Hey Rob, what af settings were you using for the diving photo and how did the R5 perform in these circumstances? The one area for BIF I haven’t experienced yet is on diving birds and water. Care to comment?
armd wrote:
Hey Rob, what af settings were you using for the diving photo and how did the R5 perform in these circumstances? The one area for BIF I haven’t experienced yet is on diving birds and water. Care to comment?
I had it in ES, AF case 2 and Full Animal tracking with eye enabled. Hard to tell if the AF point is on the eye during the dive but definitely was on the head. The R5 does really well on dives. If I do my job following correctly it stays right with it. It also does well not grabbing the waves vs the seagull. I can honestly say this has been the best AF system I have ever used for wildlife. Amy missed the dive and she had the 1dx Mark III, I told her it was the camera not the photographer
I've been wanting to give the R5 a good test run with the Sigma 150-600mm and 1.4x tele. Grabbed this one out the front door the other day. Performance is impressive.
Dang I knew I should have not rented the RF 100-500 one of the first images of our Oliver handheld @400mm 1/50sec f6.3 ISO 1250 on R5 dang my wallet says no no but my wants say yes yes the conditions were really crappy late afternoon today a mix of smoke, fog and clouds right before it started raining in the Seattle area
Cuteness! I was lucky last evening to see the Red Squirrel baby come out of it's tree hole for the first time yesterday evening. The sun was setting but f2.8 worked wonders. I love this lens and paired with the R5
A pretty quiet day here today with unfavorable winds so only the bravest migrants, namely the geese were out. Not really tough subjects, though the R5 was tracking perfectly unlike my A7riv which would struggle at times even with slow moving birds. Shana Tova (Happy New Year's) to our Jewish FM'ers, may it be one of health, success, and peace.
armd wrote:
A pretty quiet day here today with unfavorable winds so only the bravest migrants, namely the geese were out. Not really tough subjects, though the R5 was tracking perfectly unlike my A7riv which would struggle at times even with slow moving birds. Shana Tova (Happy New Year's) to our Jewish FM'ers, may it be one of health, success, and peace.
Beautiful pictures. Which lens did you use?
I also currently have A7r4 + 200-600 and have been debating about moving to Canon R5. How's your overall experience?
