robert_in_ca wrote:
Nice... man she's gotten a lot bigger since you first got her. Surprised to see you picked up the R5ii after all.
Thanks, yea I was not going to get it, but the R1 is delayed until November now so I grabbed one to play around. Most likely I will sell the R5 II once I get the R1.
The owls have moved on for the most part, but I did get a juvenile flying. Following observations:
* The camera locked up several times and had to have the battery popped out. Yes the new battery.
* The camera really, really hates my Lexar 256 Diamond card, which ironically was my primary R5 card because it clears the buffer the fastest in cRaw. No problems with my Lexar gold, or the one AngelBird card. By "hate" I mean error messages like "no card in camera" or "Card not formatted" or whatever. The freezes were all with the AngelBird card.
* Pre-capture good. Used it only once because it's a pain to turn on/off.
* The viewfinder looks blurry while looking thru it to take photos, but when I take one and review it (on the same EVF), it's sharp, so I know I haven't completely lost my mind. I presume it has to be one of the million settings. I never felt like this with the old R5.
I think we'll be friends, especially once Canon issues a firmware update.
Canon EOS R5m2RF400mm F2.8 L IS USM lens400mmf/2.81/2000s3200 ISO+1.0 EV
stanj wrote:
The owls have moved on for the most part, but I did get a juvenile flying. Following observations:
* The camera locked up several times and had to have the battery popped out. Yes the new battery.
I've had the camera for a week and so far no locking up. I would not have liked it. What is it, a Fuji?
* Pre-capture good. Used it only once because it's a pain to turn on/off.
I made my general bird settings plus Pre-capture and set it to C2. So If I need precapture I just go to my C2 and it is there.
* The viewfinder looks blurry while looking thru it to take photos, but when I take one and review it, it's sharp, so I know I haven't completely lost my mind. I presume it has to be one of the million settings. I never felt like this with the old R5.
My R5M2 EVF kept going blurry the first day and a half and I kept re-adjusting the diaptor to get it sharp for my eyes. Almost as I kept knocking it off somehow. It stopped around the 3d day and so far has not repeated.
Have you checked if the diopter setting on the EVF was moved by accident?
stanj wrote:
The owls have moved on for the most part, but I did get a juvenile flying. Following observations:
* The camera locked up several times and had to have the battery popped out. Yes the new battery.
* The camera really, really hates my Lexar 256 Diamond card, which ironically was my primary R5 card because it clears the buffer the fastest in cRaw. No problems with my Lexar gold, or the one AngelBird card. By "hate" I mean error messages like "no card in camera" or "Card not formatted" or whatever. The freezes were all with the AngelBird card.
* Pre-capture good. Used it only once because it's a pain to turn on/off.
* The viewfinder looks blurry while looking thru it to take photos, but when I take one and review it, it's sharp, so I know I haven't completely lost my mind. I presume it has to be one of the million settings. I never felt like this with the old R5.
I think we'll be friends, especially once Canon issues a firmware update....Show more →
JaimitoFrog wrote:
Have you checked if the diopter setting on the EVF was moved by accident?
Yes. As I said, if I review the image, it's sharp. And I review on the EVF because otherwise I'd have to put on glasses and it's slower (added that comment). I am confident that between looking taking the picture and pressing Play I didn't jiggle the diopter, especially since I tried it at least a dozen times. I also compared to a friend's R5m2, same thing. Either it's by design or it's some setting that we both have set "wrong".
stanj wrote:
The owls have moved on for the most part, but I did get a juvenile flying. Following observations:
I think we'll be friends, especially once Canon issues a firmware update.
Nice shot Stan! That's a busy BG for sure. I know you've been mainly using you R3 for your owls but I'm curious how to felt about how the R5II handled that particular scene compared to the R5 or R3?
lighthound wrote:
Nice shot Stan! That's a busy BG for sure. I know you've been mainly using you R3 for your owls but I'm curious how to felt about how the R5II handled that particular scene compared to the R5 or R3?
I think the AF performed as well or better than the R3 in these circumstances, especially given the busy background and the fact that I'm just figuring it out. The owl flew an unfortunate trajectory, not where I anticipated, so the burst was very short.
stanj wrote:
I think the AF performed as well or better than the R3 in these circumstances, especially given the busy background and the fact that I'm just figuring it out. The owl flew an unfortunate trajectory, not where I anticipated, so the burst was very short.
Looks like it did great. Precapture working well. Maybe only lost the focus at the very end as it went by the trunk and out the bottom of the frame which is to be expected most of the time.
stanj wrote:
I think the AF performed as well or better than the R3 in these circumstances, especially given the busy background and the fact that I'm just figuring it out. The owl flew an unfortunate trajectory, not where I anticipated, so the burst was very short.
Nice! I'm not sure if my R5 would have held onto him like that with that BG.
Even though he didn't launch in the direction than you expected, count your blessings. My usual luck is the bird will turn around a fly off the opposite direction giving me nothing but tail feather shots.
In real life, from a DR perspective this is one of the harder shots to handle, especially at this ISO speed. Obviously the shadows have been heavily lifted and background crushed. The fact that it's possible makes me sleep better
1:1 screenshot of my screen for shadow pixel peeping.
Canon EOS R5m2RF400mm F2.8 L IS USM lens400mmf/2.81/800s12800 ISO+1.3 EV
I had the same sensation with looking through the EVF—it almost seemed like I had the beginning of a cataract. It was almost as if there was a slight haze to everything and my diopter setting, to get the sharpest setting, was different than all of my other cameras I’ve used. Usually I’m dead center for the sharpest photos (I have a -4.75 contact in that eye). I had to click up one or two clicks to get the sharpest shot when focusing. I’ll have to review images in the EVF to see if I get the same effect. I presumed just a had a bad contact lens or something, but will have to watch further.
stanj wrote:
The owls have moved on for the most part, but I did get a juvenile flying. Following observations:
* The camera locked up several times and had to have the battery popped out. Yes the new battery.
* The camera really, really hates my Lexar 256 Diamond card, which ironically was my primary R5 card because it clears the buffer the fastest in cRaw. No problems with my Lexar gold, or the one AngelBird card. By "hate" I mean error messages like "no card in camera" or "Card not formatted" or whatever. The freezes were all with the AngelBird card.
* Pre-capture good. Used it only once because it's a pain to turn on/off.
* The viewfinder looks blurry while looking thru it to take photos, but when I take one and review it (on the same EVF), it's sharp, so I know I haven't completely lost my mind. I presume it has to be one of the million settings. I never felt like this with the old R5.
I think we'll be friends, especially once Canon issues a firmware update....Show more →
Today was much less fun / successful with the owls: Tiffany flew three times (when I was there), and the camera locked up three times at the first frame of the flight. Locked up to the point that I had to pop the battery. One way I got it to lock up quite regularly was I have the AF-ON button programmed for Tv 1/125s auto ISO, for perched shots. I'm shooting (no pre-rec) with the button down, the bird poops or looks otherwise like it's going to go, I release and now I'm in Av 2.8 Auto ISO minimum 1/2000s, and get on the shutter again to get the flight. This is how I shoot with the R3, anyway - except here I get a freeze frame of the bird taking off in the viewfinder and that's it, I can power off the camera, still see the bird taking off, until I pop the battery. Frustrating. Three times.
Other findings: this will not replace my R3 as the owl one-trick pony. High ISO isn't so great, and it's to be expected that the R1 will track even a bit better in such low light. The R5m2 tracks owls much much better than the R5 (heck, the R5 can't get even perched ones in "typical owl light" which means absence of light), but it can't hold a candle to the R3 (when I look at the above flight sequence from yesterday, the frame to frame sharpness would have been decidedly better with the R3). So as much as I hate the 24mp of the R3/R1, a sharp owl @ 24 is better than a blurry one at 45. Or a frozen one.
Seriously, a lot of expletives today.
On the plus side, the fact that the camera focuses in "owl light" at all (contrary to the R5) such as in the shot below is a huge improvement. It was so dark you could not see this owl perched unless you could first see it in the infrared camera that I carry with me.
The blurry EVF is a real thing. Since I know it's consistent and that the actual photos are sharp, I don't really care, but it's annoying, definitely not something I observed with the R5. Cutting processing corners I presume.
Canon EOS R5m2RF400mm F2.8 L IS USM lens400mmf/3.21/125s25600 ISO+1.7 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF400mm F2.8 L IS USM lens400mmf/2.81/320s25600 ISO+2.3 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF400mm F2.8 L IS USM lens400mmf/2.81/50s25600 ISO+0.3 EV
I haven't owned a Canon since the 5DMark 2 when I shot my last professional wedding-
I just picked up the R5_2 with the 85 1.2
Walked through Portland having a few drinks .I had 100% no idea what I was doing with the camera and barely knew how to change from P mode to aperture priority. Been shooting Nikon/Sony/Leica (Lieca M mostly) ever since but this was pretty different. Love the output though! Excited to get to know this camera- Eye AF and recompose didn't miss. Something I'm not 100% used to-
Nothing special here just a fun night walking from the camera store to our favorite bar-
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/100s1250 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/400s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/3200s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/400s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/1000s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/640s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/1600s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS R5m2RF85mm F1.2 L USM lens85mmf/1.21/125s800 ISO0.0 EV
stanj wrote:
Today was much less fun / successful with the owls: Tiffany flew three times (when I was there), and the camera locked up three times at the first frame of the flight. Locked up to the point that I had to pop the battery. One way I got it to lock up quite regularly was I have the AF-ON button programmed for Tv 1/125s auto ISO, for perched shots. I'm shooting (no pre-rec) with the button down, the bird poops or looks otherwise like it's going to go, I release and now I'm in Av 2.8 Auto ISO minimum 1/2000s, and get on the shutter again to get the flight. This is how I shoot with the R3, anyway - except here I get a freeze frame of the bird taking off in the viewfinder and that's it, I can power off the camera, still see the bird taking off, until I pop the battery. Frustrating. Three times.
Other findings: this will not replace my R3 as the owl one-trick pony. High ISO isn't so great, and it's to be expected that the R1 will track even a bit better in such low light. The R5m2 tracks owls much much better than the R5 (heck, the R5 can't get even perched ones in "typical owl light" which means absence of light), but it can't hold a candle to the R3 (when I look at the above flight sequence from yesterday, the frame to frame sharpness would have been decidedly better with the R3). So as much as I hate the 24mp of the R3/R1, a sharp owl @ 24 is better than a blurry one at 45. Or a frozen one.
Seriously, a lot of expletives today.
On the plus side, the fact that the camera focuses in "owl light" at all (contrary to the R5) such as in the shot below is a huge improvement. It was so dark you could not see this owl perched unless you could first see it in the infrared camera that I carry with me.
The blurry EVF is a real thing. Since I know it's consistent and that the actual photos are sharp, I don't really care, but it's annoying, definitely not something I observed with the R5. Cutting processing corners I presume....Show more →
Stan, you may need a different card. I just checked my storage - I have 9888 images saved and a few hundred discarded, so over 10k total shots - zero lock ups. The card is old Delkin Power 1TB with updated firmware.
Regarding the R5II vs R3 tracking - I suspect it's the power hungry Ring USM motor in your RF400...
The new 8.4v battery is better than the old 7.2v one but of course it won't provide as much torque as a 10.8v battery.
....still did really well on the hummers with the Eye-AF.
