it's an 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:25.399 all-in-one the footage is ready to do something with it whether it's upload 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:29.839 directly to YouTube uh automatically wirelessly upload to your FTP or 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:36.880 whatever else the case may be the sensor is slightly bigger than the older XA 10 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:39.279 so it's a 1 over 2.84 in and it's a SEO 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:44.240 sensor so the older one was a 1/3 in SEO sensor so it's slightly bigger and I 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:48.040 think that that's pretty much all the justification I mean it's got other kind 00:10:46.079 --> 00:10:51.480 of cool stuff it has a pre-record buffer which is really neat which means that 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:55.399 when you have it configured whenever you're rolling it's actually capturing 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.800 the last 3 seconds of footage which means that if you're kind of like you 00:10:56.959 --> 00:11:02.040 know you're at Little Johnny's thing and oh holy H crap they started the race a 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:07.279 little bit early boom you press that button and you're actually going to get that previous 3 seconds so you're not 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:10.480 going to miss anything um continuous autofocus is really nice they've 00:11:08.920 --> 00:11:15.440 actually got a few different modes for it so number one is you can do like a 00:11:12.680 --> 00:11:19.120 facial detection uh continuous autofocus you can have medium speed autofocus 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:22.680 which will look more natural or you can just have instant autofocus which is 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:26.519 something that you would have to do manually on a DSLR although it's great 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:30.079 to have that manual control but again it comes down to Different Strokes for 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:36.040 different folks this lens right here has a 35 mm equivalent Zoom range that goes 00:11:33.079 --> 00:11:41.320 from 26.8 mm all the way up to 576 MIM and the optical image 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:45.560 stabilization coupled with some of the fancy image stabilization that Canon's 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:49.639 doing with the dig4 processor actually looks pretty amazing so check this out 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:54.279 we're going to go ahead we're actually going to zoom in 20 times on my sweater 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:58.120 over there so I'm holding this like way out from my body you can see a little 00:11:55.800 --> 00:12:02.079 bit of noise in the image just because that's very very low light but there's 00:12:00.040 --> 00:12:06.680 actually surprisingly not a ton of shake you can see what an awkward position I'm 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:11.519 in right there and the fact that I can hold it that steady zoomed in that close 00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:14.680 is very very impressive there's a viewfinder electronic viewfinder right 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:18.240 there that you pop out in order to enable it there's the start stop record 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.440 button here so that's in addition to the one on the handle there's aha this is 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:26.680 great so there's a little rocker here that gives you uh push button support as 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:30.399 well as directionality that you can use to navigate the menu if you prefer that 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:33.800 to a touch screen which people do as well as another button that's for 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:38.680 navigating the menu over here over on the right they have dramatically 00:12:35.800 --> 00:12:41.040 improved things here so power in goes up here which I actually don't think is 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:44.560 better than the old one which had power in at the bottom and then there's also 00:12:42.880 --> 00:12:49.000 your AV out but mostly you're not going to need that for anything and look at 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:54.600 this this little this little thing nothing here the old camera had like the 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:59.760 micro or the mini HDMI out down there so you actually couldn't handhold it and 00:12:57.040 --> 00:13:03.120 have HDMI out at the same time which was ridiculous so what am I going to be 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:07.440 using it for I'm going to be using it for things like vlogging if you guys saw 00:13:05.040 --> 00:13:11.120 any of our GPU 14 coverage where it was basically just like me hand camming 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.839 things running around that was all shot with the XA 10 the older camera it was a 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:18.639 bit of a test case for it are people going to enjoy this content at all how 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:22.160 how easy is it going to be for me to create when I have like a small uh 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.600 compact camera how good is it going to look so that's one of the reasons we 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:30.800 invested in one of these behind the scenes up until now I've shot all of my 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:35.000 behind the scenes footage on my HTC1 and while people have commented that you 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:39.040 know hey it looks not bad particularly the sound is really really terrible you 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:43.440 know whenever it's windy or anything like that so having a camera that 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:47.800 actually has you know a reasonable quality shotgun mic on it in a shock 00:13:45.839 --> 00:13:51.720 mount with a wind sock is going to dramatically improve the audio quality 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:55.199 of behind the-scenes footage and because it's nice and compact it's the kind of 00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:58.759 thing that we can actually carry around and and like quickly shoot things with 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:03.320 much like you would be able to do with a phone um it's for things like casual videos 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:07.920 where the cinematography of it isn't really important so if we were doing 00:14:04.959 --> 00:14:11.680 like uh you know oh hey crap we just found this like cool setting in this 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:15.360 Benchmark and we wanted to just do like a short little video about it we grab 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:20.399 this throw it in full auto mode shoot a quick thing and upload it to the channel 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:23.720 obviously the quality of the footage is not going to be as good is what we can 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:28.160 get out of the fs700 which is what this is being shot on but I would like to at 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:32.600 least give you guys a little demo of what you can expect out of it and that 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:36.440 will run here at the end of the video so guys if you liked this video give it a 00:14:34.959 --> 00:14:41.680 like if you disliked it give it a dislike if you have feelings that are 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.480 more complicated than that or you really don't understand why I you know wasted 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:48.600 my money on this camera or you really think it was a great idea and you can't 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:53.600 believe we ever bought anything else please do leave a comment under the video and if you want to discuss it 00:14:51.839 --> 00:14:57.880 further guys there's always a link to the lineus tech tips Forum below the 00:14:55.279 --> 00:15:02.720 video as well as a link for 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