CPS Platinum Membership Gift

[takesome1]

It's like insurance, we all groan about paying it when all's well but when something happens you are happy as hell you're a CPS member. I experienced two unexpected Gold level services this past year and am very thankful I spent the $100.

Also because you are a cps member even warranty service is honored under the fast turn around. Had my 7d2 repaired under warranty and got it back in less than a week.

I have rarely used the free cleanings but my gear is aging now and likely time to be cleaned.

I waited to see how you faired sending your 7D II back. I sent mine in last week and have confirmation it is on the way back. It will be turned around in less than a week. I haven't renewed my CPS membership in three or four years so I am not a member now. But turned in less than a week with no membership.

Hopefully the AF bugs will be gone when it comes back.

Let us know what they did to repair your camera. Mine got a new mirror box and AF sensor plus a full factory calibration and test. I suppose normal warranty issues are repaired based on work load. Still, less than one week turnaround for non CPS is very good. Which repair center did you use?

Returned today and it says;

"Your product has been examined and it was found that the af assembly was out of position causing the auto focus to operate improperly from time to time. Electrical adjustments were carried out on the af assembly."

Now as long as the dent on the box caused by FedEx didn't knock it out of alignment again, hopefully it perform better.

 

[East Wind Photography]

It's like insurance, we all groan about paying it when all's well but when something happens you are happy as hell you're a CPS member. I experienced two unexpected Gold level services this past year and am very thankful I spent the $100.

Also because you are a cps member even warranty service is honored under the fast turn around. Had my 7d2 repaired under warranty and got it back in less than a week.

I have rarely used the free cleanings but my gear is aging now and likely time to be cleaned.

I waited to see how you faired sending your 7D II back. I sent mine in last week and have confirmation it is on the way back. It will be turned around in less than a week. I haven't renewed my CPS membership in three or four years so I am not a member now. But turned in less than a week with no membership.

Hopefully the AF bugs will be gone when it comes back.

Let us know what they did to repair your camera. Mine got a new mirror box and AF sensor plus a full factory calibration and test. I suppose normal warranty issues are repaired based on work load. Still, less than one week turnaround for non CPS is very good. Which repair center did you use?

Returned today and it says;

"Your product has been examined and it was found that the af assembly was out of position causing the auto focus to operate improperly from time to time. Electrical adjustments were carried out on the af assembly."

Now as long as the dent on the box caused by FedEx didn't knock it out of alignment again, hopefully it perform better.

Cool well they did something and tested it and it passed their tests. Let us know how it works for you now. My original AFMA adjustments were close but all seemed to be about 2+ off from where I originally set them.

 

[takesome1]

It's like insurance, we all groan about paying it when all's well but when something happens you are happy as hell you're a CPS member. I experienced two unexpected Gold level services this past year and am very thankful I spent the $100.

Also because you are a cps member even warranty service is honored under the fast turn around. Had my 7d2 repaired under warranty and got it back in less than a week.

I have rarely used the free cleanings but my gear is aging now and likely time to be cleaned.

I waited to see how you faired sending your 7D II back. I sent mine in last week and have confirmation it is on the way back. It will be turned around in less than a week. I haven't renewed my CPS membership in three or four years so I am not a member now. But turned in less than a week with no membership.

Hopefully the AF bugs will be gone when it comes back.

Let us know what they did to repair your camera. Mine got a new mirror box and AF sensor plus a full factory calibration and test. I suppose normal warranty issues are repaired based on work load. Still, less than one week turnaround for non CPS is very good. Which repair center did you use?

Returned today and it says;

"Your product has been examined and it was found that the af assembly was out of position causing the auto focus to operate improperly from time to time. Electrical adjustments were carried out on the af assembly."

Now as long as the dent on the box caused by FedEx didn't knock it out of alignment again, hopefully it perform better.

Cool well they did something and tested it and it passed their tests. Let us know how it works for you now. My original AFMA adjustments were close but all seemed to be about 2+ off from where I originally set them.

Previous settings were +4 to +6 on the 500mm.
Today they were +2 to +4, so the settings changed.
Using the AF consitancy test for Focal I ran it three times and it was around 96-98% each time.
The test before I sent it back was usually 92% or less.
The test still randomly looses 1 out of the 10 shots. Same as before.
So some improvement according to Focal.

I found a few turkeys to shoot tonight. Bad position, to far away and didn't get any great keepers. All the hunting photogs fault.
So I didn't get a good setting to really test real life action shots yet.
So the verdict is still out for real world shots.
This weekend I am going back and will be in the blind. Hopefully I will get a good opportunity. The Toms have been fighting but I haven't been closer than 100 yards when it was happening.

 

[East Wind Photography]

Losing 1 out of 10 is pretty good for servo AF. I usually find motion blur now more of a problem but it can be dealt with a number of ways.

Unfortunately focal cannot test for af consistency in servo mode. Before the repair, one shot AF consistency was fairly good but in servo mode it missed the mark 80% of the time.

 

[luciddreamz]

For anyone still wondering, it does look to be the Think Tank Artificial Intelligence 15 V3.0 bag with CPS embroidered on it. See the image below found on the product page: http://www.thinktankphoto.com/products/ai-15v3.aspx.