R7, first impressions, coming from an R5

First off, I love my R5 ! But I had several reasons to rent and try the R7. 1) I really wanted to have a backup camera. 2) the R7 gives me so much more reach, with the same lenses, and 3) at $1500, the R7 seems like a super good value.

So anyway, I took it out in the backyard yesterday for some initial test shooting, and for the first 160 or so shots, I was using mechanical shutter, and geez ! That thing sounded horrendous ! Like I was whacking a spatula on an aluminum cookie sheet ! 😮 And I could feel it through the grip too ! It's no wonder most of those first 160 shots were soft.

Is this normal ? Or is the mechanical shutter in this copy malfunctioning?

I dunno... But if Canon can't do any better than that, they should have just left the MS out of the R7... Heck I shot as fast as 1/500th, and not even those were sharp !

So I switched over to electronic shutter, with the volume set at the lowest setting... Awe 🙂 SO much nicer sounding, and of course zero shutter shock 🙂 Immediately I started getting nearly all sharp shots.... I even managed some sharp shots at 1/40 and 1/60th.

Oh I was shooting at 1280mm, F11

So I ended up taking about 1300 shots... Not the best lighting, and not paying any attention to the BG.

But this morning, I started a couple hours earlier, had great low light right behind me, and paid attention to my BG, and I think I actually got a few pretty nice, aesthetic bird shots 🙂

I will post a few of those tomorrow if anyone cares.

Took about 2000 shots today.

So yes, I've pretty much already decided I'm going to buy this camera.