I've been roaming around town with my new Canon R5 Mark II to get some turkey and deer shots, but the first real test was Sunday with the Ski Jorning National Finals at the nearby fairgrounds. Simply put, ski joring is crazy people on skis getting pulled by horses. The most difficult thing to do was figure out which autofocus settings to use, particularly with skiiers going over the last jump. I wasn't able to see them until they got near the jump so couldn't just follow them with Servo. I eventually turned off eye recognition and just went with a simple center focus point.
When the R5 snaps into focus, which it does a high percentage of time, the detail in the images is incredible. The fairgrounds is right next to the airport, and I snapped this image of one of the local planes taking off. The tight crop is unresized 1800x1200 pixels, which is less than 5% of the 45Mp image. Very sharp. The image of the skiier is full frame, resized. Also very sharp. At this point I'm very happy with the R5. My only worries are disk space and battery power. The sequence of the skier coming over the jump and wiping out was more than 60 images, each taking up more than 50Mb. No buffering. I cannibalized the 6D for its battery and didn't have to use it, but it was close. With great power comes great responsibility.
This final image is one of the drones that was used to chase the competitors as they raced around the track. Very nimble. I'm not sure which model this is but it bears a family resemblance to our DJI Mavic 3 Pro. I have never tried the follow function, but on this drone it had no trouble keeping up with the racers.
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