Finally, got my 7D last night, Canon was a little slow on this turn-around. Anyway, I sat here last night and went through the menu functions, set-up etc. Man, I love the ability to customize controls. When shooting manually, I can actually set it up to where I have one control for each of the most common functions: Aperture on one wheel, Shutter speed on one wheel, focus on one button and and focus point selection/group selection on the multi-directional controller. I can almost change the ISO whithout looking at the control panel. This camera just feels right to me. The only thing that is a little odd to me is that I can't seem to get the the focus points to stay red. But I can get used to that or figure out how to keep them red. I really like the grid function in the viewfinder as well.


Many of you had comments about the lack of contrast, saturation etc in the standard picture style. Since I normally post process in Lightroom, I am not used to having the picture style adjustments available, so I am hoping that won't be much of a problem.


Now, for the real business----I have to get off of this!@#$%^& computer and go shooting to see what this baby can really do----


Thanks for all of your pointers, comments and discussion so far,I am looking forward to reading more---don't stop now.





Bob