artyman wrote in post #8789536
Looking good, so although early days whay are your impressions of the 7D
Because of the weather, I have not really had a good opportunity to give it a good workout, but my early impressions are that it is a rather amazing camera -- BUT, it did take a bit of adjustment on my part (along with a few in the camera settings) to feel like I was starting to get the most out of it. I still fumble around a bit and am still wondering about the usefulness (for my purposes) of some of the bells and whistles. One of my biggest hurdles was realizing that the beta version of 7D profiles and settings in the Adobe RAW conversion engine which is used in DNG Converter, Camera RAW, and Lightroom is not yet up to the task of processing the images well. That part, which is not really a part of the camera, is a big disappointment to me since my preferred workflow is to go straight to ACR. Since it is still in beta testing, there are no shooting styles (I do not use them anyway -- I shoot a color checker and build my own profiles for different lighting conditions, but there are still a few other problems to be worked out by Adobe). So, I switched to DPP, but I do not like the "salt and pepper" graininess that their RAW converter produces. The camera is great and the high ISO works quite well and I think that even ISO 800 and possibly 1600 can be used for bird images. I also figured out that my XTi is a darn good camera for low ISO use and I might have had my expectations at an unreasonable level because of the euphoria of getting a "big-boy" camera. I have seen some threads by the pixel-peepers where there has been some angst over various types of fixed pattern noise with many self-proclaimed experts offering their expertise, but I have to say that I have not experienced any of those noise problems even when pushing an image that has accidentally been underexposed a bit. Overall, with a more sober look at the camera, I would definitely buy it again and would heartily recommend it to anybody wanting to upgrade.
sugarzebra wrote in post #8789642Well done Bill and the pressure of all these 7D images is starting to take effect
Sure looks like a fine body!
Don't try to resist the force -- resistance is futile.
Eric Rivera wrote in post #8789764Nice picture Bill and nicer PP. 7D images keep coming!!!!!
I am hoping to get some better images as I get more familiar with the camera and the weather improves.
canonloader wrote in post #8791495Great shot Bill. That sounds like a good workflow.
I got out of the habit of processing every RAW file and now I just use either Bridge or IrfanView to preview and delete the bad ones and open the best for processing. Hve you tried to open one of those RAW's in Irfan yet?
I am not familiar with IrfanView, Mitch, but I will give it a look. My idea for using DPP for converting the RAW images came from HarveyG. Also, I have heard 50D users say that DPP works better than ACR for that camera. I sure hope that Adobe gets it together, but my impression is that Canon wants to push everybody to use their DPP software for RAW conversion.
