![]() ![]() All images are copyright © Ron Martinsen and all rights are reserved. The following unedited in-camera JPEG images were taken using camera defaults on a 7D Mark II with a 24-70 f/2.8L II lens. To be fair, if you’ll only be viewing small images as shown in this article or you’ll only be using a high resolution display (i.e., a 4K UHD display) then you’ll have no clue of the suckage that exists when you view the image at 100% on a traditional 1080p display. ![]() Sadly a used Nikon D700 would outperform this lousy sensor. The Nikon D3 paved a new road as to what was possible and great cameras like the Nikon D4s and Canon 1D X continue that tradition. ![]() Sports demands higher shutter speeds and the only way you get action freezing shutter speeds on overcast soccer fields and dark gymnasiums is by trusting that your highest ISO’s will give you a great image. At first the ISO 100 results look fantastic so I thought I was going to be amazed, after ISO 800 things start to glide down hill with things getting downright ugly by ISO 6400 – by today’s standards.Īt ISO 100, the 7D Mark II looks identical to the 70D – which is a good thing!Īt ISO 6400, things start to suck – especially when compared to a 70D,Īfter ISO 6400 the images become basically unusable in my opinion which is sad for a sports camera. The camera was on a tripod, so this is as good as it gets. If you go see my reviews for the T5i and 70D, you’ll see why I’m so disappointed with the image quality of this camera when its siblings were pretty decent.Ĭlick the images below to see a full-size in-camera JPEG taken with camera default settings plus mirror lockup and a timer. However, if you are like me and thought they weren’t worth owning if someone gave you one for free, then I have to advise that you stay away from the 7D Mark II – despite how fantastic the body features and technical specifications are. Now if you thought the 50D, 60D or 7D was a good camera then you’ll love the 7D Mark II. Honestly, I couldn’t have put it better myself! Sure the later is less of two evils, but you don’t really want either. ![]() One of my friends used the analogy that if the 7D was stomach flu then the 7D Mark II was diarrhea. In fact, I honestly preferred the T5i image quality over the 7D Mark II. I also feel that the image quality of the 7D Mark II is one of, if not the worst of any DSLR in Canon’s current line up. This is sadly where the 7D Mark II falls flat on its face to create images that perhaps suck less than the original 7D, but not by much. At the end of the day what matters the most to me is the accuracy of the auto focus system and the quality of the images produced. Sadly boys and girls, cameras aren’t just about body features and technical specifications. This had me thinking that I might even want to replace my 5D Mark III because it sounded like the dream camera – on paper. From there you get a whopping 10fps, a pop up flash, a built-in GPS and the first dual DIGIC 6 processors. The net result is that 5D Mark III users will feel right at home, but enjoy LCD text that is much easier to read display (not that the previous one was bad). The 7D Mark II is basically a 70D variant living in what most closely resembles a 5D Mark III body and it differentiates itself from the two with a new menu font that I actually quite enjoyed. However, what you get in some ways is better than that, yet some ways it is worse. In fact, I thought the 70D was a decent camera, so I thought that if we had a 70D sensor in an improved 7D body that it would be a camera that is easy to recommend. Like the original 7D, the 7D Mark II sounds brilliant on paper. I vowed not to make that same mistake again, so I made sure that I would get a Canon 7D Mark II to review this time – no matter if it was good or bad. To all my readers who purchased 7D’s, I apologize for letting you down by not publishing a review. However, I spent time doing my first bookshelf shots with that camera and was so underwhelmed by what I saw that I didn’t think it was worth losing sleep (during my 11:00 PM – 4:00 AM blogging hours back then) to write an article about it. Now, the 7D wasn’t all bad as it was a very nice camera body with the best AF system I had seen from Canon – at the time it had been released. There’s a reason why you’ve never seen a Canon 7D review on this blog – I thought the sensor on that camera was complete garbage. ![]()
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