Got my 7D last night. Very upset and disoppointed

[Alex]

<p>What is wrong with Canon? I just spent a lot of money thinking I was getting their best crop camera there is and I falls way short of the mark.<br>

I have being using canon bodies for about 20 yrs now and every one I owned had the mode dial (the one on the left) with all this useful functions that most pro's appreciate and now are gone. For example there is no portrait mode for the portrait/ event photographer, they use to have the profile image of a woman to make it easy to set the camera in no time. No sports, or nature modes with all those little cute images to guide one on the settings. this will cost canon a lot of customer going to the competition I should have know better I have a 40D now and going back 33 numbers to a 7D could not be any good. The only thing I did notice they added (THANKS FOR THAT) is the CA mode. Is that for Cafifornian's? That is way cool I need to see how that works. BTW can that CA feature be use outside of California? nad people in Ney York have a NY mode?<br><br>

<strong>For reals now </strong>I'm folling in love again. What a great body this is. I'm upgrating from a 40D and there is now point in comparing the 2. I love my 40D and I will keep it as back up but the focusing in this 7D (for the few images I just took) is far, far, far superior to the 40D.<br>

Now I feel I have to go back to school to learn how to use all this new gadgets on the camera.<br>

Alex</p>

[thomas_hardy1]

<p>Seriously, no mode dial?</p>

[swilson]

<p>I will give odd that any number of people read the first part of your post and think it is real, want to take bets?</p>

[Alex]

<p>I will not be surprised. I can't think when was the last time I used the wedding mode. LOL</p>

[pge]

<p>Oh you Americans thinking that ca is always California. Have you ever heard of .ca as in canoe.ca, it stands for Canada on your 7D, somehow you got the Canadian commemorative edition.</p>

[howard_m]

<p>in wedding mode, does the camera puke all over you at the end of the reception and then regret your purchasing decision for the rest of it life?</p>

[sattler123]

<p>I bet a lot of people think now that you are a moron:-) When I read the first sentence of your post, I thought the exact same thing - luckily I continued reading. Trying to be funny in these forums is hit and miss - I am not sure you have a hit here:-)</p>

[pge]

<p>I'd be upset if someone sent me a Canon too.</p>

[Alex]

<p>I can see your point Juergen. But at this point in my life I could care less what people I don't know think about me.<br /><strong>JUST IN CASE... I DO LIKE MY NEW CAMERA AND IT WAS ALL A JOKE... </strong></p>

[KenPapai]

<p>Someone DID post on the EOS forum today/yesterday -- he has a new 5D2 ($2500 body!) and was wondering where the "Sports" mode was on the dial! <br>

I Kid. You. Not. <br>

Same guy has posted a variety of inane things in the past -- he needs a new hard disk, his current one is 99.97% full and can hold no more new info (it filled up a few years ago and nothing's changed)</p>

[jason_hall5]

<p>"I will give odd that any number of people read the first part of your post and think it is real, want to take bets?"</p>

<p>Yeah, Ok...he got me. </p>

<p>I am looking for the "two kids and a hyper dog" mode on my 5D.</p>

<p>Jason</p>

[jason_hall5]

<p>Ken, I have got to find that post...LOL!</p>

<p>Jason</p>

[sattler123]

<p>Quote:" I can see your point Juergen. But at this point in my life I could care less what people I don't know think about me."</p>

<p>Good for you!</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Oh, you. Got me. Had me hooked through the first two sentences. 6/7.</p>

[yog_sothoth]

<p>What gets me are people saying that the Leica M9 is great for street photography when it doesn't have a "Street" mode. For a camera that costs that much it should have a LOT of modes.</p>

[py-photography]

<p>Good one.. After the first sentence, I started thinking what a huge_______ fill in blank..<br>

Glad you like your new toy, I have loved mine since I got it. Great camera.</p>

[gene thornton]

<p>Words are defiantly out, symbols are in</p>

[mark_loader]

<p>Good thing you posted this on the casual forum...that "other" forum would have had the frenzied pagan mob marching on your house! "Grab the torches and pitchforks!" Anyway, what's a 7D?</p>

[matthew_newton]

<p>Sadly I've gotten plenty of complaints like the first part of the joke post. I run a team of developers and analysts who create web applications for the gov. Well we did a big redesign to make the main site/application more usable and I've had at least half a dozen emails to the effect of "You don't follow standard web practices. There are no ___ buttons. I can't find ____. This is a real move backward. Millions of your customers are going to flee back to using your paper product instead!"<br>

The part that I find the funnest is that usually ___ button/link is readily visible on the page(s), they didn't bother using their eyes. Generally whatever it is they are complaining isn't standard web practice, is used by most every E-commerce website around (and is considered a standard practice), and whatever ___ is, is also readily visible on the page with less then 10 seconds of scanning the page or 60 second of reading EVERYTHING on the page.<br>

Fewer "OMG SNAFU!" emails this year then in previous. I guess with 400,000 users you get at least a couple truely clueless ones.</p>

[jnina]

<p>I almost had a heart attack!<br>

Please don't do that again. LOL<br>

That's why I never even check the Begginners Forum because of the to many stupid questions!</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>Got me too--was composing careful message in my head, trying to avoid words like <em>idiot</em> , <em>naive</em> , etc. to make it point out mildly that.....</p>

<p>There are certain kinds of posts that are difficult to parody since they are so close to parody themelves.<br>

6/7 from me also.</p>

[phyrpowr]

<p>I sympathize, I drew a little nude female on my 20D dial, but it never worked.</p>

<p>If you hadn't put the "for real" addendum in there, half the "geniuses" on Pnet would've still been torching you</p>

[Alex]

<p>Day two with my new camera and I feel like my 5 yr old daughter. She sleeps with her little bear I feel like sleeping next to my 7D.</p>

[jennifer_r2]

<p>Ha! you had me going...I was going to offer to take off your hands..cheap...or an even trade for my rebel with all its handy picture modes :)</p>

[tomwatt]

<p>You had me too. I was thinking to myself "what an idiot, go turn in your glass" when I glanced on down in your post and "got it."<br>

That's right up there with the little old lady craft painters asking what brush to get to paint trees...</p>