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Initial thoughts on moving to the R3 from Canon DSLRs

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Falxon
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Re: Initial thoughts on moving to the R3 from Canon DSLRs

expro wrote:

On eye controlled focus: I have dark blue eyes and works perfectly. So my guess is that it doesn’t work for light eyes like for example a certain dpreview reviewer!

however, I don’t use it as I find AF so fast and easy without it.

I didn’t have your problems with DSLRs as I had 1dx.

but r3 is still in a different league. So much lighter, better AF, faster, more modern, fantastic evf, ES is awesome, faster shutter speeds etc etc.

I'm still just getting my brain around it, to be fair.  I have only had it for a day or so, so there is much learning to do.  That said, it's certainly very useful without eye control active, for sure.  I have left it off probably 40% of my time with it, but since it has been so dead solid at tracking my eyes, I actually find it handy to quickly refocus with no other motion/button presses.

You're totally right that it's not strictly necessary, though.  But it does make it a lot of fun to use, and that was one of the big motivators for me to save up the cash for such an expensive purchase.

I didn't mean to overstate issues with AF in my original post, as I was still getting very nice shots with my other 2 cameras, but the hit rate (especially so on the 100-400) was just not great.  But with this, thing, golly gee!  I totally get why people say these R cameras give your EF glass a new lease on life.

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