 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Roto bringing you this video today from my home office in Jerusalem where I've done many videos in the past. Today's a little bit different because I'm technically in this room for the foreseeable future as I have just discovered about 30 minutes ago that I have COVID-19. Thankfully, I feel relatively well. I feel like I have a heavy cold which I've felt a few times this year and always surprised to test negative and finally I got a strong positive on one of these instant tests and I feel like I have a cold. I'm all kind of stuffy and achy and tired but really nothing too bad. It could be a lot worse and I'm very grateful for that and grateful for the advanced medical care that probably prevents this from being a lot worse. Anyway, while I'm here and stuck in this room, I thought I would develop the opportunity to moan and groan about the latest camcorders from Canon. Now folks might know that I use the Canon XA40 and I love the camcorder. I'm a huge camcorder fan. In fact, I recently started a new YouTube channel called All About The Canon XA40 because I'm trying to split up this YouTube channel a bit more logically and I figured most people don't want tutorial videos about camcorders on their YouTube feed. So check it all about the Canon XA40. I've uploaded about 20 different videos explaining functionalities and I think I'm almost done. There probably won't be many more videos on that channel. Anyway, there I was on my own YouTube feed a couple of days ago and I see Canon introduces the XA606575 and I said, damn, if I just, I got this thing in February, if I just waited six more months, I could have spent my money much more wisely and got the latest and greatest XA camcorders from Canon. So I said, I must check what they've done and I was, I went back to work and I was kind of thinking, well, I'm guessing the XA60 is probably the XA60 is replacing the XA40, which is, which would mean that it's going to have the more basic of the two and the XA70 replacing the XA50, not replacing but kind of superseding it. And I presume there was going to be some monumental change to both of these camcorders, right? Because why else would you announce a whole new product line? Went on to YouTube and I was amazed at what I saw. There's very, very little improvement there. And to be honest, it's kind of a missed, huge missed opportunity actually from Canon because I think personally manufacturers lose, I understand the need to periodically upgrade technology. However, I feel like there's a lot of good faith and good trust lost between a manufacturer and users when you come to market with something that's just not really much better. It seems a bit predatory. So I was watching the B&H video and basically I was like, am I missing something? Or are the only things that are new a slightly better LCD screen? UVC support, which I don't even use my XA40 as a webcam. So I hope I'm not botching that it's a webcam protocol coming off the camera. So that's nice. But probably for most folks are using this, these camcorders for kind of documentary work, ENG work and not using it as a streaming camera. So unlikely to really make that much of a difference. And what I was most surprised to see was that the XA60 didn't even have a one inch sensor as a base, like I was assuming the Canon was going to be moving the baseline forward. XA60, everything the XA range now has a one inch sensor because it's kind of ridiculous for DSLR mirrorless people to take us camcorder seriously when they look at the specs on current stuff on the camcorder market. So basically I looked at a lot of comments on YouTube that were very critical and I left my own critical comments. I have mixed feelings because on the one hand, I'm happy to see Canon continuing with the camcorder. I think the XA and I'm going to just grab mine off my XA40, I think it's amazing. This is an amazing product. The fact they've taken the professional camcorder with the XLR ports and the top handle and they put it in this smaller package is brilliant. But I don't really see the point in launching four new camcorders that are barely any better because a lot of people like me are like, why? This is a letdown. So enough of my commentary, I thought I'd just kind of look at the product merchandise. Now this document I found by googling, I can actually even show my search, file type PDF because I was trying to find kind of spec sheets that came out from Canon because I find these are much more focused than looking at web pages. And this was actually a great spec sheet that I just kind of came across with the same search before these new camcorders came out. So we had the XA40 and 45, which was 4K, 50 and 55. So in the XA range, the basic camera or the baseline for the 4K series is the XA40 that I own. It gets a lot more expensive when you get that one inch sensor. The fives, the XA45 and the 55 had SDII put so for broadcast journalists, they were useful. And then we have a couple of kinds of legacy players. The XA11 and XA15 are also part of the XA series, but they are not 4K capable, they're only 1080p and it's 1 over 2.84 CMOS. So this is how things look before Canon brought these new guys on the market. Now this is Canon's product documentation for the 60 through 75. They look the exact same as the 40 and the 50. They haven't really done anything to the form factor, at least that I can see. And that's almost disappointing in itself because you think, okay, you're going to be either substantially upgrading the specs or really doing something different with the form factor and the reality is neither is happening. So this is where Canon have their space to tell you what's new and exciting. And a lot of this is like, well, 4K, yeah, you've had 4K camcorders in the market for years. And it's kind of strange in the year 2022 to be marketing a new video product, whether it's a camcorder or a DSLR or mirrorless and saying, hey, it's got 4K. Now in our competitive ecosystem of mirrorless and DSLR people are marketing 8K and 6K. So it does seem very, very backward that Canon are having to highlight 4Ks if it's something impressive. XF, AVC and MP4 Codex support. I have that on my camcorder, the XA40, Digic DV6. I'm pretty sure I have that on my camcorder equipped with a 3.5 inch approximately two points. So they've improved the LCD and they've improved the viewfinder, the OLED. I'm perfectly content with the little LCD. If you're doing a serious monitoring, you're going to hook up an external monitor, right? So these don't need to be that great, in my opinion. And maybe I'm sort of just a crank or something or a lone voice in the wilderness. But my opinion is you don't really need a brilliant LCD and I couldn't really care less the Canon or upgrading this. I would much rather see one inch CMOS sensor in the XA60. That's where the upgrade is instead of the screen, which I couldn't really care about. And then we have, as I mentioned, USB video class, UVC. So simply connect the camera to any computer with the USB cable to use it as a webcam. And because it's UVC, it'll work with Zoom and Teams and what have you. But as I mentioned, I really don't think that is super useful expansion functions that are useful for surveillance applications. Who's using camcorder for surveillance, really? Who's actually using a professional camcorder in their home security systems? I'm sorry, but like why would you do that? I'm actually quite confused. So that again is to me another almost it's not even a non spec. It's a bizarre spec. Why would you use have you ever have you ever gone to a part like have a look at this thing in the in the spec sheet. It's a parking garage. Have you ever gone to park your car and seen a big chunky camcorder pointing at you? You'd be like, am I on the news? So I was picturing across the spec sheet here and let's just in the comparison, we can see x75 sensor size one one inch. And it's this doesn't have a sorry, it does have the 60 and the 65 are still stuck with this one over 2.3 inch sensor, which degrades performance. And you can read about the other things, but suffice to say, if anything was amazed, anything amazing was added, it would be up here and not down there in the spec sheet. Prices for these camcorders XA I'm going to do XA 60 BNH. And I'm going to use the fact I have COVID to be a bit lazy with my editing and not cut this out. That's my excuse anyway. So I'm doing the reason I'm doing the research live as I record this video blog. I'm going to find find you dear people the price points for the XA 60 BNH have it for $1,800 US dollars. And the price point for the XA 75 is 2000 and basically $3,000 compared to the X and this these prices are only going to be, you know, viable at the time I'm recording this, this video, they're subject to change XA 50 and XA 55 just to compare these price points with one another. I'm going to do that right now. The XA 55 isn't BNH for $2,800. So it's actually only 200 USD more, in fact, to opt for the 75 over the 55. So you may as well spend the $200. But even that suggests that you're not getting that much more, right? Because $200 is not a lot in hardware terms. My beloved XA 40, which I'm delighted to see is the number one seller in the camcorder series on BNH clocks in at 1600 versus 1800. So again, it's 200 bucks. And as they say that alone kind of suggests that it's not that useful. This really is a non-upgrade unless you do want to kid out your home office or home with a weird video surveillance system set up by pro camcorders. Anyway, that's that's my take on it. I'm very interested in pro camcorders. Suffice to say these are my opinions. I'm clearly not trying to flatter canon here. If you have thoughts on this, if you are a camcorder fan, as camcorder people do have to stick together, drop me a comment. And thank you guys for watching. As ever, this video, if you do want to get more rants and camcorder talk from yours truly, do consider subscribing. Goodbye.