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Some R7 butterflies

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geoffballinger Regular Member • Posts: 100
Some R7 butterflies
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Received my R7 at lunchtime and it happened to be sunny so I crept out for an hour to play with the summer butterflies on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh.

Minimal setup - Av, RAW, spot, OVF simulation - otherwise defaults.

Prior to today have been using an 80D for my butterflies so that is my comparison. I had tried my R previously but it was just too sluggish.

First impressions are that it works pretty well. Of the various issues discussed on these forums I did immediately notice two:

  • viewfinder switch-on delay when bringing the camera up to my eye
  • spot AF sometimes refusing to find a small object in the foreground e.g. a butterfly on a grass stem. Worked round by nudging with manual focus and once it found it it then behaved over multiple refocus attempts.

Neither too intrusive and in general the whole experience was very rapid which is what you need for nervous butterflies in windswept grass.

Main challenge in post was getting hold of DPP, had to use my EOS R's serial number to download it since DPP doesn't yet appear under the R7's support page, and then updated to the latest version that supports the R7. Also then using DPP when I am used to DXO, but all I was really doing was crop/compose and a little boosting of shadows etc. so I survived.

small skipper

ringlet

small skipper

meadow brown

small skipper

Lots of things to try through the rest of the summer, especially wrt subject AF and focus stacks, but a good start.

 geoffballinger's gear list:geoffballinger's gear list
Canon PowerShot G7 X Canon EOS 80D Canon EOS R Canon EOS R7 Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM +6 more
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