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Canon R7 and Autofocusing Performance

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dwkdnvr Regular Member • Posts: 263
Re: Canon R7 and Autofocusing Performance
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Honestly YouTube is your friend here - there is a ton of content on the R7 for birds and wildlife. Duade Paton is where I'd start, but you'll have lots of other content suggested from there.

Generally, the R7 does very well - it inherits the R3 system which in theory is better than what is currently in the R5.  Recognition and tracking work well.  BUT it's not perfect, and there are annoyances. In particular

a) it has a greater tendency to lose the bird and jump to the background. this is likely due to slower readout of the R7 vs the R3 or R5. Dual BBF can help mitigate this by setting up both tracking modes and spot modes to allow you to manually re-focus on the bird and go back to tracking.

b) behavior with 3rd party lenses seems to be variable, although this seems to be a broad problem with R bodies, not just the R7. Lenses like the Sigma 150-600 exhibit fluttering or pulsing which impacts performance. The R7 seems to actually be better than the R6II for example.

I've never used the 7DII, but my impression is that despite the variability most feel that the R7 is a big step up from the 7DII in terms of performance and keeper rate.

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