{"id":108216,"date":"2022-03-03T05:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=108216"},"modified":"2022-03-04T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:06:55","slug":"new-camera-canon-r5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/new-camera-canon-r5\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera – Canon R5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deed is done.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon I finally got off the pot and purchased a Canon R5, the mirrorless camera I’ve been thinking about buying for a year and a half.<\/p>\n

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With all the accessory gear I needed\/wanted – including battery pack, adapter, card reader, spare batteries and new memory cards – the grand total amounted to a king’s ransom, which is one of the reasons I’ve hesitated for as long as I have.<\/p>\n

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The camera is small enough to look a little silly on the end of my bazooka lens but I doubt the birds will care about that. When I have the battery pack attached it will be bulked up considerably and feel more substantial in my hands.<\/p>\n

At this point I’m thinking that the battery pack will be necessary because of the additional battery drain of the electronic viewfinder.<\/p>\n

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Another thing I’ll have to get used to is the adapter – without it my EF lens won’t work with an RF camera. I’m usually shooting with my teleconverter attached so in this photo I’ve marked the tc with a red check and the adapter with a white check.<\/p>\n

Since the R5 is mirrorless it doesn’t have a mirror box in front of the camera so the purpose of the adapter is to make up that distance and place the EF lens at the required distance from the RF camera sensor. The adapter isn’t optical, it has no glass. It’s mostly just a spacer with a whole lotta electrical contacts.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point I have no idea how long it’ll be before I begin posting photos taken with the R5 to my blog. My learning curve is huge, I have a long list of camera settings I need to figure out and I’m having software problems, most likely related to my clunky old computer. A new computer may be on my near horizon too but I’ve known that for some time now.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the matter of retraining my muscle memory so I’m quick on the buttons and dials of a new camera in the field. Birds aren’t likely to slow down just because I have a new camera.<\/p>\n

This old dog needs to learn some new tricks.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – Thanks to all of my readers who provided feedback and tips about the R5 on yesterday’s post. That feedback helped to give me the confidence I needed to pull the trigger on the new camera.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The deed is done. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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