Agreed. Since my main interest in eye-af is for sports shooting, there is simply no way I could or would use the rear screen for composing and following action.
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Personally I agree, I have tried but I am too old a dog to learn that new trick
I'm not saying I could use the technique just that I am seeing more and more people, amateurs and pros, doing it.
Thanks, I'd never call myself a 'portrait' photographer just a generalist, but I end up doing portraits of all kinds more than, say, landscapes.
the great thing is, canon have already cropped you in on 4K so one less thing to worry about.
Don’t forget there are still some things they haven’t told us about so could be more. Sounds like a decent camera to me though - but I see what you’re saying about the 4K. They might be saving some goodies for the pro range of R’s.
Thanks Click, ever the gentleman. But I really only posted them to try to illustrate the problem of pigeon holing camera types, I deliberately posted a studio portrait with studio lights from a studio in Florida, a travel environmental portrait with natural light from Guatemala, and a location portrait shoot from an island in the Caribbean with Speedlites, just to show the very varied way I use 1 series cameras.Great portraits. Well done, PBD.
I also shoot sheep dog trials, kiteboarding, horse racing, food, real estate, products and anything else that will earn me an income, and the best tool for me and the way I travel has proven to be the 1 series.
Just goes to show that it's a tool. A very flexible one, in this case, but the results are up to the user.
BS. Do you use the R? Or just watch videos of people who do? I've had one since the day it was released. The touch bar is crap. Even disabled, it's crap because it takes up prime real estate on the camera. Also, annoying because it displays a UI when you rest your thumb on it, again, even while disabled. I agree it could be a cool input, but it is just not well excecuted at all. There's a reason it's not on the RP or any other camera from Canon.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, (just like I love the idea of the trackpad on the Apple TV remote) but it's all in the execution.
So despite the number of people posting setups that allow them to make great use of the touch bar, because you haven't tried any of these or found them to be unsuitable for you, the thing is objectively bad?
If you say it is not for you, fine. But you come off as saying it isn't for anyone, which is clearly not the case.
Only if you consider a camera that has no way to control external flashes a "better" camera than one that can.
wtf really?! Can't use it while flipping?! that sounds really annoying and not thought to the end? Or I m missing something?!
you could keep it on camerabag untill too dark shoot with optical wievfinder or when truelly needing silent shutter
you can't use a tripod when you need to move around. a lot of action/sports photography requires you to move around (and react quickly to changing scenarios)
yeah its become common to shoot that way but with much smaller mirrorless cameras
