 Hi guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal here for today's video blog. I'm going to be testing out whether you can use two camcorders that are not really vlogging camcorders and see how they fare for vlogging use anyway. The two camcorders I'm going to be using are the firstly the Canon Vixia HF-R800. This is really a consumer grade camcorder from Canon it's pretty much at the entry level of their range. It does have external microphone support which is really really useful. It's great camcorder I've used this guy for about three years now but I did recently upgrade to the Canon XA40 so just to show you these two camcorders side by side the XA40 is considerably bigger it's still considered a small camcorder but this is really the entry level camcorder in Canon's professional camcorder range as opposed to the Vixia HF-R800 which is very much a consumer camcorder with this particular guy you get your top handle you get your XLR inputs and you get a whole bunch of other more professionally oriented features. So neither is really a great vlogging camcorder neither has out of the box a wide angle lens camcorders generally have fixed lenses you can get aftermarket lenses but to make this comparison fair I'm not going to use any gadgetry I'm just going to see how they shoot in vlogging mode now for the for the sake of transparency etc I'm going to firstly do a panoramic 360 view so you can see my home office which is where I typically record these videos as you can see it's not a very big space it's a box essentially and what I'm going to do I'm going to take out this lovely measuring tape and I'm going to record the vlogs from the exact same distance on my desk for each camcorder next I'm going to go outside in my local neighborhood here in Jerusalem and I'm going to bring with me the Ulanzi MT-34 which is a multifunctional tripod really useful piece of gear and what I'm going to do is again is extend it to the same I'm going to lock it out here now in fact and I'm going to just put each camcorder on and then see how it fares it's going to look a bit ridiculous having a professional camcorder upon essentially a selfie stick but I'm going to do it anyway and I'll show you guys how the footage turned out for both and you can be the judge of whether it's viable to vlog with these type of cameras or not okay first subject here is the Vixia HF-800 I've just taken out measuring tape and the distance between the lens and my face is exactly 80 centimeters I'm not using any aftermarket attachment for the lens like a wide angle lens the audio you're hearing is coming from the internal microphone just FYI so it's probably not the best in the world but this is what it looks like to vlog with the Vixia HF-800 I'm using automatic white balance I'm in the home office I just did a pan of by the way the start of this that clip was shot with the Logitech C920 webcam so this will also show you the kind of difference in quality from basically the same shot between a webcam and between a camcorder so this is the Vixia HF-800 as if I was just using it to record a YouTube vlog in my home office okay you're now looking at footage shot from the Canon XA40 professional webcam like in the previous shot this guy is up on my Ulanzi M234 mount it's definitely a big camcorder for a little tabletop tripod of that size but it looks like it's working pretty well one advantage of this camcorder is I have the tally light facing me just so that I can see when I'm shooting and this is a 4k camcorder Canon do say that when you're shooting 1080p in this camcorder you're going to get a better picture quality than if you're shooting 1080p so you can be the judge of the difference in picture between the Vixia between the XA40 again I'm using automatic white balance I'm using the internal microphone with automatic level so I'm really doing nothing to to change the shot so this is this is the difference I'm going to put up a couple of pictures so you can see you guys can see what it looked like to actually shoot these videos and now you're going to take the cameras outside put them up on the Ulanzi M234 selfie stick slash multifunctional tripod and you can see what vlogging with these two camcorders looks like in a looks like in outdoor conditions before I step outside because it's going to be super bright I wanted to show you guys what I'm using for for the setup I'm actually using this time a wireless lavalier mic it's the endure mx5 and something really useful about the cold shoe adhesive mount I showed how to do before is you can do stuff like slot wireless lav system receivers into it so I've got this guy running into the mic input I've got my lcd screen in flip mode and as I've said many times if you're using an external mic with the Vixia you need to set your mic levels to manual I've got mine set up to 30 and the transmitter is a lapel mic just sitting on me so this is the roughly the setup I'm going to be using with both camcorders for sound okay so I'm on a pretty quiet residential backstreet here in Jerusalem I'm walking east to west so that the sun is going to be lighting so hopefully going to be workable I'm holding the Canon Vixia hfr 800 at about 80 centimeters from my face and as you can see it's a beautiful sunny day here in Jerusalem for audio as I just showed you guys I'm using the endure mx5 wireless lav system you can see the lavalier here that I'm tapping and let's see how this footage turns out okay here's what my second wireless audio setup setup looks like fortunately the XA40 has a cold shoe on the top so I have slotted my wireless receiver in there and let's give this footage a look okay so this is what it looks like to attempt to vlog with their professional camcorder the XA40 the setup feels and probably looks ridiculous it's not the lightest camcorder in the world even though it's kind of small by pro camcorder standards and it's fitting here on top of the empty 34 at about again one meter from my face and it was the sound from this wireless lav system just for one final test here is me going totally handheld with the XA40 I'm literally holding the camcorder about the same distance from my face one meter and you know given that it doesn't have a built-in wide angle ends definitely not the greatest for vlogging but as you can see more importantly it's a lovely day in Jerusalem and I hope this is useful if you're thinking about buying either of these camcorders I want to maybe shoot the odd vlog uh wish them