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Jeff Nolten wrote:
Let me expand a bit on what the R7's tracking brings over older AF systems. One merely has to look at the R7 image thread to see that people are happy with its movement tracking ability. Another advantage that I've discovered is letting the animal face and eye detection find the critter in the first place. My dogs chased a determined squirrel away from our bird feeder into a nearby bush. I had my R7 handy and its AF found and locked on the squirrel face even though it was partially obscured by foliage. For flying hawks I use the entire AF area and let the camera find the hawk, a focus approach I've never used before.
Face detection AF isn't fool proof. We were photographing bears, eagles, and sea otters on our recent Alaska trip. I was using my 5D4 + 100-400 II and my wife was using the R7 + RF 100-400. For bears and otters, unless one was very close, there wasn't enough contrast in the eye or facial features for specific detection, especially bears. It found the bear and locked on easily enough but in the same manner as a mirrored AF system. OTOH for eagles, harbor seals, and other birds the finding and locking worked beautifully. The keeper success rate and image quality was actually the same between the 5D4 and R7. We would have come home with lovely images just using either camera. The only keeper flying eagle image I captured was with the 5D. But bird and most animal focusing is much easier and faster with the R7. It is my new critter camera. If we go back I'd have my own R7 and the 100-500. For landscapes and travel, the mirrored AF works as well as it ever did and is still very capable for wildlife....Show more →
I used Zone AF quite a bit with my DSLR’s for BIF. Single point as well. I could not go back to a camera without faceeye detect. For static objects you don’t have to move the AF point around, just compose.
I could never keep the AF point on a flying birds eye so it’s awesome there as well. As for your eagle shot attempts did it just not focus on bird itself? I’ve set up my BBF buttons to pre-focus on the subject If camera is failing to isolate it. For example the AF-ON is set to Single Point AF and I just need to get that anywhere on the bird and then release the BBF. The eye usually snaps in. * is set to Zone AF for more AF points to work with.
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