I've got a message, Christine.
Vlad and Christine, we want you to put the Canon
EOS R3 through its paces and capture some amazing
images of the ERX.
Don't hold back.
Let's do that no?
So we just had a chat with Christine and
we were speaking about the plan for today, so it's
going to be interesting.
Very hot. A lot of action and hopefully
a lot of nice pictures.
I'm Vladimir Rys, i'm a Formula One photographer and
Canon ambassador. That's what I do for life.
We are in the middle of beautiful Austria and we are
using the new EOS R3 camera, shooting
Christine with her fully electric ERX car.
We need speed. We need to outpace and
outperform. That's why we use this camera.
Oh!
OK, now the fun starts I think.
OK I'm going to go up there, just be ready.
Let's do this.
So we are here on location where we want to do the
Scandinavian flick. Christine is going to go up the
hill with her car and then she's going to come down
and we're going to use the R3
with its new vehicle tracking and it's
going to lock on the car and we're going to get
really good shots.
Racing photography, motor racing photography, it's
one of the most difficult kinds of photography.
I have one chance and if I take it I take it, if I
don't, I lose it.
It's never coming back.
You have to be very fast.
I think you need to follow in a way your instinct
and your feelings and then transmit
your feelings into the photography, and if you are
technically good enough then you can do that.
This camera helps you to do that.
It opens your room to be more creative,
even more than before.
This camera gives me everything I need as a Formula
One photographer, the speed, the burst,
the AF vehicle tracking, which is amazing because
it can follow the helmet of the driver
without you even needing to think about it so
you can only concentrate on the composition of the
shot and on the main thing, which
is first time in my career really.
So AF is very important.
There are certain situations where you have to be
dependent on the AF and this new AF system
is more precise, faster.
That's all you need.
So another cool feature on the R3 is the eye-control
autofocus system, which allows me
to lock on to an object I'm following.
When the car comes into the frame of
the picture I'm shooting and you just use
your eye to get the focus point on that
car and then you lock onto it and just follow the
car and get the images you want.
I mean, it's so easy isn't it?
It just follows my eyes!
So I mainly shoot still images, but
now I'm getting more and more into video as well.
It was a lot of fun flying the drone with
the EOS R3 and then the quality, I was blown
away with the quality when we saw it afterwards.
You can shoot 6K. You can shoot 4K at 120 frames per
second. And yeah I mean it's just
exciting when you hear the numbers you just want to
get into it and try it.
You can shoot raw so you can get the colours back
easily and you can get the best
quality possible really with such a small camera.
My hobby became my job which is a dream come true
I think for every photographer and I'm able
to travel the world with Formula One.
It's a really unique job and I love my job,
so it's not really a job for me in a way it's more
of a hobby and I live the dream every day.
Shooting electronic shutter is a high end technology.
For me personally, it's the same as when shooting
with the 1DX.
When you think about holding the shutter for one
second and there is thirty images being made.
I was shocked when I first pressed the button I was
like, oh did I take one picture or fifty pictures?
And then you realise, how
much speed that camera has.
I was blown
away.
And when there is rain or water you know, you just
need sometimes a lot of speed.
You have no time to think about it, can't predict
what's going to happen and with this it's
much easier to capture what you want.
We had a flat tyre, we just got this rain,
it's going to be interesting. There is a lot of water
coming down now at the moment that it's going to be
nice for the pictures and for the gravel.
I'm pretty optimistic that this water and
the mud and the gravel and the dust
is not going to hurt the camera because it's
waterproof.
Very challenging conditions yeah, but I like
challenging conditions, it's part of my job isn't it.
And the camera likes it as well!
The quality of this camera is all I need, 24
megapixel is great, it's much more than it used to
be. Sometimes I need to send fast images
via FTP, it allows you to be very fast and just
concentrate on shooting images.
I didn't expect such a big step forward, but I was
amazed. Just stunning like the number of the pictures
you can shoot in one second and the shutter
speed. I was like, I was blown away by the shutter
speed. I've been shooting up to 1/64,000
of a second, which I've never done before.
It opens your eyes again and
gives you more room to be creative
as you can shoot the cars in the fastest corners
and still get it cripsy sharp.
This camera has evolved on every level.
You are just blown away I think as a photographer, it
is something you would never think about
like five years ago.
This camera basically gives you the freedom that you
can focus only on the picture.
That's it..