Post #2494477

2026-05-08 16:14 UTC

It sounds like the R5 MkII is a bit better behaved than the R10, but I recognise all your complaints from when the "camera is in a bad mood" (i.e. I'm not thinking through what the issue is). I've got about 10 modes (ah, could look at the manual, but...), selected via menus from pressing buttons rather than a dial. When using the single point or not very many points, I'm quite often deliberately selecting something at the same distance as the bird, rather than the bird, for the sort of reasons you mention. If the "I've got focus" blue boxes appear around the bird (or even better when it recognises an eye), I know there's a fair chance of an at least OK shot. Just checking - you do have the stabilizer switch on, I take it - the beast is a nightmare without. The bit of the lens I least value is the "loosen or tighten zoom" ring - why on earth doesn't it have a "lock in place until I twist again" point! One other suggestion - my lens is much better behaved when the speed is set to allow a decently low ISO to be selected by auto ISO (say, sub 2000). Of course, birds hide in shade or behind leaves so that's another fools errand. More light helping the photo work - shocking news I know.

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@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 16:57

I have my permitted auto ISO range set to 100 through 3200. I find that anything above 3200 produces a result that's grainy enough to annoy me, which is probably a result of my smaller sensor (read: being cheap). I always have stabilization enabled. I concur on the zoom tightness ring as well. I have no use case for such a thing whatsoever. Even at its tightest it's not quite enough to keep the lens barrel from getting slowly bounced into its extended position if you have your camera danging from your neck while e.g. hiking, and I would much prefer it to have a lock for the fully retracted position like the smaller Canon zooms do. Possibly suitably upsized, as appropriate. That position would be *much* more useful as a second actual control ring. Maybe there was some mechanical reason a hypothetical second control ring could not have been added in front of the zoom ring as well, but I'd really doubt it. Perhaps this is what we get for the 200-800 still not being an "L" lens. At least it came with a hood and a strap.

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