Thanks! Hopefully I meet your expectationsLove my R for portraits and anything else that's static. For anything moving much? Like my grandson? Just too slow for that. Congrats on the R5, my friend. I will eagerly await what you post with it and salivate as I await your impressions.
My last email update was 8/28 saying my R5 was expected to ship the last week of September. Crickets since then. I ordered 7/15.
So I emailed B&H yesterday about my 7/15 order that was supposed to ship the last week of September and this was the response. The previous email I received with an update was on 8/28:
B&H still says on their website that they expect new orders placed today to ship in November.
That would be indeed wonderful news. I'm cautiously optimistic. No party until there's camera in my hand....
I'd much rather read a 1,000 page manual than try to learn about every feature/setting for a highly complex camera via YouTube videos. To each his own.
The AF cases are pretty much the same for all the cameras that have them across Canon's ecosystem. They've put out some very helpful AF guides for the 1D X series. Here's a link to the page where you can download the one for the 1D X Mark II (Canon does not allow a direct link to the download, if you try to access it from anywhere else but the Canon support page it gives an "access denied" response). Some of the material is only applicable to cameras with mirrors and dedicated PDAF sensor, but the basic principles of the AF cases are the same: How fast you want the AF system to refocus on new objects, etc.
To each his own is more true than we’d believe. I can understand a distrust of YouTube information back in the day, or even a short while ago. However now because there are so many to choose from, it’s actually easier to sort thru the wannabe authority from those who really know what they are taking about AND know how to deliver the message/lesson.
For me, it depends on what is being shown. I feel that video works better to show things like AF cases and new features like DPAF face relighting, but less so for things like filenames and card order.
For me it has nothing to do with the accuracy or reliability of the information presented and everything to do with the format. I can read the same information much faster than someone can say it using normal speech patterns and rhythms. It's also nice to be able to glance back at previous charts/pages/illustrations/etc. with printed material than it is to try and search for something earlier in a video. I also retain visual information much better than auditory information (unless it has to do with musical pitch/harmony).