{"id":8840,"date":"2020-09-14T19:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:25:04","slug":"practice-makes-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/practice-makes-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice makes&#8230;..better."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My poor 5dmk 3 has definitely seen better days, bits of the protective rubber have fallen off, it&#8217;s missing a label that tells you which setting it&#8217;s on (thankfully I know this camera so well that I know where its set anyway) and it has numerous cosmetic chips and scratches. After 7 years of shooting events in rain and dust, it shows its age but it still fires away as reliable as ever. I&#8217;m just not so sure for how much longer though.  Enter the R5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new R5 from Canon has just a few more (roll my eyes in sarcasm here) features than my 5d3. I&#8217;m not going to go into all that here as there are plenty of reviews and comparisons on the internet. But this does mean that I need to go out and get my head around the new buttons and new functions, to try and get the camera set up the way that I am comfortable with so I can change all my settings without thinking about it. Hence practice makes, maybe not perfect, but better at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took myself off to one of my local bike tracks. It&#8217;s a great track for shooting with some super cool locations but of late the mosquito population there has gotten out of hand. It is right next to some wetlands but I don&#8217;t remember my first few shoots there being swamped by mosquitoes. Now to make matters worse it has been reported that Ross River Virus is present there. Its a nasty virus and definitely not something you want to get. Either way my days shooting there are done for the moment. It&#8217;s probably fine riding but when you are standing around waiting for riders the mosquitoes tend to mob you. I got a couple of shots there but then had to leave. If i go back to shoot again it will be set up with a rider where we go in and get the shots quickly and get out again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still determined to get my practice in  I took myself off to my local dirt jumps for an afternoon session and caught up with my friend Sam who I hadn&#8217;t seen for a while. Always a friendly fellow and always keen for a bit of  DJ action.  There was a fair-sized crew up there so plenty to shoot but I&#8217;ll be up more and more as I try to nail all the functions and settings on this new beast of mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh and so far all my impressions of the R5 are definitely positive. 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