Canon R7 and Autofocusing Performance

Kenny08 wrote:

charlyw64 wrote:

I recently replaced my 7DII with the R7, I don't see myself going back to DSLR unless I get a cheap 1DxIII because the R7 outperforms the 8 year 7DII in all relevant areas by a huge margin. The only thing I still need to get to grips with is that I have to close my left eye when looking through the EVF (that is an old habit of mine because I was looking for things outside the viewfinder view that may influence the behaviour of my subject, like other birds in the flight path or trees or....). For all intents and purposes the R7 replaces the 7DII except for weather sealing and camera body size. The new thumb wheel position requires some adjusting to but for me it is even more comfortable than the position it had from the 10D onwards...

l'm familiar with the performance of the 7DII - how do you find the overall performance of the R7. Is the EVF blackout enough to create a problem for rapid firing of the shutter?

At 15 fps the blackout is significantly shorter, at 30 fps there is none (although that uses electronic shutter and incurs the rolling shutter wrath), you may have to adjust to the way the EVF handles that, because it no longer is a traditional blackout (in most modes)...

The performance of the R7 runs rings around the 7DII, especially in autofocus performance - the buffer is about the same (in terms of time you can keep the shutter depressed before the buffer space is exhausted) if you can bring yourself to use CRAW instead of RAW and fast cards (UHS-II V60 seem to be a good break even between price and performance, like the Sony Tough M or PNY V60). CRAW drawbacks are minute, for me previously I wouldn't use anything beyond ISO 1600 on the 7DII, 6400 is about the limit on the R7 currently (may be extended to 12800 when I get more comfortable with processing the 32 Mp images)...