7D GRIPPED. Post Em! Experiences,pics.

as titled

waiting for mine.

what are your experiences, any pics of the beauties mating from your collections?

no one seems to have posted/bought gripped so...

Think this is what you are looking for

thanks for the pic. I am wondering about experiences as well, the other is not titled as such, despite a user or 2 posting as such.

considering there are upteen threads on any given specific topic, and this one is not the same technically, considering i am asking for experiences, then i will let this stand.

i wouldn't mind if they are merged. but i mainly want to know experiences. i don't have the whole shabang yet, and i will post when i do.

They have been out in the wild for a week now. Since I have them for my IR 20D, 40D and 5DmkII I'm kinda' use to them. It's about the same size as the 5D mkII grip and works as advertised.
For big hands like I have it's more a necessity instead of accessory. The bare 7D felt more secure in my hands then the 5D mkII but feels even better with the grip.

Did anyone notice that the new bg-e7 grip for the 7d is not 'branded' with the nice logo as on the bg-e2/n or the 5d2 grip?

not sure if this is good or bad, but it could pass for a cheap knock off fwiw.

I don't see any pics?

yes post them. i have mine on order. there are more than a handful that already have it but do not post....yet. perhaps they are too busy shooting as i would.

I'd also like to see some more opinions on the battery grip or a proper review!

Compared to the BG-E2N for the 40D, I'd say this about the BG-E7:
+ Better grip due to high-friction surface on the battery door as well, not only on the front of the grip.
+ Smooth EOS 1D Mark III-type trigger button.
+ All essential functions on grip. That means that this time they forgot neither the M.Fn nor the AF-ON button.
+ Significantly more rigid design, which also integrates better with the camera body. Looks less like the add-on it actually is.
+ Battery door much more rigid than plastic door on BG-E2N.
+ Detailed battery information brought up from grip to display on camera LCD, including physical placement of each battery in the grip.
- Flimsy rubber thing to cover the entry for the AC power kit.
* No sealing between camera and grip on this one either, just some mechanical ridge along the edge of the grip.

Apart from these things, it does exactly what the grip for the 40D does.

I received the BG-E7 on Friday from Cameta Camera. I paid a little extra for USPS priority in hopes I would get it before shooting youth Soccer on Saturday. Two days from NY to CA, I was impressed.

I been using grips on my camera for as long as I've been shooting, so having the 7D without a grip for the first two weeks, was hard to get used to. My main body is a 1DMK2N and I love the ergos of the 1D series. ...needless to say, the 7D felt naked to me without the grip.

To me, the grip is nothing fancy. To me, it feels the same as the 40D with grip. A bit more square and little less comfortable than the 1D series grips. For me, it's more of functional over form. It mounts securely to the camera, however the thumb screw to tighten the grip to camera felt like it could be tightened more, but I opted not to over tighten it for fear of busting the bolt. To me, the grip is a must for vertical shooting. AF-on button on the grip is nice, although I don't use the two button AE/AF setup. The shutter button on the grip and ergos are identical to the main shutter setup, so I never felt a difference. I did once have to pull my eye away from VF because my thumb couldn't find the main wheel on the back of the camera while vertical shooting and trying to change AF points. Not a huge deal, it happened once, then never again.

John

How does the grip affect images?

gasrocks wrote in post #8851564
How does the grip affect images?

i'm guessing if it's like the BG-E2N, that it opens up the lenses by 2 f stops maximum aperature, and expands iso with little noise reduction. it's a cheap way to get an f/2 lens from an f/4 lens, or a 2.8 from a 5.6.

As far as a review, it's been covered above except that a couple of us have noticed that the shutter button seems a little more sensitive. Or rather, the difference between a full press and a half press is a little more subtle than the button on the main body making it too easy to take a pic when you really just wanted to focus and/or check exposure.

To completely disregard the ironic tone in that question, I can say that to me, who rather often try to shoot sports, where it's impossible to know when the action is going to happen, where I usually have to drag the quipment through the woods, so it's very inconvenient bringing even a monopod and where a major part of the shooting is in vertical format, it makes quite a difference to the pictures. I simply don't endure good enough wihtout it.