Canon R1 Are you planning to buy R1?

[tpatana]

Show of hands, who's planning to buy one and what's your reason over other great bodies like R3 or basically any other RF body?

Or are you still waiting to hear the price before deciding?

For me, I'm fairly certain I'll get one since I shoot lot of sports and my current combo R5+1DX(1) would greatly improve by having two modern mirrorless bodies. The shooting itself wouldn't justify the price I'm expecting but luckily my day job helps to offset any costs I have to put towards the gear.

Most likely I'll pre-order as soon as possible since I have big tournament in July. Hoping to get one for me before all the Olympics shooters snatch all the inventory.

 

[tpatana]

First full day tournament with R3. The 30fps really helps to capture the impact but also I'll end up with insane amount of pictures to cull.

• Canon EOS R3
• RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 6400

Focusing loves to jump to the faces in the background, I wish they had some "helmets" focus to replace eye-focus so it'd better know to stick to the players.

 

[Japeg]

First full day tournament with R3. The 30fps really helps to capture the impact but also I'll end up with insane amount of pictures to cull.


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Focusing loves to jump to the faces in the background, I wish they had some "helmets" focus to replace eye-focus so it'd better know to stick to the players.

I was fighting Eye AF yesterday at a taekwondo festival. It’d be nice if we could adjust the settings on Eye AF and people detection like we can almost everything else. When it works, it’s amazingly sticky. When it gets a wild hair and focuses on some random person in the background, it’s u fortunately amazingly sticky.

Since vehicle tracking has helmets as part of its visual reference dictionary (not sure of term), and people if it doesn’t see vehicles, it’d be nice to be able to set the camera’s hierarchy myself. Make a custom AF that focuses first on eyes, then helmets, then people, then whatever.

 

[AntonLargiader]

Some subjects are not suitable for eye or face detection, and you need to know when to turn it off and switch to Zone AF or something like that. I realize the limbs and weapons will be closer and they will take the focus in certain cases, so maybe try spot AF and keep it on the face you want? I don't know the best answer, but I do know that tracking isn't for everything.

 

[tpatana]

Some subjects are not suitable for eye or face detection, and you need to know when to turn it off and switch to Zone AF or something like that. I realize the limbs and weapons will be closer and they will take the focus in certain cases, so maybe try spot AF and keep it on the face you want? I don't know the best answer, but I do know that tracking isn't for everything.

They tend to move plenty so using zone-AF would be challenging. I do that on my 1DX but the R-series tracking AF seems to give better results.

 

[Japeg]

Some subjects are not suitable for eye or face detection, and you need to know when to turn it off and switch to Zone AF or something like that. I realize the limbs and weapons will be closer and they will take the focus in certain cases, so maybe try spot AF and keep it on the face you want? I don't know the best answer, but I do know that tracking isn't for everything.

Zone sucks when photographing sparring/fights/combat. Great way to ensure something is in focus, but what it will be is a crapshoot. And in the caves that so much of these sports inhabit, aperture is usually wide open so there’s little margin for error.