7D II love

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The story: After I bought a 5DIII and made the jump to full frame, I held on to my 7D, thinking I would use it as a backup. Never happened. I really loved the 7D when I was using it, but I just found that the 5DIII was more suitable for almost everything.

Then the 7DII came out and I started to have a GAS attack, alternately trying to find a way to justify getting one and then talking myself out of it.

Well, the local Best Buy had an "open box" special on one. I checked it out. Great price, great condition, interest-free for six months on the card so I could use their money for free. Went back and forth, but decided to give it a go.

That night, I had to shoot a women's volleyball game. Took the 7DII along, thinking I'd try it out, but mainly use the 5DIII. The 5DIII never left the bag.

I'm a little rusty on sports shooting, as that's not what I normally shoot for clients, and I wasn't all that comfortable with the focus settings (although not that much different than the 5DIII). Like most school gyms, the light was less than ideal. Cranked it up to 6,400. (Would have never done that with the 7D I). Set it on high speed shooting and got to work.

The images were more than usable. I could even crop them to compensate for my being out of practice. Yeah, there's some noise but it's like Tri-X grain, which I don't mind and with a little careful work in Photoshop I can minimize it.

Shot an outdoor soccer match a few days later using the 7D. I'm really loving this camera. It's definitely going to be my sports camera from now on.

No big point here, other than to say this camera is pretty incredible and I think it bodes well for what the future holds in the next generation of the 5D.

 

[candc]

Its a great birding camera. The only complaint I have is that dr can be a problem with blown out highlights on white birds. Seems that canon is working on that and should be better next gen. Its manageable when you have time to compensate but its a problem when shooting bif and you are just concentrating on tracking and not exposure. Not an issue specific to the 7dii but canon cameras in general.

 

[Don Haines]

Yes, the camera works better at low ISO, but it is nice to be able to crank it up and still get a usable picture. The two following pictures were handheld, 1/30 second, ISO12800, in a dimly lit museum where flash was not allowed.

Each generation seems better than the last. My first DSLR was unusable above ISO800 and you really should not have gone past ISO400.

 

[ksgal]

I shoot dirt track cars at night (Modifieds, stock cars etc) and regularly have the iso cranked to the limit at 16,000 iso. Are they grainy as heck at 100%? Yep. But are they good enough for web/ 4x6? Yep. 6400 iso I've printed to 8x10 no problem. LR takes care of most of the grain, normal people only see the picture. It is my all purpose camera. I'd like to jump to a 5DIII in the future, but as I have a 5DII, I'm waiting for some black friday specials

 

[entoman]

The story: After I bought a 5DIII and made the jump to full frame, I held on to my 7D, thinking I would use it as a backup. Never happened. I really loved the 7D when I was using it, but I just found that the 5DIII was more suitable for almost everything.

Then the 7DII came out and I started to have a GAS attack, alternately trying to find a way to justify getting one and then talking myself out of it.

Well, the local Best Buy had an "open box" special on one. I checked it out. Great price, great condition, interest-free for six months on the card so I could use their money for free. Went back and forth, but decided to give it a go.

That night, I had to shoot a women's volleyball game. Took the 7DII along, thinking I'd try it out, but mainly use the 5DIII. The 5DIII never left the bag.

I'm a little rusty on sports shooting, as that's not what I normally shoot for clients, and I wasn't all that comfortable with the focus settings (although not that much different than the 5DIII). Like most school gyms, the light was less than ideal. Cranked it up to 6,400. (Would have never done that with the 7D I). Set it on high speed shooting and got to work.

The images were more than usable. I could even crop them to compensate for my being out of practice. Yeah, there's some noise but it's like Tri-X grain, which I don't mind and with a little careful work in Photoshop I can minimize it.

Shot an outdoor soccer match a few days later using the 7D. I'm really loving this camera. It's definitely going to be my sports camera from now on.

No big point here, other than to say this camera is pretty incredible and I think it bodes well for what the future holds in the next generation of the 5D.

I had a similar experience. I started with the original 7D which was a great camera apart from the awful noise at settings above ISO 800. I then switched to a pair of 6D bodies which produced fantastic images at high ISO, but were let down by poor weather-proofing. Then I upgraded to a 5DMkiii, which is a stunning camera in every respect, and became my go-to camera. Swayed by advertising and the promise of even better AF, I added a 7DMkii as my backup body, figuring that the extra reach of the crop sensor would also come in handy.

Since the first day of using the 7DMkii, my 5DMkiii has hardly been touched. The 7DMkii is an amazingly responsive camera that is perfect for my wildlife photography. The 5DMkiii still gets occasional use for landscapes or for shooting deep in the darkness of the rainforest interior, but the rest of the time I use the 7DMkii, just reserving the 5DMkiii as a backup. I shoot the 7DMkii mainly between ISO 400-800, but for most subjects it is fine up to ISO 1600, for images intended for full page reproduction in books. Noise becomes a problem at higher ISO, so if I'm shooting in conditions that demand ISO 1600-3200, I revert to the 5DMkiii.

 

[Big_Ant_TV_Media]

The story: After I bought a 5DIII and made the jump to full frame, I held on to my 7D, thinking I would use it as a backup. Never happened. I really loved the 7D when I was using it, but I just found that the 5DIII was more suitable for almost everything.

Then the 7DII came out and I started to have a GAS attack, alternately trying to find a way to justify getting one and then talking myself out of it.

Well, the local Best Buy had an "open box" special on one. I checked it out. Great price, great condition, interest-free for six months on the card so I could use their money for free. Went back and forth, but decided to give it a go.

That night, I had to shoot a women's volleyball game. Took the 7DII along, thinking I'd try it out, but mainly use the 5DIII. The 5DIII never left the bag.

I'm a little rusty on sports shooting, as that's not what I normally shoot for clients, and I wasn't all that comfortable with the focus settings (although not that much different than the 5DIII). Like most school gyms, the light was less than ideal. Cranked it up to 6,400. (Would have never done that with the 7D I). Set it on high speed shooting and got to work.

The images were more than usable. I could even crop them to compensate for my being out of practice. Yeah, there's some noise but it's like Tri-X grain, which I don't mind and with a little careful work in Photoshop I can minimize it.

Shot an outdoor soccer match a few days later using the 7D. I'm really loving this camera. It's definitely going to be my sports camera from now on.

No big point here, other than to say this camera is pretty incredible and I think it bodes well for what the future holds in the next generation of the 5D.

the 7D2 can do nearly thing the 5d3 can just a different sensor size a better digic 6+"dual" and slighty better noise
the 5D3 hS BETTER IQ AND LOW LIGHT
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