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Perhaps the only time I’ve ever seen people pixel-peep images is when they’re looking at street photography photos and birds on their phones. And by people, I typically mean regular folks — not photographers. In this case, the term photographers refers to a group of people who fight amongst themselves like first-graders partaking in a pedantic conversation around whose pencil case is nicer. When in truth, they truly just want to be seen as superior and forget that the whole point of having the pencils is so that they can do lessons and erase their mistakes. For many of these folks, the Canon EOS R3 was a mistake because of the lack of extra features for birders. And yet birders, despite their incredible conservation efforts, aren’t really the bulk of people who make money with cameras this high end. Alas, it looks like the Canon EOS R1 has a feature that they’d want.
The latest on Canon Rumors shows images of the new Canon EOS R1, and it has a dedicated crop button. This is something that birders would really love because it could get them from full-frame, to 1.6x crop, to square format and possibly more pretty easily. What I’m shocked at with the Canon EOS R3 is the lack of a 1.3x crop factor from the old APS-H sized sensors.
What so many have wanted, however, is the pre-release shooting mode that the Canon EOS R7 has and does very well. However, it suffers at higher ISO settings — but this would be a welome addition for sure as it can help photographers get shots that they couldn’t get previously.
But I’m going to stop the tech talk here.
What you actually need, bird photographers, is long-reaching lenses and a high megapixel camera for cropping. Then you can shoot photos of wildlife where the animal takes up most of the space of the image without pixelation issues. We haven’t updated it in a little over a year, but we’ve got a giant guide on Canon RF lenses and many of them are prime lenses in the telephoto range. Canon makes a 1200mm f8 L, for example. Unless you’re using a 400mm f2.8 with a high megapixel body, the 600mm f4 might be best for you. But I regularly use the Canon RF 100-500mm lens instead along with a higher megpaixel body like the Canon EOS R5.
The truth is that you don’t need new tech, you need the right tech — and Canon arguably has that out right now. On both Viewbug and Glass, you can find lots of images of wildlife shot with the EOS R5 and the 100-500mm. You can also set the R5 up to crop in-camera easily.
Below are photos that I’ve shot with the Canon EOS R5 and the Canon EOS R7 using the 100-500mm. Truly, it shows that we mostly just need to go out there and shoot instead of fighting over gear. If you have the skill, is there something that the gear can do for you that otherwise wasn’t possible?
So here are some questions you should ask yourself instead:
The Canon EOS R1 is bound to cost a lot of money. Is it worth it for you?
Are you bringing in a lot of money with birding and wildlife photography that warrants your purchasing one?
Do you have the lenses to support it? If you’re not using Canon L glass on a camera like this, you’re wasting it until good third party full-frame options appear.
What’s the point of getting all hyped up here?
Why aren’t you just going out and shooting?
Why can’t we just shoot photos instead of bantering about the gear when it’s so much easier to just go out and shoot images instead?
Folks, seriously, get over it.
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