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After 50 weddings with the R3's

Started 9 months ago | User reviews thread
RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
Re: Low light rating of "great"?

Batdude wrote:

noggin2k1 wrote:

Sebastian1x wrote:

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge of the R3 from … 50 - weddings, wow! Can you elaborate a bit more regarding your comment or wish for better high ISO-performance? I thought the R3 would be an improvement in that regards compared to R5.

Sebastian

I think the R3 may be a very marginal improvement over the R5, but nothing particularly noticeable.

I'm not afraid of a bit of noise at high ISO, it's more so the degradation of colours. It's by no means a criticism of the R3, as it's very comparable to the best cameras on the market in this area - more of a "in the coming years if I change my R3's or a R3 II is released, it's the area I'd want to see improvements in to make me change cameras".

I can't afford no R3, but, am a "potential" new customer for the rumored R6II which is supposed to have the same sensor as the R3.

My question to you is can you expand a little more or (provide samples) as to what you see "degraded" in the colors with this $6000 camera? I thought it was very interesting how you gave the low light capability a rating of "great" but not excellent.

One thing I have learned, no matter how modern or expensive a camera might be, the rule or expression "garbage in garbage out" always give you the same result no matter how good your equipment is. The same as a very expensive high quality Audio receiver, I don't care how good it is if you feed it poor audio quality the sound output will also be crappy. How much do you push the images in low light without flash as you said?

Thank you.

I don't have the R3 (yet) however I've noted the R5 although formidable, from the studio samples I've reviewed and real life both from others and the short time I've had, the camera has two persona's; low ISO colors/tones are incredibly saturated (in a good way), however by higher ISOs, colors are more muted than on the R6. The R5 out resolves the R6 though at higher ISOs, but out resolving in terms of resolution, and out resolving in terms of tones/color, are not the same thing. The R6 on the other hand handles low light easily, but, even at low ISO, if you need to crop at all, or even if you don't, it has that look of, sharp, in a not good way.

My thing with the R3 is I can tell it appears to retain colors/tones at higher ISOs from what I've seen, but to your point, a lot of samples out there for the R3, are in less than ideal light. Now, perhaps that's where it shines, but, it's hard to gauge its true colors remotely, pun not intended given the lack of quality low ISO shot samples, particularly with skin tones.

Ironically for being a camera targeted at wedding folks, and sports folks, I've seen quite a bit of sports samples, but zero wedding samples, except for Noggin here that is (great shots btw). Moreso, I'd REALLY love to see how this pairs with my RF 28-70 f/2L. That lens seems like it was meant for the R3.

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Canon EOS R3 Canon EOS R50 Canon RF 28-70mm F2L USM Canon RF-S 18-45mm Canon RF-S 55-210mm F5.0-7.1 IS STM
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