I love mine and have never come close to regretting the purchase. Have taken it with me through Europe and the Caribbean and I am finding out that I use it more and more in place of my 70D.

Chuck

Proshow Producer

I assume you know this has been out of manufacture for some time. I've had two of these in the past. They take allot of care and maintenance. They were the best for their time but I think you can do much better with a digital and housing. I talked to Cathy Church (She and her ex wrote the definitive books on the Nikonos) a couple of years ago at her place in the Cayman Islands. She said that the market has evolved way beyond that technology.

As others have said the buttons are close together. In the beginning it irritated me but you get used to it. I bought it as a backup for my 70D on a Mediterranean trip. I wound up using it much much more than I thought. Pictures were stellar. I found many of the features really great. I flipped back and forth from AV to Auto and found that auto did a really great job with scene detection, balance etc. Very good in low light.

Bottom line is I am thrilled with this camera.

I purchased one for a European cruise we took. Found I loved it more than I expected. Pictures were stellar. I thought that it would be a good backup to my 70D. Turned out I used it several times in place of. There are a few things that were irritating in the beginning. The biggest thing was that when you pulled out the camera fingers would tend to activate controls on the back. I found that many people had the same issue with other cameras of it's size.

Bottom line is that now we seem to grab the G7 more when we leave the house.

I picked up a Canon G7X mkII. Took it on a cruise to the med and was blown away with the picture quality. Much Much better than I expected. Other features were great also.

There were many times I used it in place of my Canon 70D.

You may want to check out the Canon G7X MKII. I was looking at the Sony RX100X series but settled on the G7. I have not regretted it. Takes great pictures and will allow me to have a camera that is lighter with smaller footprint for Europe next month. It will allow me to do many of the things that my 70D does including HDR and Raw.

We as a culture need to stop thinking about watts as a light reference and use it as a power reference. Some bulbs say x watt equivalent but even that does not define it completely.

With LEDs using watts as a power reference and lumens as the amount of light that it puts out will get you closer to your goal. Also kelvin is used, as in photography to indicate the warmth of the light(amount of red or blue.)

I got rid of my camcorder a few years ago. I found that People really didn't want to sit through allot of video that many times really didn't mean much to them. I also found that I didn't want to sit through them myself.

Enter the DSLR. In taking no more than 10-20 secs of video I found that they really enhanced my slide shows to family and friends. I keep to those short time frames with a real minimum of clips. Taking clips of such things as major wave action against the shore or a video panorama produced a dynamic effect that keeps pulling viewers into my slideshows and peaks their interest.

If the suggestions so far fail to solve your issue consider this:

I had the same problem with my 18-270. It worked flawlessly on my t3i but when I upgraded to a 70D I started noticing the same thing. I am going to leave out a bit but here are the highlights.

Sent in the Camera returned saying camera not factory adjusted properly. Same problem.
Sent in the lens returned saying adjusted and cleaned. Same problem.
Sent in the lens again returned saying adjusted and cleaned. Same problem.
Called Tamron discussed with a technician they paid shipping back. Problem resolved. They had to completely disassemble the entire lens and then test it on a 70D in house.

Yes very thought provoking.

Consider this:

How could a civilization so technically advanced (centuries in some cases) not have invented or utilized the wheel? This is the reason that they utilized smaller stones as they had no way to transport the larger.

How could they not have understood that their deforestation and agricultural practices that would eventually destroy their world?

Of the, I think 3, remaining books they have only translated maybe 10%.

All I know is that Tamron told me that Canon made some modifications in their new cameras that caused the autofocus to malfunction with 3rd party lenses. Tamron already had a fix and it required that I send it in to them. My Tamron lens was an earlier verison of the 18-270.

If you do a web search you find various opinions on Canon's modifications. Every thing from an attempt to limit third party lenses to propriety focus algorithms. Someone more into the engineering than I could probably answer that much better.

For me all I care about is that the lens works as well as it did with my old camera.

I have also had some problems with my 18-270. It took great/stellar pictures with my t3i. When I upgraded to a 70D images became soft. Working with Tamron I found that the lens needed a firmware upgrade which they did free and quickly (I had to pay shipping).

Since then I have noticed the images are still somewhat soft so I again sent it to Tamron under warranty. I have not received it back as yet (scheduled to be delivered tomorrow.)

If images are still soft I will do a MA and see if that corrects it. If not I will purchase another lens.

I like the lens allot as a walk around but I also have the problem of it extending on its own.

I have had the same problem with my 18-270. Sent to Tamron 1st time and they had to upgrade the firmware.

I just sent it back again 2 days ago with the same problem (soft to very soft focus). Tamron has always been good with their turn-around and warranty service (normally 3 day turn around) I'm expecting it back end of next week.

I never had a problem with the lens on my old t3i. Problems only started with my 70D.

Have you tried frequency separation and possibly luminosity masks? Not good for everything but I find them quite useful on occasion.

There are many fee tutorials available.