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by Karl Egressy on Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:34 am
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Anybody had experience with this camera? It would be especially interesting to know if the focusing of flying or moving bird is better that that of Canon R7.
I have both R5 and R7 and in my experience the R5 focuses better. 
My wife has only an R7 and contemplating of buying an R10 if the focusing of it is better than that of R7. 
It is a well documented fact that R7 is not fully reliable. 
According to Jan Wegener's video, it focuses perfect on day and then focuses bad on an other day of the same subject.
Thanks, Karl.
 

by paul fletcher on Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:25 pm
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Karl - There is a review of the R10, at APC Wildlife Photography.com under "blog", heading, that is quite complete, so I hope that will
help you and your wife make a decision regarding purchasing that model. I have the R7, and have been very pleased with the
performance, especially for in-flight hummingbird photography. No doubt the R5 & R5 MK2, have superior focusing, as some other
cameras do, like the Sony A1. Several other photographers who I meet for hummingbird photography, have R5's and Sony A1's,
A9's, and other top models, and we all struggled at times with focus on the hummingbirds. ( The 33 pixels and the APSC sensor, I
find useful for photographing small birds, as well). I did not see anyone using a R10, at hummingbird photography, so I can't say
what the focus is like, although some had the Canon R6 MK2, and it performed very well.

Paul F.
 

by Karl Egressy on Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:50 am
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for the info. My wife is complaining about focusing with R7, although she is natural when it comes to BIF including Hummingbirds.
However, when it comes to BIF and Hummingbirds, she uses her Nikon D500 with a Nikon 300 mm f 4.0 with 1.4x TC or without.
Today we will have a chance to try it as my friend has it. The problem is that you cannot make a decision based on an hour shooting.
Knowing her, she will probably won't go for the R10 and will keep using the existing Canon and Nikon gear.
One day I went to CRC for a shootout. On my left, Nikon D500/Nikon 300mm f 4.0 On my right Sony A9 II with Sony 100-400 mm lens. Nikon: 100 percent keeper, Sony 50 percent keeper, so I sold the Sony camera very quickly. It might be my style but I was never successful with Sony.
 

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