Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order (8 Viewers)

[GYRob]

One I got today 7dmkII 100/400 mkII

Rob.

 

[hosesbroadbill]

One I got today 7dmkII 100/400 mkII

Rob.

Could I ask how far away you were? What was the light like? Time of day? How much did you crop the image?

 

[GYRob]

35 /40 yds , Bright day ,Mid afternoon zoom at 400mm 1/4000 f5.6 iso 500 full frame below

Oh and coffee in my flask

Rob

 

[dabut101]

here is one with 7d2 and canon 300 f4l

 

[hosesbroadbill]

35 /40 yds , Bright day ,Mid afternoon zoom at 400mm 1/4000 f5.6 iso 500 full frame below

Oh and coffee in my flask

Rob

Considering the crop, I think it came out rather well. Thanks for the info.

 

[hosesbroadbill]

I have had a problem happen twice since I got my 7d2 that I will try my best to explain. I am very interested in understanding if others have had this problem or not.

First off, I leave the shutter on my camera set for servo and case 2 but single point focus. Use it for most situations and it works great.

On 2 separate occasions I had a very similar problem happen.

First time I was in my car and photographing songbirds feeding in the snow. Sun was out and there was a good bit of glare. Took a series of shots that all should have turned out perfect and when I got home they all suffered from the same issue. They were just blurry, but in an odd way. Can't really describe it (and I know that will not help my case). Not blurry as in I missed focus, blurry in a sort of way that I can't put my hands on. It was bitter cold that day (like 2 degrees F) and I was in the car so it was warmer. Someone told me that it could have been cause by a difference in temperature from the lens to outside. So I dismissed the occurance as that.

Happened again in Florida on vacation. 70 degrees this time and had been out for a while. Have some good shots from immediately before this problem happened again and from after as well. I was shooting some ducks at point blank range. Sun was out and there was glare on the water. Got that perfect pose, reflection in the water but the pics seemed to suffer from the same problem. Again hard to describe what that problem was. They were not out of focus, they were soft from motion blur or the IS being turned off of my lens. Again I just can't explain what it was and unfortunately deleted the shots so I am aware that this does not help my case.

Took most of the shots in servo but a few in one shot of the ducks as well and all suffered the same fate.

So my question is does sun glare somehow mess up a sensor sometimes? Could it mess with the focusing system? Is there something like that that happens? These were not the only times I have shot with glare but the only times I had that problem.

Sorry for being so unspecific but just trying to put my finger on that issue and hoping to avoid it in the future. Don't want to blow another opportunity if I can avoid it.

 

[dabut101]

I have had a problem happen twice since I got my 7d2 that I will try my best to explain. I am very interested in understanding if others have had this problem or not.

First off, I leave the shutter on my camera set for servo and case 2 but single point focus. Use it for most situations and it works great.

On 2 separate occasions I had a very similar problem happen.

First time I was in my car and photographing songbirds feeding in the snow. Sun was out and there was a good bit of glare. Took a series of shots that all should have turned out perfect and when I got home they all suffered from the same issue. They were just blurry, but in an odd way. Can't really describe it (and I know that will not help my case). Not blurry as in I missed focus, blurry in a sort of way that I can't put my hands on. It was bitter cold that day (like 2 degrees F) and I was in the car so it was warmer. Someone told me that it could have been cause by a difference in temperature from the lens to outside. So I dismissed the occurance as that.

Happened again in Florida on vacation. 70 degrees this time and had been out for a while. Have some good shots from immediately before this problem happened again and from after as well. I was shooting some ducks at point blank range. Sun was out and there was glare on the water. Got that perfect pose, reflection in the water but the pics seemed to suffer from the same problem. Again hard to describe what that problem was. They were not out of focus, they were soft from motion blur or the IS being turned off of my lens. Again I just can't explain what it was and unfortunately deleted the shots so I am aware that this does not help my case.

Took most of the shots in servo but a few in one shot of the ducks as well and all suffered the same fate.

So my question is does sun glare somehow mess up a sensor sometimes? Could it mess with the focusing system? Is there something like that that happens? These were not the only times I have shot with glare but the only times I had that problem.

Sorry for being so unspecific but just trying to put my finger on that issue and hoping to avoid it in the future. Don't want to blow another opportunity if I can avoid it.

i had same problem with ducks on the water on a very sunny day and put it down to user error

 

[GYRob]

I would think its heat haze you can even get it in cold weather and across water ,the further away your subject the worst it is .

Rob.

 

[hosesbroadbill]

i had same problem with ducks on the water on a very sunny day and put it down to user error

I would like to think it was user error but I don't think it was. Not saying that I could not have made a mistake. I have made and will make loads more. But I have loads of shots on sunny days of ducks where this did not happen. I took pics just before and after with identical settings and did not have the same problem. Just don't see how that was something that I did wrong. For instance, I took this pic just before the ducks shots that I was referring to.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/120553232@N02/16656289182/

Took this one shortly after I left the ducks

https://www.flickr.com/photos/120553232@N02/16656158272/in/photostream/

Yet just the ducks, basically sitting still at very close range were messed up. Same settings, same light yet entirely different results. Sure I take plenty of pics that are not tack sharp, or suffer from motion blur. This is not the case with those pics. It is as if the sensor was somehow thrown off by the glare?

 

[hosesbroadbill]

I would think its heat haze you can even get it in cold weather and across water ,the further away your subject the worst it is .

Rob.

Perhaps. Thing is I was at very close range from the car and also with the ducks in Florida. Doubt that at that range it would screw up the shots as much as it did. But I am open to being wrong...

 

[GYRob]

Do you have a duck shot to post ?
Rob.

 

[edenwatcher]

The temperature gradient between a warm car and cold air outside can cause heat haze: e.g what you see over a radiator. In that case it need not be over a long distance.

Rob

 

[hosesbroadbill]

Do you have a duck shot to post ?
Rob.

nope. Deleted them all in frustration. And they were the perfect shots that you would want. Male Blue-winged Teal on calm, blue water with a mirror like reflection. I was nice and low. When I saw how they all came out I just deleted the lot of them. That is why I said I know it will be difficult to figure out the problem as I can not properly show what happened.

Heat haze is certainly possible, but if that were the case then why does it not happen all the time? Plenty of shots from this winter where the air was colder than the water. Plenty of shots from other days of birds in the snow and this problem did not happen. Seems to be a sun issue to me and a glare issue affecting the focus system. But as I do not know what is causing the issue, I do not know that I am correct as well.

 

[hosesbroadbill]

The temperature gradient between a warm car and cold air outside can cause heat haze: e.g what you see over a radiator. In that case it need not be over a long distance.

Rob

agreed. But car was off for quite some time. Heat was not on. Lens was out the window. I sat there for well over an hour. Guess there still could have been warmth emanating from the bottom of the car that could have caused some distortion?

 

[petemorris]

Fantastic photos in there. The swan shots are my favorite. They have so much personality and really tell a story. Any chance you could post a few high res versions of some of them? That would be great to see.

Here's a few 100% (more or less as some were scaled down to 1600 pixels when they were slightly higher) crops of some of the images. The files are as large as permitted on BF.

Cheers

Pete

 

[senatore]

Not a great shot but at ISO6400 in a very gloomy spot left me very impressed with the mark ii.I never went over ISO 800 with the mark i

Max

 

[PeterBird]

Here's a few 100% (more or less as some were scaled down to 1600 pixels when they were slightly higher) crops of some of the images. The files are as large as permitted on BF.

Cheers

Pete

Great images of some wonderful birds!
Peter

 

[senatore]

Am finding the AF on the mark 2 performing much better than the mark 1 in picking out birds in bushes/trees.

Got this YBW the other day and it never stopped hopping around the twigs of it's favourite tree.

So far very impressed withe the mark 2.Glad I lashed out the £1090.

Max

 

[Barred Wobbler]

The price is coming down.

I looked at WEX the other day and they had it at £1499, a hundred quid less than the issue price. Today they've knocked another 70 off. £1429.

 

[Colin]

Well, I borrowed a friend's 7d2 and 100-400 mk2 for literally a few mins. What can I say? Fantastic performance for the money. Took a pic of my car number plate at 70 feet distant using just the basic autofocus - so sharp! Need to look into getting this.