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 Re: Canon R3 photo thread! | |
Ditto to everything Rob said. Agree with every observation.
I’ve shit almost exclusively gulls for two days. Nothing super challenging, but the camera finds the eye faster and is much much stickier than the R5 in these situations. I’ve chummed these birds so they are coming closely.
ECAF for birds in light is probably useless, or at least not as good as the previous method I used which was jump straight to tracking across the whole frame with eye AF enabled. If the bird is way out of focus then I try to get it in focus with the center point plus surrounding points and then enable eye AF and tracking. The ECAF frequently jumps to the background if I’m not hitting the BIF accurately enough which can be difficult when panning and keeping a big lens steady.
RobAmy wrote:
A couple small review points using it so far
Faster start up vs R5
Snaps faster to focus in low light vs the R5. I set both cameras with the Rf 400mm at infinity and went to 15ft in very dark conditions and the R3 did if faster with no hunting. The R5 still did a great job but a couple of times had to hunt a bit.
Eye control works well better than I thought it would. Not for every scenario but it is a tool vs gimmick.
Still do not have the hand + with the RF 400 or 600mm like with the 100-500mm same as the R5.
I like the LCD has a dimmer vs complete shut off, wakes up faster.
All the AF settings work with eye focus. Using the center AF with surrounding points worked very well to grab initial subject then the eye AF took over and tracked across the full screen.
Near to far focus is much better vs the R5
The R3 feels just better in the hand, including buttons more so vs the grip.
Using the OVF sim makes reviewing the pictures in the view finder look terrible but on the LCD they are fine. Did not really notice a difference using it, but tried very briefly.
The AF seems to be a bit more sticky so far but again limited flight subjects.
Hopefully I will check EF vs RF and if there is any difference vs just extenders which I do like the RF better on either camera.
So far I feel everything is very refined over the R5
This has brought me back that 1dx feel I always liked, I know Canon said this is not the flagship but I feel it is better than the 1dx Mark III on many levels with a flip screen ( a big plus for me).
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