Canon EOS R8 review: Capable camera, accessible price

The Canon EOS R8 is Canon's newest full-frame camera for video enthusiasts. Canon has positioned this camera as the entry-level choice for those ready to graduate to a full-frame sensor. It offers many great features at a very attractive price of just $1,500. In this comprehensive review, we'll go through our hands-on tests of the features, as well as give you an overview of the specs with pros and cons.

Let's see what the Canon EOS R8 has to offer and how it stacks up to the competition.

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Lessons from the field

5 famous directors and what we can learn from them

The best way for aspiring film directors to improve their craft is to study and learn from the works of famous directors from the past and present.

There have been many influential directors over the history of cinema. We'll analyze the works of five famous directors from different genres. These directors are masters of their genre and craft. They all have their own distinct directorial styles that distinguish them from their peers. Read more.

Creator Handbook: How to start a podcast on YouTube

So you have a podcast, but you want to do something more. Why not add a visual element and make it a vidcast? Are you wondering how to start a podcast on YouTube? Well, we're here to help.

Podcasts are another opportunity for creators to expand their brands. Adding a visual element to your podcast helps give listeners another sensory medium, which further draws their attention. By merging video and audio, your podcast will have an exciting element that might have advantages over a traditional podcast.

Video footage of a conversation allows your viewers to see your reactions and facial expressions. This is key to a strong introduction of a successful podcast on YouTube, as it becomes more interpersonal between the podcaster and their chosen audience. The video aspect creates an active understanding of the host's and guest's personalities, allowing the listener to feel personally involved in the conversation in a pleasant way. Read more.

9 things to shoot that will look awesome in slow mo

It may seem a little counter-intuitive, but in slow motion, you actually take more frames during the same period of time, so a "high" frame rate means "slow" video. Normally a video camera takes 30 frames per second and then plays back 30 frames per second. To slow down what we see on the screen, we increase the number of images that are taken each second while keeping the playback speed the same. So at 50% speed, 60 video frames are exposed every second, and when they're played back at the usual rate of 30 frames per second, it takes twice the actual time to view them. 25 percent speed means that 120 frames are exposed during each second. The result of this is that things that normally move by too quickly become visible — we have more time to experience and appreciate them. This includes both things that we have seen before, like the motion of fabric as a person moves through a room and things that we've never clearly seen, like the beat of a bird's wings. Read more.

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