The first thing I noticed, of course, was the amazing ISO capabilities. Wow! I took some shots in the lowest light I could find in my house and at ISO2000 there is very little grain. The grain is easily cleaned up in Lightroom at a low 20 on the noise clean up scale.
So, while I love, love, love this camera, I was noticing some severe out of focus pictures when taking them with my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 (another LOVE).
Take a look...
In this picture I am focusing (using the center focus point) on the T in Kyle's jammies. Where did it focus? In FRONT of that area on his sippy cup and sleeve by his wrist. Hmmmm...not cool.
Luckily, there will no trip to Canon's service center as the 7D has a fabulous feature called the Microadjustment! Yay!
After playing around a bit I found this lens needed a good +10 adjustment in order for focus to fall where it should...
Ta da!!! The T is now in focus. This is just a simple hand-held experiment, but for those perfectionists you'll want to set up your tripod for this one...as this perfectionist will be doing later.
Another example is using my Professional Photographer Magazine and focusing on the eye of the model on the cover. You can see that even the slightest adjustment can really move your focus area. I believe I was adjusting between +8 and +10 on these ones below...
See how in the top one the focus is more towards the bottom of her eye and on the 2nd you can see it's clearly towards the top. These teeny-tiny adjustments can make a big impact, especially with portrait photography, more specifically if you are a newborn photographer.
All of the above images were shot at f/2.0 SS1/200 at about 3 feet.
I also did an experiment with my 50mm f/.1.8 and it only needed an adjustment of about -1. So when you do your adjustments on your 7D or any camera that has this feature make sure you make these adjustments per lens.
Now...on to figuring out what to do with those zoom lenses.
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