Review on 📷 Canon EOS 80D Digital SLR Camera Body - 24.2MP APS-C CMOS Sensor, Dual Pixel CMOS AF (Black) by Paul Ajayi

This camera has been criticized for not being 4K and I think the outrage has turned into a lot of poison in some online resources. Reviews. I know it immediately put me off buying it. But then I saw a rave review on Chris and Jordan's YouTube channel (TheCameraStoreTV) and decided to take a chance. And I'm so glad I did. It's a truly amazing camera and a huge improvement over its predecessor, the 70D (which I owned). First the problem with 4K. I also have a Samsung NX1, which is more or less the gold standard for ultra-detailed 4K realism. It's a visually stunning image, and it's no exaggeration that you can see every blade of grass on the lawn. But while it's great, it's not "cinematic". By that I mean that we are used to a certain "look" and "feel" in films. The film flashes at 24 frames per second; and when shot at 30 frames per second (NTSC video speed) it appears "off" - the so-called "video" look. The same goes for details. The hyper detail in 4K cameras feels cinematic. The cinema image must be focused; but if you see pores on the face (which 4K can convey more than well), then the picture is no longer pleasant. The footage from the 80D is beautiful, focused and cinematic. I also wanted to address ALL - I'm a codec. The immediate default for filmmakers is to shoot "flat” and turn sharpening off entirely. There are two reasons for this: to reduce aliasing and moiré artifacts; and in the past, in-camera sharpness was just plain ugly. This does not apply to the ALL-I 80D recording codec, which records at impressively high bit rates (I've heard of 100 Mbit/s). Using ALL-I and in-camera sharpening at level 2, I focused the camera on anything I could find that was causing aliasing and moiré in every other camera I had (DVD bookshelf, phone cords, brick walls). etc.), and none of them resulted in aliasing or moiré. And the sharpness in the camera looks great! It no longer has harsh, crumpled lines of contrast; The 80D sharpness looks better than anything you could do in post-processing and still allows for smooth highlight and shadow fading. As for the camera's dual pixel autofocus, that's all you read about it and more. It truly sets the gold standard for video autofocus. It is fixed smoothly and precisely, without "hanging" back and forth. Anyway, that's my five cents.