Barred Wobbler
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I was also thinking that it's very heavy on the batteries.
It was dull again today, so I took some more high ISO shots and tried out the 1.4x converter. I'm finding I'm looking through my camera more than I'm looking through my bins. Here is a handheld Reed Bunting at ISO 3200, which I wouldn't have attempted with the 7D:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnswildlifephotos/15539766087/
I agree with HokkaidoStu about battery life. Seems significantly shorter than the 7D.
An interesting post, I think you may well have 'hit the nail on the head' with your last sentence.I've just had an 'interesting' experience with battery charging.
I noticed that the battery in my MkII was low (down to one bar, but not yet flashing) when I made my post earlier this evening so I decided to give it a recharge.
When I took it out of the camera I noticed it was the generic battery that I mentioned the other day (charge performance three green squares according to the camera) and I put it in the new MkII charger. I've also had the new MkII battery through a charge cycle as well as the old 7D battery in the week since I got the camera, so that's two and a half batteries in a week (the generic was 53% cahrged when I started to use it in the new camera).
That was about 5.45 pm. Much later I noticed that the charge light was still rapidly flashing, so I waited a while for it to go green while I watched some television. It kept flashing rapidly throughout the programme I was watching. By then it was almost 9pm and the battery had been charging over 3 hours, so thinking it would be full or nearly full I put it into the camera expecting that to be the case. The time for a full charge is supposed to be two and a half hours.
I was surprised when the battery condition meter told me that the charge was only 17% - after 3 hours - and this was a battery that wasn't discharged when I started to charge it.
I put it in the old 7D charger for a couple of hours and when the light turned green I put it in the camera - 100% charged, according to the meter.
Just for daftness I put it back into the new MkII charger, expecting it to show a green light, or if not for the green light to appear after a few minutes. It didn't show green. It flashed rapidly orange so I left it for a while - about half an hour and went back to find it still rapidly flashing.
I put it into the camera and the meter told me that what had been a 100% charge was now only 90% - after half an hour in the new charger.
If the camera readings are to be believed it appears that half an hour on the charger not only didn't confirm the full charge - it actually partially discharged the battery. It's back on the old charger now getting that 10% back (edit - just put it back in the camera after getting a green light and it's reading 99% again).
It appears that the people at Canon don't want us using batteries that cost less than £70 a pop and this time they are doing something to ring-fence their position.
An interesting post, I think you may well have 'hit the nail on the head' with your last sentence.
<Big snip>I've just had an 'interesting' experience with battery charging.
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This might help explain the situation, if the symptoms match - http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer?pageKeyCode=prdAdvDetail&docId=0901e024809ed436
More battery info. I went out with a fully charged 7DII battery this morning, Normal use with the 400 prime.
70 photos taken, some in bursts. Almost no 'false focussing' (ie using autofocus without taking a shot), and only brief occasional playback.
Battery charge down to 81%.
The manual suggests a fully charged battery should be good for 760 shots in low temperatures (0°) to 800 shots at room temperature.
I'll be checking.
Marcus,that 5d3 shot is mega noisy for ISO 1600 even if it is a 100% crop - I routinely shoot my 5D3 at ISO 1600 (and even higher) and have never seen noise like that at that ISO, was it under exposed and pushed in processing or something?Quick wholly unscientific test versus 5dk3
500 f4 and 1.4x
taken at f8, ISO 1600
Av, at 1/4000s
0 compensation
100% crop
Gulls feeding at similar distance
T1 Herring gull 5Dmk3
T2 Common Gull 7Dmk2
Obviously some micro adjustment required...
Did you have the DPP NR set to zero and applied (it is turned on by default)?Straight from the camera
Imported via light room cropped in photoshop.
The 7d2 imported via DPP cropped in photoshop.
No processing applied to either
More battery info. I went out with a fully charged 7DII battery this morning, Normal use with the 400 prime.
70 photos taken, some in bursts. Almost no 'false focussing' (ie using autofocus without taking a shot), and only brief occasional playback.
Battery charge down to 81%.
The manual suggests a fully charged battery should be good for 760 shots in low temperatures (0°) to 800 shots at room temperature.
I'll be checking.