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I have been wanting to test out my new R3 for some sports shots. I went out and shot a High School football game to put it through its paces. Shot in Shutter priority with Auto ISO. I started off the AF tracking on to see how it performed. I also wanted to see the ISO capabilities as well. My last Canon body, 1DX, was stellar at the time I bought it but was looking forward to see how the R3 stacked up. The AF tracking worked superbly with my old 400mm with the adapter. In the second half I turned it off to center point focus to see the differences. For me there wasn't much of a difference because I shoot differently as I wait to see where the ball is going then grab focus. Both seemed fine in their applications. The ISO performance was amazing. Shot a few as high as 25600 to see what it could do. I do believe that the highest you can go to preserve a really nice image is 12500. I ran a few of these images through Topaz. I tried to leave a bit of noise to preserve sharpness. I was trying to shoot at a minimum of 1600 of a second. I plan on shooting again and knowing what I know now, i'm sure I will use Shutter priority and stay around 1250th of a second to keep the ISO around 8000.

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Joel

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/3.2 1/3200s 1000 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/2.8 1/1600s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/3.2 1/1600s 10000 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/2.8 1/3200s 25600 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/3.2 1/3200s 25600 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS R3 EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM lens 400mm f/2.8 1/1600s 200 ISO 0.0 EV

Sep 03, 2022 at 10:02 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · High School Football test shoot R3

Amazing set! It looks like you and your R3 did an amazing job!

Sep 03, 2022 at 11:03 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · High School Football test shoot R3

Great set J.POW. 4th is nice capture except for the clipped toes ( Nit pick..

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Do you run the Topaz inside LR/PS or as a standalone app?

Keep sharing!!!

Cheers,
IB

Sep 03, 2022 at 08:25 PM

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cs3is wrote:
Great set J.POW. 4th is nice capture except for the clipped toes ( Nit pick..

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Do you run the Topaz inside LR/PS or as a standalone app?

Keep sharing!!!

Cheers,
IB

Thank you! I ran it as a standalone on this batch because I like to layer up some to keep a bit of noise in the the high ISO captures....Then transfer both images to PS for processing. Otherwise I would just run it in PS. My next game is Thursday and I plan a way better shoot as I know what I can expect out of the camera. Thanks for the comments!

Joel

Sep 03, 2022 at 09:34 PM

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chad hites wrote:
Amazing set! It looks like you and your R3 did an amazing job!

Thank you bro!

Joel

Sep 03, 2022 at 09:34 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · High School Football test shoot R3

The hi ISO on this camera is off the charts. I do find the tracking drops heads at a distance, but as it gets closer to full frame, wow.... floors the 1Dx and the 1Dx3, both of which were incredible.

Sep 04, 2022 at 08:57 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · High School Football test shoot R3

Great job! I've been wanting to try out the R3 to see how it handles rolling shutter distortion in football. I've also heard that it's a little quicker to grab initial focus, wake up from "sleep", and it tracks moving subjects (framing - no blackout).

Sep 04, 2022 at 09:20 AM

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cocodrillo wrote:
The hi ISO on this camera is off the charts. I do find the tracking drops heads at a distance, but as it gets closer to full frame, wow.... floors the 1Dx and the 1Dx3, both of which were incredible.

Agree with the ISO. As far as the tracking, I also agree....I am using an old version EF 400mm 2.8 with the RF to EF adapter. My friend had told me that some people who were using this combination while shooting high speed were having problems grabbing focus quickly after panning over to get action somewhere else other than where you started. In other words, with a RF lens there would be no delay. I don't have any native RF glass so I cant compare. With that being said I still think I can adjust my shooting style to accommodate this deficiency. The price point of the new RF glass that I want is pretty hefty and I don't shoot enough and or make enough to justify the purchase.

Thanks for commenting

Joel

Sep 05, 2022 at 07:49 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · High School Football test shoot R3

A nice set. That R3 performed really well ... or is it the photographer?

Sep 12, 2022 at 01:56 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · High School Football test shoot R3

Really nice work, thanks for sharing.

Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37 PM

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arjen_m wrote:
A nice set. That R3 performed really well ... or is it the photographer?

Thank you! It’s the R3!

! I’m still learning the camera.

Joel

Sep 13, 2022 at 03:45 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · High School Football test shoot R3

kreegerk wrote:
Really nice work, thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much!

Joel

Sep 13, 2022 at 03:45 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · High School Football test shoot R3

Nice set. Good to see tight cropping that eliminates negative space.

Sep 18, 2022 at 07:36 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · High School Football test shoot R3

schlotz wrote:
Nice set. Good to see tight cropping that eliminates negative space.

Thank you!

Joel

Sep 18, 2022 at 05:43 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · High School Football test shoot R3

Great images!

Sep 21, 2022 at 09:59 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · High School Football test shoot R3

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Sep 21, 2022 at 12:18 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · High School Football test shoot R3

pulper11 wrote:
Great images!

Thank you!

Joel

Sep 22, 2022 at 06:44 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · High School Football test shoot R3

The one consistent stand out in nearly all these shots is the face/eye captures. I offer you a well deserved pat-on-the-back for your efforts.

I also use the R3 for sports and intend to shoot volleyball soon. I too will be switching my focus point to see what works best. I'm fairly familiar with the sport and have spent hours in dimily lit gyms to get results. I'm hoping to see if my hit rate will improve with the R3_ and based on your results with footbal and high ISO's, I expect it to.

Thanks.
Tom

Sep 22, 2022 at 03:12 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · High School Football test shoot R3

Quicksetter1 wrote:
The one consistent stand out in nearly all these shots is the face/eye captures. I offer you a well deserved pat-on-the-back for your efforts.

I also use the R3 for sports and intend to shoot volleyball soon. I too will be switching my focus point to see what works best. I'm fairly familiar with the sport and have spent hours in dimily lit gyms to get results. I'm hoping to see if my hit rate will improve with the R3_ and based on your results with footbal and high ISO's, I expect it to.

Thanks.
Tom

Thank you Tom. I am very happy with the performance of the R3. I just got the RF 70-20 and the hit rate is much more than with the EF glass with the adapter. It's a noticeable difference. I took this shot of my son below with it...Its is crazy sharp and I have a sequence of about 60 shots which are all razor sharp with focus lock on him as he is going in and out of traffic.

You can see the original here, https://www.joeltpowell.com/Sports/i-M6qn4gJ/A

Joel

Canon EOS R3 RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM lens 200mm f/2.8 1/2000s 100 ISO 0.0 EV

Sep 25, 2022 at 08:35 AM


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