Owen Krout
Well-known member
Yeah, Mike, I've been thinking about just that lately, but the 7D mkII is a great still photography platform, but not so great for video. At least not handheld which is the way I work all the time. I've made a few tries and with very limited success. Besides which, I didn't have an appropriate lens with me anyway.
I have a cheap point-and-shoot Lumix which was cheap for a good reason and I find using it to be too much hassle to encourage me to use it. Personally, I am old school enough that I find trying to hold a camera out away from me and using the view screen to just not work. For one thing, I am fortunate enough that at my age I still have good distance vision but I do need reading glasses for any detail work. I have to have the camera screen out at full arms length and squint just right to have any hope of telling if its in focus or not. The LED viewfinder on the Lumix is one feature that I have found acceptable but like everything else you have to use the back panel when shooting video.
Besides all that, I am happy with the 7D mkII for the photography I do and having to carry another camera around would not be good. As it is I've been considering trading in the zoom for a 400mm fixed just for the one pound weight reduction. Of course then the faster lens would tempt me to step up to a 2X converter, which just adds weight back again. But I digress....
I have a cheap point-and-shoot Lumix which was cheap for a good reason and I find using it to be too much hassle to encourage me to use it. Personally, I am old school enough that I find trying to hold a camera out away from me and using the view screen to just not work. For one thing, I am fortunate enough that at my age I still have good distance vision but I do need reading glasses for any detail work. I have to have the camera screen out at full arms length and squint just right to have any hope of telling if its in focus or not. The LED viewfinder on the Lumix is one feature that I have found acceptable but like everything else you have to use the back panel when shooting video.
Besides all that, I am happy with the 7D mkII for the photography I do and having to carry another camera around would not be good. As it is I've been considering trading in the zoom for a 400mm fixed just for the one pound weight reduction. Of course then the faster lens would tempt me to step up to a 2X converter, which just adds weight back again. But I digress....