The Canon R7 After 1 Year: Thoughts and FAQs in 2023
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The title says it all--I've been using the heck out of the Canon R7 for the last year, and I have some thoughts. What did I love, what did I hate, what did you want to know? Taking it on here!
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Great videi! Great info ! Thank you! Just waiting tilo buy my first csm., the R7. 😳
Still such a great choice three years on - best luck with it!
@@MattRamseyTube only a bit warryed in low lights. Of course is m7ch better then old dslr s . Hopfully I could afford a lenss on f1.4 or 1.2 ..may be on speed booster .. . 🙏🏼. Any recomandatikns ? With stabilizator ?
Thaank you.
well said on a awesome camera Matt 👍👍👍👍
Thanks, I really can’t say enough good things about it-it may not be perfect but it’s a lot for the price!
After using FV mode with the R7 I no longer need three dials and that would be more than needed. I can control all of my main settings while I'm looking through the viewfinder or on the rear screen with just the front dial and rear wheel. It's much easier than a three dial system. FV mode works in any use case LOL. If you set all of the settings to manual you're in manual mode, if you said everything except shutter speed you're in shutter priority, if you said everything except aperture you're in aperture priority. It's manual mode was two dials. There's no mode you would need other than raw burst or Focus bracketing or HDR or something unusual that doesn't work better with FV mode.
Awesome!
@@simoncollier1961 I hope I didn't give the impression that I dislike it, I just find there are a few better options for the kind of fast-reaction situations that I find myself in a lot. I know it has useful cases.
I bought the EOS Rebel T7 as my entry level camera on my way to buy a professional level camera. Canon makes awesome geer, I do not dispute that. After learning that Canon stop allowing 3rd party companies to make lenses for the R mount, I stopped using Canon. Keep in mind that when you buy a professional level camera, you're not just buying a camera, but you're buying into a whole system. IF you have all kinds of money and money is not a problem. go ahead and buy the Canon R series, but their lens are priced out of this world, and you have to buy those, no other company are allowed to make them. So now I'm a Nikon fan, and I love their Z lens... I use the Z6 II and it's all I need for now.
Awesome, sounds like you’ve got a good setup 👍
The third control dial is on the lens - I set the Control Ring on the lens to Aperture, the Main dial on the top deck to Shutter speed, and the dial around the joystick to ISO. What's there to complain about? With the Control Ring adapter, even my adapted EF lenses have an aperture ring as well! Coming from the pre-EOS film SLRs, getting back the aperture ring on the lens is a huge relief.
Very cool suggestion, Philip, thanks! Considering the control ring adapter wasn't widely available for the first couple years (and the extra cost), I don't see it in a lot of kits, especially for early RF adopters, and that for a lot of the more affordable RF lenses the lens ring has to do double duty as control and focus, it's not as ideal an arrangement as having the control right on the body as in the more expensive cameras, but the real reason it didn't come up was my effort to review the camera for what it is, vice what it can be made to do with extra purchases. But I think you're right, with the control ring adapter and Canon's thoughful layout, these are definitely complaints and not deal breakers.
Thanks Matt, very intuitive. I shoot with the same rig (R7, EF 100-400 II, EF 1.4x III), and prefer full manual control instead of auto -ISO. I differ for the ISO switch because I use the * button for second autofocus, and rather program the 'cross keys' 'up' button for ISO, and the 'left/right' buttons are automatically available for ISO up or down. So I can keep my eye to the EVF whilst changing ISO. I usually use my R6 as a second camera for landscape and close -macro, and the 'Quick Control' dial is my ISO control, so it's in the same position as my setup on the R7. Thanks again.
That’s pretty clever, I’ve been getting some good suggestions here, cheers!
I use my R7 with the RF100-500, primarily for birds/wildlife. Two control dials are not a problem, since I prefer manual exposure with autoISO. If needed, the ISO button provides rapid access for manual ISO as you describe. I use the lens control ring for aperture, with the control dials for shutter speed and exposure compensation. I assign my AFon button to back button focus, with * used as a second back button focus configured for birds-in-flight. M-Fn switches on the manual focus tools without diving into menus (focus peaking and the AF guide). I also find the RF 1.4x teleconverter improves bird eye tracking and AF when the subject is larger in the frame. Since most reviewers overlook this advantage, kudos for that bit of insight. I enjoyed your review and generally agreed with your analysis. Nicely done.
The D-Dial can also be used to rapidly access ISO, if you really crave a third control dial.. Simply assign the 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock postions (< and >) to ISO, and you will have up and down controls, with the INFO button taking you immediately to AUTO.
The R7 has an ISO button right next to the front dial. Or the M-Fn button can be used for ISO the same way as on the R. Both are easier for me than the * button.
My R7 is used primarily with the EF 100-400L II and EF 1.4x III. Nice combo. My R is used for wider landscapes.
Yeah, that's the way the camera is meant to be used and I meant to bring that up and just totally forgot--at least there are a lot of different options to suit different shooters and I'm glad you like that one!
Thanks so much for this…waiting for mine to arrive. I’ll be using it mainly for still with the ef100-400 mk 2
Hope you like it, I know I do 👍
Hey Matt... The Fv mode is the way to go and it compliments the R7's 2 dial controls! I use the quick dial 2 on my R5 the same way and rarely use my main quick dial. I assign the lens control ring on all my RF lenses and EF control ring adaptors to exposure compensation.
Very cool!
I own a canon 7dii and R7, and though the R7 is not built like the 7Dii the eye AF and tracking is alien technology !
There are so many shots I would not sharp with my 7Dii unless I took 10 times as many photos. The R7 does have some issues, however all is forgiven because of the price and canons Eye AF ! People should buy R3,6,5 and 7 if you already have canon L glass ( I am talking about EF mount ) as buying RF glass is insane prices at the moment. I believe Sony offer the best balance in cameras and lenses, including 3rd party for some coming into photography.
My biggest R7 complaint coming from the 7Ds is also cheaping out on the build and I'm likewise sticking with EF for the time being. I do hope there are some mirrorless third-party lenses coming and ANYTHING for APS-C would be fantastic but... it's still a pretty good world! Thanks for stopping by!
I'll keep my ISO button and scroll as is, since I use * for quickie animal eye detect Zone AF, which is very cool. But, thanks to your discussion, I learned that I can do the same scroll/dial move with the ISO button, which makes that button make a LOT more sense. :-)
Smart!
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0:53 - bro you sure have never heard of the R5C have you? 😆😉😉
Well I *think* I did say a stabilized sensor, but to answer your question, I have heard of and used it.
You mentioned battery life, but I find it curious that there's no battery grip available for the R7. I would think that would be more important for a mirrorless camera than a DSLR like the 90D because of the impact of the (underwhelming) electronic viewfinder on battery life.
This camera still feels a bit compromised to me, as does the new Sony a6700. The nice thing about Fujifilm is that they don't make full-frame cameras, so they can make APS-C cameras that are true flagships. Of course, you pay for the privilege.
That's true; every camera has its shortcomings and the R7 probably has a few extra that help make it an affordable tool for certain work,, and that always gets me excited.
I'm betting you're changing your settings one-at-a-time even if you're changing more than one setting. Unless you're turning two dials at once you're only changing one setting at a time. Your difficulties sound like they're coming from inexperience with the mode.
As in the discussion, that is exactly what I prefer to do-turn more than one dial at once. It’s good to hear that the mode is working well for you, and I’m sure there are others who will find it helpful and that’s why I wanted to share as well. Happy shooting!
Cool video! Did you try HDR PQ in photo mode? I didn’t think it was for video but I could be wrong. I stick with raw but I don’t think DPP4 plays well with MBP14 and it’s nice XDR screen. I ought to just change raw to HEIF and see what that looks like. Was that the 24-70/2.8ii? I’m interested in that lens (with a speed booster now and then on the R7) so I don’t have to buy and R5 & 28-70/2 (I hired them and was blown away!)
@@mvp_kryptonite No I use the 16-35 f/4, an excellent holdover from my landscape photography, but sometimes leaving something to be desired in video mode. The multitude of recording, encoding, and displaying formats for HDR is definitely a reason I haven't adopted--I have three different HDR displays and everything looks completely different between them, and hardly anything I make for social media or clients is viewed in HDR anyway. But I think when the time comes, I'll be glad it's in the camera and ready to go.
@@MattRamseyTube oh yes the wide angle zoom. HDR displays will need collaboration most likely.
The mechanical shutter on this thing sounds like a .50 caliber machine gun and the ES is pretty much useless for anything that's moving fast...lol! And another thing, it's a crop sensor camera, I'll stick to my R5 and R3.
Yeah definitely don’t trade those cameras for this one if that’s the idea you were thinking about.
Thanks for your honest review Matt. Had R7 with RF 18-150 kit and RF 800 F11 to test it VS Z9 with Z70-200 2.8S. Is important to say beore any fan boy comes up that I´m an equipment guide in my country and use all brands and most lenses. When R7 arrived and try it I was impressed that it was impossible to see in the EVF or backscreen if it was pefectly focused with any lens. The resolution on both screen is so bad that is imposible to confirm until you downloaded files. Another point was AF inconsistent with front and back focusing. One of my other searches was to crop to files from the Z9 at 200mm and f2.8 to compare it to RF800 F11. The 200mm gave me much more detail croping about 200% than R7 with 4 times reach + 1.6 cropped sensor. I understand that is not a fair comparison but, seen clear is essencial to me as a professional photographer and just can´t stand a 1 second buffer (and wait till it clears) + low resolution screen/EVF. And as an APS C is very expensive for us here , R7 is around $2000. Thanks again! Salute!
Yes I certainly hope the Z9 with a 2.8 zoom would give better results in every way, that’s why it costs so much more 😂 but I do try to evaluate cameras against their budget and generally find cameras in this price point have low res screens and slimmer buffers.