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Thinking of a 7d2 and wondering if I should choose this route or not. I don't want my run of misfortune to continue lol
7D2's focusing is more than fine, get one and your love it
Thinking of a 7d2 and wondering if I should choose this route or not. I don't want my run of misfortune to continue lol
does it take the lpe6 batteries from the 70d?
Indeed it does
Just had a quick read on the last few posts, I am currently deciding what to do with my camera. Currently use a 70d which has had focus issues despite being supposedly fixed by canon and I have had 2 like this.
Thinking of a 7d2 and wondering if I should choose this route or not. I don't want my run of misfortune to continue lol
By all accounts the 7D2 has exactly the same problems with AF as does the 70D. PEBV
Well just got my nice new 7D MKII only to find that while it will work with my MKI 3rd party batteries the new charger won't . Had to order a 3rd party charger from Amazon
Thanks Canon
I thought the charger was exactly the same? Mine is the LC-E6E.
Mine works with third party ones
Oh dear this puts me in a quandary I was thinking of going down the route of a mkii ,but after reading some previous comments I think it might be better to wait for a 1D4 to come along ,had a 70D previously with focus issues now gladly departed ,so don't want to get caught up in that again .my son will be back from holiday tomorrow and he has a new mkii I can try before I buy .
Or do I just stick to my trusty old 1D mkiii that still turns out the goodies .
I wish i can find someone locally to try/test 7D mkii first, because i feel i want to let my 1D mkiii go and welcoming 7D mkII, not thinking about second hand or used so i ignored 1D4, and can't afford 1DX again now.
I would like to see more sports and birds shots from this camera here, i don't need portraits with this camera as there are better cameras FF i prefer than this camera, but this camera is a nice body for sports and action or wildlife/birding i think and this is what i want to see more.
There can be negative comments found about every camera out there, and usually they are a minority. There are also plenty of people who are more than happy with their 7DII and have no issues.
They weren't a minority when it first came out though. Poor quality control of whatever the reason there were unhappy people about.
Oh dear this puts me in a quandary I was thinking of going down the route of a mkii ,but after reading some previous comments I think it might be better to wait for a 1D4 to come along ,had a 70D previously with focus issues now gladly departed ,so don't want to get caught up in that again .my son will be back from holiday tomorrow and he has a new mkii I can try before I buy .
Or do I just stick to my trusty old 1D mkiii that still turns out the goodies .
One of my first daytime shots with the 7Dii yesterday. It's all looking very promising! This is a 3000x2000 crop from a full size jpeg. Shot hand-held at a distance of about 40ft with an effective 1600mm lens (500+2x on a 1.6).
1000mm 1/1500s F8 ISO800
There's nothing to 'get used to' with this as I've been shooting with a couple of 5Diii's for a good while. They are virtually identical in the hand and I have to look at the front of the camera to kmnow which one it is I'm using!Seems you are getting use to the 7DII already
There's nothing to 'get used to' with this as I've been shooting with a couple of 5Diii's for a good while. They are virtually identical in the hand and I have to look at the front of the camera to kmnow which one it is I'm using!
If you scale the 7D2 image down to match the 5D3, how do they compare then.A rather quick, non-scientific test here. I put the 500F4LII on a tripod, added the 2xiii and took shots with the 5Diii and the new 7Dii.
I've cropped the images to be as near to identical as I could without spending too much time on it. The images have had exactly the same level of (slight) processing. Needless to say, the 5Diii images have been cropped to a greater extent than those of the 7Dii in order to acheive the same effective shot.
Left side is the 5Diii / Right is 7Dii
(This area of the moon is known as the 'Sea of Crisis'...!)
To me, the difference is clear, and you can see several small craters in the second image which are not visible at all on the first image.
Not drawing any difinitive conclusions from this and will have to wait until daytime to test the new camera on some 'birdies'. However, based purely on this quick test, I have to say that my desire to have an effective 1600mm tool (!!!) would appear to have been met.
Doubt if it will help me take better pictures though......
Had to think about that for a moment......(counter intuitive for a bird photographer)If you scale the 7D2 image down to match the 5D3, how do they compare then.
Thanks for the feedback.Had to think about that for a moment......(counter intuitive for a bird photographer)
In the original 5Diii shot, to get the moon to fill my screen I needed to crop it to 1600x1600 whereas the 7Dii shot was cropped to 2400x2400 for the same result. I've just resampled the 7Dii shot to 1600x1600 and I have to say, the 5Diii image is now a better picture in many ways! Despite the fact that the 7Dii image still has the extra craters in the Sea of Crisis, there is more definition across the majority of the moon on the 5Diii image now.
Not sure what this proves in the real world of practicality though.
Not sure what this proves in the real world of practicality though.
However, by scaling the 7D2 image down it shows that FF may actually show better quality.