-= Canon EOS R7 owners unite! Post photos and discuss.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19409586
Thanks, I think I have got a suitable lead. I was hoping Wi-Fi transfer was possible.

It probably is. There's a big section in the user manual about it. I've just never used it because it always seemed a big hassle to set up.

mcoren wrote in post #19409597
It probably is. There's a big section in the user manual about it. I've just never used it because it always seemed a big hassle to set up.

Thanks mcoren. I will have a look into it when I eventually get the camera in front of me. I was hoping I would get an instant expert answer.
I bought the Wi-Fi card for the 7DII but the hassle setting it up made it virtually useless.
I believe that there might be a way of linking gps data from an iPhone - good luck with that!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19409271
We've been without internet or cell phone coverage for the last few days. Glad to be able to communicate again.

My visit to Newfoundland was not intended to be photographic, I'm hear with my father and family to put my mother's ashes to rest in southern bay on the bonavista peninsula.

That said, I'm going to ask that you wish me luck.
Tomorrow, so many things have to go right, that results are a virtual impossibility. But if luck is with me every step, I just may have something to show despite not having my 100-400.

Fingers crossed.

So sorry for your loss Jake.

Hello Friends,

I am following this thread from the start and lateron placed an order. I was using Canon 80d & 100-400 IS II lens and sometimes 1.4x iii extender too.

Got my R7 Today ... and tomorrow going for a short trip for lesser florican bird. one of the criticaly endangered species.

Wish me luck and will share the photos of the trip later.

Regards,

Priyank Dhami.

priyankdhami wrote in post #19409757
Hello Friends,

I am following this thread from the start and lateron placed an order. I was using Canon 80d & 100-400 IS II lens and sometimes 1.4x iii extender too.

Got my R7 Today ... and tomorrow going for a short trip for lesser florican bird. one of the criticaly endangered species.

Wish me luck and will share the photos of the trip later.

Regards,

Priyank Dhami.

Congrats on the new camera. Good luck with your trip and I hope to see some Lesser florican shots in the near future

Bittersweet journey. Sorry for your loss, Jake.

priyankdhami wrote in post #19409757
Hello Friends,

I am following this thread from the start and lateron placed an order. I was using Canon 80d & 100-400 IS II lens and sometimes 1.4x iii extender too.

Got my R7 Today ... and tomorrow going for a short trip for lesser florican bird. one of the criticaly endangered species.

Wish me luck and will share the photos of the trip later.

Regards,

Priyank Dhami.

Hope you are finding time to get to know the new kit before you go!!!

Good luck!

Ok, spoiler alert, despite your fantastic wishes of good luck, I was not able to achieve the "chance in a million" Steller's Sea-Eagle sighting.
(Yep, that was the dream I was chasing totally by chance as our itineraries overlapped geographically for a brief moment. Silly dreamer. If you're confused Google " Steller's Sea-Eagle North American Tour)

But the location and conditions were as spectacular as I could ask for, and so was the Bald eagle population!

I'm sitting in St. John's airport waiting for my multi delayed flight to finally arrive, or be cancelled. At some point, hopefully, I'll make it home and post some photos.

R7 did not disappoint! In fact, the only criteria that would push me to choose the R5 over it was "crop factor" feild of view appropriateness.

Thank you all for the well wishes!
Hope to catch up soon.

I truly would have loved to have caught up with that vagrant reprobate Eagle, if not just for the bragging rights! But I feel like giving it my all was a great distraction from the business at hand.

mcoren wrote in post #19409562
The 7Dii cable won't work with the R7 because it has a different connector. The R7 has a USB-C connector, whereas the 7Dii has USB 3.0 micro B.

Also unlike the 7Dii, the R7 doesn't come with a cable in the box.

I use one of these

The 7D2 has a USB3 port, but its max transfer rate is around 10MB/s IME.

I haven't tested the R7 USB speed, but the R5 definitely transfers at 130MB/s or better.

John Sheehy wrote in post #19410076
The 7D2 has a USB3 port, but its max transfer rate is around 10MB/s IME.

I haven't tested the R7 USB speed, but the R5 definitely transfers at 130MB/s or better.

I always take my SD card out to transfer, especially when I have a couple thousand pics to transfer, what is the problem with doing that?

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19410144
I always take my SD card out to transfer, especially when I have a couple thousand pics to transfer, what is the problem with doing that?

+1

Copy off of camera is just wasting battery recharge cycles.

Cable: rather have the camera somewhere safer than the computer desk.

WiFi: why use a potentially slower and potentially more error prone medium.

Only justification I can see for WiFi transfer is if doing event photography and you want to send JPGs straight to a server for time sensitive customers.

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19410144
.
I always take my SD card out to transfer, especially when I have a couple thousand pics to transfer, what is the problem with doing that?
.

.
Every photographer I know uses a card reader and takes the card out of the camera and puts it in the card reader to download images to their computer. . There must be photographers who do it differently, but I sure don't know any of them. . What you are doing is widespread and normal.

Forum users are NOT representative of the photography community in general. . So if you spend time on forums such as this one, and don't know a lot of photographers in real life, it can be easy to think that the way people on the forum do things is the normal way of doing them. . Not the case at all. . The vast majority of photographers I know are not on any photography forums at all, and they are a much more representative cross-section of photographers than the few who are active on photography forums.


.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19410172
The vast majority of photographers I know are not on any photography forums at all

They’re on YouTube, making clickbait video’s?

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19410215
They’re on YouTube, making clickbait video’s?

Lol

Rod

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19410172
.
Every photographer I know uses a card reader and takes the card out of the camera and puts it in the card reader to download images to their computer.

.

Well, Tom; you know one now who doesn't normally use a card reader. It may change when I eventually get the R7 and then I hope I will be normal again.
I started to tether my camera to the computer because I was afraid of damaging the pins on the CF card connectors.
I have never had a corrupted file - yet, and not noticed any noticeable battery drain.