What do people want to see in the Canon EOS R1? PetaPixel gives their thoughts
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Interesting. The problem for me is recurring. Has me wondering if there is another setting in play here. I am not a specialist in butterflies but do like to work on them during our brief Montana summer. Have learned to avoid Eye AF, although I can't say it is picking up patterns on the wings. One factor I do believe is in play in MT is the wind. Today it was a canyon wind and over 20 MPH much of the time. I do have to wonder if QuadAF would help.
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Not that I agree with the stills-only group but I think that there has been greater incremental improvements on the video side than on the stills side. Or perhaps that video features have cascaded down from higher level cinema versions into hybrids now.
Stills improvements in fps/rolling shutter/resolution/IBIS/cRaw/AF but less so in dynamic range over the last few years. Are sensors hitting performance limits on the front side?
OVF/battery life are downsides of mirrorless vs DLSR and probably impact stills shooters moreso than video. Reviewing via EVF is a plus though.
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I could see a DSLR with no video.
However, Live View, DPAF, and hybrid video are probably too strongly associated with Canon at this point for them to try such a thing.
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The 1Dx3 really showed how much better DPAF is over off-sensor AF. Setting it on a tripod and using liveview got me much better pictures than using the OVF. I know dragonflies-at-dawn isn't what it was designed for, but that's what I needed it to do since the rental place ran out of R5 bodies
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Given the last R1 became the R3 , will this one become the R2? Years in the waiting expectations will be high. I think it will struggle to justify its price tag over an R3 or R5. A higher MP to 60MP most likely. After that marginal improvements, better viewfinder/back screen (flippy in some way). For me it’s focus focus focus. Is there a limit to what you can expect from autofocus. Will it be able to focus on the eye of a small bird in a tree full of leaves. Will it track a Swallow? Will it track the footballer with the ball? It’s going to be very expensive but I think it will be good but struggle to justify its price. The 1DXIII for me didn’t justify its price.
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Just use R3's to practice on?
With Canon's style of minor incremental changes to menus, ergos and workflow, the R1 isn't going to be that different.
It's a balance between wanting the newest and best body/lenses and not having much time to adapt, versus having 'old' body/lenses which you are fully trained on, but doesn't doesn't give you the absolute best AF and IQ.
You are between a rock and a hard place...
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Ignore all the blowback. You're right, of course. Canon took their best shot at making an R1, then saw what Sony and Nikon were doing with their flagships and realized they'd lose face because their R1 was a total fail, so they renamed it the R3 and sold it for a whole $500 less than the 1D X III and Sony because it was so much worse than the those flagships, and $500 more than the Nikon because it was so much worse than the Z9. At the unjustifiable price Canon set for the R3, it was in stock everywhere immediately because no one wanted to buy it.
You're right, the R1 will struggle to sell itself due to its manifest inferiority. It should be named the R0, because Canon should just give up. Thanks for showing us how much more you know about making and selling cameras than that silly little company that has somehow managed to lead the ILC market for two decades despite not having you make their decisions for them.
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