 Have you ever been on a date and you have no idea what the other person is saying but she's so damn pretty that you're just completely mesmerized? That's basically how I felt like with my time with the Canon M6 Mark II. To be honest, half the time I had no idea what the controls did, what the indicators were trying to tell me, but none of that mattered because the Canon EOS M6 Mark II produced such eye-popping videos and photos. The bouquet was just lovely. First things first, Canon lent us this camera but had no say in what we had to say about it. But if I'm gonna be honest, I had to ask them, Uy, Canon, can you lend us a camera? Kumbaga nan legal pa ako? And the way I thought the story was going to go was it would be fun to try an expensive camera. But at the end of the day, I've concluded that, ya, the cellphone might not look as great but it's good enough and the price is right for what I need. Boy, was I wrong. I can't go back anymore to using a cellphone camera. I've swiped right on the Canon and what I thought would be a fling has turned into a long-term relationship. It clearly produces excellent video even in the hands of a noob like myself. I didn't have to do a damn thing with the settings. Full auto everything. Ikaw na bahala, darling. AF sounds good to me. I mean, basically this is a guy's dream relationship. Everything just works and you don't need to work on it at all. And it wasn't just me who noticed a massive increase in quality. Viewers commented right away when they were viewing a video that I had shot using the Canon EOS M6 Mark II even though I didn't disclose in the video itself that I had changed cameras. The two questions in my mind for a camera have always been 1, can it produce beauty even if I'm the one behind the controls? And 2, will the audience notice? And the M6 Mark II checks both of those boxes. They're both a resounding yes. You do need to note the lens that I used. Canon also provided the EF-M32. And lenses are quite important as they really alter the quality of what the camera can produce. They determine what the camera can see. They determine how far it can see. How zoomed in and how zoomed out it can be. How close things need to be in order for the camera to focus on them. It's not enough to have a good camera. You need to have the right lens to do the right job. And as a camera noob all of this lens stuff was news to me. I thought it would be like a cellphone camera where YC wig. What you see is what you get. What you have on screen is what's being recorded and you can pinch to zoom in. It turns out to be much more involved than that but I didn't have to think too much about it because the EF-M32 lens proved perfect for what I needed. Whether I have to film a graphics card or I'm lusting over some RGB RAM or there's a MOBO that I really want to get close up to most of the shots we need here for hardware sugar are quite tight. If it's not focusing on hardware it's focusing on the host talking. So this EF-M32 lens is perfect because it really focuses tightly on an object quite close to it. At the same time it reduces that really nice bouquet effect. There are numerous features about this camera that I have no idea about being a noob and I won't pretend that I know anything about them. So I won't be talking about ISO or aperture. This camera does have image stabilization and can shoot at 120fps. Not that I ever tried it because this is not an action-oriented YouTube channel. The most action we ever see is when people are throwing boxes at each other. So yes, this camera would probably be even more awesome if I fiddled around with the technical settings and took the time a little bit to figure out what each one does. As with any long-term relationship though you do start to find some annoyances about your partner. For this camera number one I found it odd that for a camera marketed to vloggers there isn't a physical button on the camera front that you can press to record. Even when the camera is facing to you you still need to grope around in the back for the really teeny-tiny red record button and press that in order for you to start recording. Even though if you're going vlogger style you know, at least super convenient just to have something on the front so that people can get up to speed right away. Speaking of going vlogger style the second annoyance I had was that the LCD screen flips up instead of to the side. So what's a big deal about that if you have anything mounted on the top mount such as a microphone or a viewfinder this will obscure the view of the screen and actually the screen won't even work properly because it needs to be fully upright before it orients to properly face you. So actually it did try to mount a microphone on this thing but it really just didn't work out. Canon's work around is to mount the accessories to the side and that works out if you have their specific accessories for this camera. Number three is while the camera is light so it's ideal to bring around. I found myself wishing that it had a larger stock or that the hump on the body was more solid so I could grasp it better because to be honest I was quite scared of dropping this thing. We handled 100,000 pesos of graphics cards in the shop and my level of anxiety was higher with this little camera because with computer parts we know how to hold them. Dito pwede, dito hindi. Dito may kiliti siya. Dito okay lang. And that's me being a noob where like I'm holding this thing like it's a time bomb and if I drop it it's game over. Although to be honest the camera and the lens themselves are quite expensive and so I didn't want to drop them. So I was very conscious of my grip and I've tried other cameras where the stock had a better hump for lack of a better word on the side so that you could grip it better. Again this might be a trade-off for weight but the ultimate result was it made me very paranoid. And my last annoyance is that you know the interface is really quite confusing. Again I had no idea half the time what all of the dials and the indicators on the screen were trying to tell me. So it's not intuitive at least for a beginner like myself with very little background knowledge of photography. Minor quibbles aside though now that I've tried the M6 Mark II for around a month I can't go back to using a cell phone camera. If you're a beginner who wants to level up your video production and you don't want to have to take an entire semester's worth of photography lessons the M6 Mark II plus the EF-M32 lens will basically get you up and running and produce much better videos with very little input from the user. Perfect for newbies like myself. Now if you'll excuse me I need to figure out how to keep the M6 Mark II and the EF-M32 lens in my life. And if I do get a unit for myself maybe I'll even figure out how to use a setting or do. Thanks for watching. And thank you to our top fans na afford na namin to kupuwa na to and edyok lang. Thank you to Leah Magnaya, Ian Meru, Richard Ongkinko, ITX Addict, Jan Ruben Ocha, Christian Espinoza and Raphael James. Thank you for supporting the channel.