By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 10:33:35 +0000

Hi Muhammad,

The dark areas do not bother me as much as the brighter, sunlit branches and thin trunks …

with thanks and love, artie

By: Ryan Sanderson

Ryan Sanderson — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:01:14 +0000

Having used the R5 and the R3 fairly extensively, I agree with Clemens’ assessment about the AF bring stickier. I don’t think that most of the big birds are much of a challenge for either the R5 or the R3, but where I’ve found the R3 to have the biggest advantage is the refresh when shooting. The R5 shoots 20fps and therefore when shooting in electronic shutter, you are essentially getting a 20Hz EVF. This is okay, but with fast moving birds that are taking up a fairly large percentage of the EVF, they can switch directions fairly rapidly and within one frame I’ve had them completely vanish. With the R3, the 30fps shooting ends up yielding a 30Hz EVF while continuously shooting in the EVF. This 50% increase is a significant improvement and, combined with the faster, stickier autofocus, makes it notably easier to track large in the frame fast flying birds. I still wish the R3 had 45-50 megapixels, but otherwise it seems to be an upgrade in every other aspect compared to the R5 for still shooting. In bursts like this I feel like I’m getting double to triple the number of tack Sharp shots with the R3 as compared to the R5.

Both are great tools and I’d be happy to be “stuck” with either of them. 😉

Comments on: Spectacular! Clemens Van der Werf and the Canon EOS R3

By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

By: Ryan Sanderson