Does anyone use their R5 for anything other than BIF and wildlife? Don't get me wrong, the images are nice, but who's using it for portraits, lifestyle, etc.?
Have you compared the APS-C mode to cropping down from FF? I am curious as to how useable the APS-C mode really is vs just cropping a FF image.
BTW is that kingfisher on loan from Tony/Imagemaster?
arbitrage wrote:
...the crop ability of the R5 is impressive....I've included two full images to compare to the crops. The Turkey Vulture was shot in APS-C mode....
Poefolk wrote:
Does anyone use their R5 for anything other than BIF and wildlife? Don't get me wrong, the images are nice, but who's using it for portraits, lifestyle, etc.?
Well what's funny is that when people post pics of their grandkids (taken with whatever camera) the response is typically "I could take a photo like that with my iPhone. Try taking pics of hummingbirds a quarter of a mile away at dusk against a busy background like I do to see if your camera can cut it."
bobbytan wrote:
Have you compared the APS-C mode to cropping down from FF? I am curious as to how useable the APS-C mode really is vs just cropping a FF image.
BTW is that kingfisher on loan from Tony/Imagemaster?
APS-C mode and cropping in post will be no difference in IQ. When I know I won't even fill APS-C I will always switch if I can just to cull faster in LR and save on storage. I do this all the time with my 61MP A7RIV files and I did it somewhat with my 45MP D850 files. I even sometimes do it with my A9II because then the bird is magnified in the EVF and yet the single focus point stays the same size so I can place it even more precisely on the eye area. The magnified EVF in APS-C is a nice feature for using the camera as a spotting scope also
And actually that KF was very close to Tony's house so it could be one in the same. I saw Tony earlier that day at our first location we tried for the Pygmy Owl...first time we've ever met in person
Poefolk wrote:
Does anyone use their R5 for anything other than BIF and wildlife? Don't get me wrong, the images are nice, but who's using it for portraits, lifestyle, etc.?
Right there with you. Really hoping to see more landscape or astrophotography images to better understand how the camera handles low light, shadows, higher ISO, better DR, AA filter, etc. That will be the other side of my photography for me (versus birds and wildlife) and help me determine if and when this will fully replace my 5DSR.
I really love the eye focus of my new R5 but as others here have mentioned you don't always need it. I was sitting on the ground focusing on one of the young male hawks, when the young female just glided out of the tree and landed about 8 feet away. I had to shimmy back on my butt to get it to focus.
Still waiting for my R5 but I hope to take it to the Grand Teton and Yellowstone, and/or Death Valley this Fall and Winter. My first birding trip will be to Bosque del Apache in January. Between now and then I will visit the local bird sanctuaries. It's white tail kite (food transfer) and burrowing owl (catching June bugs) season right now, so I hope it's not over before I get my R5 and 100-500L. For landscape work I will probably just use the 24-105L and do a pano-stitch if I need a wider angle field of view.
Hathaway wrote:
Right there with you. Really hoping to see more landscape or astrophotography images to better understand how the camera handles low light, shadows, higher ISO, better DR, AA filter, etc. That will be the other side of my photography for me (versus birds and wildlife) and help me determine if and when this will fully replace my 5DSR.
Poefolk wrote:
Does anyone use their R5 for anything other than BIF and wildlife? Don't get me wrong, the images are nice, but who's using it for portraits, lifestyle, etc.?
I’ve taken bad pictures of my children with my R5 and my old 135mm (bad in the sense that they would hate it if I shared them) and Eye AF worked great and I loved the IQ. Speed slows down with that oldie, but I don’t care. Haven’t taken a serious picture with my 24-105mm yet, as my MFT-oriented mind for anything but birds, is still trying to grapple with the notion that an f/4 lens covering a normal range can be so d*****d heavy and large.
Poefolk wrote:
Does anyone use their R5 for anything other than BIF and wildlife? Don't get me wrong, the images are nice, but who's using it for portraits, lifestyle, etc.?
Haven’t had mine long enough to have anything good enough to post... initial impressions only.
For casual portraits and walk around it blows away my 5D4.
AF against backlighting is worlds better than any option on the 5D. Eye AF is sticky and accurate, especially if your subject is looking at you with their eyes open. Speed over 5D4 live view (which I used for f/1.4-1.8 focus away from center) is dramatically improved. IBIS helps with shake on fast primes. DR improvement is very noticeable.
My guess is we have a lot of BIF and wildlife because this is Canon’s best-focusing AND fastest FPS camera with APS-c equivalent reach. Plus not a lot of portrait and lifestyle shoots happening yet, I don’t think.
I've been working a lot and it has been slim pickings as the small birds have been hiding, fattening up before the fall migration. Had a couple of Sandies who I could get within 60 yards with the 500 f/4 IS II and the eye tracking was simply stellar. Occasionally, when they would turn their backs the box would drop to the rump but the moment the head swung around, the eye box returned. Not much in the way of BIF though a Killdeer was kind enough to be flying around a 100 yards away. Too far and too small for eye focus to work (though I've caught a GBH with eye tracking from this distance) but the tracking was amazing. Small bird, far away, not bigger than a couple of focus squares and the camera nailed it. For BIF, the R5 rivals my a9 though on the a9, it would have been little more than a blob.
crop ~25%
crop ~50%
This is how far away the Killdeer appeared in the frame
Tom_W wrote:
Incredible capture, absolutic. What lens, settings, etc., if you don't mind.
Thanks, I always try to catch these dragonflies in flight, but almost never able to do it successfully because pretty much all cameras have problems focusing on them and if they, these guys are gone. I've rented and I am testing R5 since last Friday and I am trying to throw as many scenarios at it as I can, to see if i really really like it and want to have it alongside my A7R4 and 7DM2.
This shot I was lucky that this particular dragonfly decided to stay in the air long enough for my pretty slow focusing Sigma 100-400 C to find focus. 1/1600 and wide open at F6.3. I did replace the sky since the original sky was quite boring:
