Playing around in the back yard. This dog refuses me to let me take photos of her. She literally runs away when she sees the camera, so it was a good test of the animal eye AF!
arbitrage wrote:
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)?
In this particular case it was more or less random based on which bird was actually looking at me. I had it on Auto because I was lazy. However if you have it on "selected starting point" you can choose pretty reliably in my experience. To the best of my knowledge there's no way to switch between birds, which seems like an omission - either by Canon, or by me not reading the manual
Just happy it isn't worse! Sounds like a second or third batch to me... seems reasonable and not at all the rumored months-long delays. Excited for eye AF and IBIS, but fine waiting another month after so many years.
drimer wrote:
Just happy it isn't worse! Sounds like a second or third batch to me... seems reasonable and not at all the rumored months-long delays. Excited for eye AF and IBIS, but fine waiting another month after so many years.
I was told by a larger retailer in Canada that Canon Canada has told retailers that just to fulfill the current number of placed orders for the R5 will take till end of September. But he said their next shipment should be in ~2weeks (and that was last week he told me this). So sounds like shipments are happening every couple weeks. I guess we will see soon if more people get shipments.
RobAmy wrote:
A couple from our yard with better light
I want your yard. Your skill too of course, but I'd settle for the yard, and then I'd practice. I can sit in my yard all day long and all I see is some rocks and the occasional brush fire.
Skill? I don’t see anywhere in the R5 manual where it says some skill is required to use this camera. I thought you just set it for auto, bird-eye, sight the bird in the VF, press and hold down the shutter button ... and the camera will do the rest. No? I should cancel my pre-order then. Somehow I got this impression that the R5 is an advanced P&S camera for pros and amateurs alike.
stanj wrote:
I want your yard. Your skill too of course, but I'd settle for the yard, and then I'd practice. I can sit in my yard all day long and all I see is some rocks and the occasional brush fire.
Why do you say 'fairly well'? These shots looks great. What made the camera only perform 'fairly' well?
Over the past few days, I've realized that my main needs for my bird photography are three-fold (and yes, my needs are kind of limited):
- at Conowingo, focus instantly on an eagle about to catch a fish and tracking that eagle consistently (only my D500, my 1DX and my A9 have done this without hesitation);
- at State Line, focus and track a peregrine falcon taking off (my A9 was king in this regard)
- at State Line or in tall grass: track a flying bird against a busy background (A9 the best; the others ok).
I'm not the best at tracking myself, but I want to be the weakest link. In the end it comes down to whether with the R5 and the 500mm f/4 IS II I'm wasting my time freezing at Conowingo or whether I can trust to get mostly keepers as long as I don't screw up.
Andrew J wrote:
rainy night heron
Beautiful shots! How are you liking the R5 on your 600 version two with and without teleconverters? I have the same lens and shoot with a 1DX3 and just curious the performance with this lens and they R5. How is the drive speed in both mechanical and electronic shutter?
butterfly2937 wrote:
Beautiful shots! How are you liking the R5 on your 600 version two with and without teleconverters? I have the same lens and shoot with a 1DX3 and just curious the performance with this lens and they R5. How is the drive speed in both mechanical and electronic shutter?
Thanks, I love it. I put over 70K shots on my 1dxII and I feel this is much better in almost every way. Two little things, small battery and some extra heat with stills. I am convinced Canon will do some heat improvements or the aftermarket will pick up the slack. The drive speeds/buffer are great even with just fast SD cards. The 1.4x vIII makes no difference in performance on the 600 or 300 2.8L vII.
arbitrage wrote:
I was told by a larger retailer in Canada that Canon Canada has told retailers that just to fulfill the current number of placed orders for the R5 will take till end of September. But he said their next shipment should be in ~2weeks (and that was last week he told me this). So sounds like shipments are happening every couple weeks. I guess we will see soon if more people get shipments.
My dealer told me the same thing. Shipments every two weeks or so.
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 →
Did you use mechanical shutter or electronic shutter for these shots and what are your feelings compared to the 1DX3.
johnvanr wrote:
Why do you say 'fairly well'? These shots looks great. What made the camera only perform 'fairly' well?
Over the past few days, I've realized that my main needs for my bird photography are three-fold (and yes, my needs are kind of limited):
- at Conowingo, focus instantly on an eagle about to catch a fish and tracking that eagle consistently (only my D500, my 1DX and my A9 have done this without hesitation);
- at State Line, focus and track a peregrine falcon taking off (my A9 was king in this regard)
- at State Line or in tall grass: track a flying bird against a busy background (A9 the best; the others ok).
I'm not the best at tracking myself, but I want to be the weakest link. In the end it comes down to whether with the R5 and the 500mm f/4 IS II I'm wasting my time freezing at Conowingo or whether I can trust to get mostly keepers as long as I don't screw up....Show more →
Sorry I should have been more clear, by fairly well I meant it did well for the conditions, if I had better light if would have been even better. A few shots lacked detail due to the poor light and we had a little haze. Amy was using the 1dx and had similar issues. Another guy was shooting there and commented on the strange light. I am actually pleased that I came home with any that I liked for the conditions. No complaints here with the R5. In this light it had a little trouble tracking with the Animal focus, seemed to do better with the AF zones. First time I even did not use the Animal focus since I received the camera. I think this will be great with the eagles, I had the EOS R at conowingo and managed many shots with it, this is better in every way.
