The Canon EOS R5 Mark II Wins Best Full-Frame Hybrid Camera

“Even with those wearing glasses” neither the r5m2 or r1 work correctly with my glasses. It’s ok but not great at all.
Same here. I wear glasses and the eye control AF is a useless feature on both the R1 and R5 Mk2 for me. The only way it worked reliably for me on the R3 was by using the cumbersome Eye Cup that Canon sold. The EyeCup was a pain because with it installed you could not unfold the rear LCD panel.
 
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Same here. I wear glasses and the eye control AF is a useless feature on both the R1 and R5 Mk2 for me. The only way it worked reliably for me on the R3 was by using the cumbersome Eye Cup that Canon sold. The EyeCup was a pain because with it installed you could not unfold the rear LCD panel.
I have that eyecup also but cannot reallly use it as I use my cameras in portrait orientation most of the time and the eyecup just doesn't really work well that way.
 
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I really despise the CIPA "awards" for several reasons.

One example:
best ff camera (pro): Sony A1mkii
best ff hybrid cam: R5mkii
best ff camera (exp.) Nikon Z6mkiii

It feels like: "we're gonna create so many categories, so that everybody wins." Kinda gives the "award" the feeling of participation trophy...
Secondly, the companies pay to enter the contest. To me, in reality, this comes across as: "we pay to get (for contractual reasons at least) one award."

So, yeah, I really don't about CIPA awards and I don't they are worth mentioning at all...
 
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I really despise the CIPA "awards" for several reasons.

One example:
best ff camera (pro): Sony A1mkii
best ff hybrid cam: R5mkii
best ff camera (exp.) Nikon Z6mkiii

It feels like: "we're gonna create so many categories, so that everybody wins." Kinda gives the "award" the feeling of participation trophy...
Secondly, the companies pay to enter the contest. To me, in reality, this comes across as: "we pay to get (for contractual reasons at least) one award."

So, yeah, I really don't about CIPA awards and I don't they are worth mentioning at all...
So true but not wrong.

All these cameras are so good today with subtle differences the biggest being the 3 award winners belong to different systems.

The Sony A1MII (subtlety better than the original) is on par with the R1 except it has many more MP (a plus for me) in an inferior form factor (of course some may prefer the form factor. Frankly, the A1 II, R1, and R5II, are really close performers (you could throw in the Nikon Z8 and Z9 twins as well). It's hard to think of a situation in which you could get shots with one camera that you couldn't with one of the others (you could argue that one is a bit better in managing rolling shutter, whereas one has marginally better AF, but excuse me for finding such arguments uninteresting).

The Z6 III, is in a different category. I have the Z6 III (I wanted a compact body that was smaller than the Z8 to use with my Nikon Z lenses) but frankly don't find it significantly better than the Canon Z6II (on paper and in reviews; I've never used it). I shoot Canon as well with the R5 series being more than sufficient for my needs (almost perfect).

Lenses are a similar story. Of the big three, Nikon dominates in long primes, Canon does very well in zooms, and Sony is producing amazing lenses in all categories. But if you kind find what you need in your chosen system, you are probably way too picky.

In short, these awards may be useful for someone starting out and trying to choose a system. But they're rather worthless for professionals and avid hobbyists.
 
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