All right! This was the R3 I posted about having a faulty shutter and wondering what everyone thought.

I ended up pulling the trigger, replacing the shutter for 350 bucks the same day and had it working up for a shoot a couple of days later. It was a grand total of 2.1k USD for it all.

I've done some video and photos with it, I only really use the mech shutter for covering the sensor

So, the positives:

• Compared to the a7iv I had, this is MASSIVELY more comfy (duh), it feels close in weight to my 5D.

• The 6k video is INSANE, matches very well with my C70, it's SO sharp, this is exactly how I wish my c70 looked.

• The EVF is gorgeous and the eye-af is very cool

• The photos this camera makes are oddly as sharp, or sharper than my a7iv 33mp pictures, I can't think why, but they just are, and cRAW makes the raw files 5-15mb in size, I LOVE that.

• There's a button for everything, only really go into menu's to adjust WB

• Battery life is crazy, 1st party battery lasted me about 2.5-3 hours doing wireless tethering on a shoot.

• The IBIS is AMAZING for both photos and videos, unlike Sony's.

• Immensely happy I don't need to use a mechanical shutter any more.

Now, the negatives:

• The autofocus is ... dumb? It locks in fast and tracks, and generally works like the sony, except ... it drifts to nowhere? I had to disable subject detection to make it stop drifting after locking in, might need to update the firmware, it did this with product/still life, not people.

• The canon menu's are not terribly friendly IMO

• On the video end, no c-log 2 for 10 bit video, or RAW 4k (even if cropped), the 6k files are HUGE, I bought 2x 512gb CFX, and it wouldn't be enough if I were to do a whole shoot with it.

• I know this isn't a cinema line camera, but the video menu is also kinda bleh, compared to the one in the C70

• Setting up a new wireless connection is a PITA

• The built-in picture profiles aren't anything to write home about, sure I shoot RAW, but it would be nice to have pleasing, or stylized SOOC pictures.

Overall, I really really really like this camera, and I am very happy I went for it, even If I had been offered for the same price an a1, z8/z9, I'd have picked this one up instead

I used my r3 for the first time today. Was going to replace my r5 with it and use the r5 as a backup body.

I’m a portrait photographer, primarily in studio. I honestly didn’t see enough of a difference to justify the price difference from buying a 2nd r5 or awaiting the r5m2.

After using smaller bodies for 20 years, it does feel massive, and while AF felt a bit snappier, I don’t think it was THAT much better.

Am I missing something?