RE: Trying to love my 7D

[Nicolas Teeuwen]

I noticed some frustrations as well with mine and I figured out two things to help me improve focus. 1. Make sure focus points are in areas of high contrast. If they are not, it is not as accurate and can be off. 2. I used a calibration device to improve the accuracy of my lens, camera combo. Due to your fast moving subjects, a high shutter speed (over 1/500th) will be needed to get the subjects sharp. Also  I would use servo af mode.

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From: Brian McKenna
Sent: 5/7/2013 13:23
To: camera-7d-gro...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Trying to love my 7D

I am a hobbyist who shoots with a 7d with 17-55 f2.8 and 70-200 f4.0 L glass.  I am pulling my hair out with the focus issues with this camera.  Some are 100% incredibly tack sharp, but most (80%) are not.  The camera and 70-200 have been to Canon CPS recently where I got the email that the Auto Focus mechanism was off, etc, etc.  I got the camera back with great expectations, only to be disappointed at its performance.  It is great at still subjects, but when photographing moving objects like players at my daughter's soccer game, the results are very disappointing.   I am very familiar with the settings and different auto focus modes, so I am wondering if its me of the camera.  I've had the camera over a year, and am ready to put it under the front tire of my car.  Images that appear sharp on the LCD, are not sharp when viewed at 100%.  As stated before, some images are sharp at 100%, but the majority of them are not.  I shoot handheld, at high shutter speeds, mainly baseball, Blue Angels, and kid soccer.  I am ready to crush this and move to Nikon, but I don't want to.  I am trying hard to love my 7D.  So far, not so much.  Sometimes, I have the AF points shown on the camera, and they are exactly on the subject, but the picture is grossly out of focus.  Can't figure this out.

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[John Montgomery]

Brian:  I Just got back from an Alaska trip with over 2k photos.  I found many to be slightly out of focus.  I was using a sigma 18-250 as my go lense and used my canon 70-200 f2 on occasion.  I have been blaming my sigma lense which was brand new when I started my trip.  Most of the 70-200 shot were spot on with some great bird in flight photos.  Now your post has me wondering if I am barking up the wrong tree.  I am just about ready to order a canon 24-70 at 1500 bucks as my go to lense.  Anyway I have no answers only expressing my frustration wiith all my slightly out of focus photos.  

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