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Well, I’m now the proud owner of a Canon 7D Mark II. I took the Mark I out for a spin on Tuesday, turned it on and nothing happened. “Oh, must be a dead battery. Good thing I have a spare in my pocket.” Switched out the battery and still nothing. Well, red flags were going up all over at this point but I was still hoping I had forgotten to charge both batteries, though it seemed unlikely.<\/p>\n
So, I went home and charged one battery and sure enough when I put it in the camera nothing happened. It was not until this point I noticed the message on the LCD screen saying “Camera cannot communicate with battery.” So, I went upstairs to the office and typed that into google. Turns out this is not an uncommon problem with the 7D (Mark I only I HOPE). It seems there is a screw that comes loose and causes the camera to loose communication with the battery. The camera still works, it just can’t report on battery life. And there is some risk that the screw now rattling around inside the camera could cause the circuit board to short out.<\/p>\n
I did find a U Tube video telling me how to fix the problem and I got as far as taking all the screws out of the bottom plate but I couldn’t figure out how to get the plastic plate off without breaking it so I decided that since I had been planning to upgrade to the Mark II soon anyway, I might as well go ahead and order it and use the Mark I for backup.<\/p>\n
Had it not been Yom Kippur I would have had the new camera the next day but as it was B&H got it to me by Friday which was still pretty impressive, and they paid for shipping. I headed back to North Mountain Park this morning and found the milkweek seeds still near peak from a photographer’s point of view.<\/p>\n
Many of the switches and buttons are the same on the Mark II as the Mark I but it does have a few more bells and whistles which I will have to study up on. At least I figured out how to turn off the annoying beep that just about drove me crazy this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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