Canon 7D Mark II Owners first thoughts

[caMARYnon]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

 

[Quasimodo]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

Thanks for sharing looks impressive, and I love his writing style.

 

[Don Haines]

first impression - This thing is SOLID!

 

[sanj]

I so so respect Canon for the improved weather sealing. They did not have to do this because the general customer would not know it or pay extra for it. This shows that they want to ensure their customers have a reliable camera. Admiration!

 

[Dylan777]

first impression - This thing is SOLID!

Congrats

 

[Dylan777]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

This is why I don't buy used stuff from them

 

[privatebydesign]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

This is why I don't buy used stuff from them

That makes no sense, they probably take more time, with more care and attention, than the person who put it together originally.

Their core business is not based on camera sales, it is based on camera reliability, every lens they sell comes with a bench test result and it is adjusted to be as good as it can be, something no production EF lens gets.

 

[Lee Jay]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

This is why I don't buy used stuff from them

That makes no sense, they probably take more time, with more care and attention, than the person who put it together originally.

Their core business is not based on camera sales, it is based on camera reliability, every lens they sell comes with a bench test result and it is adjusted to be as good as it can be, something no production EF lens gets.

Please check the battery in your sarcasm detector.

 

[jpmagero]

Quite happy with it so far, still in "test mode", but have some 100% untouched samples in a Flickr album, straight out of the camera. Tried to get shots in all low-light modes: high ISO, long exposure, hand-held, flash/no-flash, sports at night/daylight.

I've not yet tinkered enough with all the menus to fine tune everything. I did notice some softness/blurriness and fixed 75% of it with a quick AF micro-adjustment in the field, but haven't done the proper adjustments yet.

Feel free to download the full resolution files, just don't use them for anything else .

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vandarix/sets/72157648657069517/

Cheers.

 

[docsmith]

Roger just made me even more impressed with the 7DII. Everything I am seeing indicates that it is a heckuva camera.

One quick thing, I was looking through Techradar's scores and I was originally very impressed that the 7DII was beating the 5DIII and 6D in their resolution charts. But, then I started looking at the actual images....and I think they must have switched scorers as I still go with the 5DIII image (as expected) where they actually rated the 7DII higher.

Both RAW ISO 400. Techradar scored the 5DIII a 26 while giving the 7DII a 30. I don't see it. Other comparisons were similar.

 

[Lee Jay]

Both RAW ISO 400. Techradar scored the 5DIII a 26 while giving the 7DII a 30. I don't see it.

Those numbers look correct to me. See how far left you can go and still count the correct number of lines (counting 9, instead of 11, means aliasing, and doesn't count).

 

[fragilesi]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

This is why I don't buy used stuff from them

That makes no sense, they probably take more time, with more care and attention, than the person who put it together originally.

Their core business is not based on camera sales, it is based on camera reliability, every lens they sell comes with a bench test result and it is adjusted to be as good as it can be, something no production EF lens gets.

Please check the battery in your sarcasm detector.

Post of the day!

 

[RustyTheGeek]

OK, I received my 7D2. Here are my highly anticipated comments...

- The Menu font is a bit smaller for some reason.
- The Wasabi Power battery (BTR-LPE6-JWP) works fine in the 7D2.
- The function, feel and button layout are virtually identical to the 5D3.
- My Sunpak RD2000 Flash meters perfectly! Yippee!!
- In highly scientific and controlled random high ISO dark shots of my cat, the AF is fast and accurate and the images are great. (Dog pending.)

I'm going to try and sell this one right away since it is so popular and I have it available. I might keep the next one I already ordered and paid for and sell my 70D. I haven't decided yet quite how badly I need this (over the 70D) but it is definitely a well built and 'perfect in the hand' camera. The thing that may convince me is the 'de-flicker' feature since I shoot fast swimmers so much in poor sodium vapor natatorium lighting. Hard to know until I test that. If it doesn't sell before the next swim meet, I'll probably give it better work out then.

Here is my CR Sale Listing... http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=23534.0

 

[RustyTheGeek]

About weather sealing and build detalis


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii

This is why I don't buy used stuff from them

That makes no sense, they probably take more time, with more care and attention, than the person who put it together originally.

Their core business is not based on camera sales, it is based on camera reliability, every lens they sell comes with a bench test result and it is adjusted to be as good as it can be, something no production EF lens gets.

Please check the battery in your sarcasm detector.

Post of the day!

Yes... Ditto! ;D

 

[weixing]

Hi,
Found one minor issue when using it over the weekend: With GPS on and when the camera went to sleep, the camera sometime won't wake up immediately after you tap the shutter button... sometime need to tap a few times.

Anyway, below is 2 shots using Tamron 150-600mm @ F8.0 at ISO 1000 and ISO 4000 with high ISO NR turn off:
ISO 1000

ISO 4000

Have a nice day.

 

[RustyTheGeek]

Wow! Those are great shots weixing! Thanks for sharing. Impressive camera so far, eh?

 

[Larry]

If we all lived in the USA, and all accepted sticking your tongue out as playful, teasing, and blowing a raspberry then I would agree.

In many cultures sticking your tongue out is seen as offensive, a deep insult, and even a challenge to war.

It seems subtleties like that are lost on many of you, but then the world, to its detriment, is in a dumbing down phase and the Americanisation of the World seems to be an unstoppable tidal wave of mediocrity, inaccuracy, emoticons, and 'new' words mostly invented because we are too uneducated to use the ones we already have.

Was that a "help up"?

 

[RustyTheGeek]

If we all lived in the USA, and all accepted sticking your tongue out as playful, teasing, and blowing a raspberry then I would agree.

In many cultures sticking your tongue out is seen as offensive, a deep insult, and even a challenge to war.

It seems subtleties like that are lost on many of you, but then the world, to its detriment, is in a dumbing down phase and the Americanisation of the World seems to be an unstoppable tidal wave of mediocrity, inaccuracy, emoticons, and 'new' words mostly invented because we are too uneducated to use the ones we already have.

privatebydesign, I respect and admire a lot of what you have contributed here over the years. You're a pretty sharp cookie. I gotta say that I have to agree with most of your comment above about society 'dumbing down' and becoming more accepting of mediocrity, etc. I would also add that there is a fair amount of apathy as well. And that is a good point about the tongue being offensive in some parts of the world. But I think it's only offensive if it's obvious that it was meant as an insult. It's up to the individual to make that judgement fairly and choose to be offended based on the situation and context of the comment. (And while we're on the subject, does it make any difference that the emoticon shows the tongue on the side and NOT in the middle of the mouth? Just curious.)

With that said, perhaps you should consider that the general atmosphere in the CR forums tends to be positive, playful and forgiving. It's a Canadian hosted forum that is attended by a large variety of photographers from all over the world. IMHO, photographers are typically accepting of all kinds of humor, including occasional sarcasm.

 

[Larry]

In many cultures sticking your tongue out is seen as offensive, a deep insult, and even a challenge to war.

It seems subtleties like that are lost on many of you, ...

Although I sit here confident that I am surrounded(in the U. S.)by an expansive area (as large as, or larger than all of the many tongued countries of Western Europe,) in which I am likely to be correctly understood by the inhabitants wherever I might go, ...it is terrifying to imagine that in some corner of the world, near or far, my facial expressions, phrasing, sense of humor, pronunciation, body language, or other habits or mannerisms could conceivably be considered rude or offensive.

Heaven forbid!

So here I sit, ...mute and paralyzed, fearful that I might be observed via the internet, even in my own home and country, by that remote, potentially offendable "someone".

 

[Tugela]

In many cultures sticking your tongue out is seen as offensive, a deep insult, and even a challenge to war.

It seems subtleties like that are lost on many of you, ...

Although I sit here confident that I am surrounded(in the U. S.)by an expansive area (as large as, or larger than all of the many tongued countries of Western Europe,) in which I am likely to be correctly understood by the inhabitants wherever I might go, ...it is terrifying to imagine that in some corner of the world, near or far, my facial expressions, phrasing, sense of humor, pronunciation, body language, or other habits or mannerisms could conceivably be considered rude or offensive.

Heaven forbid!

So here I sit, ...mute and paralyzed, fearful that I might be observed via the internet, even in my own home and country, by that remote, potentially offendable "someone".

I suggest you don't travel, because otherwise you almost certainly would start a war, or an international incident at the very least, when an ignorant lout fails to understand that their personal behaviours are not the standard everyone else lives by.