R5

I finally settled on an R5 I. After a lot of fun with the 1D-X II, I had been thinking for a while about how to get around the limitation of its 20MP sensor, and shooting the Sigma at f/8, where it is sharpest, I kept hitting the limit of how much detail I can pull out of a single frame.

SONY · ILCE-6400A · 24mm · ƒ/4.5 · 1/80s · ISO 6400

After testing a rental R5 on site at Calumet, the AF tracking, the weight and the sensor resolution won me over. The extras of the R5 II were not worth the premium for me: Precapture, a higher-resolution viewfinder, a different sensor architecture. I’ll keep sharing the 1D-X II with Nadine for the shorter focal lengths. It was definitely an enabler for even more learning.