Interesting...wonder why the focus point displayed does not reflect the actual focus point.....

Lol women sucks at football 😂

The best I have ever seen in terms of focus behavior. Thanks a lot for this in depth video!

Wow....face tracking is unbelievably good....incredible.

As a professional sports photographer, I opted for two Canon R5 M2 cameras instead of the Canon R1 camera. I've equipped them with battery grips for extended use and easier vertical handling, which is uncommon. The R5 M2s have surpassed the performance of my previous Canon R3s. Today, I photographed two high school varsity basketball games, and the R5 M2 proved to be a game-changer, as described in your video. I captured 9,400 frames in CRAW with 55% battery life remaining in the grips. The R5 M2 matches the R1's action priority, pre-shooting, and tracking features, yet comes with a significantly lower price. Its 45 MP sensor is beneficial for tighter crops. In my view, the R1 is merely a refined R3, more aptly named the Canon R3 M2.

I see many AF similarities with the R5m2, especially at 40:30 when the player with the ball is obstructed by other players the AF will just jump for no reason after only 2 or 3 shots of not being visible all while at 30fps. Same exact thing a 1:14:27, drives me crazy. With football the AF jumpiness was improved when I set the case to -2, +2. Your R1 sequences do appear to be a little more sticky with the long sequences but agree with your comments at end about more sticky AF needed. For me I've configure the shutter button with AF, subject tracking ON and no eye tracking with a small vertical AF area defined and use the back button like the 1dx's with no whole area, no subject, no eye tracking, spot af. So depending on the action toggle between the two buttons. I've also seen w/R5m2 sequences where 25 shots will be in focus and then two are OOF and then the next 20 are in focus, this has been repeatable and it's always two images. At 53:00 the R3 would do this quite a bit, AF on some random face. Takes a lot of practice to trust smarter AF. Nice job sharing your R1 findings, Canon is improving AF but more work to do. The sensor on back I read was a motion sensor for detecting a person’s face or body and is currently disabled.

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Amazing review! Thank you for the R1 details and your insights.

Nice break down of settings and autofocus performance with various sports. You guys at BYU Photo always break it down. Great analysis.

The William Tell bit was genius. I think wire and need photographers will like ‘closest to the ball’ approach but there needs to be an option for keying on a jersey for team photographers for sure. And the volleyball on the R1 is superb!

The William Tell bit was genius. I think wire and need photographers will like ‘closest to the ball’ approach but there needs to be an option for keying on a jersey for team photographers for sure.

Very well said and showcase of the AF.

You explain your settings too fast. Is there any reason for that?

The R1 AF is such a magic

How was the iso on the new R1 in your opinion? Better or worse than the R3? Indoor and night games are the areas my system struggles. Great work by the way!

Really interesting even if I'm not a Canon user. I wonder if you try to register a football player wearing a helmet...Maybe the AI will recognize any of your team helmets? Just an idea!

Great video and shots. Are they all SOOC or were they edited? Specifically the football ones. They were very clean. I gather they were shot at F4, what about the other settings because there isn’t any noise in them. Thank you!

@19:07 how are you getting that shot? A remote camera setup at the basket?

Great testing! Never seen such a detailed analysis and i've noticed the same issues with action priority for soccer and basketball. Tried it a few times, but switched it off for now and hoping for "Action priority 2.0" to come with a firmware update. Again: great job!

Thank you for such a thorough and informative deep dive. Best explanation and demo of the A1's focusing.systems out there. Long overdue. Thanks again. PS: your clips are tremendous.

What I still haven't read about is how well the camera tracks small moving subjects, e.g. cyclists passing in front of a monument or marathon runners (i.e., postcard pictures)? The R3 often jumps all around, but not where I want it to

Tp address buffer overflows, Canon should have implemented CFexpress 4.0 instead of 2.0!

What I would love to see is a "do not focus on" mode allowing the camera to ignore nets, water splashes (swimming, etc.), rain, sand (golf bunker shots), etc.

Great full tutorial. Especially using the ninja. So we can see the auto focus points. Love that 400 2.8. I just started photography last year. I’m really loving these videos. I rented the r3 but my shots were very noisy. The crossing of athletes was hard also. I’m hoping the r1 will be my future camera. Especially with bigger hands the r5 compared to the r3 is way to small. I love the way the r3 fits my hand.

Good point about registering the uniform or logo...I will try registering the logo as a priority face and see how that works. Great video!

Fantastic instructional video. Thank you very much.

Great photos

Thank you - very good video. A few additional suggestions: In the "FTP Transfer settings" menu (10:50 in the video) it may be worth to select Enable "Protect images". That way the send images are also write protected, and makes it easy to import only those images to the computer using PhotoMechanics. The "Image transfer" allows you to batch transfer or retransfer images. If you want to wait sending the images after the celebration, and have time during the match to select by write protecting them (using the Rate button, which is customized to protect). Now.after the match select "Image transfer | Image sel./transfer | FTP transfer | All images | Sel img not transfer. (lock only)", which will send all the images which are write protected that has not yet been send. You can also use "Sel transfer fail img (lock only)" which will resend images that has been attempted to send but failed

Are the network settings interchangeable between camera models? R3 -> R1?

You guys are so helpful. Thanks for sharing this. Canon should be sending you free gear

Curious about pre-roll and how discerning the AF is. Also what you discover in usage!

Hey Jaren - Whenever you rush the field after a big game, do you carry the 500mm + all 3 bodies with you? Do you ever switch to a lighter "monopod-free / handheld" setup (say 10 min. left in the 4th) when it looks like BYU is going to win?

At 7:55 what is the bracket under the camera to improve the angle? I tried the AA battery trick and my lense kept tilting my camera over...

Once again, thank you for taking the time to produce and share such useful and accurate information

Is great tutorial video. I use the travel router too with ethernet RJ45 Lan cable for faster speed. Should check out the travel router with antennas. I should think the speed will be faster!

nice

Does anybody know about Chinese version of this camera? Does it exist?

These videos are always so helpful. The entire BYU creative team eats EVERY time!!!

I was able to get my R1 last Friday. Fantastic experience. Autofocus is unbelievably good. I'm looking forward to the next Soccer game) My R5 and R3 are also very good, but The R1 is The top level !

So good! Thank you!

Great job ❤❤❤

Let’s us know if any overheating issues in photo or video . 👍🏻

this was a pretty awesome explanation

I know the photo rolling shutter is 2x the R3, but I wonder if they pulled what they did with the R5II where it has fast photo rolling shutter and virtually no improvement over my measly R6II in video. Do you think you could compare rolling shutter (say with ceiling fan) vs R3 at 4k60, 4k120 and 2k240. Cancelled my 5DII preorder when I learned the above and if R1 doesn't beat R3 video rolling shutter will just get that.

Is this the retail unit? Have they started shipping out yet?

Very interesting to see what you think about the camera after a few months of use.

I can't wait to hear your thoughts!

That's gotta be the coolest Kat in college football.

what a great video. Thank you! Also thanks to the link to the Canon AF guide for this camera. Have you hit on the best settings for regular Football?

It's like you're reading my thoughts! This is precisely the video I needed!