Quote Originally Posted by ridney View Post
yes, i'm having focusing issues with my 7D. so far i can tell that more than half of my shots at the wider end (17mm~20mm) backfocuses and it's pretty annoying even in broad daylight or with the af assist beam. i didn't have this problem previously and now i'm thinking of sending the body and lens to the service center once i find some extra time. for the mean time, i use live-view at the wide end when the situation is quite tricky as it gives me the absolute sharpness i can get at any focal length.

i had some error code issues with the firmware it came out of the box but since i updated i never had those issues anymore.

does your 550D giving you better pictures than your previous 7D?

ohyeah the T2i, for reasons unknown to me or anyone else (aside from the focusing issue of the 7D) i get pictures that i could never get with the 7D.
better colors, better depth, better everything.

i truly miss the 7D, 1/4000th shutter speed of the T2i kills me all the time because it makes shooting outdoor shots on these nice sunny days a real nightmare. i either have to use an ND filter (which causes focusing issues on my lenses) or deal with over exposed images and do alot of post work on them.

check my flikr page for my T2i shots. there are a FEW old 7D shots so as you look thru them notice the difference in the 7D vs T2i shots.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44636635@N02/

there are even some old 20D and 40D and XSi shots that were better than the 7D.
i was never impressed with it, and after 3 bodies i have no logical explanation as to why the 7D was producing such horrible shots (focusing issues aside) when the T2i and the 7D are identical cameras aside from the obvious dual chipsets and added features of the 7D. but essentially, since the 2nd chip in the 7D only does focusing and nothing else, there really isnt alot of difference.

i am having some focusing issues with my T2i but its all in the lens, its not the camera that i can tell, and my 50mm and 85mm need to go back to canon and the sigma 30mm needs to go back to sigma since neither company actually fixed the focusing on them 100%. and how they missed it is beyond me.