Renting R5 mark II - my thoughts and results vs. R7 and R6ii

[Levina de Ruijter]

I have trouble finding it or feeling with my finger, since my stroke I have less feeling on my right side, in fact I cannot feel warmth or hot on my entire right side, but my pain sensitivity for heat is greater. So it is hard to tell if I hit it or not. Right after my stroke I couldn't tell or pick out a dice in a handful of rice, there was no feeling at all.

A QUICK QUESTION: I set the AF-ON button to be Spot AF, but when I push it after it focuses the focus jumps to what ever it sees or like better. So if there is a bird inside a bush it will often jump to the nearest branch. I do have the * button to AF-OFF so I can focus and before it shifts either by holding it down longer or hitting the shutter button I can push and old the "*" so it holds focus, I don't do BBF again due to the stroke it is hard to do I find I like shutter button focus better. BUT is there a way that the spot focus can be set to stay or is it because I also have "whole area" focus set so I will be able to grab a bird anywhere?

I use the shutter button too. Switched to it after getting the R6.

Yes, you can turn off tracking for Spot-AF. You need to go into the detail page of the button in the new Olive/green menu. I'll look up my settings and post some screenshots in a bit.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

In the Olive/green menu tab > Customize buttons for shooting > AF-ON button
Select Metering and AF start
Then click on the INFO Detail set. button and change the settings you want to change for the AF-ON. Anything you leave unchecked will follow the settings in the main AF menu.

I have Spot-AF on the Star button and I have set the detail set like so:

So Spot-AF now focuses on wherever I put the focal point and it never looks anywhere else. Usually with a bird in the reeds e.g. it then finds the eye, I can let go of the Star button and Whole Area with Eye detection takes over and just focuses correctly. If it strays again, I go back to the Star button for a moment.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

@Levina de Ruijter that worked !!!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

@Levina de Ruijter that worked !!!

Yeah, and it's really handy for birds amidst a lot of clutter. I use it when shooting warblers in the reeds. It just works.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Yeah, and it's really handy for birds amidst a lot of clutter. I use it when shooting warblers in the reeds. It just works.

Saw my first couple swallows today at the pond but they were over 100 yards away and not hitting the water, that is way too far

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

@Jan1977 @Levina de Ruijter

Just set manual to full RAW and aimed out the window at the sky and a tree and help the shutter button down until it stopped, it also ran for 10 seconds! And the buffer cleared very fast! So from what I can see Raw and Craw are about the same for buffering.

153 Raw images before the buffer filled. The R6ii would have taken for ever to clear

So now do I shoot Raw or Craw? Raw gives more info I wonder if it can crop more?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

@Jan1977 @Levina de Ruijter

Just set manual to full RAW and aimed out the window at the sky and a tree and help the shutter button down until it stopped, it also ran for 10 seconds! And the buffer cleared very fast! So from what I can see Raw and Craw are about the same for buffering.

153 Raw images before the buffer filled. The R6ii would have taken for ever to clear

So now do I shoot Raw or Craw? Raw gives more info I wonder if it can crop more?

I don't know if you could crop more with full RAW. I suppose it's something you could test.

For me it's also important that cRAW files take up less space on my drives as the RAW files are pretty huge. And processing them is faster.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

True they take up more space on the PC.

On my desktop my drives are
C: 1 terabyte SSD
D: 4 TB 2 free all my pictures are here
E; 8 TB 2.5 free all my astronomy images are here


I will try a test at some point Craw vs Raw, can I see a difference. From what I have heard there really isn't

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

@Jan1977 @Levina de Ruijter

These Swan chasing a goose shots are way too far away but I am still pushing the R5ii and the RF 100-500. They were at the far end of the pond, 300 yards away. The swan in each was in focus while the goose in the second one was softer, it will be in the next post as I did it two ways.

Seems fine for social media but won't stand up to pixel peepers

First show cropped and processed in LR with Topaz AI Denoise Clear Med noise high sharp

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

second seguence first is LR and DxO Pure Raw 5 second is Topaz AI Denoise Med noise high sharp