p.5 #1 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
I’m on the latest firmware and tried it out properly today at the zoo had no issues at all, focus is fast and accurate on animals, not tried birds
R5 with EF 300 2.8 MK 2 with and without tc 2.0 MK 3
p.5 #2 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
lighthound wrote:
Looks like a good way to brick your camera to me. No thanks!
Only one outing so far using 1.5.0 and the weather wasn't the greatest nor were my subject distances. I need to test further, but if the results I got with my R5 +500II + 1.4III a couple weeks ago turns out to be caused by this FW update then I'm going to be royally pissed. For now I'm writing it off as bad atmospheric conditions until I get another chance to shoot more in better conditions.
Some of my initial tests were ok though this weekend, I was shooting in strong contrasty light off of sun angle. On a couple of flight sequences, it simply failed to focus. Can’t explain why. The images were grossly off in the evf and it happily clicked away while everything was off. More testing is in order.
p.5 #3 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
armd wrote:
Some of my initial tests were ok though this weekend, I was shooting in strong contrasty light off of sun angle. On a couple of flight sequences, it simply failed to focus. Can’t explain why. The images were grossly off in the evf and it happily clicked away while everything was off. More testing is in order.
I was clicking on distant Eagles and a couple of Kestrels I had found. I had switched over to crop mode on top of using the 1.4XIII TC on my 500 and the results out of 200-300 images was pathetic. Nothing was tack sharp in most of the frames. The weather was kind of weird where we had hazy air with overcast skies mixed with blue openings. I noticed that any frames shot closer weren't bad but at long distances things just fell apart upon viewing @ 100%. I'm really hoping it was just a bad day to be out shooting plus I was really pushing things with very few pixels left.
I did notice the AF boxes behaved a little differently when locking in on a distant eagle. It picked up on the entire wing span and created a very long and narrow AF box/strip that matched the wing span and height. I don't recall seeing this type of long and narrow AF point configuration before.
p.5 #4 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
lighthound wrote:
I was clicking on distant Eagles and a couple of Kestrels I had found. I had switched over to crop mode on top of using the 1.4XIII TC on my 500 and the results out of 200-300 images was pathetic. Nothing was tack sharp in most of the frames. The weather was kind of weird where we had hazy air with overcast skies mixed with blue openings. I noticed that any frames shot closer weren't bad but at long distances things just fell apart upon viewing @ 100%. I'm really hoping it was just a bad day to be out shooting plus I was really pushing things with very few pixels left.
I did notice the AF boxes behaved a little differently when locking in on a distant eagle. It picked up on the entire wing span and created a very long and narrow AF box/strip that matched the wing span and height. I don't recall seeing this type of long and narrow AF point configuration before. ...Show more →
If it loses the eye it goes for the torso I believe. It may have mistaken the wing for that.
p.5 #5 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
Zenon Char wrote:
If it loses the eye it goes for the torso I believe. It may have mistaken the wing for that.
Yes, it's always done a large or small cluster of AF points when a distinct head or eye isn't available, but I've never seen it go to a horizontal line of AF points like it did. It's nothing important, just something I took notice of as I've not seen that configuration before this latest FW update.
p.5 #6 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
lighthound wrote:
Yes, it's always done a large or small cluster of AF points when a distinct head or eye isn't available, but I've never seen it go to a horizontal line of AF points like it did. It's nothing important, just something I took notice of as I've not seen that configuration before this latest FW update.
p.5 #7 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
lighthound wrote:
I was clicking on distant Eagles and a couple of Kestrels I had found. I had switched over to crop mode on top of using the 1.4XIII TC on my 500 and the results out of 200-300 images was pathetic. Nothing was tack sharp in most of the frames. The weather was kind of weird where we had hazy air with overcast skies mixed with blue openings. I noticed that any frames shot closer weren't bad but at long distances things just fell apart upon viewing @ 100%. I'm really hoping it was just a bad day to be out shooting plus I was really pushing things with very few pixels left.
I did notice the AF boxes behaved a little differently when locking in on a distant eagle. It picked up on the entire wing span and created a very long and narrow AF box/strip that matched the wing span and height. I don't recall seeing this type of long and narrow AF point configuration before. ...Show more →
TDIOD, Temperature Difference Induced Optical Distorsion? Makes it impossible to get anything sharp at longer distances.
p.5 #9 · Looks like R5 firmware v1.5.0 will be out any day [changelog posted]
lighthound wrote:
Yes, that's what I suspect was happening that morning. TDIOD is a more accurate way of describing what I call heat shimmer.
Yes, we discussed the phenomenon in an other thread a few days ago. The "heat" part can be misleading as -20° is warm in a -30° surrounding and cause as bad a shimmer as any 10° temp difference.
