{"id":21902,"date":"2014-10-31T00:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=21902"},"modified":"2014-10-31T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T23:48:26","slug":"introducing-the-canon-eos-7d-mark-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/introducing-the-canon-eos-7d-mark-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Canon EOS 7D Mark II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes I finally got my hands on a 7D mark II today and have spent the evening slowly getting to know it. I’ve got some of the basic settings where I want them (back focusing with the * button, custom modes set), but there’s still a lot to get to know about the camera and I’ve had no daylight to work with. Inevitably I have pushed the ISO settings just to see how good they really are. This shot, for example, was taken hand-held at 1\/80s shutter, f\/3.8 and ISO 52,000. Yes, you read that right. It’s not a setting I’ll use a lot, and there is some post-processing, but it’s surprisingly ok.<\/p>\n

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Night view taken at ISO 52,000 with the Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The rest of tonight’s post is closer to my usual stuff. We’ve got several newts in the garden at the moment. I took a short series of shots at my usual night time flash settings of ISO 400, f\/7.1, 1\/100s. There’s been very little post-processing on these partly because Lightroom doesn’t recognize Mark II Raw files yet, so I’ve been using Canon’s DPP 4.0 which is a big step up from the 3.n series. Another learning curve. <\/p>\n

Anyway, to the photos. Nothing remarkable about them, but nice colour and the camera was very responsive.<\/p>\n

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Newt photographed with the Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newt photographed with the Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newt photographed with the Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I should be able to give the camera a bit more of a workout tomorrow. I’m looking forward to seeing just how good the focusing system is.<\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes I finally got my hands on a 7D mark II today and have spent the evening slowly getting to know it. I’ve got some of the basic settings where I want them (back focusing with the * button, custom modes set), but there’s still a lot to get to know about the camera and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026,14],"tags":[1100,114,40],"class_list":["post-21902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-technical","tag-canon-eos-7d-mark-ii","tag-newt","tag-photography","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t