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Canon R 5 C - video set up - please help

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
Chris1X4 New Member • Posts: 19
Re: The Canon R5C is NOT the camera For Video Wildlife Shooting on Safari

Your footage is very nice, but I'd love to ask: have you used the R5c to film wildlife that move? I don't mean this in a snarky way--I want help.

I just spent a month with the camera, mostly shooting landscape photographs and video, but also shooting a variety of animals (mostly birds and small mammals, though some antelope, moose and coyotes), mostly to experiment but with hopes of getting useable footage, and found it utterly challenging to focus the camera (in video mode) using AF when filming animals. MF is similarly challenging.

My frustrations make me wonder if either the camera is broken or I am just doing something wrong. I'm not a pro wildlife DP--I'm a director who shoots--so perhaps I am muffing things. But I've never had this issue with previous cameras.

I've been using two lenses, primarily: the RF 70-200 and the RF 100-500, which I love for photography.

I find the AF box to be part of the problem--even in "small" size it is large enough to be problematic: the camera seeks focus within that rectangle and it can choose the top, middle or bottom of it, and when using a long lens that can be the difference between sharp and blurry. I'm just stunned at the amount of out of focus footage I've come home with.

Can you explain how you generally focus when working with the camera while shooting wildlife (other than your use of peaking)?

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