Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
absolutic wrote:
Have you tried Tamron G2 with 1.4X and 2.X TCs from either Canon or native Tamron ones? How does it do with these?
That's a good question. Unfortunately I don't own any of those so can't say. I figure if they worked well with the R then the R5 should be fine as well.
arbitrage wrote:
Thanks that answers my question and helps me a lot with my purchase decision. I think the majority, maybe all of those are good. Hummer wings are sometimes hard to tell what is motion blur and what is distortion and you always get some weird looking positions. But these are certainly not showing any of the crazy distortion you get on other MILCs in ES.
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
AF is not as fast as the 1DX3 won't mater to me but consistent is it? A good keeper rate burst shooting?
Managed to get up into the mountains for some hiking and also took some photos at ISO6400 at night. The high ISO noise is very well controlled through 25600 and chroma corrects very easily. The colors seem to hold at higher ISOs better than the 5D3. Would I shoot paid portrait sessions at ISO 25k? No. But it is definitely good enough for event photography and PJ work. AF tracking with head/eye seems to do pretty well with street light too. It held onto people walking by and to some idiots riding birds the wrong way down one way streets.
Wow! Excellent!
Claude Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Great stuff. I never shot with the 1DX III (or II). I was always happy with the AF speed of my 1DX on the 500mm f/4 II. Would you say, if you ever shot with the 1DX, that the R5 CAF for BIF is on par with that? Any experience and comparison with the Sony A9, by any chance?
It reliably locked focus on the duck's or crane's eye. Showing 100% crop and full image. Insane.
Curious was it randomly jumping between the eyes of the two birds? Or were you using user selected starting point and it was small enough to place it over one or the other. Is there any way to click left or right to tell it to switch to the other bird (like you can between left and right human eyes)?
