Found this quote that came out of the Galbraith study....
"the max measured write rate in a 7D is recorded as about 45 GB/sec with Sandisk Extreme Pro vs. the 55-57MB/sec with the Lexar 1000X."

Regardless of the camera write speed, the faster card will help you downloading your images

You can't take the cash or the camera with you. Get the camera!

The upgrade to Windows 8 from Vista removes nearly all executables. That is the reason for the loss of the program and required download. AND Microsoft does a poor job of pointing that out up front. Having been a victim, I feel your pain. It does leave your other files and if you have downloaded any executable files I would suggest putting them in a zipped folder before doing the upgrade (I know, too late for you) On the bright side, I had great performance from W8 compared to Vista even with less than the required memory

I use folders labeled "YYYYMMDD Description" I'd like to do more but this seems to work for me

I know this is a VERY late reply, but shooting at a high rate gives me the chance to catch all those odd looks that you can never stage or be prepared for since they don't last long. A lot of the dogs are not ready for a nice portrait and the pictures seem a little more natural. Still, it is hit or miss

I want to say thank you. This weekend I bumped the ISO to 640 and the aperture to f9 with 1250 for the shutter. I used the BBF and AI Servo. I'm pretty pleased with the sharpness of this shot taken all the way out on my 80-200 lens. Thanks for the advice

ISO 640 f9 1/1250 200mm

This picture was taken at the Richmond Hunt club in Richmond, IL Many others are taken at Bong REcreation Area in Kansasville, WI.
Local clubs are WISILL HRC and Fox River Valley HRC
WISILLHRC.com and http://www.frvhrc.com/. Both welcome new members at all levels of experience

I'll have to check the software to see what is there.

Yes - Sort of. There are a number of Hunting Retriever Clubs not too far north of me. They are clubs for owners to learn to train their own dogs. There are a number of members who also train dogs professionally or semi-pro. Dogs are trained for waterfowl this time of year and for upland in the early winter. We have some amazing dogs in our group. More info at http://www.huntingretrieverclub.org/ or at http://classic.akc.org/events/hunting_tests/retrievers/index.cfm

I think I can match many on the board in terms of shots taken, but with advice and adjustment those shots will indeed become practice. I've experimented a lot of ways but I think I was overly enamored with narrow DOF.

This advice will help get me refocused (no pun intended, but it fits)

thanks

Looks like ISO adjustment and the related opportunities is going to be the ticket. I think the water drops are frozen enough but I won't know until I try the aperture adjustment first.

Thanks

Yep. I have that feature AI Servo and it would have kept tracking in the older days of using the shutter to focus. One more thing I have to learn in my transition to BBF

thanks

Gotcha. I think I was still thinking in old terms and trying to get the ISO too low. I'll bump that up along with the aperture and see what happens. Thanks for the advice

I have been taking a lot of action shots of dogs in hunting situations. This is a not so great example from this past weekend. I am shooting a Canon 7d with an older 80-200 L lens. This shot was taken at ISO 160, f5, 1/1250 at 200 mm. I am using a spot focus and have just learned to use Back Button focusing.

My problem is I frequently get THAT CLOSE to a great focus, only to find later that I'm not quite there. It's pretty clear from this shot that my spot focus ended up in the reeds instead of on the dog's head. I'd like to hear any idea folks have on focusing better. Are there better methods than spot focusing for this type of picture? I really need some advice.

Thanks

Reeds in focus, not dog

Wow. Nice work!

I do resemble some of that. I also continue to take issue with his Fast lens/High ISO/tripod arguments. Shooting moving objects in low light without IS still warrants a tripod for me. Of course if I had Ken's money i could throw mine away and make sure my ISO could go through the roof and my lenses would all be the latest IS version and I might not need that tripod. But Hey, I'm just an amateur, what do I know....