Competition News: Sony Announces A9 III with a 24MP Global Shutter

[Only RF]

The R7 has enough rolling shutter distortion that I don't use ES for sports. Basketballs become oval, etc.

Yes not great for that. You can get away with it with birds, etc. You can see a bit of an elongated eye in a duck fight shot I posted but I never point it out. 3rd image.

Full-Frame - Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM Sample Images

Just trying to kick start this new forum focussed on lens sample image threads, something we have been missing here. Please do start your own thread if you can contribute other lenses, or add your 100-500 shots to this thread. Here are just a few images from my RF 100-500mm all shot with the R5.

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[SO8]

Kit is coming on so much ... I feel my R8 (so R6 ii effectively for focus and sensor) is quicker to react and lock than my R5 which is obviously 2 years older.
I still wonder about the deal I could have got for an R3 but decided on the R8 ... hmmm .... R3 Mk ii maybe with global shutter ...

 

[JoeTheSnowPlowGuy]

I have a few thoughts:

1) The R6 Mark 2 probably should have had the same sensor as the R3, even if it bumped the price a couple hundred bucks.

2) The R3 is going to be “obsolete” as a sports camera with the A9III launch so Canon has to respond. R3 Mark 2 has to come with a Global Shutter and the pre-record capability. I see that as a HUGE advantage for sports/action shooters.

3) Canon can probably match all the specs of the A9III, but that won’t do anything to set them apart. I think a huge leap ahead of the competition would be a sensor/processor combination in the 16-24 megapixel range that produces noiseless .CR3 files up to ISO 12800. I mean everything looks like it was shot at ISO 100 clean. I’m not sure that possible, but it would surely set Canon apart from everyone else.

4) Canon has to get Sigma and Tamron involved with lenses. There is a large demand for third party lenses and right now the RF platform has minimal autofocus third party options, aside from the early releases that have been pulled off the market. Consumers want to be able to buy, I don’t know, a 35-150 f2-2.8 for $2,000 instead of a 28-70 f/2 for $2800…

 

[AntonLargiader]

Hopefully Canon will feel threatened enough to add pre-shooting to the R3 through a firmware update. If the R7 can do it, the R3 should be able to.