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Canon R7 and Autofocusing Performance

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MarshallG
MarshallG Veteran Member • Posts: 8,951
Re: Canon R7 and Autofocusing Performance
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I’m an R5 owner, but I tend to believe that the R7 is superior for wildlife photography unless you have a LOT of money.

My general observation is that lenses get VERY expensive after 500mm. For instance, the Canon 100-500L costs about $2,500 and it is f/7.1 at 500mm. You could add a teleconverter to that, but now your aperture is very poor, to the point of impacting autofocus. If your wildlife shooting doesn’t need more than 10x magnification, then a full frame camera such as R5 or R6 would be optimal.

But, if you intend to frequently crop on your photos because the 10x magnification of a 500mm still won’t be enough, then you will get better quality results with the sensor of the R7. In other words, an R7 straight out of the box will give you a higher resolution image than the image of an R6 or even the 45mp R5 cropped in 1.6x. The 45mp R5 camera will be a 17mp camera when cropped like an R7… but the R7 delivers 32mp!

So as you can see, unless you’re going to buy some $10,000 or $12,000 Canon lenses, if you can’t get enough reach with 500mm, the R7 is most likely going to be a better camera than the R5. And given how much I’ve spend on my R5… ouch!

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