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R3+RF28-70 F/2L

Started 4 months ago | Photos thread
OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,426
Event Photographic Revolution
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The R3 is proving to be an event killer. I did a fresh eye-controlled AF calibration at Chuck E Cheese last night and gave it another shot; when you set AF Box 1 to a rate 2 smaller than default (confine/shrink it), it's a gamechanger. It works as advertised. You can think, and the camera will comply with autofocus. Really slick. I can swap from one kid to another, from a kid to a venture/object, and back again. Effortlessly, flawlessly.

Pair with an RF 28-70 f/2L, where you have 5 primes on tap?... Pair with 30FPS and a Cobalt card that can keep up?... Talk about never missing a shot. I'll even venture to say genuinely useful. Never thought I'd say that of 30FPS, always thought 14FPS on my former M6 II was too much. I've changed my mind from like it, to love it (regarding the R3).

Eye-controlled AF, when it works, is brutal. It truly is revolutionary. And 30FPS? Not a gimmick either. You capture the moment, you get the shot.

Now of the 1300 shots I took last night (thankfully all on ES, so I'm not burning up my mechanical shutter), 200 keepers. It's not that the other 1100 weren't good, I just didn't need em.

RF mount was supposed to be revolutionary, I'll say the R3 might be, just as "Goliath" aka the RF 28-70 f/2L is.

I sincerely hope eye-controlled AF trickles it's way down to lower end models, even in a smaller viewfinder, for when I don't want to bring the R3 along.

Also, the pairing of a large capacity battery, with 30FPS, and CFE, is necessary. The R3 does it's job well.

For professionals, which I am not, this is the sort of camera that makes sure you take home a paycheck. For me as a hobbyist, I take home smiles.

Need to spend more time refining the AF configuration and setup of the R3, but I'm finding it's growing on me. What I never mentioned on the forum, I almost returned the R3 after the first day. It's one of those cameras you need to give a shot, you need to be patient with and get a good calibration, get it setup to your needs. The original R was similar (but different), I hated that camera till I got it's AF system to work for me. The R3 although works out of the box, getting eye-controlled AF to work, is magical.

Sharing some shots from last night, nothing "special", but they're memories to me.

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Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS R3 Canon EOS R50 Canon EF-M 55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM Canon EF-M 15-45mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM +3 more
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