If possible, keep your gear at ambient outdoors temperatures if you are planning on shooting outdoors most of the time. You can remove the battery and the card and keep battery in your pocket (keep warm to hold charge) or take card up into heated or cooled indoors to load on the computer. Gear acclimates well over an hour or two in the car trunk on the way to the shooting location.
OP made the right choice with 5D3 and 24-70 f/2.8 II. For others who are not doing low light event work, etc, the 7D2 could be combined with the EF-S 15-85 f/3.5-5.6 IS (good for landscape shooters), the EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 (probably the best lens all-around), or the Sigma 18-35 (low light special, walkabout for people who don't need the short-telephoto capacities of the other two EF-S zooms). Using my beloved 60D, I shoot landscape/ nature/ supertele (400mm f/5.6L) birds, so the EF-S 15-85 is a great walkabout lens for me, supplemented by the macro EF-S 60 f/2.8, an inexpensive sharp little lens. I have started shooting low light FF landscape / astro with 6D, also a very appealing camera. Eventually, a 7D2 is in the picture - but my laptop is 4+ years old, its screen is developing lines, I hesitate to make a major OS update, and I am contemplating getting a new power-user laptop. My guess is that the 60D is going to outlast the laptop, and that a new maxed out Mac MBP Retina 15" plus some software updates (LR4 to LR5) and try new RAW converters (Capture Pro 8 for Canon files, Iridient Developer for Sigma files?) are going to be bought first.
OP made the right choice with 5D3 and 24-70 f/2.8 II. For others who are not doing low light event work, etc, the 7D2 could be combined with the EF-S 15-85 f/3.5-5.6 IS (good for landscape shooters), the EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 (probably the best lens all-around), or the Sigma 18-35 (low light special, walkabout for people who don't need the short-telephoto capacities of the other two EF-S zooms). Using my beloved 60D, I shoot landscape/ nature/ supertele (400mm f/5.6L) birds, so the EF-S 15-85 is a great walkabout lens for me, supplemented by the macro EF-S 60 f/2.8, an inexpensive sharp little lens. I have started shooting low light FF landscape / astro with 6D, also a very appealing camera. Eventually, a 7D2 is in the picture - but my laptop is 4+ years old, its screen is developing lines, I hesitate to make a major OS update, and I am contemplating getting a new power-user laptop. My guess is that the 60D is going to outlast the laptop, and that a new maxed out Mac MBP Retina 15" plus some software updates (LR4 to LR5) and try new RAW converters (Capture Pro 8 for Canon files, Iridient Developer for Sigma files?) are going to be bought first.
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