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r3 eye control looks like a game-changer (again)

Started Nov 2, 2021 | Discussions thread
Steve Balcombe Forum Pro • Posts: 15,571
Re: r3 eye control looks like a game-changer (again)
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CWaterston wrote:

The ability to move the focus point with your eye, half press for focus lock, and full press for taking the picture may sound like a minor improvement, but will probably be so useful in practice that it will tempt r5 owners to think seriously about adding this body or foregoing the 45 mpix to get the feature in a 24 mpix body.

Not many R5 owners will be willing to switch to a 24 MP camera, even for eye control and the many other highly desirable features of the R3. It's not that 24 MP isn't enough - it's plenty for many applications - but those who are happy with 24 MP would surely have bought the R6 for a considerably lower price, especially as it has exactly the same AF as the R5. So the question becomes, would they now pay well over double the price for eye control AF?

What do you think? To me, almost totally eliminating the need to select a focus point initially or to switch it instantly on the fly opens up great creative possibilities. Example: shooting a model in the foreground and then looking at the background person/object instantly to take a photo with the foreground subject blurred--all within a second or two--expands creativity.

Models will appreciate this as much as photographers, as anything that removes the annoying "hold on just a second" instruction from the photographer (while fiddling with focus point)

Does that really happen? I don't do that sort of photography, but I've watched plenty others and I don't recall them keeping models waiting while they fiddled with focusing points!

will allow a much more natural working relationship and free up the photographer to concentrate less on the equipment and more on pose and framing and composition.

I try not to get excited about camera features, but honestly this is one that will, well, make photography fun again.

I don't think there is any doubt that eye control is a game changer, and I look forward to its arrival on the R5 Mark II. I just don't see too many people giving up half their resolution for it!

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