Zogdart; what are your shooting where the AF in the R needs improving?
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I love how people create an account here just to threaten to jump ship. I also love how everyone these people know has already switched from Canon to Sony, yet Canon doesn’t seem to lose market share.
When you bought the R, did you use it? If it didn’t meet your needs, why did you keep it? Were you really expecting a firmware update to make the AF perform as you want?
Dear Mazda enthusiast forum, I test drove a Miata coupe then I bought it. I have five kids and the car Mazda sold me can’t transport my family. I’m disappointed that they haven’t installed two more rows of seats in my car, if they don’t do it soon I’ll buy a Toyota. All my friends already did.
I feel like if this is enough to push you over the edge, then you were going anyway ...
Zogdart; what are your shooting where the AF in the R needs improving?
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This is true or are you joking?shoot with 2 picture focus stack and you got silent shutter
If it were not for digital, I would not haveJust waiting for the features that I find will fill my needs and challenge me in the future.(at 70, that's not asking much. LOL)
Reflecting back to my early childhood days and shooting with my Argus C3, I have developed the patience of a rock. I'm sure some of you have experienced the agony and defeat when your only perfectly exposed and composed frame came back with a scratch though it. Or burning through half a box of paper before you get all the dodging and burning perfect. The times when you had to guess the exposure for the film because the light meter didn't go that far out on it's scale. I don't even want to talk about trying to create panoramas by cutting up several prints!
We have it good nowadays.
I look back thru my photos (mostly slides) from my C3 and am shocked at how much better even a low cost DSLR can do now. Difficult to compose, focus was never perfect, and exposures were often off. Still, I treasure many of the old photos which were taken of my friends in college. I wish I was 70 again!Just waiting for the features that I find will fill my needs and challenge me in the future.(at 70, that's not asking much. LOL)
Reflecting back to my early childhood days and shooting with my Argus C3, I have developed the patience of a rock. I'm sure some of you have experienced the agony and defeat when your only perfectly exposed and composed frame came back with a scratch though it. Or burning through half a box of paper before you get all the dodging and burning perfect. The times when you had to guess the exposure for the film because the light meter didn't go that far out on it's scale. I don't even want to talk about trying to create panoramas by cutting up several prints!
We have it good nowadays.
But if you get rid of your adult children and pack in the grandchildren (newer and smaller format and probably also Mirrorless) you can fit in more!That was a joke of course. You cannot upgrade car capacity from two to five with a firmware upgrade can you.
So when someone reacts to the most mundane possible firmware update by a level of disappointment pointing towards selling two expensive cameras (and potentially other gear) you would think that to be a commensurate reaction? Of course people are entitled to express dissatisfaction with the specs of Canon cameras (I'm sure we all do), but in some cases its just an excuse to trot out well worn tropes that don't deserve much better than being 'shot down'.Why is it that when someone raised his/her dissatisfaction on anything Canon related topics, it gets shot down?
By the way, I am a Canon user since the film days. I currently have 2 pro bodies, a 5D3 & R and 5 L lenses. I have no plan to jump ship, I am waiting for the R pro as my main camera, but hoping Canon will release enhancements for the R like improves eye tracking AF etc...
I shoot a lot of magazines. French Canadian celebrities, red carpet, and also a lot models for a magazine that is similar to FHM/Maxim... so I'm pretty versatile. I would like to be able to use the face detection without having to constantly switch when I am a little to far away. it rarely work for 3/4 it often switch to the multiple box focusing on the wrong area (Torso or lower) then I need to switch back to one point focus, causing me to loose some candid moments. I was hopping that canon would have made some improvement with the 1.3 firmware.Zogdart; what are your shooting where the AF in the R needs improving?
I love how people can make a judgment on one post!I love how people create an account here just to threaten to jump ship. I also love how everyone these people know has already switched from Canon to Sony, yet Canon doesn’t seem to lose market share.
When you bought the R, did you use it? If it didn’t meet your needs, why did you keep it? Were you really expecting a firmware update to make the AF perform as you want?
Dear Mazda enthusiast forum, I test drove a Miata coupe then I bought it. I have five kids and the car Mazda sold me can’t transport my family. I’m disappointed that they haven’t installed two more rows of seats in my car, if they don’t do it soon I’ll buy a Toyota. All my friends already did.
So when someone reacts to the most mundane possible firmware update by a level of disappointment pointing towards selling two expensive cameras (and potentially other gear) you would think that to be a commensurate reaction? Of course people are entitled to express dissatisfaction with the specs of Canon cameras (I'm sure we all do), but in some cases its just an excuse to trot out well worn tropes that don't deserve much better than being 'shot down'.
OK, well, there is generally expected to be a major firmware upgrade coming in the next month or so (ie not a routine one just to accomodate a particular new lens), so perhaps that will address some of those concerns.I totally agree that there are some just plain bored and jump on forum to complained on everything. But I can’t see any big deal by expressing disappointment that the new firmware didn’t include some new features. Especially the last firmware update for the R includes the silent and eye tracking AF.
Nuh.. just use any of these instead. let kiddies and dogs travel in style, music volume to the max, soft drinks and in front of a large screen TV. While you, as a driver, enjoying the road in your very own way. And in moderationBut if you get rid of your adult children and pack in the grandchildren (newer and smaller format and probably also Mirrorless) you can fit in more!