It just looks weird that all the shooting modes are scrunched together and half the knob is blank.Įven though the top LCD screen is so 1987 (EOS 620, your legacy lives on) I’ve come to appreciate it and leave the back LCD off.
I wish the options on the top knob were spaced out more. I end up just manually focusing if I’m in Live view.
Live view focusing doesn’t really work well for m e, hunts a lot, sometimes decides it can’t focus. On the Canon i have to go into a menu, twice, once to set exposure bracketing, then to set the drive mode. Exposure bracketing is one, on the Minolta it was just 2 clicks on the switch on top to take multiple, successive photos of different exposures. I may have been spoiled by the Minolta 7D with all the buttons, switches and knobs that made anything and everything quickly accessible, on the Canon I don’t like going into menus to do some things. I love mine, takes great photos and videos, but I will take a different approach with my review and share what I don’t like. It’s a great camera, as reviews on eBay and around the internet will say.
#CANON 7D USED ONLY CF CARDS UPGRADE#
If there is no damage, carefully position the card and try inserting it again.I purchased this 7D from eBay to upgrade from my older 7D (Minolta Maxxum 7D). Also, check to see if the card is damaged. If the CF card will not easily slide into the slot, remove it and check the orientation of the card. The extra room that allows a Type II card to be used makes it possible for a CompactFlash card to become misaligned. If you want to avoid bent pins, never force a CF card into the Canon EOS 7D. When a pin is bent, you may see any of the following errors: The most wide-spread problem with cameras that use CF cards is bent memory card slot pins. An adapter can make it possible to use a SD or MicroSD card in a Compact Flash slot. Some Compact Flash adapters make use of the Type II specification. It was a matter of use or time until they failed.
They dropped out of favor because they were mechanical. Microdrives were a solution that allowed for larger amounts of storage. A Microdrive was just a compact mechanical hard drive.Ĭompact Flash cards had small capacities when they were initially introduced to the market. The Type II standard is wider to give enough room for a Microdrive to be used in the Canon 7D. The width and length of the CF memory cards are the same. The difference between the types of cards is the thickness.