Canon Reveals The Best Camera For Motorsports

    Canon, the largest maker of cameras, has announced the R3, a new mirrorless camera body that has a large list of features that make it ideal for motorsports photography. Some of these features have been seen on other cameras, but they haven’t come together like this. As far as we know, this full feature list is uniquely suited to motorsports photography:   • Motorsports Subject Recognition autofocus which is machine-learning powered and trained for racing cars and motorcycles  

  • Motorsports AI autofocus algorithms with “spot detection” feature that attempts to focus on the driver or rider’s helmet  

  • Eye Control Autofocus which allows the camera to focus on the area where the user is looking, something that could be especially useful when attempting to focus on a particular car within a group  

 

• User defined autofocus area so that user can prevent AF from being triggered by, say, a fence in the lower portion of the field of view

• Full-frame autofocus with 1053 AF points

• 5-axis in-body image stabilization works with in-lens stabilizers (example shot at 1/15 sec)

• 30 frames per second maximum burst rate

• Up to 4K at 120p video capture

• Ultra-fast sensor readout with very low 10ms rolling shutter rate in video mode

• Wide range of telephoto lenses, including lightweight 600mm and 800mm and compact 70-200mm and 100-500mm options, plus a huge variety of more conventional glass from Canon’s EF line

The R3’s impressive feature list isn’t cheap at $5999 for the camera body. But motorsports photography and videography can require some high tech equipment, well beyond your phone’s capabilities, if you want to do it at a pro level.