Well, unfortunately I'm sending my 7D back to Amazon. It just would not focus properly with almost every lens I tried. Those same lenses worked great my 20D or DsII. I did use the MA some and that would help, but I got concerned relative to how well it would work across the range on a zoom and at different distances. Now I need to decide if I want to try another one or bite the bullet and pick up a D4. I like having a crop body to along with DsII and liked the upgrades the 7D provided on paper over the 20D.
vpexp wrote:
Well, unfortunately I'm sending my 7D back to Amazon. It just would not focus properly with almost every lens I tried. Those same lenses worked great my 20D or DsII. I did use the MA some and that would help, but I got concerned relative to how well it would work across the range on a zoom and at different distances. Now I need to decide if I want to try another one or bite the bullet and pick up a D4. I like having a crop body to along with DsII and liked the upgrades the 7D provided on paper over the 20D....Show more →
This is exactly what mine was doing. And after a trip to Canon, it's much better but going back for a second time tomorrow. It now requires just about no MA for my other lenses in Spot or Single Point AF modes, but Zone AF and 19 Point Auto modes are still blatantly off. So I'm hoping that will get fixed. I'd sell mine and go with a 1D4, but can't afford it right now.
Mind if I ask where you can take such pictures? I've got a 7D and a 70-200F4 IS lens, but I've never seen a fox in the wild before here in the Netherlands
My 7D went totally dead on Sunday. I kept getting ERR messages. Took out the batteries, put them back in, camera would work for about 30 seconds and then another ERR message. Finally it wouldn't power up at all. I returned it to Canon yesterday. This is the second return, the first was for erratic focusing. I hope they finally figure out what is going on with this camera.
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
OK, apparently it is not smugmug but IE on, at the least, W7 64bit and my install, it looks sharp using firefox under W7 64bit.
but be wary about judging sharpness using IE at this point in time
EDIT: nevermind I had accidentally hit the special key and scrolled the mouse middle button a tad at some point during the last few weeks and ever so slightly increased the IE window zoom above 100% and apparently it now defaults to keeping the zoom setting across all instances and across reboots and it doesn't show the current zoom level anywhere on the window bar so it's kinda hidden
sort of dumb of me, but i never use the zoom function so i didn't even think of it
garyvot wrote:
FYI, the zoom level in IE 8 is shown on the status bar, bottom right corner. It's a great feature, but I too have changed this accidentally.
Ok I have a question about the 7D focus. Something I noticed mine doing that just does not seem right. With single center focus point selected, one shot mode, I find that the camera will sometimes give focus confirmation when there is clearly nothing in focus. For example I was using single point on a drop of rain at the end of a needle on a pine. There was clear contrast however the camera hunted back and forth quickly for just a second and then gave focus confirmation, however it was clear that absolutely nothing in the scene was in focus.
I honestly cannot remember any of my previous Canon bodies doing this. They may hunt and then finally get focus or just continue to hunt. Is there a setting that would prevent this? I have read the book, watched the videos, read another book written for the 7D. I can find no explanation.
pcvrz22g wrote:
Ok I have a question about the 7D focus. Something I noticed mine doing that just does not seem right. With single center focus point selected, one shot mode, I find that the camera will sometimes give focus confirmation when there is clearly nothing in focus. For example I was using single point on a drop of rain at the end of a needle on a pine. There was clear contrast however the camera hunted back and forth quickly for just a second and then gave focus confirmation, however it was clear that absolutely nothing in the scene was in focus.
I honestly cannot remember any of my previous Canon bodies doing this. They may hunt and then finally get focus or just continue to hunt. Is there a setting that would prevent this? I have read the book, watched the videos, read another book written for the 7D. I can find no explanation. ...Show more →
Try the Spot focus setting. It is less likely to pick up surrounding objects when shooting a small subject like a rain drop.
Jim Victory wrote:
Try the Spot focus setting. It is less likely to pick up surrounding objects when shooting a small subject like a rain drop.
Jim
Its the same result. I was going back and forth between those two actually. The problem is not that its focusing on something else, its giving focus confirmation when nothing is in focus.
