![]() The auto eye focus was a huge pain in the butt for family group shots, so I had to change that for that shoot but the images turned out really great. I did a family photography session the next week and got much better results. I had to make a few changes to the settings as I wasn’t getting exactly what I wanted out of the camera. I used a Profoto A1X flash inside of our house and the results were good. The first thing I shot with the camera was my son’s third birthday party. That lens in the EF version had been a good lens for a lot of events I had worked so I was happy with it. I found a 24-105 RF for sale on craigslist, it was practically new and was at a really good price so I jumped on it to save myself a little money. Of course, the R5 uses the new Canon RF glass, so that means a lot of new lenses were going to be needed. But there’s a good selection of CFExpress cards out there so I could make a choice from a selection. I did have to buy new cards, which were kinda pricey. ![]() My initial apprehensions melted almost instantly. The focus system was easy to set up and seemed almost to be miraculous in how fast it could track and respond. They feel new, you know they are new, but they are just so so comfortable and familiar! The EVF is actually really amazing. It’s like putting on a new pair of Chuck Taylor’s. It was an entirely new camera, but it was familiar. So right out of the box, the Canon R5 was familiar, easy to set up and easy to use. And honestly, I was a little scared to drop the $3999 and make the switch to a whole new system. I knew what I was getting when I picked up my camera. I’d owned several of them and in spite of the flaws inherent to the DSLR, they were reliable and dependable and consistent and familiar. I had an opportunity to use a few Sony mirrorless cameras as well and I just hated the menu systems and the layouts. The Panasonics were often buggy (they were school cameras so I’m sure the students had a lot to do with that). at my teaching job, we had a lot of Panasonic GH5’s and I just wasn’t a fan of the format. To be honest, I hated mirrorless cameras. Even in bright daylight, like when the bride was walking down the aisle it struggled to keep an accurate focus. I got a lot of really great shots that I had to just throw away because my Canon 5D Mark III just couldn’t find the subject to focus in time. ![]() I had been photographing weddings and events in low lights with my DSLR and to be honest, I was really tired of the focus struggle. Back in 2020 when Canon finally announced the R5 and released the specs, it seemed like the perfect solution for me.
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