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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Finally Football - FNL - Opening Jamboree - Night 1 | |
Tim,
I am so glad your new/second 7dii is working as advertised (unlike your first that you sent back).
Some 7dii experience to share with you:
1. More so than 7dc, chroma noise reduction needed sooner, but really cleans the image up with pretty much no detail loss. Small values of luminance NR goes a long way in removal of noise and maintaining sharpness as well due to the very fine grain luminance noise.
2. I personally have always had better luck with AF accuracy using single and spot point vs expanded mode. There are two reasons, first is that when single/spot it is easier to see that you are onstage vs seeing a patch of points that may or may not have its center on your subject. Second is that I found the expanded mode will lock into highest edge contrast is falls on, so surround points with better edges will trump center point. If entire cluster fits on subject, it is great, but as you start to reach or many other players are in the action, you can lose control of knowing exactly where your focal plane will fall.
3. Do remember that the actual focus point is quite a bit bigger than the VF indication of the single focus point. If you thought you were on target and focus was way off grabbed onto something adjacent, it is likely due to this size discrepancy; doing be afraid to use the spot focus, it works just fine in AI Servo.
4. Others with the 7dii and 1dx have had to track the case sub setting slightly differently, despite the same Canon AI Servo iii algorithms. (the 1dx brings out more than 3 parameters to tweak) also remember that the Cases just feed the algorithm the preset values of the 3 settings like car FM presets, but algorithm is the same. For oncoming action using +1 or +2 for accel/decel has helped. If you still find the AF lagging for oncoming action (and know you properly tracked the AF point) you can also improve it by increasing sensitivity.
5. You might really like the new antiflicker, it might not be noticeable when taking the shot (only add lag up to a few milliseconds) but really help in FNL(2 and 3 of your second set had green tint).
6. The new auto ISO + EC in Manual mode is a huge improvement we got over the 7dc, not sure if 1dx had it, but it is very useful, expecially for varying light uniformity on the field/court, along with white or black informs.
-Guy
BTW, I got mine from Getitdigital as welln they deserve a plug to go along with their high eBay ratings. Alex the rep was good, he bumped me up from Gray Market $1199 to full USA version with 4 year Warranty including Accident protection for $1399 total. (I was buying extended warranty anyway, so I cancel the eBay Square Trade and bought the CPS Central extended warranty from Getitdigital. And yes, I got the USA Warranty Card.
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