“ Thanks, I am into photography since 2011, the thing is that this camera is complicated for me, I need a friendly and sharp learning tool. “
There is and there isn’t much to learn about to use this digital camera model effectively. I lean heavily in the direction that there isn’t much to learn for an experienced photographer.
I compare learning to use a new digital camera to learning how to drive a new car. All cars work pretty much the same way because they must all follow the same rules of the road, as well as conform to the same laws of physics. No magic hover conversion button.
A new digital camera is no different. It must function in a manner that adheres to the basics of photography. Except for the simplest point and shoot models, they all allow you or the camera to directly control any one, two, or all three legs of the exposure triangle.
The biggest difference from one car to the next is what the dashboard looks like. Same with cameras. The biggest difference is what the rear panel looks like.
While the R5ii has a highly advanced AF system, if you disable features like subject recognition and eye tracking, then the camera will behave just like an advanced Canon DSLR. The main difference will be significantly more AF points. Instead of a few dozen points clustered around the center of the display, there are hundreds of points that go from one edge of the screen to the next.
If you are coming from a DSLR, then that mode of operation is a good starting point. First select a single AF point in 1-pt AF mode. This selected AF point is also used as the “Initial AF Tracking Point” in other AF modess.
Next, with subject recognition and eye tracking disabled, enable Whole Area AF Tracking, and enable all AF points by selecting an AF Zone mode. Use AF Servo mode. Half press the shutter and hold it.
The camera should light up clusters of SAF points on moving subjects. If your subject is not moving, then the cluster of AF points should “stick” to your subject as you slowly recompose the shot.
I think that it’s crucial to experience shooting this way when you’re first starting out. You are seeing how the basics of the AF system works. The more advanced Canon DSLRs can also behave this way, but just with fewer AF points.
Observing and getting acclimated to how the basic AF trading works helps you to understand how the subject and eye tracking features work. The AF point display is entirely different.
Instead of a cluster of AF points on the subject, it changes to a much larger, dynamically resizing, bounding rectangle. Inside the larger bounding rectangle is a smaller bounding rectangle on the subject’s face or eye.
It’s important to note the size and shape of the inner rectangle. Because it will never get smaller than the AF squares that you observed in the basic AF mode. In other words, subjects can be too far away for the AF system to recognize faces and eyes, so that it can lock focus on them.
That’s just a small opening crack of the door. The rest of the learning curve is going to be simply gaining experience. The camera may seem to misbehave at times. More times than not, the cause is usually user error. Not understanding the limits of what the camera can and cannot do. This will also be true for your lenses, especially if you are using adapted EF glass.
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