Forum links:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/823708/0
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=759335

Also mentioned in the mini review:
http://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-7d-mini-review/ (slowdown of the frame rate).

IMHO, the argument “frame rate is sacrificed in favor of metering accuracy” is deceiving because the slowdown is showing, also, in manual mode. Locking exposure works as a workaround. Manual mode (the equivalent to locking exposure) does not work.

I don’t own a 7D. I’d like one, but hidden flaws like this one is discouraging.

keep up the good work.
cheers

I have had no issues with the G6 swivel screen after almost 5 years and ~10,000 shots but have to admit it has spent 90% of its life in one position.

My children are still quite young and rough. If the G6 could survive 1 month with them I would call it indestructible, but I am not confident enough to try. Instead it spends its time on a shelf usefully collecting dust.

There you have it. 2 case studies that together definitively prove swivel screens are not prone to failure.

Obviously the 7D is not as weather sealed as a 1D series. But to say it does not have weather sealing is just untrue. Look at the Canon link again, it even shows neat little pictures of the seals around the camera.

However, both my kids use it, and it’s become the kid camera of the family for the past 4 years. And you know how kids are, rough, it gets dropped, banged and treated much worse than I treated it…so you can quote engineering estimates at me all day long and if its 6 years or 55 years, the fact is having the swivel has not made the camera or any of my camcorders more prone to breaking.

you could get the 50D. I’ve compared 50D shots against my friends’ 40Ds and my own 30D and there is nothing to suggest the 50D’s image quality is inferior.

if you look at the 50D reviews on Amazon, they are hugely and overwhelmingly positive regarding its functionality and image quality. the people I know who bought 50Ds and actively shoot with them also have no qualms about having done so.

if the 7D hadn’t come out, or had been disappointing, I was ready to get a 50D myself.

http://photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00HFoM

Any non-pro who does not want to spend a lot of money on features that are not all that important for a non-pro, amateur, “prosumer” user. 60D should be feature-poorer and cheaper version of 7D – no environmental sealing, no wireless flash trigger, perhaps lower res sensor, perhaps fewer video options, slower frame rate, all of those features are “extras” and you pay for them, I see no point paying for features that I’m not going to use.

Let’s do some maths.Open and close are 2 times. Say 8 times a day, because you will change angel things like that. If the rating of 20,000 times is correct and you use it everyday. It will be like 20,000/365/8=6.8(years) minus the bumping and squeezing it will take in travelling(like road transportation and by air)