roby17269

Maybe Canon will hear you out :-) The above I wrote is just my opinion and desires... I am sure that Canon have been thinking long and hard at the priorities to make RF lenses, although their ...

Someday maybe they will. It took Canon a loooong time to deliver an EF 85mm f/1.4. The 50mm f/1.4 was not a good lens (at least my copy was bad). Right now I think there are way more higher ...

I've never used the 2 50mm 1.2 side by side, so keep that in mind. I have used the EF one on Canon DSLRs (5D mkII and 1D X) and the RF one on a R5. I sold most of my EF stuff before or soon after ...

Thank you for doing this - I think your taxonomy is good and I will play :-) 0 1 4 3 0 4 0 0 3 0 4 4 2 Some of the values are aspirations rather than where I perceive I am at this moment. I did not ...

Generally agree, i was mostly replying to your sentence "The cost of switching systems isn't worth the small improvement in AF" (emphasis on "small" is mine)

I'll have to disagree here. I cannot speak for all different scenarios, but for my main subject I use the R5 for (family photography, especially of active kids) the improvement going from DSLR to ...

Indeed it is as you say. I guess another advantage of the Canon's approach is that you can use 100% of the sensor for AF, while on-sensor PDAF is limited to the location of the PD pixels. Which is ...

True but it is pretty much unusable in video - I had a 5D mkII and CDAF was painfully unusable in live view, apart from taking stills of static subjects

The main difference is that Canon's DPAF uses every pixel on the sensor, while Sony's and others' on-sensor PDAF use discrete strips of phase detect sensors that mask the pixels in those strips. On ...

I am a digital baby so I do not have horror stories about film photography to share :-) My early attempts generally suffered because: (1) I was way too lenient with myself at the beginning, keeping a ...

My Hassy/P1 doesn't do video at all... but yes the R5 is really quite impressive at a lot of things

I do take my R5 when I shoot with my Hasselblad / PhaseOne hybrid 4 main reasons: (1) if I need to take movies (2) if I need to take difficult action shots

I have to say that, while I agree with the ideas in the article (the only difference being that I am not one of those who always have a dedicated camera on them), I found the delivery quite ...

My friend lives in the US and bought it from Amazon US - but he bought it as a camera + lens kit

I have a friend who has ordered an R5 plus that lens the previous week on Amazon and he has received them 2 days ago.

Congratulations! To you and to dpreview :-) I lurked dpreview for a while in the early 2000's before mustering the courage to register in 2007 :-) Before 2007 I was quite active in a ...

Thank you :)

I am not a bird photographer by any means, but here are a few I took last June in Curacao with my R5, mainly with the RF 100-500mm L but also the RF 24-240mm

Agreed! I was never a fan of the 3 EF 50 primes (1.8, 1.4, 1.2/L), I was especially disappointed with the 1.4. As a result I avoided 50mm for a while, until I got the RF 50mm f/1.2L and that opened ...

I do not think that my photography has improved, but certainly the R5's AF has increased dramatically the number of images that become candidate keepers, especially for kids and travel photography. ...