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R5 Autofocus settings coming from 5D Mk IV

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
OP sssanti Contributing Member • Posts: 727
Re: R5 Autofocus settings coming from 5D Mk IV

Laqup wrote:

sssanti wrote:

Tracking works very well with the R5, much better than with the 5D IV. You can easily set your subject and the camera tracks it very closely. My only issue is about button customization in a very narrow situation.

Don't confuse tracking with subject recognition. The latter one is mostly "single cycle base" with not much of a temporal component (if at all).

Do you have the feeling that tracking on a subject that is not of type" "People" / "Animal" / "Vehicle" works well with the R5?

E.g. set your subjec to be for example a bottle on your table. Move your camera a bit (Pitch, Roll, Yaw) -> Selected subject will most probably be lost entirely or wandering on the object + changing size of the focus area (depending on the general "AF mode" and settings for stickyness and acceleration results will vary).

Now do the same with Nikons tracking and be amazed. Much better implementation. Your description in your original post sounds like you are in search of this kind of tracking. ("With this, I can select the subject with a single point and start tracking the subject with servo by pressing the AF-On button.").

Take a look at that example:

https://youtu.be/M9KFtf_xHYo?t=109

Have you ever achieved anything like this with the R5? And this is "only" demonstrated on a Z6/Z7 (and not the Z9).

My tests with the EOS R5 so far have shown excellent subject recognition, excellent AF (to get the detected subject in focus and keep it in focusing even while moving) but some oddities as well (tracking implementation is questionable, EVF not great in some lighting conditions). If someone has some hints to mimic the tracking behavior shown in the video above please let me know. The somewhat "bad" tracking performance is being highlighted in the DpReview hands-on with R6 II, guess the same applies to the R6 and R5.

I only have limited experience with tracking settings of the R5 and no experience with Nikon cameras. I can only say that compared to the 5D IV, face tracking is a huge improvement.

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