Thursday, April 28, 2011

Canon E0S 7D - Solid characteristics, Solid handling, Solid Pricing

Having a budget of around $2600 to get on a top-end Canon DSLR body you’re spoilt for choice. You may decide to go full-frame and invest all your budget within the 21-megapixel EOS 5D mkII and shoot big files for that ultimate image quality. Otherwise you may sacrifice several megapixels and choose pure shooting speed as well as the latest focusing and exposure technologies by investing in the 18-megapixel, cropped sensor Canon E0S 7D . Go the 7D route and you’ll save some amount of money too because the body is now available for approximately $1899.

Features

Feature-rich can be a term that definitely pertains to the canon E0S 7D and there are a handful of technology that are making their first appearance on a Canon DSLR camera.

Because Canon make lots of noise about it, let's start using the 63-zone metering system called iFCL. This means Focus, Colour and Luminance and that’s an idea towards the way the system works. It assesses the color of sunshine and its intensity but additionally considers information within the focusing sensors. Used in conjunction with the iFCL product is a dual layer sensor, one layer responsive to red/green light and the other to blue/green light.

The 7D may be the first EOS having a 19 point cross-type AF sensor with Zone AF employing a separate AF processor make it possible for autofocus that's quick enough to maintain the camera’s eight frames-per-second shooting speed. Like the majority of DSLRs, the central sensor has enhanced sensitivity particularly with lenses of f/2.8 or faster.

A growing number of DSLRs are developing movie modes so it’s no real surprise to determine the 7D has one too. The 7D provides the option of employing manual or autoexposure as well as the choice of three resolutions including 1920×1080 Full HD. You can also shoot at 30fps, 25fps or 24 fps depending on your requirements. At the lower resolutions you'll be able to record at 60 or 50fps.

Handling

In the event you prefer solidly built cameras, you will such as the canon E0S 7D . The magnesium alloy body doesn’t have ‘give’ along with a heft that inspires confidence. Its controls are usually Canon, ie positive, large and clearly marked, and there's the large command dial on the back that Canon users is going to be familiar with. Actually, existing Canon users might have no problem at all navigating their method for this camera’s controls.

However, there are several buttons that are new. Right from the viewfinder eyepiece is really a movie/still shooting control and at its centre may be the Start/stop button for movie shooting and Live View. About the left side in the eyepiece is really a button marked RAW/JPEG for one-touch JPEG or Raw shooting. If you’re shooting in JPEG quality mode only pushing this button means the next shot is recorded in Raw too, and also the other way around.

The third new control in this region is marked Q. This can be a Quick Control button and pushing this raises an information display about the camera’s monitor of popular settings - exposure compensation, exposure mode, ISO etc - and taking advantage of the multi-controller means it’s fast to navigate and alter popular settings.


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