mikenott
Flawed but improving!
Been looking at the evolution of the Canon R3 specifications and considering whether the R3 would be better for me for general walkaround/hide photography. The question I ask myself is "Why do you need the R3, what's wrong with the R5?" and I find myself answering "not much" and indeed there are only two real issues for me with the R5 : difficulty in getting focus on small birds in shrubbery and battery life. The latter I have overcome by buying three Canon LP-E6NH batteries (£200 versus £1500+ for upgrade to R3) plus some cheaper emergency-use third party batteries. The focus issue I find irritating ( the focus area on the R5 seems to be a larger blob than on (say) the 1Dxii) but I can change to manual focus and use the magnifier to get focus and it may be overcome with a future firmware update.
Other advantages of the R3 would be build quality/ruggedness and better low light performance, but that is balanced by the R3 being heavier and having fewer/better(?) pixels. Don't want to start a pixel war in this thread!
I do very limited video - mostly stills
Just wondered what others are thinking, but my thinking at the moment is to wait and see and hopefully try one when the launch hullabaloo has died down. I think it would take quite a bit of improvement in the real world for me to make a switch.
Thoughts?
Michael
Other advantages of the R3 would be build quality/ruggedness and better low light performance, but that is balanced by the R3 being heavier and having fewer/better(?) pixels. Don't want to start a pixel war in this thread!
I do very limited video - mostly stills
Just wondered what others are thinking, but my thinking at the moment is to wait and see and hopefully try one when the launch hullabaloo has died down. I think it would take quite a bit of improvement in the real world for me to make a switch.
Thoughts?
Michael