Evening
I was having one of those mornings, after yesterdays nice corporate portraiture job, I found myself knee deep in muddy ditch photographing fibre-optic cable being fired through the ground, and it was raining. Anyway, got a text to say my 007 had arrived so picked it up on the way home, charged the battery and had a walk about to see what's what.
I'm not a reviewer, but have some initial thoughts. First, it feels really nice, the position of the dial on top being closer to index finger makes it even easier to use although I had no issue with the 006. The lens mount is really tight, feels much tighter than the 006, may just need to bed in a bit. The most striking thing is how incredibly quick it is, I didn't feel the 006 was a slow camera, not up to D4's etc but sort of appropriate for the camera if that makes sense, everything is faster on the 007. Image review is very very quick, zooming in to 100% instant, a big difference. Focussing is a lot faster, I walked around in fairly good light this evening, no hunting at all even with strong backlit subjects, very fast, very accurate, a big improvement.
Live view works great but I didn't use it properly, just had a play. A few things I need to look at more, I love the 006 being in aperture priority when you put shutter on auto, then at any time you can just turn the shutter speed and it goes instantly in to manual mode, that doesn't happen on the 007, have to select mode which I'm sure I will get used to but doesn't feel natural like the 006. There are a few bugs I think, on a few occasions I would take a shot, then immediately change aperture but the camera wouldn't respond until i pressed the shutter release button again, even with image review off. Second thing I don't understand but will look in to, I like the depth of field scale when you half press the shutter button but it isn't live, if you move the focussing ring you have to let go of the shutter button and repress, seems like it should really work as you focus so you can see what's going on as you are doing it, if that makes sense. Apart from that, in use it's great for a first go, I will use it a lot over the next couple of weeks and then decide if it will do the job, I'm feeling like it will. Images will take some time to get used to, they have a lot of flexibility in post, I'm not a big fan of lifting shadows a lot, I like mine deep but there is a huge amount of recovery in these files and very clean.
Anyway, like I said, I'm not a reviewer, just look at how things work for me which takes some time so sorry if this is a bit crap!
Have a nice evening.
Mat