Do you get a bigger bird in the photo using the R7 with the 500 lens than you would using the R5 and the 500 lens and then cropping in making use of the full frame extra resolution ? Have you experimented at all comparing the 2 cameras on the same subject? The reason I ask is that I still have my 7d Mk2 but am wanting to get into mirrorless and can’t decide which Canon camera to go with! Most of my shooting is wildlife but I may well get back into landscapes again and slightly concerned that it’s more difficult to go wide angle with a crop sensor body.
The R5 actually does have a 1.6x crop mode, which pares the image down to what you'd get on an APS-C body. The resulting image is around 17.2MP, which isn't bad, but a lot less than the R7's 32.5MP. I never use that mode anyway, because I'm not one to discard any data right off the bat; I'd rather take the full-frame image and crop in post. Same reason I shoot RAW, and never use the in-camera monochrome modes either. But that 1.6x crop factor definitely makes a difference when shooting wildlife or macro. It also comes at a trade-off: the pixels on the R7 (as with any APS-C sensor) are necessarily smaller and more packed-in than the R5's, which means more sensor noise, and of course my widest lenses are a lot wider on the R5, (important to me for landscape and interior shots). I'm glad I have both to work with, but if I were to point you in one direction it would be towards full-frame. I don't think I'd recommend getting an R5 right now, at least not new--the R5 Mark II should be on the horizon if that could be in your budget, and if not the R6 Mark II and R8 both look excellent as well, even though I wish they offered more than 24MP. The R5 definitely provides the most leeway for cropping, and it's easily the best camera I've ever used--but I often have to remind myself that my first dSLR was a Canon 350D with 8MP, and that served me just fine for most purposes. :)
@@wanderland_xyz Many thanks for your detailed reply, much appreciated 😊 I have been looking at a lot of reviews of the R6 Mk2 and that does appeal to me because of the lower cost than the R5 to be honest. My thoughts were that I could carry on using the 7D with my long lenses for bird photographs and start off using the R6 for more general photography. Then if finances allow, I might even get the RF 100-500 which seems to be a great lens and then add a converter if needed OR then add a crop sensor mirrorless Canon body as and when my 7D dies !! Edit - I also wish that the R6 Mk2 offered more than 24 mega pixels but I suppose that is how they get such a high electronic shutter rate by having smaller files?
@@666JGNotts I think that's a solid plan. As I'm sure you know, the lens contributes more to the image quality than the camera, especially these days--pretty much every mirrorless camera offers good resolution and an AF system our dSLRs could only dream about, but it's the lens that really lets you take advantage of those things. So saving a bit on the camera body to invest instead in a lens like the 100-500mm (my all-time favorite lens at this point!) would be a great decision. I'm spoiled by the R5's high resolution, but it's far more than I actually need. The cropping flexibility is nice, but even if I had a 24MP body and cropped down to 8MP, that's plenty for sharing online or making small-to-medium prints. Definitely not a number to get too hung up over, especially if (as you added) it allows for a higher frame rate when needed!
It’s me again!! Is there an option with Fv mode to limit the ISO to a particular highest value? I seem to remember that the Auto ISO on my 7D has an option so you can set the highest ISO that it should go to.
Absolutely! You can actually set both the minimum and maximum. I was using 6400 as my maximum for a while, but I raised it to 25600 and have gotten usable shots up to 20000 (after cleaning up with DxO PureRAW 2). Pretty amazing, considering I used to hate going above 1600 or so!
@@wanderland_xyz That’s excellent, sounds very configurable and flexible. The only issue now is that none of the UK online shops seem to have stock of the R7 at the moment
Excellent. I envy people in America some times with the size of the country and all the wilderness type areas you get over there. Even near to cities it would seem you have great areas to explore. We have nice countryside nearby to me but there's not enough of it between the towns and cities, with the UK being so small. I do have the advantage that being central, I can get to a lot of places in a couple or three hours, but those places have more people in them and so the wildlife gets scared away - unless you get there really early in the morning, but then you have to set out very very early to get there at that time. Interesting to hear about the Fv mode. To be honest, I've been investigating the R7 for a week or so now and I'd not heard mention of it before so have started reading about it. It looks interesting, a bit like a more flexible and intelligent P mode?
Yes, we might be spiraling towards fascism politically which isn't ideal, but naturally speaking this is still a beautiful and spacious country for sure. :) I may have mentioned I was born and raised down in Florida, which is America's dingus if you look at the map. Beautiful place in its own right, but to go anywhere else first one has to get out of Florida itself, which takes a while! Here in central Virginia I like to say I'm 2 hours from the mountains, 2 hours from the beach, and 2 hours from Washington DC, so a very nice variety for day trips indeed! A couple photographers I follow here on RU-vid are UK-based as well--check out James Popsys and Henry Turner, if you haven't already! Really, what I was doing with Fv mode could also be done in Manual mode by dialing in aperture and shutter speed and setting ISO to auto. But the added benefit of Fv mode is that you can easily switch between the exposure elements to set any (or all) to manual or auto. It's a pretty nice setup, really, I think I'll leave it for a while and see if I get used to it. I've mapped the left button of the R7's 4-way pad to set the selected item to auto, and the right button sets everything to auto as sort of a panic button. Not that I have the presence of mind to mash it if things are happening too quickly!
