PNad
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Re: Canon R3 Review: My Perfect Camera
Been using it professionally for about 8months now and I agree it’s amazing with very minor flaws/annoyances (nothing is ever perfect)
It’s cool that we can now choose different burst rates in electronic mode (I’m looking at you, R5/6, with only 1 and 20fps, what the hell?) but sadly I would have prefered the low speed to be 5-8fps instead of.. 3. So it’s either 3 (too slow), 15 (already too fast) and stupid fast 30. There’s no middle ground.
The subject recognitions are SUPER aggressive, even in single spot af. Sometimes it’s awesome, sometimes it’s annoying but luckily there’s a way to bind the recognition off with a button, took me about a month to figure this one out and before that, this was my single most annoying gripe with the R3, single spot not even on a human and nope forget it I jump straight to that face over there not even close to the af box.
Aperture Priority stuck to max 1/8000, not a deal breaker but weird, need to switch to manual or Tv to go all the way up to 1/64 000, wich is needed when shooting 1.2 in bright sunlight.
I also wish the camera wouldn’t automatically turn off exposure simulation when a flash or remote is attached on the hot shoe, maybe this can be turned off but never saw a menu setting for this. I understand why this can be useful indoor, but when mixing flash with outdoor I find it a tad annoying, I prefer seeing my ambiant light in real time even if it means a darker preview on the screen.
Price, especially when the Nikon Z9 is cheaper, the R3 is overpriced, can’t wait to see the ridiculous R1 pricing.