Dimage 7i

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?

How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon 995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are very important to me. Thanks in advance!

I haven't had any red eye problem with built in flash.

This is a quick and responsive camera, everything it does, booting, shutdown, preview, focusing, multi-shot, and lag time a quick.

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Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?

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Yes, it happens but can be easely corrected in Photoshop.

Any flash close to the lens will give red eyes as the light reflects out of the (red) eyeball to the pupil.

The build-in flash is an emergency tool anyway. If you want serious flash photo's, you need an external flash. Usually these are further away from the lens and won't give red eye problems

Roy Martin said:

How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me.

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No real delay, nothing more then any 35 mm camera. The autofocus takes a second that can be avoided by focussing before you want to shoot or use manual.

Roy Martin said:

Thanks in advance!

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You're welcome!
Jurjen

Roy Martin said:

Roy Martin wrote:
Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Hello, Roy!

You ask two excellent questions. So far, with one week getting used to my new 7i, I can tell you this...

First, with respect to red-eye... If you take pictures of your pets with the built in flash, you will probably be using a black paintbrush in PhotoShop to clean up the "green-eye." I have not yet taken any human subjects with flash yet. The other poster who recommended an external flash attachment is exactly right, and I will be buying a 5600 HS flash attachment for my D7i in the very near future.

Second, with respect to shutter lag... I must say that I find the D7i amazingly responsive. With all the reports of the speed deficiencies of the D7 (AF speed, lag, write times, etc.), I was initially concerned with this aspect of the D7i. Reports from some of the first D7i owners on the planet eased my mind somewhat, but I still approached my purchase with some trepidation. Now that I've had one in my hands, I must say that I cannot be happier with my decision. I find the D7i as responsive or faster than my Maxxum 7000's and 5si 35mm film cameras. This includes AF speed, metering speed, and shutter lag - all function just as fast as a quality 35mm SLR camera, IMHO.

I do wish, however, that Minolta had included a larger buffer (enough to handle 3 shots in RAW or SuperFine mode), and had slightly better write times to the storage medium. However, given the D7i's incredible lens and all the other fantastic features of this camera, along with the quality of the images it produces, CF write time is a small price to pay, as most of what I will shoot will be in Fine JPG mode anyway. I find that the D7i saves a full-size image in Fine quality mode in about 2 - 3 seconds.

This all might be more info than you wanted, but an informed customer is an empowered customer. I think you would be very pleased with the DiMAGE 7i.

Regards,
SJ©
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Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Hi Roy

I just bought the 7i a week ago. My daughter has extremely light blue eyes (which I guess, the lighter the eye, the more likely red eye will be an issue). I have been PLAGUED with red eye problems with her in my point and shoot 35mm. My first shots from the 7i taken inside with red-eye reduction turned on are beautiful!!! Of the 20 or so prints that I've just gotten back from Ofoto, only one of them showed very slight red eye, which I probably could have gotten rid of if I used photoshop. There isn't any noticeable shutter delay as far as I can tell. Good Luck!

Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Hi Roy

As long as your subject is looking directly at the camera the red-eye reduction is remakably effective. If they aren't then you do often get red-eye. As has been mentioned earlier you do get green-eye with cats and the like.

As far as the shutter lag is concerned it's virtually non-existant (virtually).

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Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Hi Roy

I tend not to use Anti-red eye flash settings when taking pictures of children as their expression changes before the main flash and exopsure.

look at the picture of 6 month old Jake in my Gallery at

http://www.arnason.no

Here I used fill flash. I must have taken thousands of Kira our Grand daughter over the past eight years. I prefer to have sufficient light and then use fill flash if necessary. If red eye is a problem I retouch it out using Photoshop.

As for the shutter delay I will be finding out all about this in the comming weeks, when I am up in North Wales, as one of my passions is to take pictures of white water rafting and Kayaking.

Best wishes

Richard

I find that the D7i saves a

Silicon Junkie© said:

full-size image in Fine quality mode in about 2 - 3 seconds.

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I thought the D7i used its buffer to let you take a few shots in very quick succession, even in fine mode. Or have I misunderstood?

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Sandy

Richard V Lamprecht said:

As for the shutter delay I will be finding out all about this in
the comming weeks, when I am up in North Wales, as one of my
passions is to take pictures of white water rafting and Kayaking.

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Richard,

Very interested in hearing a trip report on this one when you get back. Also, I would love to see some samples if possible. I am an avid WW kayaker and so this will be one of my primary uses for my new camera. I initially was tempted to go for an S602 because of it's speed but based upon feedback in these forums I am starting to lean more towards the 7i.

Thanks
Fred

That's correct. About 4 pix in 2 seconds. Then you have to wait a few seconds until there is enough buffer space to take another picture. Phil will eventually get around to testing this for us, in detail!

Jawed

Sandy said:

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full-size image in Fine quality mode in about 2 - 3 seconds.

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I thought the D7i used its buffer to let you take a few shots in
very quick succession, even in fine mode. Or have I misunderstood?

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Sandy

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Thanks to all. I think I'll be buying tomorrow morning and using to take picture of niece's graduation tomorrow afternoon. That is if I can find one in the LA area. If anyone has any good shopping spot, I'd like to hear from you. Samy's Cameras has it for 999.00 and no sales tax, tomorrow and Sunday. Thanks again. Roy

Richard V Lamprecht said:

Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?
How bad is shutter delay? Shutter delay with my (now stolen) Nikon
995 was terrible. With a new granddaughter both these items are
very important to me. Thanks in advance!

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Hi Roy

I tend not to use Anti-red eye flash settings when taking pictures
of children as their expression changes before the main flash and
exopsure.

look at the picture of 6 month old Jake in my Gallery at

http://www.arnason.no

Here I used fill flash. I must have taken thousands of Kira our
Grand daughter over the past eight years. I prefer to have
sufficient light and then use fill flash if necessary. If red eye
is a problem I retouch it out using Photoshop.

As for the shutter delay I will be finding out all about this in
the comming weeks, when I am up in North Wales, as one of my
passions is to take pictures of white water rafting and Kayaking.

Best wishes

Richard

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For shopping in the LA area, go to Canoga Cameras. They're real straight shooters. A buddy of mine got a G2 from them and was very pleased by their service.

Tony

caroline_d said:

Roy Martin said:

Two questions: Is red-eye an issue with the 7i?

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Hi Roy
I just bought the 7i a week ago. My daughter has extremely light
blue eyes (which I guess, the lighter the eye, the more likely red
eye will be an issue). I have been PLAGUED with red eye problems
with her in my point and shoot 35mm.

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Red eye is a result of the reflection of the flash from the retina
of subject's eyes.

The only relationship it has to the camera is the distance of the flash
from the axis of the lens. Typically on camera flash units are worse
because the flash is close to the lens. If you use an external
flash with the D7 then bounce mode or diffusers are a useful
option to get better flash results.

There will be variations in effect caused by the distance, flash power,
angle of eyes -- and very significantly the dilation of the iris. So called
red-eye reduction modes pulse the flash prior to exposure to try
and get the subject's pupil to close. I think digital post-processing
is a better solution than the on-camera red-eye reduction flash modes.

The colour of the eye has nothing to do with the red-eye generation
but typically a lighter iris will exaggerate the effect to the viewer.

Similar problems occur when photographing animals (eg. cats) though
the effect may not be red depending on the composition of the eye
(eg. cats!).

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Andrew.

lockwoodfe said:

Richard V Lamprecht said:

As for the shutter delay I will be finding out all about this in
the comming weeks, when I am up in North Wales, as one of my
passions is to take pictures of white water rafting and Kayaking.

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Richard,

Very interested in hearing a trip report on this one when you get
back. Also, I would love to see some samples if possible. I am an
avid WW kayaker and so this will be one of my primary uses for my
new camera. I initially was tempted to go for an S602 because of
it's speed but based upon feedback in these forums I am starting to
lean more towards the 7i.

Thanks
Fred

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Hi Fred

I will post them to my Gallery at http://www.arnason.no

But I'll announce this with a new thread. I have some rafting pics taken with my OlyC2500L on my website

fttp: homepage.ntlworld.com/j.lamprecht/newsite

Richard