7D ll or 100-400 ll (1 Viewer)

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Malcolm Stewart

Well-known member

• Aug 29, 2016

• #21

Hi John, I assume that you received a software disk with your 7D MkII? I think you'll find the latest version of DPP on it, and that should open your raw files. I bought a non-Canon battery, and it's been fine. I paid somewhere around 50% of Canon's price.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003VR62OW?ref_=pe_747761_41185591
This is what I use, and it also works in my older 5D MkII.

 

claretjohn

Well-known member

• Aug 29, 2016

• #22

Hi Malcolm, yes I can open with DPP but not familiar with it. Does it perform as well as PS ?
Thanks for the info on the battery.
John

 

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Malcolm Stewart

Well-known member

• Aug 29, 2016

• #23

I've used various versions of DPP on and off since getting my first Canon DSLR more than a decade ago. My version of PS is so old (PS6) that it can't open anything except jpegs, tiffs and a few other file types of its period. But it does have more than enough tools to make the adjustments I need. So, if I want to use raw, I'll use DPP (or Breezebrowser) to do the translation to either jpeg or tiff, and then do my adjustments in PS - always doing a SaveAs, so my jpegs remain as originals.

 

Roy C

Occasional bird snapper

• Sep 1, 2016

• #24

claretjohn said:

Hi Malcolm, yes I can open with DPP but not familiar with it. Does it perform as well as PS ?
Thanks for the info on the battery.
John

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IMO DPP4 is superior to ACR (the photoshop RAW converter). I have both but use DPP4 to convert the RAW's these days. I then send to PS as a 16 bit tiff to do the bulk of the editing. I have noticed that there are quite a lot of top international bird photographers who are converting their RAW's in DPP4 in preference to PS/Lightroom these days.

 

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PeteBoo

Member

• Oct 24, 2016

• #25

100-400mk2 is a great lens, better on the 7d mk2 but still very good on the 7d.

 

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malc1

Well-known member

• Oct 28, 2016

• #26

I'm thinking of a 400mm lens, 1've got a Sigma 120-300 but I always use it at 300. This is worth thinking about when deciding whether to buy the 100- 400 or the 400f5.6.

 

stevo

Well-known member

• Oct 29, 2016

• #27

The 400 5.6l is a great lens,I own one very fast and sharp & good for flight shots.The only drawbacks being no IS & could do with being able to focus closer.

Cheers.

Steve.

 

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Robin Procter

Member

• Dec 10, 2016

• #28

I used to own both the Canon 400mm F/5.6L and 300mm F/4L IS primes but sold them to buy a Canon 100-400mm L II which is just as sharp and has a closer minimum focal distance, so it's more flexible as a lens. I have had mine for nearly 2 years and exclusively shoot wildlife, especially dragonflies.

I mount on a 7D Mark II and occasionally add a Canon 1.4x III but don't like it for birds in flight because the 1.4x slows down the AF.

Image quality examples on Flickr.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/114775606@N07/

 

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Les Woodward

Active member

• Dec 30, 2016

• #29

Ive got the 7D II+100-400 mk II combo it's good kit and you won't regret the upgrade