Canon EOS 7D Mark II Spec List [CR2]

[AvTvM]

Whether I upgrade from my current 7D to the 7D II or to Fullframe mainly depends on:
1. Sensor quality
Needs to have minimum +2 EV Hi ISO AND DR .. atv ALL ISOs, including 100. in RAW. Do not care abaout ooc jpeg
Also, I am perfectly fine with with 18MP on APS-C, do not need 24.
2. AF system
the closer to 1D-X the more likely I will take it :-) 
If it falls short on count 1 or 2. I will definitely not buy it.

At the rumoured price tag I would also expect:
* FULLY functional Auto-ISO - exactly like in Nikon D800
* Wifi, GPS built in - but not "always on"!
* Pop-Up flash with optical wireless commander - as in 7D
* additionally a built in Canon RT-radio transmitter .. that chip is probably only a few square millimeters. so fits easily alongside a pop up flash. It is not -... one or the other!
* fps .. I do not need 10 ... 8 is plenty for me, I would even accept 6 if IQ would be improved
* video .. don't ever use it, don't need it, don't want it. Buy a camcorder, canon makes nice ones.

IF I move to FF .. and Canon wants my money, it needs to be a 5D IV at the price of a Nikon D800, besting the Nikon's sensor in terms of DR.

[dilbert]

IF I Canon wants my money, it needs to be a 5D IV at the price of a Nikon D800, besting the Nikon's sensor in terms of DR.

+1

[Rienzphotoz]

so the 6d is 'entry level'   yet the 7d 2 is high end.
doesnt want to make me buy the 6d anymore!

Is that how you make your buying decisions?

[Rienzphotoz]

No no no no. 7d is THE general purpose camera for MANY!!

+1 ... for 3 years 7D was my general purpose camera.
The fact that 15 pages of comments debating about the 7D II shows how popular this camera's predecessor is/was.

[Rienzphotoz]

They could have made this a FF!!!

No... that misses the point entirely.

+1 ... if it is made into a FF, it will cost a small fortune and will be out of reach for many people like me.

[Sith Zombie]

Canon! you jerks! when will this company get with it and release a camera people will buy??? For years I'v wanted a camera that prints photos on small slices of cheese, so I can view my photos and hand them out as tasty snacks. Nikon has cameras that print on a huge cheese range [CR] edam in the highlights and coloured cheddar in the shadows.
Canon, you are losing me as a customer....

[BrandonKing96]

They could have made this a FF!!!

No... that misses the point entirely.

+1 ... if it is made into a FF, it will cost a small fortune and will be out of reach for many people like me.

If they made this FF this would be a 1D

[Lee Jay]

This camera would have a pixel density equal to a 61mp full frame camera, that is far beyond the resolving power of most lenses.

Grrrrr....would people quit saying entirely wrong stuff like that please?  First of all resolving power doesn't work like that.  Second, even if it did the better lenses can already resolve up into the many hundreds of megapixels on full frame.

[Lee Jay]

I think both of you guys are greatly underestimating the resolving power of Canon's new Mark II generation of lenses. According to my experiences renting many of them, they are unbelievably sharp...far sharper than necessary to completely resolve detail for the 18mp APS-C sensor. I wouldn't be surprised if they were good enough to resolve just enough detail for a 24mp APS-C (which, again, would be ideal from an AA filter standpoint...it wouldn't need to be all that strong), and plenty good enough for 40-50mp FF sensors.

What?  The difference in resolving power between 18MP and 24MP is nothing - 15%.  The gap between these lenses and the 18MP sensor is more like 200%.

[eyeland]

[size=78%]You know I have been feeling kind of strange every since I replaced that nasty window on my microwave with a clear pane of glass. This may explain a lot.[/size]

Hmm, this reminded me, that recently, when I turn on our microwave oven, the kitchen transistor radio craps out... This event coincides with the oven timer moving at a factor 5 speed...
No structural defects are visible, but I seem to recall something about a hole turning into an antenna at a certain size? Better get a new microwave (or maybe a 5D between the two... or maybe a fully shielded FM radio?)
Sry bout the off topic..
This thread has made me nervous for some odd reason

[Happy viking]

To make everybody happy canon would have to make a 1 000 000 megapixel camera with a medium format sensor that can use EF lenses and can manage noise free images at iso 2 000 000, and it should cost below 100$. But thats just not how it works.

I beleve the mk II will be a good supstitute for the 7D. And if it can deliver cleaner files at ISO 3200 i will buy one  I love my 7D as a backup for the 5d mkIII

[jimjamesjimmy]

so the 6d is 'entry level'   yet the 7d 2 is high end.
doesnt want to make me buy the 6d anymore!

Is that how you make your buying decisions?

oh yeah i base most of my major purchases on tags given to products by people on forums!

what do you think?

iim at a place now where a higher end camera would be good for my photos,im just making the point that i dont see myself as an entry level camera kind of guy. obviously if it does its job thats fine, i just dont like that tag.

[gecko]

Seems like a good model to re-introduce the eye-controlled AF.

[neuroanatomist]

im just making the point that i dont see myself as an entry level camera kind of guy. obviously if it does its job thats fine, i just dont like that tag.

It's all relative.  The Canon C100 is an 'entry-level' cinema camera, even though it costs about the same as the EOS 1D X flagship dSLR. 

The 6D is Canon's entry-level full frame camera, but that doesn't make it an entry level camera any more than being the least expensive Ferrari makes the Ferrari California an 'entry-level' sportscar. 

[jimjamesjimmy]

im just making the point that i dont see myself as an entry level camera kind of guy. obviously if it does its job thats fine, i just dont like that tag.

It's all relative.  The Canon C100 is an 'entry-level' cinema camera, even though it costs about the same as the EOS 1D X flagship dSLR. 

The 6D is Canon's entry-level full frame camera, but that doesn't make it an entry level camera any more than being the least expensive Ferrari makes the Ferrari California an 'entry-level' sportscar.

yeah all very true and you are right of course,  dont you get that feeling though that people who are into cameras and photography look down on the 6d a bit? it doenst bother me but i get a that feeling a little, for some reason everyone loves the 7 series, or at least accept it.