I am thinking that this will likely end up being regarded as the pinnacle of DSLRs before the final push to an all MILC lineup from canon. That said, this appears to be an incredible impressive camera for the crowd it is designed for. It is also interesting that it is essentially a hybrid between old school optical focusing and newer on sensor focusing.
I look forward to hearing more about it and I suspect we will be seeing quite a few of these at the Olympics.
interesting to see when it comes down to 16 or 20 frames per-second that an EVF has some serious processing as compared to an OVF.
(meaning the light path in the electronic realm: sensor need to pick up the light info, process it... send to EVF and the EVF has to process onto screen.)
makes sense on a sports camera.
I do think the underpinnings of the future is presented as mentioned in some videos.
new sensor+digic X, cfast express cards, the smart controller(AF button).
The video section looks good except no time laps. I guess the eos R can handle this.
There is AF in 4K (needs to be in crop mode)
video with internal 4K raw recording + canon c-log. this allows for smaller rig.
There is focus peeking shown in one video.
kezeka wrote:
It is also interesting that it is essentially a hybrid between old school optical focusing and newer on sensor focusing.
Yeah, unfortunately what would have made such a hybrid work optimally would have been a hybrid OVF/EVF system. Probably would have been difficult/costly to do... but it's what I was hoping for, given this is pretty much a mirrorless camera inside a DSLR body.
The 1DXII AF was plenty good for shooting sports action, I don't think anyone had any complaints. It didn't do as well for such subjects as challenging BIF.
It is interesting to read the AF algo's have been optimized using ML, which really depends on what training data they used. I wonder if they have a giant aviary with all kinds of exotic birds from 5 continents with similar color backgrounds and complex habitat to train the AF systems for guys like me
Time will tell if it will finally track without needing the bump technique and luck or it will just latch to the BG at the critical time like before...I may borrow one and test it out, will post my impressions on my blog.
Regardless I suspect it will sell well just like the 1DX and 1DX II
speedmaster20d wrote:
The 1DXII AF was plenty good for shooting sports action, I don't think anyone had any complaints. It didn't do as well for such subjects as challenging BIF.
The 1DXII AF is not perfect, from my experience shooting field sports and ice hockey. You can do a 20-30 frame sequence and have it 'blip' a few frames. This is more likely to happen if the subject is somewhat erratic and probably also depends on the AF Case settings.
IOW, I do think there is room for improvement and look forward to giving the III a try.
rscheffler wrote:
The 1DXII AF is not perfect, from my experience shooting field sports and ice hockey. You can do a 20-30 frame sequence and have it 'blip' a few frames. This is more likely to happen if the subject is somewhat erratic and probably also depends on the AF Case settings.
IOW, I do think there is room for improvement and look forward to giving the III a try.
A few in 20-30 frames is actually pretty darn good, I'd say. I was talking about conditions where literally less than 10% of the frames in a sequence were tack sharp at 100%... It did happen in a bad day.
If they have brought the AF to the same level of even the Nikon D500, they will have a winner in their hand especially now with the light 600 III for sure!
