Hi Redfoot. The 7D2 I have has been acquired second hand from a friend, although it is pretty much in mint condition and has hardly been used. I have used the Mk1 for the last eight years and then the opportunity to get one at a lot lower cost than new was too good to pass up. I used it for the approach/runway shots on the post below, paired up with my 12 year old 100-400 Mk1 lens (as the above shots were as I have no plans to change the lens for the foreseeable future).
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After I took those a lot of the frames were incredibly soft and even out of focus, although the examples on the post were the better shots. Over the years I have shot from Folly Rd many times and these results were worse than my 7Dmk1 with the same lens, which obviously isn't what you expect. Not being an expert on what I call the really 'technical' side of photography I took the camera/lens over to a mutual friend of both myself and the seller, who knows that stuff inside out and we ran through all the in depth focusing options, which I hadn't touched. The previous owner had changed a lot of the focusing options and had forgotten about it so we changed them back to a standard 'out of the box' configuration. Yesterday was the first time I'd tried it since the reset and I certainly had no repeat of the problems I had at Mildenhall a month ago. Focusing was at least as good, if not better than the old Mk1.
The close up of the nose was the old Mk1 body with a fixed 300mm prime, the rest were the new Mk2 body and my old 100-400 Mk1 lens.
Gary
