Official Canon EOS 7D User Thread Part I

[Aaronlim81]

Hi guys, I realised that my sigma 18-200 lens is slightly focusig at the rear. I testes out sing a magazine with few sentences of wording, mounted my camera on a tripod and aim at the wording vertically at a 45 degree angle.SIded spot AF with evaluative metering with full auto mode on my 7D. I find that it focus more at the rear rather than at the center where I aime at. I understand that a micro adjustment whereby we can offset the rear/fore focusing. The question now is which one and how much offset should I set. There's adjustment on lens only and both body and lens. If I set all does it mean if I use another canon lens will it be affected?

 

[tecnica]

You should adjust by lens. + is for front focus, - is for back focus. As to how much to +-, depends on how bad the situation is. In short, you must trial and error.

 

[Aaronlim81]

You should adjust by lens. + is for front focus, - is for back focus. As to how much to +-, depends on how bad the situation is. In short, you must trial and error.

Alright thanks shall follow your intruction.

 

[biskandar]

hi ,

I just found after i setup Custom User Setting (C1/C2/C3) with manual iso speed and switch dial to choose the one , in some way the camera will lock my iso speed setting . In this condition it makes the iso speed button ( near the upper lcd ) is doesn't work at all , when i saw inside the camera setting , the iso menu became grey ( means can be choose ) .

Is this ever happen to your 7d also ? or is this the way of the Custome User Setting does ?

My current version of firmware is 1.2.2 ( the latest version ) .

 

[clubgrit]

I saw many senior photography after taking te shot they normally pixel peep to determine to sharpness of the shots. Well as for me I'm just being monkey see monkey do. Anyway as for forum posting normally what size do you resize to? Sorry me only 3 Months into photography. Can you please advice me the best setup for bird in flight shot?I kinda confused too much setting to do. :dunno:

I usually use Canon 7D to shoot sports, fast action .... I don't pixel peep for sharpness, because there is no point, the action is already gone. If missed, can't ask them to do the same action again :bsmilie:. I do check all exposure is proper before a session.

With stationary subjects, it's fine to check, that way one does not have to go back and reshoot. If it's a person /animal that you can only have the opportunity to shoot just once, shoot in bursts (i.e. lift finger from shutter button for a while, reshoot), not continuously (i.e. finger pressed on shutter without lifting, as wrong focus will be wrong anyway for the whole series).


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[GRbenji]

hi ,

I just found after i setup Custom User Setting (C1/C2/C3) with manual iso speed and switch dial to choose the one , in some way the camera will lock my iso speed setting . In this condition it makes the iso speed button ( near the upper lcd ) is doesn't work at all , when i saw inside the camera setting , the iso menu became grey ( means can be choose ) .

Is this ever happen to your 7d also ? or is this the way of the Custome User Setting does ?

My current version of firmware is 1.2.2 ( the latest version ) .

The Custom Settings are just quick selection to some pre-determined combination of settings one prefer. Once in any of the C1/C2/C3 mode, you can still change any of those settings, including ISO.

I preset these for Macro/WA/video. Have updated to firmware 1.2.2 too without problem.

 

[Profezeur]

Hi,
Dun mind me asking a quick qn:
Does the 7D's wireless flash function work on the 270EXII??

Thanks!

 

[Profezeur]

Sry...
Canon 270EX. (typo)

 

[p0633318]

Hi guy. Just bought my 7D today.

just one question. There was a stamp"free gift redeemed" from canon. But I have not redeem anything from canon yet. Not even register my warranty or collect my crumpler bag from them.

So what is the items that we being redeemed?

 

[enzeru21]

Hi guy. Just bought my 7D today.

just one question. There was a stamp"free gift redeemed" from canon. But I have not redeem anything from canon yet. Not even register my warranty or collect my crumpler bag from them.

So what is the items that we being redeemed?

so what did you collect from them already??
just the body and kit lens?

 

[p0633318]

recieved lens book, 7d magazine, 8 gb card plus the camera itself.

 

[tecnica]

that is exactly the same freebies i redeem at CSC, i guess that's why your receipt is already chopped 'redeemed'.

 

[biskandar]

Nope , it can't do wireless flash with ex270 .

Hi,
Dun mind me asking a quick qn:
Does the 7D's wireless flash function work on the 270EXII??

Thanks!

 

[biskandar]

For the CF Card , do you got Sandisk Extreme or Sandisk Ultra ?

recieved lens book, 7d magazine, 8 gb card plus the camera itself.

 

[Fapic]

hey men,

what video compressing software do you guys use? took some vids recently and gotta upload them to sites like facebook.

 

[p0633318]

For the CF Card , do you got Sandisk Extreme or Sandisk Ultra ?

got sandisk ultra as the free gift. do they give extreme?

 

[jimfwh]

A very good use of custom settings is to set one of them to 'Action' mode. It would be a setting to use when you want to shoot a fast moving subject and you don't have the time to make all the setting changes before the subject comes and goes. For example, you spot a bird in flight. Or, you see a fancy sports car coming your way.

This is one of the killer functions my 500D doesn/t have, and makes me appreciate the 7D even more. I shoot at Universal Studios quite often and this is how I set mine:
C1 is set for AE bracketing +/-2/3 ev with cont drive to catch the mascots.
C2 is my 'action mode':
Tv 1/1600sec, auto ISO, CWA metering, cont drive
AF point expansion
C.Fn III -1 Tracking sensitivity: Medium slow
C.Fn III -2 0 (AF priority/Tracking priority)
C.Fn III -3 AI servo AF tracking method: Cont AF track priority
Perfect for the WaterWorld stunt show.
C3 currently unused.

 

[biskandar]

Just curious to know , same here .

got sandisk ultra as the free gift. do they give extreme?

 

[p0633318]

any 7D user here used phottix battery for the camera?
is there any problem with the accuracy with the battery indicator?

cause i was thinking to get a phottix battery instead of original canon battery.

 

[biskandar]

Hi guys ,

My 7d raises Error Screen ERR-02 ( Accessing problem into the storage card ) , it happen couple times , and this is an intermittent issue .

I've used the Sandisk Ultra 8G ( 30MBytes / sec ) , and it's from the original kit .

The workaround solution right now : i just restart the camera , and it's normal again .

I'm also do the check disk tools on my pc , and the report show that this cf card is normal ,
there is no bad sector found , the R/W load is good enough ( average 25MBytes/sec ) .

Asking :

Is this problem from Canon 7D or Storage Card ?

Are guys ever facing this kind problem ? if yes , would you mind share the solution ?

The difficult part was intermittent issue , thats why even i can not simulate this problem and show it to the canon service center :-( .