My local reputable brick & mortar (Hunt's Photo, Melrose, MA) just told me this morning that they expect their first batch in early October, so that would be consistent with RG.
Hunt's said they already have 85 pre-orders, which they don't expect to be able to fulfill in their first shipment, and I don't think they know when they will get another.
I say this with a degree of caution. One large house claims they received a large shipment yesterday and will start shipping today. I guess I am confused since some seem to have received information that the cameras were not shipping from Canon for another few days (albeit other sources said cameras were shipping from Canon yesterday). My bottom line: I'll see if mine ships today as promised
Jeff Kingston wrote:
I say this with a degree of caution. One large house claims they received a large shipment yesterday and will start shipping today. I guess I am confused since some seem to have received information that the cameras were not shipping from Canon for another few days (albeit other sources said cameras were shipping from Canon yesterday). My bottom line: I'll see if mine ships today as promised
"The focus tracking was especially powerful. While standing in Times Square we were able to track onto quickly-diving pigeons instantly and have the system lock focus as the subject moved across the frame without any panning needed."
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Thanks for the kind words, Mocca. If the shunning gets bad , I'm sure Peter (PetKal), a true friend of creative spirit, will come to rescue.
According to the claimed pigeon-tracking capabilities, as quoted above, the 7D is definitely a camera for him as well
That post - or one very like it - has come up before, Alundeb: along with much bafflement about the awful quality of his Flickr gallery, which he describes as containing "great images".
"The focus tracking was especially powerful. While standing in Times Square we were able to track onto quickly-diving pigeons instantly and have the system lock focus as the subject moved across the frame without any panning needed."
just a word of warning, that info has already been entirely discredited earlier in this thread.
click on the samples....
the focus is soooooooo far out of whack as to be beyond laughable.
hopefully the AF IS that good, but this guy has no clue at all about how to use AF. I mean he missed by 10' on many photos. Not sure how he can claim that such performance was worlds better than the 5D2 AF (well, ok, that one misses by 60'.... on snails! kidding, kidding).
The Norwegian wildlife photographer claims seemed more believable (positive too).
"..... We shot the 7D with both the company's new lenses and our stable of test pro lenses and all focused quickly and reliably, much more so than the 5D Mark II. If there were a full-frame sensor in this camera it would quickly have become the best selling prosumer camera in Canon's arsenal. Of course, that's likely why it did not have a full-frame—Canon will likely save these upgrades for a 1D replacement and then trickle-down with a 4D or some such.."
More from the same article.
I only wish they had put the 7D's AF in the 5DII. I'll keep praying for the ever elusive 3D for next year.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
With LR/ACR for high ISO, set the mask value high and the detail low(er) to reduce accentuating noise. The defaults are useless IMO.
Very true, so make a note of that people!
I took a look at the 3200 ISO raw-file i CS4 from this thread and was impressed:
3200 ISO looks very nice and clean in this shot - much more so that most of the jpegs out there, so raw is probably a must at high ISO with 7D. I'm not sure that to say about 6400 ISO - even the slightest sharpening amplifies noise a lot, so I actually prefered to set sharpening amount to 0 in Camera Raw, but we'll have to wait and see with final 7D and 7D-raw support in ACR.
3200 ISO looks very nice and clean in this shot - much more so that most of the jpegs out there, so raw is probably a must at high ISO with 7D. I'm not sure that to say about 6400 ISO - even the slightest sharpening amplifies noise a lot, so I actually prefered to set sharpening amount to 0 in Camera Raw, but we'll have to wait and see with final 7D and 7D-raw support in ACR....Show more →
I processed that shot from RAW in CS4 ACR 5.5, Neat Image Auto Profile and some tweaking in CS4 then the resize. I don't know if the final is my best but it does satisfy my meager needs for 3200 ISO...
cameron12x wrote:
Can you post the exif metadata for these shots? I'm impressed. Thanks!
These are very good, but it would be even more impressive if we could see some RAW low-light samples with exif metadata...
Until some of us get the 7D a selection of test shots just are not available. These images were shot by someone who had short time access to the 7D and snapped some shots with it.
