Swapping cameras in cheetah 3d manual#
And the manual focus point selection AF is lightning quick too. The R5 eye-AF isn't perfect but when you have a clear line of site to your subject it's like a magnet on a nail. After testing it out I bought one and I don't pick up the Z7 II for birds or fast wildlife anymore. It doesn't work well enough on the Z cameras yet.īut this is what drove me to try out the Canon R5 after reading so many rave reviews about it's animal eye AF tracking. Don't use subject tracking on zoo animals. I have gotten some great zoo pics with my previous Z6 with this set up including two male lesser kudus sparing, seals and otters catching fish, and orangutans traveling on rope lines. If you haven't already, set up back button AF and manually navigate your focus points you'll have better success. For wildlife, I'd say your experience was mine to an extent - subject AF tracking for moving objects faster than a seagull in flight is frustrating. I'm going to get a lot of flack for this, but I've owned a Z6, and now own both a Z7 II and Canon R5. Oh, and dear Nikon - the horns of a goat are different from the eyes as well. So how do I make the most of the Z6, please? The keepers were actually quite nice - I would love to have more of them though.:-) With the penguins, the camera liked the rocks they were standing on far better than the cute animals. There is no need to switch the eye detection on the neck or even the shoulder. But I had my Z24-200 with me and got a giraffe in clear view. Admittedly, the instructions speak of cats and dogs. So how do you manage to get wildlife shots? What are the correct settings? I had a look at pages like and tried AF-C and dynamic mode (and all the other settings) - but the camera was not really able to track a hyena or a cheetah. But I had no luck when I went to the zoo today again. So after upgrading to the latest firmware, I had the tiny hope that Nikon had also improved the autofocus of the Z6 even if not explicitly mentioned in the change log. I was quite surprised how badly the autofocus system performed with animals. I was to the zoo once in order to acquaint myself with the system. I'm a total beginner but I recently bought a Z6 as a sturdy travel camera e.g.