Canon R3 Review for Wildlife and Birds in Flight

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:11 Design and Controls
7:32 Image Quality
10:10 Drive Speed
13:06 Animal Detection
16:09 Birds in Flight
21:12 Back Button Focus & Eye Control
27:35 Movie Mode
29:13 Lens and Extenders
32:10 Conclusion

[MacawAviculture]

I have used a Canon 1 Dx Mark II for all of my Macaw family photos/videos since 2016. But after watching a video by Jan Wegener on the Canon R6 Mark II, I decided to rent one. Absolutely incredible focusing capabilities and produces amazing 4K video. I do not like the smaller body of the R5, R6, and others, but love the large body of the 1Dx series cameras. I ordered a Canon R3 a few days ago, and it will be delivered today! Thank you for this video and for reinforcing my decision to buy the R3! The new R1 will not have any improvements over the R3 for my photo/video use, so no need for me to buy the R1. The larger 1 Dx body size on the R1 would be better than the R3, but not enough to justify the larger price. Thanks again!

[victorbastos]

I click the like button and then I watch the video. One of the best if not the best channel about photo gear.

[tomhalbouty]

Excellent review. Mathieu is my favorite reviewer. I decided to upgrade from the Canon R to the R6 after seeing the R6 comparison with the outstanding R3. I use my full frame camera primarily for low light work. I'm not a pro but have been photographing is I was 13 and have been retired for a while.

[TITAOSTEIN]

Great Review! Very interesting Camera for Wildlife indeed! But Canon and Sony have no chances with me :) I’m very happy with the results from my OM-1 + 300mm f4! In my case the M43 system is the best. Robust, practical, efficient, and meets my priorities in a compact way: video, Real Estate, Food, Wildlife, Macro and Travel!

[romainvictoria]

Great work as always!
Merci pour ton travail Mathieu c'est toujours un plaisir de bénéficier de ton application et de tes astuces de réglage.

[Leptospirosi]

Top notch review: the fact that you rent your equipment with your own money, instead of being given to you for free, adds to your freedom of speech, as you have no one to appease, if something doesn't look good.

[brucegraner]

Very well done review. I'm interested in bird photography and found myself watching the review and wishing the R3 was the new R7, a king of cropped-sensor cameras offering a little more reach with the same tech behind a 33-meg sensor. I've had a chance to hold an R3 and found it beautifully built and very comfortable to hold either in vertical or horizontal mode as well as surprisingly light. Coupled with the Canon 100-500mm lens you'd get the equivalent of 800mm's, just about perfect as far as I'm concerned.

[majaisakszon]

Canon so much better then sony.
Love the R3.

[madbadger]

I’ve been blown away with mine, just was a long time 1D series user thinking nothing was better but this blows my 1DXm3 out of the water. It may not be as well built but its focusing system is worlds different. The only thing I’m not keen on and maybe it’s a setting I’ve not discovered but in mechanical shutter mode trying to track a bird in flight is impossible, the blackout on the EVF is terrible, but like I said it could be a setting. I can’t think how much better if anything the R1 will be.

[sunil]

thanks for an excellent review. Do you find the R3 + 100-500 a better combo for wildlife than OM1 + 150-400?

[karthicphotography]

I Can See Lot Of Reviews.
This is Best. Presentation . Video Audio Every Thing So Good 🎉

[scottdawson]

hi could you recommend a camera for wildlife and landscape I have a Canon sx70 hs power shot but was thinking of a change but am lost in all the choices

[keithdraycott]

Great review, thank you. I've been torn on whether to get an R5 or bite the bullet and spend the extra on an R3. This video convinced me that the R3's focusing system means that the extra money will definitely be worth it. - Now, can you please make a video showing me how to break the news to my

[MySpace]

Great review. is it possible to shoot stills while filming on video mode at the same time?

[ThomazMartinez]

Canon can have better highlight recovery if you enable that DR+ or something that changes min ISO to 200 but you get more highlight recovery and this affects RAW's also!

[ridgefield]

This is an amazing review, just like your all other reviews. I wonder if you have X-H2s in the pipeline.

[naturealbums]

Even though I'm a Canon shooter it's highly unlikely i will ever own one but I thoroughly enjoyed this review. You do an excellent job of a difficult subject. Excellent website also by the way I look forward to your future work especially the new Fuji XH2s and Canon R7. I got fed up waiting for my R7 pre order I cancelled it. I'm now trying to decide between the OM-1 and the XH2s. I really appreciate the work you do that other reviewers like dpreview just can't cover. Like for example they recently reviewed the XH2s but I actually got very little out of it. Look forward to seeing your version.

[robertrobert]

33:11 why didn't you use flashlight? You lifted iso very high and it reflected on the photo with visible noise.

[enigmabletchley]

Excellent analysis as usual, Mathieu. I kinda lost interest if as you suggest there is no Pre-AF in ES mode. This is a major and important feature of the Panasonic and Fujifilm cameras I have used for wildlife. A strange omission and a deal-breaker for me. In any case, I have just upgraded to the Fujifilm X-HS2 which I hope will soon be a subject of another of your videos.

[Guillaume]

SD card can run the r3 buffer for a long time, my sd V90 angelbird has a base speed of 260mo/s (v90 but much more), so my R3 take with that specific card up to or arround 340 shoots (11seconds so sd can be enough)
But you can get different result .... what I mean is that your buffer test are not good in the way that canon buffer are different with any ISO the much the value is high the less you get photos out of a burst

It is not very usefull to suppress anything except subject detection from the q menu because it stay on le last parameter changed so for wild life just staying on it is the solution.

There is another port available in fornt which is the n3 port