I am on a business visit to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and have packed my new 5DS R along with the 100-400mm II for some bird photography on the side. Now, almost any lens with any body can take spectacular photographs of birds, with every detail of every feather gleaming, if you can get close enough. What the 5DS R has enabled me to do is to extract usable images for printing in my albums from extreme circumstances.
The weather has been awful, and the birds haven't been cooperative, but the 5DS R has made it worthwhile.
1. Sharpness. The 5DS R and the 7DII have the same size pixels and theoretically the same resolution. The absence of the low pass filter in the 5DS R makes a huge difference in poor lighting conditions. In good light, you can sharpen the 7DII images well using USM or "smart sharpen" to get close to the resolution of the 5DS R. But, at high isos, the noise gets too great as it is amplified by sharpening. With the 5DS R, there is no need to sharpen and so you can use much higher isos.
2. AF. I have never had such consistent AF as with the 5DS R. There is little need to take multi-shots of the the same target, which makes up for the over-large file size and slower frame rate. The tracking of birds in flight is just so much more precise.
3. Large field of view. The 100-400 II on the 5DS R gives a 1.6x1.6 times larger field, which makes it so much easier to find and track.
I'll follow with some examples, which aren't my best photos, but are just to illustrate how useful the 5DS R is. It pairs very nicely with the 100-400 II. The light has been so bad in the main that I haven't even considered using the 1.4xTC, and I have not gone below iso640.
The weather has been awful, and the birds haven't been cooperative, but the 5DS R has made it worthwhile.
1. Sharpness. The 5DS R and the 7DII have the same size pixels and theoretically the same resolution. The absence of the low pass filter in the 5DS R makes a huge difference in poor lighting conditions. In good light, you can sharpen the 7DII images well using USM or "smart sharpen" to get close to the resolution of the 5DS R. But, at high isos, the noise gets too great as it is amplified by sharpening. With the 5DS R, there is no need to sharpen and so you can use much higher isos.
2. AF. I have never had such consistent AF as with the 5DS R. There is little need to take multi-shots of the the same target, which makes up for the over-large file size and slower frame rate. The tracking of birds in flight is just so much more precise.
3. Large field of view. The 100-400 II on the 5DS R gives a 1.6x1.6 times larger field, which makes it so much easier to find and track.
I'll follow with some examples, which aren't my best photos, but are just to illustrate how useful the 5DS R is. It pairs very nicely with the 100-400 II. The light has been so bad in the main that I haven't even considered using the 1.4xTC, and I have not gone below iso640.
Also resizing can affect moiré can't it? Either way, I'm sticking with the non-r model - I don't need to pay an extra £200 for a feature that might make things worse in critical images.
