Camera test 37
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right/left tap option set, this means you can go straight to the set limits without having to go through the intervening values. The problem, for example, is if you select ISO 800 and thenunintentionallyhit the right tap which is set to ISO 3200 you find yourself at the higher setting without meaning to be. It proved annoying so I turned off the right/ left tap options but left the swipe working. Eventually, I gave up using the M-Fn bar for ISO and tried it for focus checking but then I found myself looking into a magnified image when I didn’t want to, so I just turned it off completely which is frustrating because this area of a camera is prime property. To be fair, Canon’s touch bar is a neat idea but to me it wasn’t usable. I’d be much happier with a simple command dial and a better placed AF-ON button. Perhaps I just time to appreciate it.
Another control I’d like changed is the on/off control. Canon has kept it away from the on/off collar around shutter button idea – maybe because that’s where Nikon places it – but it seems the best place for it because it allows you to turn the camera on while bringing it up to eye and shoot with one hand. Canon has gone for a lens based image stabilization system, and it is true that over the years it has been effective. But times and expectations change so it is a bit of a surprise that the EOS R system also uses a lens- based system, especially bearing in mind that full-frame Sony and Nikon Z models use in-body image stabilization (IBIS). With the new R mount and its claimed superfast communication skills you might have thought IBIS would be present – but maybe that will come in future models. As it stands the EOS R relies
Canon’s touch bar is a neat idea but to me it wasn’t usable. I’d be much happier with a simple command dial
Above Image quality is very impressive. Here the 50mm f/1.2 was used at 1/125sec at f/2.8 and ISO 100.
Performance: exposure latitude
The exposure latitude of Raw files from the EOS R was tested in a varietyofsituations.Thissetofshots of Kew Gardens’ Palm House was taken on a clear sunny day with the EOS R fitted with the RF 24-105mm zoom. Manual mode was used and the scene manually bracketed from the starting exposure which was 1/500sec at f/8 and ISO 100. Full Rawmode was used in this case and the files were exposure corrected in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
Overexpose your Raws by +4EV and unrecoverable, flat highlights and strange colour casts will result, but at +3EV you can pull back a decent result with tone in the highlights and detail looking great too. There was a minor cyan colour cast in our test shot here but that can be defeated with editing. The +2EV and +1EV Raws looked the same as the correctly exposed shot, so this is a very decent performance with overexposure.
With underexposure, a similar high level of performance was seen, although noise was visible in the -4EV and -3EV shots. In the -4EV shot the noise did affect fine details and there were false colours in the shadow areas, and this was less evident in the -3EV image. Less severe underexposure was handled well and the recovered Raws looked fine with no noise, great tonal range and looked neutral.
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Above Several exposure brackets in different lighting situations were shot on the EOS R. The Raws of this brightly lit scene responded well to both over and underexposure.
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