Although I shoot primarily sports using Canon 1 series DSLR bodies, I travel quite a bit and for short trips via air a Canon M6 II with its 18-150 is my camera setup of choice. With the responsiveness of 1 series bodies, phone cameras drive me crazy...
I was reminded tonight while shooting a HS soccer match that it is often easy to complain about camera specifications, control layout, menu design, etc. but compared to the true pain our subjects often suffer we have a VERY easy life as photographers...
I have shot thousands of soccer match photos over the years but none capture the sheer joy of the beautiful game better than this player's happiness and exuberance! Captured with a Canon 1DX III and EF 200-400 extender @ 488mm, 1/1250, f5.6, ISO 500...
No, it's not possible. The 1DX uses CF cards, and the R1 uses CFexpress cards.
I have a pair of 1DX III bodies that use CFexpress cards and I have shot in all sorts of conditions including hours of baseball in direct sunlight when ambient is in the ...
Under warm conditions, run the battery down to around 25 percent indication in your R5 and then try that battery in the II to see what it does. Maybe the voltage sense in the II is out of spec so it believes that the battery is depleted when it has ...
I second Rick's advice about always having the camera tethered to you in some way. I shoot most sports with two camera bodies and I use a harness that attaches them via swivel mounts with shock absorbing straps AND they have a backup safety strap to...
I have never owned any flavor of Canon's 100-400 lens but I have owned a Sigma 150-600 for several years and I have been impressed. Two years ago, a friend asked me to shoot some photos of a crop duster helicopter that was operating out of his ag fa...