Can Canon AF do real time tracking of objects (not just faces,eyes,cars,animals etc)?

ThrillaMozilla wrote:

I would be inclined not to trust any review that shows a camera not being able to do something, unless I knew how the camera was set up -- regardless of how "well-known and fair" the reviewer is. If they don't test your case with known settings, they might be right, or they might be wrong.

Please, no ad-hominem arguments.

You are probably aware that this wasn't the point.

What has been demonstrated by dpreview is still better than someone just posting on a forum saying "it works". Don't you think? That was the point.

And btw: If a camera is that much rocket science that it works with a relatively "generic  set of parameters" only in very limited number of use cases and needs constant (major) fine tuning, then it isn't state of the art either.

And yes, the R5 has quite a few options, but some of the issues I demonstrated in my video in this thread (see one of the later posts) are completely decoupled from the AF settings. Example: The complete failure to pick up certain elements in the scene as the desired AF reference (e.g. the wooden sticks in my vid). There are no accelerations or any sort of camera movement involved, you just can't track some elements properly or only with a low hit rate. Another example would be the ability to pick up the initial subject after it has very briefly left the field of view. In this regard there seem to be some changes in the later models, would be interestint to see if they help for non-detectable objects too (as far as I know not (yet?)).