It well could be that the lack of clear glass filter is influencing your AF accuracy. I have to say, just playing around in the back yard shooting hummingbirds (yes, they are VERY fast) and butterflies, I am amazed at the % of sharp shots. I have pix of the little hummers sparring in mid flight that i never would have gotten before. Almost all of my "bad" pix were me not being able to keep up with them. I still am getting 90% or greater sharp shots.
As for the customization - a different story. I am struggling to find the "best" customization for me. I have been trying different combos and it will be a while before I can be as quick with changing settings on this camera as I have gotten with previous cameras.
This camera is a huge leap forward and I'll bet the R1 or whatever it will be called will even be better. There is no way you won't love this camera!
Be calm and keep shooting!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
For any of you who are thinking about the R% here's my update. Still think this is a great camera and happy that I have one to get to know, but as Don Littlefield told me recently, "Quite a learning curve.......!" I spent an hour or so on the phone yesterday with my Canon Buddy and he walked me through menu's and menu'e within menu's that I had no idea existed, most in the AF settings. After our discussion I went out and shot some ducks and a high school kid's soccer game, still not super confident in the autofocus. I shot a thousand images, most we acceptable, a couple were pretty sharp, some not so much. I'll have an RF 100-500 for AFW next week and that will answer some of my questions. My EF-RF adapter is the one with the ND filter drop in and I'm wondering if that is influencing the AF accuracy. The clear drop in filter arrives early next week so I'll have that for AFW as well. So, still very early in the learning curve and unless something changes drastically in the next few days the R5 will not be my go to camera for the air show just because I don't trust it at this point. I have a feeling it's all just a case of working through what the camera likes for my particular shooting style, but it's definitely not like 1DXIII that you pick up, mash the shutter button and end up with 98 keepers out of 100 shots. I'll get there with the R5 I'm sure, but I never have liked feeling uncertain about. anew piece of gear. Today I'm going to put a TSE lens on it and see how it likes that. Hope you all are enjoying a little Fall weather/beauty wherever you're hunkered down, Happy Friday!
It well could be that the lack of clear glass filter is influencing your AF accuracy. I have to say, just playing around in the back yard shooting hummingbirds (yes, they are VERY fast) and butterflies, I am amazed at the % of sharp shots. I have pix of the little hummers sparring in mid flight that i never would have gotten before. Almost all of my "bad" pix were me not being able to keep up with them. I still am getting 90% or greater sharp shots.
As for the customization - a different story. I am struggling to find the "best" customization for me. I have been trying different combos and it will be a while before I can be as quick with changing settings on this camera as I have gotten with previous cameras.
This camera is a huge leap forward and I'll bet the R1 or whatever it will be called will even be better. There is no way you won't love this camera!
Be calm and keep shooting!
Oct 09, 2020 at 09:32 AM
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