After Duplantis broke the pole vault world record, a group of reporters instantly gathered around and counted three Canon EOS R1s, one Sony A1, and one Nikon Z9.
Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet, a few years ago, there were good people who said that "micro-mirrorless can't shoot sports", but unconsciously, the news reporter used practice to complete the switch from SLR to micro-mirror. At this Olympics, Imomo has observed a lot of new developments, so let's take EOS R1 as an example to see what has happened in the trend. 1. The most flexible change in the perception of the mirrorless camera compared to the SLR is probably the direct recognition of the subject, the operation of focusing first and then composing the picture no longer exists, and the EOS R1 can directly grab the subject's eyes for continuous shooting. As a result, we see more and more table tennis events, with the net as the foreground, and directly shooting the picture of the athletes.
In addition, mirrorless cameras like the EOS R1 can also register the face for priority focusing, so that between a group of athletes arranged in the vertical axis of the focal plane, you can identify the one you want to shoot at once, not to mention that the EOS R1 also has real eye-controlled focusing, the flexibility and accuracy of the focusing system have achieved crushing the SLR, and the shooting efficiency has been greatly improved.
Second, the next generation of image quality, in all fairness, the image quality of the SLR is still fully meeting the needs of photojournalism, but in recent years, the emerging stack technology has broken through the limitation of continuous shooting, and the back photography technology has improved the picture performance, and the most intuitive feeling is that the picture looks more detailed and more comfortable.
Especially in events such as synchronized swimming, indoor lighting is difficult to match with outdoor lighting, and a noisy explosion combination of high sensitivity + high shutter is required. The EOS R1 was originally good at noise control, and now it also has an AI-powered in-camera noise reduction function, which makes these pictures look so detailed and beautiful.
Third, the invincible anti-shake SLR camera is subject to the structure of the mirror box, and the body anti-shake is difficult to do, but the mirrorless can transplant a complete set of technology for lens anti-shake, and even EOS R1 can also cooperate with the lens to achieve 8.5 stops of anti-shake, aside from the aesthetic tendency, the photographer used a 400mm lens + 1.4x teleconverter to shoot such a slow gate picture handheld, which is itself an expansion of the creative boundary.
At this Olympic Games, a professional photographic equipment supplier like Canon opened an equipment maintenance center in the media base camp, and I noticed interesting reports from the local media in France: the equipment manufacturer still brought a certain number of SLR cameras, but "the demand is far lower than expected", and the dispute between SLR and mirrorless seems to be able to make a conclusion.