The 7D has landed!!! (1 Viewer)

[Nikon Kid]

Did not do all of them, wireless flash control off camera, level horizontal and vertical planes through Liveview and also in camera through the viewfinder, and many others

Macro Video awesome, Yes that will be nice after taking the shots you want of stills.

I suppose because I came through the digiscoping way to DSLR I was already mounting a Sony Cyber-shot DSC N2 onto my Nikon scope and taking vids that way, and of cause I kept seeing still images that were far superior than anything I could take with my digiscoping setup, and now being able to use all your lens at different times when making a video will be great and also better quality than most ordinary camcorders, its another avenue to go down to keep you interested.

 

[Nikon Kid]

Attached are the links for 2 shots taken on my Canon 7D, one is a night and the other is a dog running high speed to camera. On the hi-speed shot the frames before and after were in focus and this particular frame was selected only because he has 4 legs off the ground

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/3977337194_67c2a14505_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3974547404_82de04dbe2_o.jpg

Bob

I like both images, but the pier is great what lens was it Sigma or Canon.

 

[paul goode]

I like both images, but the pier is great what lens was it Sigma or Canon.

Canon

 

[nsclayton]

Lots of photos on PBase taken with the 7D.

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d

 

[Nikon Kid]

Canon

Paul I am scratching my head here, Bob's in HK your in UK exif don't show lens ?

 

[Nikon Kid]

Lots of photos on PBase taken with the 7D.

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d

Not that great, some of the Birds of prey OK.........

 

[paul goode]

Paul I am scratching my head here, Bob's in HK your in UK exif don't show lens ?

On Bobs flickr site the lens is described as efs 18-135 f3.5-5.6.

 

[paul goode]

Not that great, some of the Birds of prey OK.........

The Kingfisher shots look pretty good to me :t:

 

[graham catley]

Lots of photos on PBase taken with the 7D.

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d

I am amazed --- BOPs in captivity even showing the bars and a gull flying slowly away --

 

[Roy C]

Lots of photos on PBase taken with the 7D.

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d

There is some very good stuff by Romy Ocon on there but then you would expect that from him.

edit: just found the Kingfisher shot, pretty smart.

 

[Tim Taylor]

I am amazed --- BOPs in captivity even showing the bars and a gull flying slowly away --

It looks as if you get a different selection of pics on each visit. Not a lot you can tell from them really imo.

 

[Roy C]

It looks as if you get a different selection of pics on each visit. Not a lot you can tell from them really imo.

Tim, if you click on 'more' you get a different random selection each time - not to bad as each screen full seems to load fairly quick.
Trouble is that there seems to be a big variation in standards - most of the bird thumbs I clicked on turned out to be Romy Ocon's which shows what a good bird photographer can do with the camera. There is an awful lot of garbage in there though.

 

[Nikon Kid]

I will have to press the more button then..........

 

[Adey Baker]

Hold on there. The videon through a 400mm lens will only be 8x optical and a 500mm only 10x. This in way compares to dedicated camcorders which can have upto 25x opitcal.

Are you comparing like-with-like figures here? The lens magnifications you're quoting are for 'full-frame' assuming the standard lens of 50mm is 'normal' but it's often quoted as a little bit long and the actually standard lens should be equal to the diagonal of the frame which is about 43.5mm. This would make the 400mm for instance just over 9x on full frame but then you've got to magnify it by 1.6x for the 7D's crop frame - so now you're up to approx. 14.5x for the 400mm and the 500mm will be about 25% longer still.

Camcorders often have the zoom-range as the quoted figure rather than the actual magnification.

I agree that the 7D probably won't be as sophisticated for a wide range of video situations but within its limits will be more than useful to the creative photographer.

 

[Tim Taylor]

Tim, if you click on 'more' you get a different random selection each time - not to bad as each screen full seems to load fairly quick.
Trouble is that there seems to be a big variation in standards - most of the bird thumbs I clicked on turned out to be Romy Ocon's which shows what a good bird photographer can do with the camera. There is an awful lot of garbage in there though.

Thanks Roy, I missed the 'more' button.

 

[Nikon Kid]

7d arrived 1 hour ago, battery on charge, can't wait................need sun, need birds....:-O

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Has anyone compared this against the 1D cameras yet?

 

[Nikon Kid]

OK my 1st 7d bird image my old sparrow mate, my garden, 1/250 at f5.6 handheld no sun out, very pleased with this 1st image cropped as well, looks a much richer image than my 50d ?

 

[Nikon Kid]

Having only had the 7d a few hours, I think the group 9 focus points looks very interesting, had it pointing at a dove, as you move around each focus point independently locks on focus, I would imagine that this will be very useful on smaller BIF, also the focus points look much bigger in the viewfinder than my 50d also clearer, I suppose this is the 100% coverage thats helping this. Looks like you can enter your name and copyright through the camera. Now I bet you it will rain for 3 days......

 

[Raikyn]

Has anyone compared this against the 1D cameras yet?

I can only compare to my 1DMkIIn.
I think the focus speed and accuracy is fairly much equal on both cameras.
I like the feel of the 1D slightly better.
1D has better weather sealing.

7D wins in most other areas and in features.

7D is now my main camera. The 1DMkIIn is now the backup.