melgross said:

When you say: “get the most out of”, then you’re saying the body with the highest IQ. Do you think that will be an APS-C body?

traditionally, APS-C has NEVER been at the high end, once FF came out. It’s a compromise product category, which as I said earlier, is why you don’t find high end lenses specifically made for it by the major camera manufacturers.

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I must respectfully disagree with that statement about bodies with crop sensors being inherently inferior to a FF camera. It was for a reason that Canon put the 7D series in the same league as the 5D etc. with the best tracking system and the same level of weather sealing' and general build quality as the 5 series.

To me, a lot depends on what one is using the camera for. In many cases, the larger sensor will beat the crop sensor for light sensitivity, wide angle use etc. No argument there. However, as one who shoots with super telephotos at long range, the crop factor is an advantage for the pixel density. I might add that my interest does not just lie in birds, but macro predators from which one wants to keep a respectful distance.

If I shoot an image with the FF sensor and crop it to get the same FoV as the APS-C sensor, it will reduce the pixel count by a factor of about 2.5. That is significant if one needs to crop more. So it's about pixel density at long focal lengths where the high-end crop sensor comes into its own. If I have a FF sensor and an APS-C sensor with the same pixel count, I can crop the APS-C sensor much more than the FF sensor and still get a decent number of pixels, and to me that has value.

The 7D series is getting long in the tooth, but even at 20MP, it is the same pixel density as cropping a FF sensor of around 50MP to its FoV.

If they could create an R7 with a sensor similar to that of the 90d, tweaked for mirrorless, and with the same features as the R6 as regards IBIS, AEAF etc, it would give me a big advantage for shooting at the longer range. Absolutely NOT for everyone, but there are a lot of long lens shooters out there, so I think there is a market.

As to the M7... What I want in a camera is a decent size and a battery grip using the standard R-series LP-E6 battery format, to be able to provide some balance for a long lens, portrait controls and good battery life. Then, I want an integrated EVF - I have tried the clip-on ones and they are bulky, fragile and use up the flash mount. Third, I want weather proofing. So for me the M7 fails on all of those elements. Something with the physical, IBIS and focus attributes of the R6, (I don't shoot video) but with a good size (34MP+/-) APS-C sensor and able to take RF lenses would work for me.

Makes sense...if they can catch Canon owners slouching toward Sony or Nikon, they intervene before it’s too late.

As I look at the framed print of the harbor, I think the lack of sharpness gives it additional charm. It is like a painting.

I might think to look up the metadata. It suspect that the shutter speed was slower than what was needed for hand holding. Even with my G5X II these days, the stabilization and the greater tolerance for higher ISOs would have taken care of it. I took good pictures with it after dark of Venice from my balcony on a moving ship handheld.

I was curious if the R5's 4K 120FPS was noticeably better than the 1080 120FPS on the R6 so I did a quick test using my R70-200 a small car and a cheap display spinner.

I also talk about my VERY simple workflow for creating stock footage in Premiere Pro.

Del Paso said:

I did it without difficulties for my MF Zeiss 50mm Macro Planar (which has an electronic interface).
But obviously it doesn't work with for instance fully "electronic-free" lenses (Leica R).
Edit: did it also for the Zeiss 21mm f2,8, EF mount.
PS: manual lenses of course don't autofocus after "AFMAing" them, but the green focus-ok LED in the viewfinder shows you if the lens is properly focused.
If you prefer, in this case, call it "FMA"

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I did the same to all my zeiss lenses to get the confirmation to be more accurate.

I preordered one. While the IQ was as expected for the price, my issue was that my large hands had a difficult time holding it. It just kept slipping out of them. I never dropped it, but I felt uncomfortable and decided I'd never use it. I sent it back after a week or two.

The tiny sensor did require that the scene be bright to reduce noise. I now have a Galaxy S21 Ultra. I'd say its good at 10X. At 100X, its not much use.

I have had good luck shooting the moon handheld with the 100-400mm II without a TC. Obviously I had to do a lot of cropping, but the lens has remarkable stabilization. But with a couple of teleconverters, that’s a whole different ball game. The full moon fortunately is in bright sunlight even if you aren’t. It’s too easy to lose detail to overexposure. So you have the advantage of not having to crank up ISO without TCs.

Michael Clark said:

Perhaps it would have been better to say:

"Another video of the R5's capability in bad weather?"

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As the title is right now, it's a neat passive aggressive click bait. Without the ambiguity, I would not have checked the thread and video out to confirm that it was indeed about good capability in bad weather

Chiming in late, but as a near future R5 user, I was looking at this topic. In a previous life, I was a windows administrator. I wrote this script to take files from an card card and move them to a directory with format c:\pixtemp\YYYY.MM. It then opens the directory and launches photoshop It's my fastest drive, so I edit from there and move later.
Save as a .bat file. Of course, your drive letter will vary.


for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/, " %%a in ('date /t') do set strdate=%%d.%%b
md c:\pixtemp\%strdate%
md c:\pixtemp\%strdate%\jpg

for /f %%f in ('dir /s /b e:\*.cr2') DO @move /y %%f c:\pixtemp\%strdate%
for /f %%f in ('dir /s /b e:\*.jpg') DO @move /y %%f c:\pixtemp\%strdate%
for /f %%f in ('dir /s /b e:\*.mov') DO @move /y %%f c:\pixtemp\%strdate%
explorer c:\pixtemp\%strdate%
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2021\Photoshop.exe"


I do have a question...does the R5 work as a storage device, where I can assign it a drive letter when connected with USB?

Nice work, gave a thumbs up, commented and subscribed.

Chaitanya said:

Even I am confused it has been good 4-5 years since Samsung ia also advertising Dual Pixel AF on their topend phones and all white papers they published talk about same tech as Canon.

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Google's line of Pixel smartphones also advertises dual pixel both in the name and technology, but use sensor from Sony. Sony apparently also has a patent on split photodiodes. Given how prominent Sony sensors are in smartphones, there are probably many more out there.

I've never found any explanation how it can be that basically everybody can use DPAF, and yet only Canon does it in ILC.

A user on another forum that I’m on, posted that he received his GO II system on Thursday and has confirmed that the transmitters do record while transmitting. But you can only stop the recording by turning the transmitters OFF. When they are turned ON, they automatically start recording(if you enable the option with Rode’s computer app). And it’s just a continuous loop, meaning that when the memory is full, it begins overwriting the oldest portion of the recording. There are separate tracks created every time the transmitter is turned ON/OFF, but being a continuous loop recording system, you could lose your back-up or at least a portion there of, if not careful/mindful of how long it’s been on.

cgc said:

Well, I don't know the reason of the "blue" layer preventing touching the screen. It occurs both with an old Google chrome (version 72.0.3626.121, no addons) and the latest Kiwi Browser (with some addons).

Finally I have managed to browse the site (Xiaomi Mi8) by blacklisting fumblingform.com in my phone DNS.

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That's interesting, I have no idea what fumblingform.com is. I'll ask Admiral about it.

EOS 4 Life said:

I predict the A7 IV will have a 12 MP sensor and shoot 4K video up to 120 FPS.
There will also be six more Sony cameras with those exact specs.

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year right. i can see it being like 30 or 40 something mp.

"Sony has introduced bird AF in the a1. This is a nice feature. However, it feels like this mode is in beta. The bird AF in the Canon EOS R5 and R6 is miles ahead of the a1. The a1 will indeed detect a bird, and a tracking box will be placed around it. If you’re close enough, the Sony a1 will track the bird’s eye. However, the tracking is erratic and not very accurate. With the Canon EOS R5 and R6, the cameras find the bird, then the eye, and the tracking stays locked on the eye almost all the time."

telemaque said:

Well they responded, but it was the usual blabla...
Very polite answer, also very corporate "we are carefully listening our customer needs" bla bla.

However, they were polite enough to respond and I appreciated their effort.

I just hope at the coffee break they looked at my message and had some laughing session and agreed it was a bit sad to see the problem fixed by an unknown person when Canon experts did not... Obviously, this laughing session can not be officially expressed.

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Ha :-D

Jeah, I guess thats about what happened ^^
With companies THAT big I always doubt that they actualy listen to single customers, even when we do come up with excellent ideas...

I understand the Super Takumar 85mm f/1.8 or the f/1.9 are very good. Unfortunately, that's one I have yet to own.

Antono Refa said:

I'm not that familiar with indiegogo. As far as I understand, the campaigner needs to present a paper describing the project, risks, etc, and starts a campaign. If he reaches the desired sum by the deadline, he gets the money, and... doesn't have to deliver anything, refund the money, or prove he actually did anything.

If so, I understand exactly why companies would go that way. They get paid in advance, and can abandon the project half way through, and pocket the other half as profit, all that without the bank or investors looking into it.

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I'm surprised they went with indegogo....when comparing it vs Kickstarter, It seems to be where things are that are a bit more sketchy...at least to my experience and views.

Joules said:

I'm not the Canon engineer designing the features, so what point is there in me speculating about these questions? If they can't figure out a way to make the technology usefull for certain users under certain circumstances, they won't implement. If they do implement it, there will still the options that we are used to for those users or circumstances where the new implementation isn't usefull. It will of course be interesting how they go about the design aspects and challenges like those you name for example in the finished product.

I just don't see how adding features and options (that you don't have to use) can take away from the art. You can of couse be of the opinion that the tool used to create it, or the understanding of this tool, are part of what makes the art valueable. I don't see it that way, but even if you do - there has to be an individual limit of how much you care. Is art lesser if AF is used? Is it lesser if a certain method for selection of AF point is used? Is it lesser if the user doesn't understand how AF is aquired on a technical level?

For me, art requires an idea and is the product of this idea being realized through some tool. Depending on how concrete this idea is, deep knowledge of the tool and how it affects the result may be required for the artist to create the desired art. But having a tool with more options should only enhance the chance of the artist having just what they need at their disposal and therefore being able to focus more on the art and less on the tool. Your view on this is certainly valid, I just don't understand it based on what you've written so far. Maybe you aren't even concerned with the point about art that slclick raised originally and I commented on in the post you quoted.

Or maybe I just didn't make it clear that I think dials and joysticks can't be replaced properly by this alternative control method for all users and use cases.

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You have raised some very valid points here, the biggest one being, IMHO, offering the feature is one some people might enjoy. Others, still, see no use in it. So, turn it on, turn it off. Since you are not saddled with having to employ eye controlled focus, I see nothing wrong with having another option at one's disposal. Enjoyed your post.

padam said:

I disagree with that statement wholeheartedly, it is only their tools which are different, but all companies are doing essentially the exact same things openly, whether people notice them or not, like Sony still using the same screen from several years ago, no matter if is their newest, most expensive camera.

Other instances:
Yes Sony now has three cameras with a 12 megapixel sensor and all of its features.
But it is 12MP so what you gain in video, you also loose with regards to stills. You need to buy at least one more additional model, and it's not like these are very cheap for 12MP.
They already had a very powerful 24MP camera with good video in the A9 (and later A9II) but they had to limit it with no picture profiles to make room for other models.

There are other models like the A7III A7RIV A1 and they all have various bits and pieces missing.
And no, I don't foresee an A7IV being as good as an A7SIII either. It will be a strong competitor to the R6, but no more than that.
The so-called hybrid camera always miss something, they do everything at a certain level, just not on the top level.

I am starting to think it is better to have one camera solely for video without having the struggle with ND like a BMPCC6K Pro or a Canon C50 and another solely one for stills and maybe some limited video capability is enough to work as a backup.

1080 120fps is coming on the R5 with a firmware update.
The main limitation other than skipping cropped RAW video options (I am sure the camera is capable of recording it) is the poor thermals.
On the one hand it was deliberate on the other it would have made the camera even more expensive so it would have angered buyers who are looking at it as a stills camera first, video second.

So it is not particularly hard for Canon to simply copy the FX3 concept and make a camera like that with the R5's 8K sensor, that would be much more of a departure from the R5 than the FX3 is from the A7SIII.
That is its biggest weakness and the reason why some reviewers are confused by it, it is nice, it just not that different overall.

Point is, cameras are no different than other electronics, sooner or later you will see something better.

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The 12 MP thing is like the 20 mp thing for the 1dx ii. it helps for the purpose of the camera based on current standards at the time. 12 gets you better low light and no line skipping for a camera people will buy for video. 20-ish mp is good for sports shooters that need high fps more than megapixels. The A7 no S is marketed for people that do both photo and video and has features that make it good for both. Yes it is the little things., I have seen Sony doing it lately with their cameras but my main focus is video. When it comes to video features they make weird omissions across the board no matter the price. the biggest example is the c200 with no 10 bit. Even after years of people demanding it, it had no 10 bit, but they give the prototype camera. the EOS R 10 bit output. I got the camera for 1$299 and it has 10 bit output but not a camera i paid $7500 for and peopel demanded it for years. Make it make sense.

oldageadventurer said:

Our self drive 2020 trip to Kruger National Park March - May was shorter than usual because of Covid. We had to return to JHB & remain there until overseas flights resumed after 6 weeks. We have no idea when our next trip will be possible

We have today just completed adding the photos from that trip to our website

2020 Photographic Safari - Africaraw

This year, was of course very eventful, with the SA Covid 19 Lockdown cutting our 3 month intended stay in the Kruger Park to 2 1/2 months. We started our trip in Berg en Dal & visited numerous camps ( Crocodile Bridge, Pretoriuskop, Skukuza, Lower Sabie, & Satara) as we slowly worked our way...

www.africaraw.com

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Nicely done!!

I note the animals are violating all of the mask mandates.

The monitor, I believe, is a Nile monitor; water monitors live in SE Asia. [However, I can't exclude the possibility that they might be called "water monitors" locally--which would make me wrong!]

(I saw a water monitor crossing the road once in SE Asia, and kick myself to this day for not having a camera with me. However, it would have been a "through the windshield" shot and those rarely work out well.)

LEICA Q2

Canon Rumors Guy said:

Continue reading...

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if they bring a nice 11mm lens with that in built led light ring that the macro lens has in the EF-M range then would be awesome but needs to be weather proof to be useable as so many great gimbals like the dji om 4 which are all great options. But weather proof is the only area all the gimbals fail in and if its just a lens then surely this could be why they have gone this route?

Blackmagic
URSA Mini Pro 12K​

What a beast of specs....

Every opinion is worth considering. I suspect that the expectations of some are extremely high and others not nearly so and as a result we read criticism or praise not knowing if it's realistic. It's easy for me to imagine that my 1DX2 is essentially useless unless I reflect on what it has given me over the last few years rather than what I missed. What is clear, whether people love or criticize the R5, it's speed of focus is so much faster than Canon predecessors and for me that's where most of my failings lie. I do have concern about the issues just raised because I have almost exclusively been a single spot point shooter and that's where the 1DX2 has shone relative to my previous 6D. Many criticized the 6D buttons/layout but I never found them to be very problematic but have found the 1DX2 joystick to be clumsy slow.

Jack