CANON EOS R3 AF test3 : Fast moving Swift | liewwk Nature

Spend another morning for test one of the most difficult photograph objects, swift and swallow.

*** I will updating all the swift AF test here.

There are some setting that I change for this fast moving object which I think it may affect the performance

CANON R3, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, EF 1.4x TC III

AF area (whole sensor)

AFC, eye-control AF off

Drive mode: H (15fps) and H+ (30fps)

AI Servo (AF-C)

cRAW and use DPP straight convert to JPEG and resize.

No CROP

Len set to >10m which anything near than 10m will not be focus

no feeding, no fix location/direction for the bird. Everything here just a bird flying and I just point my Len direction and lets the camera lock the focus (on bird) and track by following the flying direction

few test, trying to show

i. near object

ii. far object

iii. flying at same Background (Green, sky)

iv. flying cross various background

– can see below, the birds will flying crossing sky, water surface, green etc

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test2: far away with small objects fast moving actions

-CANON R3, CANON RF600mm F4

– all AF setting tracking sensitivity, Accel./deccel. tracking are set to Auto

– M mode, ISO Auto, Shutter Speed 1/2000, F5.6

– full screen focus area

– Hmode

– Subject tracking – ON

– Subject to detect – animal

– eye detection – OFF

– cRAW, direct save from DPP (beta). without any process

– Handheld

– everything happen within ~1s

– each picture  ~100% crop picture show..

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test1: Dull background to Bright Green background

– all AF setting tracking sensitivity, Accel./deccel. tracking are set to Auto

– M mode, ISO Auto, Shutter Speed 1/1600, F5.6

– full screen focus area

– Hmode

– Subject tracking – ON

– Subject to detect – animal

– eye detection – ON (may be need to be off for far object, while the DOF should cover the bird and most probably can get faster focus capability)

– cRAW, direct save from DPP (beta). without any process

– Tripod and video head

– everything happen within 2s

– each picture with 100% crop picture show..

 

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CANON EOS R3 AF test2 | liewwk Nature

I am glad to given a chance to have a unit CANON EOS R3 to have a series of test on Birds/Nature Photography.

As for other camera, I plan to have series of tests which related to Tropical forest birds Photographer concerns eg. ISO performance, AF performance, Raw files dynamics range etc.

After days of basic understanding the camera (actually it is like a upgraded version of my old CANON EOS 1dxm2). I will try share other view of the camera later in other posts, here lets share one of the major concern : AF performance.

For this test, I am using

CANON EOS R3

CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2

CANON 1.4x TC III

No feeding, No nesting and no idea what bird flying to/from which directions. Just base on what you see and trying the Camera capability to focus and capture.

Setting

AF area (whole sensor)

AFC, eye-control AF off

Drive mode: H (15fps)

AI Servo (AF-C)

RAW and use DPP straight convert to JPEG and resize.

No CROP

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Test2

Test1

 

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Birds Watch/Photograph tour feel free to

contact me

观鸟或拍鸟团  您可

联络我

or

HERE

 

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