-= Canon EOS R7 owners unite! Post photos and discuss.

I think the R7 and I will be friends.

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395720
I think the R7 and I will be friends.

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you can absolutely see the chemistry between you guys

Clough wrote in post #19395603
I’m also hoping for some insight on this camera with the Rf 800 f11, and possibly with a 1.4 extender! A big white Rf 800 would be awesome but the pocket book says different ha

I don't have that combo, but I've used the RF800 at 1600/22 with the R5, which, based on Canon's stated AF sensitivity is the same as ~1120/16 on the R7, and it crawls a bit with low-contrast subject matter, and/or very low light, but in direct sunlight with subject contrast, it pretty much jumps into focus if the change in focus distance wasn't large.

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395720
I think the R7 and I will be friends.

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Are you finding the AI AF to be better than the R5 in crop mode?

Peter2516 wrote in post #19395646
Pinhole and PCSteven thank you for posting images. You 2 just made me more excited . I will pair this with 600 II and 100-400 II shipping status is showing ETA is July 1 and I am out of town from June 29 to July 5 . Hopefully gets here on June 28.

I’m guessing we both got the same deal via a Cpricewatch. I have same expected delivery date, but things sometimes sit at customs (my R6 was delayed by almost a week) and with the holiday weekend I’m not holing my breath…

John Sheehy wrote in post #19395758
Are you finding the AI AF to be better than the R5 in crop mode?

I think so, for the cases I've looked at today where I have good light and larger apertures. Yesterday, when I tried I had a bit more trouble with hunting. Especially at small apertures. When I tried the RF 100-500mm + 1.4TC I felt it was slower than the R5 for sure. HOWEVER, it was with the camera basically all default. I stopped by the side of a creek on the way between the camera store and my office, close to noon at 30+ degrees C and looking for subjects in the shaded area.

Today I mostly looked at larger apertures in the f/4 to f/7.1 range, but mainly f/4 - f/5.6. The DLA for the R7 is f/5.2 so was trying to keep the aperture on the larger side. My interest is really more pixels on subject at larger apertures and avoiding TCs. I think from quickly looking at some of the files it seems to do the job. I get a bit more crop in post possibilities than with the R5 in crop mode. But not too much. Have to do more careful test to see how far I can push.

What the R7 has that is better is the AF system from the R3. Just the flexibility with zones, tracking on/of, etc in the customizations. I feel the acquisition to be faster for BIF than the R5 in good lighting conditions. I assigned the AF-ON button to the middle zone with AI AF for Animals + Eye Detect and tracking on, the * button on single point with no subject detect or tracking, the main shutter button on whole frame AI AF for Animals + Eye Detect and tracking on. Most of the time the main shutter button did all I wanted. The zone helped in some situations where the bird was far and smaller on the frame and the spot when I wanted to focus on the bird further away, I would use the * and then switch to the shutter button and it would grab the one in the background.

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395794
I think so, for the cases I've looked at today where I have good light and larger apertures. Yesterday, when I tried I had a bit more trouble with hunting. Especially at small apertures. When I tried the RF 100-500mm + 1.4TC I felt it was slower than the R5 for sure. HOWEVER, it was with the camera basically all default. I stopped by the side of a creek on the way between the camera store and my office, close to noon at 30+ degrees C and looking for subjects in the shaded area.

Today I mostly looked at larger apertures in the f/4 to f/7.1 range, but mainly f/4 - f/5.6. The DLA for the R7 is f/5.2 so was trying to keep the aperture on the larger side. My interest is really more pixels on subject at larger apertures and avoiding TCs. I think from quickly looking at some of the files it seems to do the job. I get a bit more crop in post possibilities than with the R5 in crop mode. But not too much. Have to do more careful test to see how far I can push.

What the R7 has that is better is the AF system from the R3. Just the flexibility with zones, tracking on/of, etc in the customizations. I feel the acquisition to be faster for BIF than the R5 in good lighting conditions. I assigned the AF-ON button to the middle zone with AI AF for Animals + Eye Detect and tracking on, the * button on single point with no subject detect or tracking, the main shutter button on whole frame AI AF for Animals + Eye Detect and tracking on. Most of the time the main shutter button did all I wanted. The zone helped in some situations where the bird was far and smaller on the frame and the spot when I wanted to focus on the bird further away, I would use the * and then switch to the shutter button and it would grab the one in the background.

wouldn't the shutter button as whole frame defeat the back button focus? Or since I will be coming from the 90D, once it locks on do you switch to whole frame by holding the shutter button halfway down?

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19395805
wouldn't the shutter button as whole frame defeat the back button focus? Or since I will be coming from the 90D, once it locks on do you switch to whole frame by holding the shutter button halfway down?

Yes, you have the right idea. Once the subject I want is in focus (somewhere on the body, close to the head if big enough in the frame for me to aim easily) then half pressing the shutter button the whole frame AI AF takes over, and usually (not 100% of the time) latches on to the subject that is in focus.

A couple more from today.

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395811
Yes, you have the right idea. Once the subject I want is in focus (somewhere on the body, close to the head if big enough in the frame for me to aim easily) then half pressing the shutter button the whole frame AI AF takes over, and usually (not 100% of the time) latches on to the subject that is in focus.

Do you ever just use front button focus (shutter)?

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395812
A couple more from today.

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Very nice...would love to see that lens on the R7. Does it feel too unbalanced?

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395438
These again with the 100-500. First only color match and "auto" processing in LRC. The second through Topaz NR Standard, all auto.

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This looks pretty good at 6400......Is this cropped Do you have a 100% view ??

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19395814
Do you ever just use front button focus (shutter)?

Yep. Most of the time. I only use the two back button options when the front shutter fails to acquire the subject or in tricky situations where I think it will have trouble.

umphotography wrote in post #19395832
This looks pretty good at 6400......Is this cropped Do you have a 100% view ??

I think there was very little crop on this one. I had posted this link earlier, but here is a link to some CRAW (.CR3) files from the R7, including that one, I think.

https://www.amazon.com …SQ.J16ygspt3k0R​JSlhzk14To

So you can see for yourself.

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19395860
Yep. Most of the time. I only use the two back button options when the front shutter fails to acquire the subject or in tricky situations where I think it will have trouble.

That’s pretty much how I have set up my R6. I always used full BBF on my DSLR’s, but with the R6 saw no need for that any longer.