Hi... i am using an L bracket on my 5D iV and cant do without it but i get my R this week and need a suitable one for that.. Has anyone got any recommendations of universal ones that fit okish ?
+1Secondly...I wait for all of the gizmo's to be available...like shutter releases, L plates...ef adaptors...and the drop in filters in this case...
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I can see the utility for travel of a smaller FF body and easily adding an ND to my 11-24L and TS-E 17L. I considered buying one, until I saw that availability of the variND adapter is next year.
For me the biggest limitation of the EOS R is the actual camera body. I felt like I was wrestling with the AF to get it to do what I wanted it to. I didn't feel like I was the one taking the photo...I was wrestling with camera's AF selection (face / eye...in fact most modes) and the camera's AI seemed to be the biggest issue. It's an interesting camera but in the age of auto driving cars...this kind of felt like the camera was trying to impose what it thought the scene needed. Roll on a pro version....something worthy of my attention. At the moment the Eos R feels like a questionable toy.
After using the R a couple of weeks, I can say that the AF controls and modes are effective. Face tracking works really well, and moving the AF point with the screen works. I feel confident, that replacing the touch and drag and AF with a joystick, would slow me down. Moving the AF point around with a joystick would be ineffective, and a hassle, with the number of AF-points, and AF coverage, that you get with the EOS R.
That said, I don't like using the touch and drag focus method. I set it to using the lower left part of the screen, since my thumb doesn't reach the left part of the screen, when I've set the AF area to the upper right part of the screen. On my EOS M5, I can reach and use the upper right part of the screen, and it works much better for me. So, I find the touch and drag AF a bit annoying to use, but at the same time, I don't think the camera would be better if you put a joystick on it.
The EOS R does a lot of things really, really well, but I think it needs refinement in the user interface for it to be as enjoyable in use as the 5D/1D bodies.
I hear what you are saying. I found the face / eye tracking fine with the RF 24-105, but when I switched to a 35mm f1.4 shooting at f1.4 I found it very skittish and would frustratingly jump between eyes in a very unhelpful way. I then swapped out to my 135mm f2.0 L and found exactly the same issue. After this experience, I didn't even bother with my 85L. I really wanted to like this camera, but I personally found with with my current lens bag...this camera's AF is intolerable and not fit for my purposes. I can't imagine ever putting my 400mm f2.8 LIS on this thing. I think I would bore any wildlife before I'd get it to focus consistently or where I want it to.