Disclaimer, I'm not a pro, once in a while I get some good pics but not like a lot of people here. Bokay?
This was a challenging situation for the 7DII, I eventually moved up to ISO 12800. It was a party, dimly lit, all pics were with the Canon 35mm f2 IS. I started with spot focus, eventually moved to using all points, I never found a sweet spot.
It is capable of taking some decent pictures under those conditions, here are the ones I saved:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2014-yunah+scott/index.html
but if you scroll through some of the rejects you can see that it is struggling to focus:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/yunah-bad/
here is a good example from my kitchen, why oh why did it focus on the background?
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/7DII/32.html
At this point I'm wondering if I return this, I want to like this camera but wow, the keeper rate seems low. Extremely low compared to the 5DII (that I also own) and even to the 7DI (I've got that too).
When there is enough light it can grab:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/wren.jpg
is the 7DII, 400mm DO I, 1.4x TC III. I was pretty happy with that pic.
What do you all think? Did I get a bad copy? Am I doing it wrong?
This was a challenging situation for the 7DII, I eventually moved up to ISO 12800. It was a party, dimly lit, all pics were with the Canon 35mm f2 IS. I started with spot focus, eventually moved to using all points, I never found a sweet spot.
It is capable of taking some decent pictures under those conditions, here are the ones I saved:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2014-yunah+scott/index.html
but if you scroll through some of the rejects you can see that it is struggling to focus:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/yunah-bad/
here is a good example from my kitchen, why oh why did it focus on the background?
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/7DII/32.html
At this point I'm wondering if I return this, I want to like this camera but wow, the keeper rate seems low. Extremely low compared to the 5DII (that I also own) and even to the 7DI (I've got that too).
When there is enough light it can grab:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/wren.jpg
is the 7DII, 400mm DO I, 1.4x TC III. I was pretty happy with that pic.
What do you all think? Did I get a bad copy? Am I doing it wrong?