Canon EOS R firmware 1.4.0 now available for download
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Tried it today and it's improved from unusable to hopeless for anything smaller than a horse at any distance away with a 400mm lens. User error, obviously.
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1.4 is now available on the Canon USA site:
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Canon Support for EOS R | Canon U.S.A., Inc.
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This update gives me hope! What about the freezes after taking a picture (or sometimes at acquiring focus) ? Have they gone? I'm not talking about photo review, but actual micro freezes.
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I turned off image review and I get no freezes that I can tell. That was true for me before the update. I can still review images just like I did on the 5D Mark III or like you do on your 6D mark II. I just no longer get the review in viewfinder automatically, like I did before, right after taking a photo. I'm also in continuous AF, but don't know whether that makes a difference.
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Or turn review off. To turn off image review, go to the first Shooting menu (with the camera symbol), choose Image Review, and set the review time to Off; this is explained on page 118 of the manual.
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I tried with birds tonight, with the 50mm, so they were TINY in the EVF. Only to test AF. A black bird against a black background was difficult, but worked with the small single point, but against the brighter sky, it performed admirably . I also shot a tiny bird on a very large lawn, and I got a couple of refocuses with the larger tracking rectangle, but suddenly it turned tiny and focus was dead on the bird. Without zooming in I couldn’t see it, lol. I’m not 100% sure that eye-AF is the better option over face detect for hitting the nearest eye. Because when the square is THAT small, it can’t be as precise, more testing will follow.
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You would have no clue where your subject is going with a black out either.
Have you tried turning image review off?
This helps to keep the slide show as brief as possible ;-)
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Yes and I'm also talking about the stutter during the shot.. super distracting. It can be seen at 7.10:
This is the biggest problem that keeps me from getting an EOS R right now -> see what happens in 5.54:
Can Canon do what Sony does with the new firmware? I mean black frame interpolation instead of persisting the image during the shots.
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D'oh, I was misreading what this was.
I was reading this for some reason only as the camera processing internally the different focused images.
I wasn't thinking of it as being analogous of taking bracketed exposures.....where in this case, I now understand the camera sets different focus points as you hold the button down..
I have a macro rail system I use for macro stuff, I shoot an image, turn the screw to move the camera ever so slightly...and snap a pick, lather, rinse repeat.
I'd not thought of the camera doing that focus shifting automatically. That's interesting.
But even so, what kind of control do you have over this? How many "slices" of focus can it take and how is set up on the camera?
Even so, if I did shoot the bracketed focus like I would do a set of bracketed exposures for HDR and the like, I'd not want the cameras version of compositing them together, I'd trust the post work on that still to the computer, using Photoshop, Affinity Photo, One1RAW or something even more specialized for focus stacking....which is what I thought this whole thing was about.
LOL....I gotta start paying more attention to what I read here and less on the day job....it distracts me!!
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