7D bells and whistles

[neuroanatomist]

I have the same problem. Images that look contrasty, bright and well exposed on the Camera LCD look dull, underexposed, dark and grey when viewed on my black MacBook. However, when I download them onto an LED screen they look good again.

Hey Brendan! I have found the colors on my CCFL-backlit 17" MacBook Pro look much more 'real' and have more pop, and the images look properly exposed, after calibration of the LCD display with myX-rite i1 (Eye-One) Display 2. Calibration also eliminated the 'blown-out' (oversaturated) reds and magentas that were annoying with the Apple LCD color profile. In fact, the contrast and saturation now look much closer to what I see when I view the same images on my wife's unibody MacBook (which has an LED backlight and the wider gamut that comes with it).

[Keith B]

Hi Keith, I'm glad to that you enjoy your 7D so much.

Thanks Nate!


I hope you discover the same bliss I have. I have noticed the images to be a little flat in the Standard pic style, but I think my 40D was similar. I think I'm going to bump my saturation a notch and see what that does. The shots I've taken so far, I have just applied a slight s-curve in PS.


I have one suggestion that you may already know. I'm getting great results with Servo and AF Zone and I've read others have not had as much luck. I switched C.fn III AF Tracking Method to Continuous AF Track Priority. I also set the Servo Sensitivity to Fast.


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[msmiley]

One of my favorite features that hasn't been mentioned yet is the orientation-linked AF points. To me that is killer!


And the screen is indeed beautiful, I'm glad Canon is updating all their screen to this new gap-filled design.





-Mike

[neuroanatomist]

So, what are your favorite features of this new camera?

The 100% 1.0x viewfinder, the integrated wireless flash control, and the ability to customize all the buttons. 8 fps is not too bad, either...

[Bill W]

Nate and Keith....finding the same bland colors w/mypix....need bumping in PP.


Heading over to Plum Island a little later to try your (Keith's) suggestions on BIFs w/a bump in saturation.

[Keith B]

I'm an idiot. Anyone who was taking advise from me on the AF method I was using, I said I was using AF Zone but I was actually using AF point expansion. All other info I spewed was correct though.

[bob williams]

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

[Sean Setters]

I'm an idiot. Anyone who was taking advise from me on the AF method I was using, I said I was using AF Zone but I was actually using AF point expansion. All other info I spewed was correct though.
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Ahh...ok. I haven't played with AF expansion much yet. Maybe that will work better..

[Keith B]

Yeah, sorry about that. Definitely try it. It is actually disabled by default. I bet it will help along with Continuous AF track priority.

[bob williams]

Ok, I went out and shot some of my dog (Sam) chasing the ball. My initial impressions are simply "WOW" My 400D nor my 50D ever performed like this. In Zone AF Servo, I probably had a 50-70% hit rate on a very fast dog--handheld, manual exposure. 24-105L @100mm. Here are a couple of shots---both 100% crops


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So Far, I am thrilled. Can't wait to take it out on a real test.