Much appreciated, thanks! And me too--Milton thankfully turned out to be not too big a deal for Orlando, but still would have been no fun to sit out. More to come!
Hopefully you have made it out and back home before Milton hits! Would love to hear more about the R5ii’s pre-shooting if you have used it. A separate video on your total setup of your R5ii including the focus setup would be great as well. I am curious about the eye focus as I have heard about it not being great on the R3. Just waiting on pulling the trigger on one. Every time I see a video like this it makes me want to click buy now. 😊
Yes, I was in Orlando when Helene passed by, but that just made for one rainy/windy night. Glad to not be there for Milton's visit! I have tried the pre-capture a bit! It is definitely handy. I'll cover in more detail, but the basics are that it starts buffering when you half-press the shutter, and then when you go to full press it saves the 15 frames prior to that point (plus whatever you shoot with the shutter button held down). So the amount of pre-capture time you get depends on the frame rate: at 30fps, 15 frames is 0.5 seconds, but at 5fps, 15 frames is 3 seconds. I'm hoping Canon will make that more adjustable with a firmware update--I'd like to be able to define the pre-capture time regardless of frame rate, to reduce the number of extra frames saved. You just don't always need 15 frames! The eye-control focus has been impressive to me! I've never touched an R3, but I gather the R5II does it better, and for me it definitely works pretty well. Sometimes it's a little off and doesn't quite put the dot on what I'm looking at, but even then I can use my eye as a controller to move the spot to where I want it, if that makes sense. Definitely handy in certain situations. More content to come, of course! So far my opinion is that the Mark II is a worthy successor, with the main drawback being that its image quality isn't really any better than the R5 (and is sometimes marginally worse, though it cleans up well in post). So the question is whether the extra/updated features make it worth the price of admission, and that's a tough question to answer. No regrets for me so far, at least!
I had an R6 (which I sold to get an R5 instead, which I sold to get the R5 Mark II!), but I don't have an R6II. A friend of mine does, though--maybe we can collaborate on an upcoming excursion. :)
