{"id":1840,"date":"2011-02-06T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1840"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:28:14","slug":"new-camera-and-the-2000th-fox-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/new-camera-and-the-2000th-fox-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera and the 2000th Fox of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s yet another new camera day today. I picked up a Canon EOS 7D this morning to replace my worn out 40D, and have sat through rain and grey skies ever since. Not the kind of day to test out a camera, though (as I&#39;ll show in a moment) I did manage a few images this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s far too early to give more than a very immediate impression of the 7D. To begin, it needs a fair bit of &#39;setting up&#39; most of which I&#39;ve now done. The menus are very straightforward, for example switching the button functions (e.g. to disable AF on the shutter) is aided by a visual guide on the viewing screen. I&#39;ve switched off most of the noise reduction settings (I prefer to deal with those issues during processing), and adjusted some of the auto-focus settings. It&#39;s beginning to feel like my camera. I&#39;ve also set up three custom settings (with AF linked to the shutter) for night use.<\/p>\n<p>One noticeable difference is file size. The RAW images come in at 25MB a frame, which will mean that I need to implement more frequent culls of what&#39;s stored on my hard drive. The maximum ISO is 12800 :faint: Oh, and it has HD video functions as well. As for the pictures (which is what this is all about) I really need to test it &#39;in the field&#39;; that is test it when photographing wildlife in a variety of conditions,  but I&#39;ve not yet had much of an opportunity for that. The few shots I have taken were of newts in the pond this evening. The conditions were windy with a touch of drizzle (which disturbs the surface of the water), so far from ideal. Even so I think I&#39;m happy with a few of the shots. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newts_0502110793.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Two newts out hunting<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newt_0502110814.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Newt resting on a leaf<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newt_0502110815.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Diving newt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newt_0502110827.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Heading for the surface<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newt_0502110828.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Breaking the surface<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had hoped for a fox tonight, especially as I&#39;ve now reached the ridiculous total of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/day\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2000 photos<\/a> in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/picofday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox of the Day<\/a> series. I settled for a photo of Bold in the snow, taken last January. These are a fairly random selection from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/day\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a>, beginning with the photo that started it all&#8230;<br \/><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1706051606026.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">The very first photo, June 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/091106081106007.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">The Old Dog Fox from November 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3007072907071585.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">July 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2401090102083767.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">February 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2808092708091963.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">August 2009 (used by the band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EverythingEverythinguk?ref=ts#!\/EverythingEverythinguk?v=app_11007063052\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Everything<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='img'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0602110801108597.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">January 2010<\/span><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: newt shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The foxes were photographed with a range of cameras: Olympus C370 (2005), Canon S2 IS (2006), Canon EOS 400D (2007-8), Canon EOS 40D (2009-10).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1026],"tags":[694,1128,165],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-canon-eos-7d","tag-fox","tag-newts","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}