Canon R7 • Birds in Flight • RF 100-500 • Photography 

Thank you, Peter!

Thank you, Sam!

Thank you!

Thank you! It is an outstanding lens, especially for it's size. I wish it was a little cheaper.

It was!

Thank you, Greg!

Thank you! I hope you get your R7 soon!

Thank you, Bill! I was happy to have gone to get those chairs, but I sure picked the wrong time to do it lol 😂

@@PhilThach 😂

Thank you! The R7 and RF 100-400 will make a powerful and light wildlife photography combination.

Thank you! I try to include settings on virtually every photo on this channel. I'm glad it helps! I also want to know the settings when I see someone's photo.

Thank you!

Thank you, J!

Thank you, Forrest! I’m glad you have received your R7.

Thank you!

Thank you! I think they R6 and R7 are an excellent combination.

@@PhilThach Hi... If you would have to choose only one body, would you rather buy the R7 or the R6 (with 1.4 tc to get more or less the same reach) ????

Thank you and thanks for watching!

Thank you!

Thank you, Adrian! We are lucky to have such a great bird photography area within a few minutes drive of our house.

Thank you! That is a very good point.

Thank you!

Thank you, Stephen! Which dam are you talking about? I might have to do some photography there sometime.

@@PhilThach Melton Hill Dam. Let me know if you go and I can send you the best locations.

Thank you, Leon! Also lol 😂

Thank you!

Thank you! I’m a terrible judge of distance. Still 1/6 of a mile (900 feet) is a long way! Maybe I’ll run into you out there someday!

Thanks for watching!

Thank you, Martin! We definitely have both kinds around here. It seems like it’s easier to get close enough to the black variety to make a photograph than the turkey.

Thank you! I hope you get yours soon. 🤞

Thank you! Mark Smith is the best Osprey photographer in the world.

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching.

Thank you! It seems like I'm always trying new settings so I'd hate to make a definitive video with what I'm using until I actually settle on something. I recommend going in to the focus settings and experimenting. The camera actually does well right out of the box but I'm guessing it can be improved by adjusting settings.

Thank you, John! I really did not notice any rolling shutter in the birds or the birds wing tips but I’m sure there is at least a little bit there. We definitely both crop our images but not as much as we used to with the R6 or the Z50!

Thank you! Yes, we usually crop for composition.

Thank you, David! We love Osprey too. All the photos in this video have been edited.

Thank you! We definitely crop for composition in nearly every image. People who tell you that they never crop are probably not telling you the truth. Enjoy your 7D2!

Thank you, Robert! The reason we didn’t use 30 frames per second is because it’s quite a chore to go through all those pictures. We both made about 2000 pictures shooting at 15 frames per second which was more than we wanted to sort through. Add 30 frames per second we might have had 4000 more each. Lol another thing that 15 frames per second helps with is it takes more time to get the buffer so you might be able to shoot a little longer and in reality catch more than shooting shorter but twice as fast.

Of course. Faster isn’t always better ! 😃

Thank you! I am satisfied with the image quality from the camera and lens.

Under” case “ we did not use any of the numbers, we put it on auto. Thank you! I was really happy with that great blue heron photo too. in fact I shared it on Instagram.

I had my “case” set to auto when we made this video however today Heather and I were shooting birds in flight that were a little closer and we switched to Case 4 with the bottom slider all the way to the right instead of its default position to try to get a little more speed out of it. That adjustment seemed to help. Something else I noticed today with a nearly depleted battery I was struggling and then when the battery died and I put in a fresh one the camera seemed to focus faster and more accurately so I think it’s possible that the camera may go into some sort of a low power mode when the battery is low and this slows performance. I don’t know if this is a fact or just imaginary but I will tell you this, I will be changing to a fresh battery when I get down to the last bar on the current one in the future.

@@PhilThach thanks for that, does make sense with the AF when the battery get's low, I have noticed similar on my R6 as well.

Thank you! We started in mechanical and switched to electronic about halfway through. I thought I mentioned it in the video but I might not have. Sometimes I like the electronic shutter better for birds in flight because it seems like it’s easier to track the birds. With the mechanical shutter 15 times a second there is something blocking my view which can throw me off. I’m not seeing much rolling shutter distortion when looking at the birds, but the backgrounds can show the effects of rolling shutter with the electronic shutter as you pan following a bird in flight.

Thank you! Yes, the RF 800 f/11 is certainly a good lens for lunar photography!

Thank you! I’d say the answer to your question is absolutely! Remember, pixel density is what you are looking for in bird photography. The R7 is 1.6 crop APSC. If it had the same pixel density and was full frame it would be around 83 megapixels. So it has a higher pixel density than the Canon R5, Sony A1, Nikon Z9 etc. Yes, 32.5 apsc is enough.

@@PhilThach Thanks a lot😍

Thank you, Jeff!

I think 15 is plenty too. We used electronic during the second half of this shoot because it was easier to track birds in flight and keep them in the frame in electronic mode. Thank you!

Full screen eye detect.

Thank you! In all situations I’d prefer the R7 and the 100-500 over the D500 and 200-500.

@@PhilThach Glad to hear that! I also own a D500/200-500 and am (impatiently) waiting for B&H to ship my R7 preorder. Sounds like it'll be worth the wait 👍

Thank you! Honestly I’m not even sure that you get 15 on the medium setting. That is what I have heard and it seemed about like 15. There is a slower setting but I don’t know how many frames per second it is.

@@PhilThach Electronic: High Speed+ is 30/s, High Speed is 15/s, and Low Speed is 3/s. Mechanical: High Speed+ is 15/s, High Speed is 6.5/s, and Low Speed is 3/s.

Thank you! I’d say we could have bagged some of these shots with our Zfc or Z50 but not all of them. Those Z cameras are just not as consistent as the R7.

We also shoot compressed raw, the files are half the size of full raw. We still find the end of the buffer quicker than we’d like but it’s not as much of a problem as others make it out to be. Sandisk 300mb/s.

Thank you!

Hello, Kenneth! I use servo autofocus. I use the full screen eye detect mode. So far I have not settled on a case setting. I have used auto and I have used Four with the bottom adjustment slider all the way to the right. But, so far I have not settled on a “best setting“. I think that will take more time and experimenting.

Hi. I use electronic shutter for birds. Mechanical shutter for sports.

The RF 100-500 fits with no adapter.

It’s a nice lens! I hope you get your R7 soon. Thanks for watching!

@@PhilThach BTW Fantastic bird photos!

That is very strange.

@@PhilThach I just took a photo of a cat in my back yard and looks sharp. But out on an island the geese and herons were all soft looking? Definitely strange? Islands and distortions seem to come hand in hand for me? That has happened at some waterfowl refuges in the past with dslrs? sigh

That’s awesome!

I have not experienced error 70. My camera did freeze a couple of times that required a hard boot battery removal. My R6 has done that too. Thanks for watching!