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Canon R7 or R8 for Bird Photography

Started 2 weeks ago | Discussions thread
koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 919
Re: Canon R7 or R8 for Bird Photography

OlcayK wrote:

[...] On bird photography we don't know much about the af performance of the r8 but I think it would have slightly better af. Jared polin posted a video about testing r8 af in a basketball game and it look amazing. [...]

I think the 'snappiness' of AF is proportional to the sensor readout speed. When I shot with both an R5 and rented R7 during vacation, the R5 AF seemed quicker and more responsive, but the new (mostly software) options in the R7 made it better at detection and tracking.

The R8 would inherit the pretty fast readout from the R6II, combined with the latest AF software. I'm very excited to test that!

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