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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · R5 & R6 Vs R3, R3, R7 & R6II menu differences | |
That's funny because other than sports, I use spot AF point nearly all the time because I find all the other points huge in comparison. For sports I use the 5-point option (central point surrounded by four expansion points). Most of my non-sports work is either people related events where I use spot AF to basically land on the person and then switch to face detection (if there is more than one person in the scene), or it's static natural/urban landscapes where I have ample time to move the AF point around (and often use magnification to confirm it's actually focused where I want it).
Yesterday at a football game on a second R6 with a 70-200, I used the wide horizontal zone AF box for close action grab shots. It will generally focus on the closest object but if it sees a face or detects that it's a person, seems to prioritize that. It worked pretty well for WRs jumping for passes in the corner of the end zone, etc. But sometimes it would pick up the defender behind them instead, perhaps because their face was recognizable whereas the receiver's face was turned partially away to look back at the incoming pass...
ChrisHA wrote:
Coming from a long line of 1D bodies, I like the separate tracking on/off capability (tied to the user defined focus area) on the R3 so much that I’m having a harder time adjusting to the recently acquired R5. Could Canon easily update the R5/R6 with firmware? Wishful thinking, I know. I guess I’m doing the same workaround as Scheffler (one BBF button programmed for One Shot and the other for Servo)? It feels like a step backwards in my situation and a pain for those who shoot with multiple bodies/menus.
Based on the R6 that firmware update is called the R6II. Not a big surprise, IMO.
I hear what you're saying but I'm happy with how I set up the R6. It doesn't really bother me that subject/face/eye detection is full area because I have it set up to pick up from my manually set AF point tied to the AF-ON button when I press the * button. That said, it could be a different matter if I had an R3, 7 as well. It's a reason I always liked getting two of the same cameras for seamless switching between the two during events, games, etc.
I started my mirrorless tests with the R3 and R7 and maybe didn't have enough time with them to really get a proper feel for how this difference in subject detection is implemented. I kind of didn't mesh with it on those cameras. I've found the simpler implementation on the R5/6 is OK. What I don't like about it on the R5/6 is the inability to switch eyes (or faces) after the camera locks on a face and finds an eye to focus on, because often enough it's the wrong, far eye, for some reason. I'm hoping the AF algorithm in the R6II is improved.
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