Re: R7 First Shots with RF 100-500, close-up with butterflies
JayLT4 wrote:
I was mainly doing a ton of focus-bracketed shots, so mostly using the 30 FPS electronic shutter. I'm really impressed with the speed! I normally set the bracket to around 20 shots, and the R7 just blew threw them. The faster the camera can do this the better as it provides less time for the subject (or me) to move and potentially ruin the stack so this is really nice to have.
Thanks for doing this. Great to hear how this makes this type of photography easier
Also, one great thing I noticed was that the focus bracketing setting no longer automatically disabled itself after a period of time like it does on the R5. I never had to worry about needing to re-enable it throughout the day. This has caused me to miss shots on the R5 as it will disable that setting on it's own for some reason.
Hmmm. I am starting to wonder if there are more firmware updates for R5 in the works
The autofocus! Wow. It amazes me that I can say that the R7 AF is better then the R5. The way it works and the fact that tracking can be used in ANY AF mode (even single-point) is amazing. I'm sure this will come to the R5 at some point with firmware, or at least I hope so because it is a huge step up. It's also very sticky and tracks so well out of the box.
I have R7 on order, but just like you, would hope these small usability tweaks do make it back to R5
The controls certainly take come getting used to. I don't like the placement of the * button as it's very far over and it feels like it would be easy to slip off the side of the camera if you pressed it slightly wrong.
How good are button customization options? R5 is good in this area
I had no issues with the control ring around the joystick, other then remembering to use it when scrolling through and reviewing pictures...I kept trying to use the D-pad thing.
Good to hear it's just a getting used to issue. Looking forward to trying it myself
The EVF looked really nice as well. I was concerned about the overall resolution with it being pretty low, but I had a hard time telling it apart from the R5. That could be down to my crap vision though...so there's that.
Good to hear I'll cope with this too
And one interesting note is that the mechanical shutter does not seem to slow down at all as the battery drains. The mechanical shutter sounds as fast as it does at 15% battery as it is at 100%. A nice change from the R5.
I'm surprised by this, but good to hear
I'm still pretty shocked that this is a $1499 body with the capabilities that it has and when using it side-by-side with my $3899 R5.
Thanks for this, and sharing some great pics. It doesn't get better than this for FF is enough and APSC is dead crowd. A large part of the cost is clearly due to the form factor. There is a place for both and its not changing anytime soon