Canon R3 Review: My Perfect Camera

PNad wrote:

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.

The z9 seems like a decent cam but to me, Nikon sold it at that cost to save theirselves. They’ve been losing market share and haven’t made anything great mirrorless wise, so it feels like a way to give people a “value” flagship body, if that makes sense. Colors are good, features are well thought out, but tho Ru had terrible production off the line and was virtually impossible to get. They didn’t put it in the hands of many influencers and Sony and Canon had their marketing machines on fire. Nikon needs to reconnect back with the people, but I do think it was a great camera for the Hail Mary pass that it was. I can see them inching on the competition if they focus on lenses and bring some of the z9 features to the lower end cameras.

Another thing I love about Canon is their firmware update strategy. The fact that they give you new features, codecs, and fixes frequently gives you calm in knowing they’ll usually fix some of the nagging issues and add functionality. I knew they’d fix the r5 overheating and I think they’ll fix the R5C’s battery life.. they added raw and eye AF to the c70, and more. I really think it shows Canon has enough under the hood to handle additional features whereas Sony will sell it to u in a new body. The $2700 a7IV got focus breathing compensation and animal AF in video and their flagship hybrid still doesn’t have it! No articulating screen in the a1 but a7IV and a7siii have it.. no set of standards like Canon. With Canon you’ll always get a great screen, customization, firmware updates, and I’d argue their weather sealing is way better than Sony. I’d shoot my Sony cams and run to the car when it rained lol. My r3 can probably travel to Antarctica or survive a blizzard.. the R bodies just feel so robust and good in the hand. I’m more than thrilled to be in this system now.