Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for watching. I am not personally a Nikon user, which is why having Mark was a such a huge help. That said, the current firmware is 1.62, and it can be downloaded here: downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/517.html The instructions are on that page as well, under the heading "Updating the Camera Firmware".

@BehindTheShot thanks a lot, I appreciate it

Thanks for watching (and listening).

@BehindTheShot your very welcome Steve

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Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

The firmware on the pre-release hardware was more limited.

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Yup. Rudy has more camera knowledge than anyone else I’ve ever know. Truly a kind and helpful guy. As to Canon treating him a certain way, I don’t think that’s the case. My guess, and I have zero knowledge of this, is that they were doing cuts and offered great packages to anyone taking early retirement. Something many companies do. He was probably close to retirement anyway and he made the choice. He’d been there well over 30 years after all. Again, just a guess, but I wouldn’t blame Canon unless I knew for sure.

First, to tell the camera to select a different eye or person when it’s eye / face detection press the “AF Point Selection” button at the top right of the back of the camera. That switches the selection point to arrows to choose which face or eye it uses. Other people have mentioned that they have had issues with marathons and running. Unfortunately, I’m not much help there as I don’t shoot that subject matter. Sorry. Personally I’d use expansion point AF and move the point. Hope that helps.

@@BehindTheShot Thank you so much for the response and advices. I really appreciate it.

Best of luck to you!

I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you’re asking. Could you clarify for me?

@@BehindTheShot Setting : AF can be activated by both the shutter and the back button. Scenario : I am holding down the back button to focus, if I half press the shutter button, which button will the camera honor? Will there be an adverse effect?

@@BehindTheShot my setting is single point on the shutter button and group on the AF button (normal shots on the shutter button then back button for bird in flight). While focusing with the back button and I press the shutter, which focus mode will the camera use?

Sorry about the delay, traveling this month. OH! I think I get the question now. Personally, I disable AF on the shutter button. Only the back AF triggers focus, but my guess is it doesn't matter at all. If the camera is already focusing from either then trigger the other won't change anything. Focusing is one process. Kind of like of you have two buttons to trigger an elevator. Once it's engaged it's engaged. Again though, if you are a back button AF user then I don't see a need for both. IF you had focus with the back button, but then let it go, that is an issue. It will refocus when press the shutter, messing up the intended focus point. ADDING THE 2nd COMMENT PART OF THE QUESTION: I also do a dual button AF setup, described near the end of the video. Much more controllable since it's always my thumb, and impossible to hot both at once. Try that. But if your setup works I wouldn't worry. The first in would achieve focus and as long as the AF is active (have not let go, it will hold. Of course if it did change to the second button while both were being pressed you should see the AF display change too.

@@BehindTheShot Got it! I will keep using the shutter half press for 3D tracking and Back button for Auto Area (for BIFs). Sad to say my Z6iii does not seem to recognize the Z180-600's fn button. But still, happy camper here. Thank you for the reply! Cheers!

Exactly. In fact, depending on the light, there are some that get great phone shots, by any standard. Someone at a barricade that has a good point n shoot can get fantastic images. I’ve had artists that do nothing for 3, because they don’t like photographers in the pit, and after 3 they come alive. The audience actually gets a better subject.

@@BehindTheShot I think I could write a book. I once shot a band on a festival (I think they were from Spain...) when the lights went off during the first three songs and the singer came upfront and mimic hitting a shutter in front of us and looking questioned why we don't shot :-(

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That’s awesome. I haven’t upgraded from the R5 yet, but definitely want to. Thanks for watching!

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Yeah, it’s a feature I’d love to have on my R5-1 and R6-1.

Haven’t seen those myself, but wouldn’t surprise me. Then the next camera from Nikon or Sony or whoever will leapfrog Canon. They’re all so good these days. I have link posting disabled here but if you have link could you send it to me via socials like X or IG?

@@BehindTheShot I think it's going to be a bigger hurdle for Nikon than others. Years ago they were leaders in the sports cameras. Sometime between now and then they made a strategic lean into optics while Canon included a side trip into data science and maybe a little physics and ceramics. Sony comes from places adjacent to that world so it was a no-brainer for them. Canon's reduction in power consumption is a telling statistic going forward so I'm looking to see more from them. Sony is a tech giant but, in my opinion, Sony may face some organizational friction in refining their coproccessor that Canon will not. Coprocessor algorithms is where the headroom is right now so I think Canon still has some room to run and that's what Jeff was experiencing with improved lock-in on the R1. The comparison I mentioned is not from a research lab but it's not a bad research design for a KZbinr. You can find it if you search on "Who has the BEST? Canon R5 Mark II Autofocus tested and compared!" The comparison I mentioned is in the first 10 minutes or so. Unfortunatly he's using the newer Z6 iii to represent Nikon, but Nikon claims this camera has an autofocus on par with the Z 8 and Z 9. If so, the truncated results were seeing for Nikon are probably indicative of a weakness in coprocessing. They ran the R5 ii against the Sony A 7r V and the differences are symptomatic of differences in bandwidth and coprocessor algorithms. Would be interesting to see this against the A1. As I said above, I think Canon still has some room to run in this area. We'll see.

Thanks for watching! And yes, pre capture has been around a long time, and I’ve wondered if Canon would ever implement it. Glad they did. It would help me a lot. If I were to guess they won’t add more options to it via firmware. Just doesn’t feel like something Canon would do. That said, they’ve surprised me a few times this year. lol.

Thanks for watching, and so glad you enjoyed it. The Music Photography Discord is a great resource. It was started by Todd Owyoung, and can be found here: discord.gg/Hf5QdTq3PF

Same here. The issue is my idea of Low Light / High ISO isn’t what most people testing it think is High ISO. Most reviewers think 3200 is high. That’s regular to me. I want to know if 6400, 10k, 12,800 is noticeably better than the R5.

@@BehindTheShot Exactly, i just spend a weekend where i was hitting 6400 regularly, thanks to the subject matter (Festival) and LR denoise it's wasn't a huge issue. But 25.600 would make a huge difference. And thanks for this interview, most of the R1 content online is based on people reading specs or that 1 day session Canon had, it's nice hearing someone that has used the camera in anger. And i think Jeff nails it about the whole naming controversy, the R3 was a flagship (there wasn't anything better) and the R1 does that even better, and so does the R5MK2, so what's the fuss about. In any case, it seems to me that the R1 is 100% aimed at photographers and everything is about making sure you get the shot. The huge EVF, AF, Titanium House, Weather Sealing, Huge battery, Dual Cards, and hopefully a Sensor with impressive iso/low light/noise performance :)

Agreed. Thank for watching!

This is designed and priced as a pro printer. For people that might be selling their work, for example. You don’t have to use archival paper however. You can use paper that doesn’t last that archival amount of time, but for that use I wouldn’t recommend this one. As to other option in a large print printer, unfortunately I don’t know what options exist. Sorry.

Thanks for watching, and yes, that SD slot can be a bottleneck for sure. I just did another show with Jeff on him using the R5-2 and R1 at the Paris Olympics.

Thank you for watching!

So, there are so many variables here that answering the question with certainty is near impossible. First of all, the 5D3 with the 70-200 2.8 is more than capable of that shoot. That said, I’m not surprised at the only 10% hit rate. 1/125 simply isn’t fast enough. If you want to shoot at around f/8, and you need a shutter of 1/600 to 1/1000, then you’ll need to turn up the ISO. I’m not sure why you’re fixed on 800 or less. I shot concerts with a 5D3 at 3200 every show. Ignore the noise. If the worst thing someone says is your shot is noisy then everything else - composition, sharpness, exposure - all the technical stuff is done well. Noise doesn’t matter as much as people think. The greatest images of a generation are noisy as hell. So use an ISO that in combo with your aperture will allow you to get the shutter you need. Now, then you can play with slower shutters and / or lower ISO, and practice better panning. Again, without being there with you no answer is a definitive one. Good luck.

@@BehindTheShot Thanks I'm still in the experimenting phase and try to find a good compromise with my settings. Sadly there are no airshows every day:-) My problem with the noise is that you lose details after de-noising so I want to reduce it to a minumum. I also think, I found out spot metering is less accurate than 5 spots metering. Will be my next mission to try both to compare

@FriesyRider so a few things, first, people do too much denoise, so yeah you’ll some detail, but done correctly not that much. Selective edits are always better. Good denoise apps are also better than builtin LR denoise. topaz AI Denoise Ali’s great and hold details well. This is a conversation I’ve had many times, and the answer is still people worry about it too much. I shoot shows at over 10,000 ISO at times and don’t denoise at all. Your mentioning Spot Meter, and then 5 spot meter, which is confusing. Metering is Spot, Partial, Evaluative etc. there a single point AF or 5 or 9 point AF but nothing is called 5 point meter. It’s very important to understand that Spot meter on a 5 series camera ALWAYS meters of the center point only. If you move your focus point up and to a side it won’t meter there. The spot meter does NOT follow the focus point on a 5 series body. Also, I’d use the 5 of 9 point AF Assist focus mode, with AF Case #4 I think for what you’re shooting.

@@BehindTheShot Hi, yes I meant 5 point AF (I´m German, so sometimes not so specific with my English vocab :-) Thanks for the explanation, well appreciated

@FriesyRider I totally get that, and I happen to be in Munich at the moment, so I’m experiencing the other direction - my German is non-existent. Hahaha. Good luck.

Thanks so much, Paul. Real appreciate the kind thoughts, and thanks for watching.

Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoyed it.

The R5-2 is the same as my R5, which at roughly 45 MP is plenty. Along with my R5 (original) I also shoot an R6 (original), and while I love the R6 I definitely feel the lack of MP at 20.1. The R6-2 bumped it to 24.2, the same as the R1, and that a sweet spot for a lower count. Small enough file size, enough to work with on a crop, and faster turnaround when copying a lot of images. So to me, and I can’t speak for Jeff, one body at 45-ish and one at 24-ish is a great mix.

Wouldn’t the People subject work for that?

@@BehindTheShot Im having trouble with my R3 and R5C and C70 for running crowds... maybe with firmware updates..

That’s really interesting to me. I would have thought the people choice would solve that. Assuming you are using continuous AF with people, and face & eye detection, I don’t know why it would work for me with fast moving musicians and not running sports. I’d call canon and see what they say.

@@BehindTheShot A moving crowd that runs infront of each other is bound to go wrong with any autofocus, unless they make one that is programmed to do sonething else than seaching for people and eyes. Only way right now is to turn it off and go manual focus.

@baekmedier Both the R3 and 5 series have the ability to adjust if and how fast the AF does or does not react to something moving in front of the subject. Not just by Case # but but customizing that feature. I assuming you have customized those setting, but if no mt I’d try that. Beyond that I don’t see making that a subject of its own because the way AF works, as you say, something moving in between you and you subject for any extended period will pull focus. I do have a video on those settings, with Rudy Winston of Canon, if needed.

Yes, a few have mentioned that. Jeff couldn’t add the feature to a C# in the preproduction firmware. Clearly that’s possible now.

All great points, and yes, the camera does so much of the calculation and process work now. Still, a snapshot is always a snapshot. That intangible quality that sets a great photographer apart from a good or average one won’t change. We each have a photographic eye of our own that can’t be done in camera at all. A beginning kid will be able to focus more on the art and craft instead of the technical when learning, but in the end they will still need to learn that craft and art, and develop their own voice.

There were no problems to fix, and I already use back button AF. This was a walkthrough of all of the AF settings on a Nikon body, but you’d know that if you actually watched.

Great question, with an unfortunately vague answer. It greatly depends on what or where you are exporting for. If you’re exporting for a client then that will be completely different than exporting for social media, and even for socials exporting for Instagram is different than X or another. Here’s an older (2021) article on social media exporting from Jeff Harmon of the Photo Taco podcast. He did really detailed testing. Still, each platform has a page with their own recommendations. I had always exported at 1024px on the long side at 80-100 on quality - usually 100 even though everyone says 80 is fine. The last year or so I switched 2000px, but saw an article the other day said 1024 was best still. Hmmm. So yeah, a never ending battle.

@@BehindTheShot Thank you Steve, I'll check the reference u mentioned. I'm a neophyte and exporting really made my workflow so complicated 😞 hope I'll get used to it. Thanks :)

So glad that you enjoyed the show. Good luck with the R5-2!

Great question. There are some things the RF glass bring to the picture, being sharper edge-to-edge being one. IS specs partially depend on the glass working together with the body etc. But for AF, all the new tech features will work as expected. One key is that some of the newer RF is often faster at focusing, which existed in EF too, where some were just faster at AF, but overall the glass will work with the new bodies. If I’m incorrect on anything someone will correct me quickly, hahaha.

Jefferson! Dude! Thank you so much for watching buddy. Honored.

Thank you SO much!!!!

Bob!!!!!! Thank you so much for watching man. Please tell you wife we say hello!

Hey Michael, Thanks for watching! And yes, you are correct. Someone else pointed that out too, so I added a note at the top of the description correcting my mistake. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Thanks!

Hey Bruce, thank you for watching. Hope you enjoy the R1!

Than you for watching! I’d love to go to Alaska with Jeff.

Based on Jeff’s shots I say if it has any it’s very little. The readout is really fast. But remember, if you’re still using the 5D4 then you’re using mechanical shutter. You can of course do the same on the R52, but would have the electronic when it fits.

Hey Thomas, yes, but it hasn’t existed at the pro and semi-pro body level like the 1 or 5 series. The 6 and 8 series are amazing but internally Canon doesn’t see them at that higher end.

That’s awesome, Jason! Congrats. Thanks for watching.

We are indeed!!!

Yup. A few others have mentioned that too. Jeff said that they must have made changes in firmware after the pre-production model.

Thank you for watching! I’m definitely hoping to do that.

Great question. Both Jeff and I use ProGrade Digital, as does the person I quoted, David Bergman. I do know people that like Lexar and others, but I switch when I bought the R5 and R6 and love the ProGrade.

@@BehindTheShot thank you.Yes there is Lexar,Scandisk available in my country and not the Pro Digital.So will have to order form B&H.many thanks

Great method, and a few others have mentioned that. I asked Jeff and he couldn’t do that. It was a pre-production body and he said I t didn’t support it at the time. They must have updated the firmware before public release.