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

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

Rudy Pohl wrote:

As a new R5 owner I have been following this thread with interest and doing my own little tracking tests here at home as I've often done since buying the camera 3 months ago. I really don't know enough yet to add anything useful to the discussion, but I do have a question.

What would be required in order to make the tracking functions more sticky on the R5 or on most other mirrorless camera? Would it be that more processing power is needed, better algorithms, or whatever?

I'm wondering why Canon can't make some firmware improvements to these tracking functions in a camera as expensive as the R5, unless of course the lack of processing power is the obstacle. Nikon did some amazing firmware updates to the Z9.

I am getting consistently terrific results tracking and shooting birds in flight still images, but with video not so much.

Thanks,
Rudy

Hi Rudy.

My feeling is that the R5 certainly has the horsepower to run these subject recognition algorithms in real time, however Canon's idea of a major "firmware upgrade" is actually the next body release. 

We shall see what Canon implements in the upcoming R5 Mark II!

R2

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