My new Canon 7D Mark II can't seem to format or use a UDMA7 CompactFlash card over 400x. I currently use a 64-gb Transcend 400x card just fine, but I had a backup 32-gb 700x card that I can't format (that card worked fine on my Canon 7D, and works on a friend's 7D). I just got another Transcend UDMA7 card, this one at 1000x, and sure enough, my Canon 7D MII won't format it. Anyone else had this problem? Are there settings I'm not doing right?

Affinity Pro isn't a photo management tool, right?

I don't think I'm quite as upset about it all as you are, but yes, I love Aperture and have resisted switching my 400-gig photo library over to Lightroom (though I've forced myself to use Lightroom on my PC at work). To me, in addition to easily using my plug-ins like the MacPhun suite and Perfect Photo Suite 9, Aperture just fits the way I work -- with tons of projects and folders and the ability to easily add photos to projects, albums, etc. I'm confused by Lightroom (I have the standalone version on my Mac), and I never seem to know where anything is, or how to get it there. I know, that's me, I should take the time to learn it, and I do know someday I'll be forced to switch when the latest Mac OS fails to work with the old iPhotos files that Aperture requires.

Or Photos will evolve into something closer to Aperture, with the ability to utilize my plug-ins. But I'm not counting on it. Whenever I ask MacPhun, for example, when Apple will play nice and allow their plug-in to work with Photos, I don't get a reply, which tells me it's not going to happen for awhile, if ever. In the meantime, I'll keep using Aperture because I love it, and hope I'm not left behind by a company I've supported by using every project imaginable since 1991.

always loved that Nevada's Capitol building was right in the middle of a neighborhood.

fyi, I shot this Saturday night with the 7D MII at the Sacramento United Soccer League game at the very poorly lit Bonney Field. My goal was to push the ISO as high as I could and this was shot at 16,000, using the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II. I had the 7D and the MII is much better.

A question related to the 6D can be found here
http://www.amazon.com/Sigma-18-250mm-f3-5-6-3-Digital-Cameras/forum/-/-/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B008B48AAE

should add that it comes with original box, both caps, and lens hood

Before I put it up on eBay, thought I'd offer it here (check out what it's going for on eBay). This is the top of the line, macro version of this lens and it's less than a year old. PayPal is my preferred method of payment. This lens is flawless, and I'll pay shipping to the U.S. Thanks.

$289

I don't have the L glass; the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

Would it be advised to replace my Canon 70-300 for my Canon 7D Mark II?

Great shot!

Working with a crew doing harvest mouse survey work Thursday morning at the Don Edwards SF Bay Wildlife Refuge and caught this.

what I would like to see is if a program like Affinity took over the organizational structure of Aperture, then I'd be sold!

I use EOS Inspector; $1.99 in the Apple App store. It's really simple.

what it looks like when the lawns in front of the Capitol building aren't watered (and Sacramento never gets any rain during the summer).