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  1. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    That is exactly what it does: miss, hit, hit then goes awol for a couple then back in focus again: it's just a lack of reliability and consistency in the A1 servo AF system and is the same on both I have had: walls and flowers don't challenge the AF system
  2. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    That's the up market Zenith I had to make do with the B, no light meter and the back held closed with insulating tape: these modern photographers don't know how we learnt!
  3. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    Interesting that no one, other than people paid by Canon, yet seems to have said wow this camera is amazing: everyone seems to be underwhelmed unless I am interpreting comments wrongly. Battery life sounds a potential problem which will surely be worse in very cold weather, 20D batteries used to...
  4. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    an actual test in other than bright sunlight - thanks Stu -- general impressions seem to be a bit subdued from people who have them or am I reading too much into it? sounds like there is a bit to learn in the camera but I wonder if people were expecting a mind blowing result, based on images...
  5. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    There is a vast difference in quality at high ISOs when you actually need to use it on a grey December day in Britain and using it just to test on a bright sunny day in Florida with enough light to shoot at 50 ISO: I note that none of the testers as yet seem to have tried the AF on birds in...
  6. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    I have quite a few 1GB cards and the off 256 MB card if anyone wants to put 4 shots on a card: times have changed rapidly on the storage front: SD cards are stupidly slow at writing compared to the same rated CF card so worth bearing in mind when doing machine gun shooting. When photographing...
  7. graham catley

    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    It all seems to read well but there must surely be some reasons why it costs £1600 and even the 5D3 is £2300? Canon seldom give anything away for nothing. We need to see one tested by a bird photographer though: racing 6 feet tall people and cars are hardly a challenge for any camera's AF system
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