• Members 549 posts
    June 21, 2023, 1:09 p.m.

    I was worried about EVF lag, and that is why I was hoping for one more successor to the 7D2 (a more "professional" 90D), but lag has not been much of an issue at all. I bought an R5 and was very happy with the EVF. I really like the way that the R5 and now the R7 can identify faces and eyes and lock onto them, and AF with almost any open f-number, but there is one aspect of AF that is much weaker with these mirror-less cameras than with DSLRs; the depth in the field at which the AF can "see" is much shallower with image-sensor AF, which causes the AF system to get stuck, often losing what would otherwise be ideal photo-ops. For example, if I focus on a bird on the front of a bush 25 feet away, and it flies towards me and poses like a model on a fence 8 feet from me, a bird photographer's dream, both cameras will stay focused on the background, and act as if they have already achieved focus. Neither camera offers any kind of button assignment to nudge the AF, and many lenses have no manual focus override, or the ones that do have too slow of a focus ring speed to get close to focus in one twist of the wrist. With my 400/4DO II, it can take 4 or more turns of the focus ring!

    So, even though when focus is already close, these cameras can be miraculous compared to DSLRs, they are completely unreliable for focusing on anything that is suddenly much closer. The ironic thing is, with DSLRs, the faster your lens, the better the AF speed and accuracy, but with the R5 and R7, the faster the lens, the more likely the AF will stall when a subject is suddenly very close, because the fastest lenses have the least DOF wide open!

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    June 21, 2023, 3:34 p.m.

    That RF 24-105L is most of the time glued to our R, but as mentioned when we go light it will be swapped with one of the 24-240s
    And you right the RF version is better than both EF versions, but I have to use the EF versions on our analog Eos camera's 😉

  • Members 758 posts
    June 21, 2023, 8:23 p.m.

    Yeah, for sure. It's scientifically proven that the mirror reflects most of that magic fairy pixel dust away from the sensor, resulting in a noticeable loss of image quality.

  • Members 360 posts
    June 22, 2023, 4:22 a.m.

    You are being silly. There are valid reasons for getting better images.

  • Members 549 posts
    June 22, 2023, 12:32 p.m.

    "Mirror-less" does not just mean "without a mirror"; it also means things like "using the imaging sensor for metering and AF, and the availability of variable brightness in the EVF or LCD as a tool". Surely @davidwien did not mean the former.

  • June 22, 2023, 12:45 p.m.

    Yes! “Mirrorless System” implies more than just “without a mirror”. 😀

    David

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    June 23, 2023, 9 p.m.

    I think someone should either put a disclaimer at the start of the thread, or at least a proper definition that would hold up in a court of law as to what really defines a mirrorless camera, or, as seems traditional here, start a thread on the definition of mirrorless, and then argue for the weeks and multiple hundreds of posts as to the the meaning and intent.
    That might even make you look clever 😁

  • Members 703 posts
    June 23, 2023, 10:52 p.m.

    Actually I did own a Mirrorless Canon Eos camera a few years ago 😋
    Even before the M and R series existed

    (one of our Canon Eos 1N camera shattered it's mirror after firing a short burst (6 frames/sec) with the Powerbooster attached)

    😂

  • Members 549 posts
    June 23, 2023, 11:43 p.m.

    Did you get 7 years of bad exposure?