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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tdodd" data-source="post: 1630897" data-attributes="member: 55450">It's the first thing I do when I buy a new camera. I want to start shooting at 100% sharpness, not 99%, so the first thing I do is charge the battery and then stick the thing on the bench. With my 50D and 1D3 I have found that I need an adjustment for most (maybe all) my lenses and, having just bought a 5D2 this week I figured I might as well get it sorted from the off. So far it seems like only one of my lenses needs adjustment with the 5D2, but I am very pleased to have peace of mind that now it will be shooting properly when I actually need it to.With a camera like the 7D it would be a no-brainer to me to make sure it was set up perfectly before firing a shot in anger. You can afford no errors with the 7D's pixel density.</blockquote>