FWIW, current Canon touchscreens work fine with reasonably thin cotton gloves, especially if you increase the sensitivity. And then there are gloves with thin metal wire woven into the fingertips specifically for use with touchscreens.
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I was wondering that, which type of touchscreen it is, only sensitive to fingers, or touch from anything...FWIW, current Canon touchscreens work fine with reasonably thin cotton gloves, especially if you increase the sensitivity. And then there are gloves with thin metal wire woven into the fingertips specifically for use with touchscreens.
True.
Besides, you can still use the D-Pad to do up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Select, Start for unlimited battery life -- CIPA standards be damned!
Solid points!Your statement implies the point of FF mirrorless is to push spec barriers or to be small. Consider a different perspective.
Comparing to the 5D4...
If you don't shoot video:
Additionally, if you do shoot video:
- Your RF lenses have a control ring that you can customize, and you can make adjustments in 1/8th stop increments now
- All your EF lenses can be rear ND or CPL'd and they all get a control ring now as well
- Your mirrorless 5D4 now has Eye AF
- Your mirrorless 5D4 now has AF points all over the frame
- Your mirrorless 5D4 will (someday) be able to adapt non-Canon glass
- Your mirrorless 5D4 + adaptor ring now costs ~ $2500 (depending on which one you get)
- Your mirrorless 5D4 now has exclusive access to an industry first zoom and (possibly) Canon's first comprehensive workhorse 50 prime.
Yes, some stuff is taken away from the 5D4 experience, but so is the price.
- Your mirrorless 5D4 now has a tilty-flippy
- Your mirrorless 5D4 can now output 10 bit 4:2:2
Stop comparing to A7. Start comparing to Canon SLRs. This thing will sell very, very well.
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I was wondering that, which type of touchscreen it is, only sensitive to fingers, or touch from anything...
Like practically all touchscreens these days, Canon's are multitouch capacitive screens. They are sensitive to conductive things such as fingers brought close enough to the screen surface. Gloves are typically not conductive and depending on thickness and screen sensitivity may or may not prevent a finger from getting close enough.
Solid points!
God forbid someone say something nice about a Canon camera. If you want to have some fun, search EOS R on youtube and count how many icons have someone doing a facepalm in it. The frothing hype around new mirrorless cameras is getting a bit silly. Well, "getting" may be a bit of an overstatement.
FYI it looks like Fro (and others) are getting subtly accused of going easy on the Canon EOS R because Canon flew a lot of youtube reviewers out to Hawaii to test the body. Fro had a podcast on it last night I think addressing the suggestion. The argument has been "maybe if Nikon put out more for the reviewers they wouldn't of been so hard on the Z7 and Z6".
God forbid someone say something nice about a Canon camera. If you want to have some fun, search EOS R on youtube and count how many icons have someone doing a facepalm in it. The frothing hype around new mirrorless cameras is getting a bit silly. Well, "getting" may be a bit of an overstatement.
I thought this was an
Not surprised those digs have surfaced.
In short, you hate the specs until you realize so many other things are really solid in this camera. Call me crazy, Canon will get throttled for specs/performance in reviews, but each reviewer will beg for 3-5 features of the EOS R to be put into the next Nikon Z or Sony A7.
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Exactly. I'd say that the Sony A7R3 is the perfect camera for me
And for some reason, no one got bent out of shape that the sensor was somewhat recycled from the A7R2 like some are now with the 5D4 sensor being 'old' to some.
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Agree with you!Jared Polin is a gimp.
This is a key point -- when the number of AF points explodes like this, discrete joystick moves (e.g. left left left left up up) become quite inefficient. This is an area where Canon has to either have a very dumbed down AF grid for course joystick changes vs. the fidelity/sensitivity/speed the drag AF allows. An analogy to using joysticks vs. mice in PC gaming when FPS games got popular 20-25 years ago immediately comes to mind here.
But I fully appreciate that some folks need something that works with gloves, works underwater, etc. so yes, I hold out that Canon might put a thumbwheel and joystick 2.0 (hopefully one with some sensitivity to it) in a bigger/higher end 5-series FF mirrorless someday.
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I think it should be possible to design a joystick with some sort of spring loading so that you push against the spring a little bit to move the AF point slowly and move it more to move it more quickly ... With a little practice it should be possible to reach any point fairly quickly ... Just a thought
And for some reason, no one got bent out of shape that the sensor was somewhat recycled from the A7R2 like some are now with the 5D4 sensor being 'old' to some.
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