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R3 sports settings tips vs R5

Started 4 months ago | Questions thread
OP JamieTux Veteran Member • Posts: 4,158
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Just wanted to follow up - to thank you guys for the tips again and to say to anyone else that might view this WOW

One thing that wasn't mentioned was setting the camera to be more responsive on the shutter press, that made a big difference once I'd trained myself out of pressing it slightly early.

The R3 is a phenomenal camera.  Everything is so fast and responsive and it gives photos with great detail even up to ISO 6400 (I set that as a limit, I think it could have gone higher).  Cropped results are better than I was expecting too.
The eye controlled AF worked really well for me after a few calibrations - but only in landscape, maybe it's a left eye shooter thing which means in portrait there's a lot of outside light leakage.

But everything was so fast and the speed of the electronic shutter is an absolute game changer - being able to fire off flash at those frame rates too without having the mechanical shutter slapping was a weird experience too.  And to anyone coming from an SLR - the OVF simulation is great, it made a much bigger difference than I was expecting - hopefully something like that can be added to the R5 with firmware too...

So, yeah...  I'm impressed - when I got the R5 last year I thought this was the most everything camera I'd ever used, the R3 loses a bit of sensor resolution and crop capability for large prints and you can't put a small lens on and have a discrete(ish) travel camera - but in every other respect it's a step on.
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James
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