Mine was dropped of directy to Canon Irvine, CA on the 19th. Service number showed it accepted on the 20th. Today it showed complete and return to me within 4 business days. Not sure if that is their normal turnaround or not. Quite possible they tested mine and found nothing, which is my worst fear as I have seen its operation in comparison to another 7D body and know something is not right.
Just checked and it shows a status of shipped, supposed to be here on Monday. Hopefully there's some sort of detailed repair slip with the camera as nothing was listed on Canon's web site. I'll definitely test it that day, and try to post an update here. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be good news.
I had an email this morning showing shipment yesterday and Fedex tracking has it arriving at my door today. Still nothing in the email stating that they found anything. Thats 4 days from drop off to return. Impressive turnaround assuming they did anything.
You'll see something in the shipment. They'll put a generic/cryptic message, "Adjustment AF blah blah blah" Canon style .
pcvrz22g wrote:
I had an email this morning showing shipment yesterday and Fedex tracking has it arriving at my door today. Still nothing in the email stating that they found anything. Thats 4 days from drop off to return. Impressive turnaround assuming they did anything.
Yes they said they found the AF system was not adjusted and was causing incorrect focus. I have only been able to snap a few shots but initially it looks good.
pcvrz22g wrote:
Yes they said they found the AF system was not adjusted and was causing incorrect focus. I have only been able to snap a few shots but initially it looks good.
So I have two 7D battery chargers, and I plugged them both in at the same time for charging. The orange lights started blinking in pretty much the same "charge state" status.
An hour or so later I went back to find one charger with a green light, the other....NO LIGHT on.
I swapped batteries into the "non-light" charger and still got no light. I tried a new outlet, and no light. I put both batteries into the "green light" charger...and both showed a light status.
Is it safe to assume that this "non-light" charger is DEAD?
Thom Briggs wrote:
Is it safe to assume that this "non-light" charger is DEAD?
Thanks
Thom
The green light on that charger may be out but the charger is still working. Run a battery down and try again. Try to check it around the time 75% (3 blinks) should be happening. When they stop blinking and you get no light, I would say the light is just malfunctioning.
On another note.... I have tested more with my 7D since getting it back today. Unfortunately I do not have the 70-200 and 24-70 to test but using the 28-135 kit lens things are already noticably better. I have not had any of the problems I had previously.
The charger now shows NO lights. Initially, it showed the blinking orange lights. When I checked the charger after an hour....nothing. I put the battery that was in it into the OTHER charger, and it was blinking orange for about 30 min or so.
I think the charger is dead, as the battery needed quite a bit of time to reach green, whereas the other batter (started charging at the same time, initially)....was green.
Trying other outlets did not work either. And if it WAS just a green light issue, I'd send it back anyway.
I did a quickie test this evening just to see how Capture One did with the raw files vs cs4. I didn't notice at the time, but my daughter stuck her face in the way on the iso 200 shot, so that one isn't included. I don't do extremely controlled tests, I just do them however I might shoot normally, so take this about as seriously as if you were reading Garfield at Large. Capture One, CS4, and Noiseware were all at default values, except ACR was set to sharpen preview files only.
headroom wrote:
Simply dont use Auto AF select, all Canons do this with the Setting Auto....
My 450D does NOT do that.
Jeff wrote:
Unless he recomposed after focusing, there is simply no reason that the camera should have focused on (or near) the tree in the foreground, based upon the camera's selection of AF points.
Auto selection AF on 7D ALWAYS picks the nearest subject regardless of what it indicates. I really do not know why. If all the objects in a scene are ~ same distance from camera, auto selection AF fails completely.
Looks like this is a serious AF algorithm issue in the 7D that needs to be addressed.
WOW, I just noticed something, this didn't seem as sharp as I remembered, even though I even tried using the smugmug "-O" extension so I compared to the original JPG and it is NOTICEABLY less crisp! It seems like smugmug has gone to forceably recompressing all images or something Or maybe they still store the original and use the for printing and downloads but simply dont allow -O linking for posting to webpages or for display anymore, even if you manually type -O now it still uses -X3 or something
You know I thought for the last few months some of my posting of details shots hadn't had as much impressive detail as I had thought and well this might explain it. Wow, it would be unfortunate if smugmug doesn't allow true original linking.... I think the others do.
Unless maybe manually renaming it -O meant it recompressed the -X3 trying to make an -O which it didn't call the original because it was not big enough I need to compare with -O vs -X3....
nope they both look noticeably filtered! So smugmug has begun pulling fastones Or what is going wrong?
anyway it seems like smugmug may no longer be useful for 100% crop comparisons or demonstrations....
this stinks, otherwise I had been really liking smugmug....
just compared it again and it's like the image was taken with two different cameras, the smugmug version that you see when you read this posting is very definitely softened and blurred compared to the original!
anyway, unless i messed something up, it might be something keep in mind if you compare 100% crops you see posted to your own personal files and then think all the new cameras are soft
Im much happier since my 7D returned from Canon Service. Now while the below example is not a great photo I think it is still a good example of the ISO performance and overall performance of the 7D.
This is handheld at 1250 ISO with a Sigma 105 2.8 at 5.6 with shutter of 1/100 no IS of course. This is out of camera with exception of slight sharpening of her left eye (eye on right in image). I could not produce anything close to this prior to sending back to Canon.
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Jan 23, 2010 at 01:01 AM
