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Canon R 5 C - video set up - please help

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
bestzoom Regular Member • Posts: 181
Re: The Canon R5C is NOT the camera For Video Wildlife Shooting on Safari

Sorry I am late in coming to the party.

I share your experience in using movie recording in R5C. I am still trying to get the best optimal setting for movie recording in video AF.

So far, I have tried the following:

1) Turned off face and eye detect. This function can make R5C struggles to focus if >10-15 metres away or at shorter distance.. perhaps eye detect is only good for interview.

2) Used large or whole area, selectable..

3) continuous AF

4) Tracking ---when find AF

5) Rent and try video AF with 3rd party prime with EF/AF adaptor. I found AF in video with sigma art prime is much faster than my RF 50 f.12 prime wide open at equivalent distance and definitely much faster than RF zoom at 10-20 feet away. I have not tried long 3rd party prime (like 300 f2.8) as I have only been shooting indoors. This is purely my own non scientific testing. Please try it yourself before getting your own copy.

6) Yes, R5 AF in movie is much better. You can turn on in body and optical stabilisation with 100-500 hand held and get decent  movie recording.

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