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Good Review
This is a solid review of the 7D. There's a lot of bird photography going on here.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/canon-eos-7d-review-bridging-a-gap/
Final Words (From GSMArena)
“There was a lot of commotion in the enthusiast community about the Canon 7D pixel-crammed sensor. The 15 megapixel EOS 50D was not among the Canon’s most successful products and the new 18 megapixel camera made photographers fear the worse – excessive noise without noticeable increase in resolved resolution.
The real-life results however are far from that and they are actually quite promising. The noise is well contained and has a more tolerable film-grain-like look – that’s way better than what most people expected from the most pixel-dense APS-C sensor on the market.
The high-megapixel sensor however turned quite taxing on the current lens designs and as far as resolved detail is concerned, you won’t be able to make full use of those 18 megapixels unless you have one of the handful lenses that can put up with the increased demand.
On the other hand, the excellent design, ergonomics, unmatched video recording, and lots of innovative features make the Canon EOS 7D a ground-breaking camera not only within the Canon portfolio but for the market in general.”
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Very impressive photos.
Most interesting sentence in this review IMO:
“The cleverly designed algorithm tackles the noise in out-of-focus areas quite hard, while the in-focus objects remain sharp and crisp with less noise reduction.”
I believe this is true.
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Main disadvantages
18 MPs on APS-C sensor is quite demanding on lenses
Camera dongle switch is very tight
Buttons customization is limited to a several repeating features
No mirror-lock indication … See More
Exposure mode dial still cannot be locked
My Menu is still limited to only six entries
Full video-related features can be accessed only in active video mode
LOL@the reviewer… He complains that the “Dongle switch” and mode dial can be easily turned. “Mirror lock indication”?!? Look through the VF Mr. expert bird shooter! If it’s dark and you can’t see shaitz, then either the lens cap is on or the mirror is up! That’s your indicator. LOLZ
WTH does he mean by “Buttons customization is limited to a several repeating features”???
Groundbreaking?? what is ground breaking in 7D ? lol..may be flash master ? or 19 point focus?
I believe it’s the features+performance for the price… It’s a clear winner every way you look at it.
Sorry…I’m an idiot.
So far, virtually all lenses outresolve the sensors. People who take lens resolutions that are measured using a 20D will be measuring the sensor resolution. Put the same lens on a 50D and the lens resolution jumps up. Put it on a 7D and it jumps again. This is because putting a lens on a camera to measure its resolution is not a proper measurement. You only get a resolution of the entire camera-lens system, and it does not apply to other camera/lens systems, no matter how much you want it to.
Only this part of your opinion is true: ” You only get a resolution of the entire camera-lens system”. The part “Put the same lens on a 50D and the lens resolution jumps up. Put it on a 7D and it jumps again.” is conditionally true, depending on lens. And the part ” virtually all lenses outresolve the sensors” is obviously untrue. Rethink this again.
but that “clear winner” is just 2 years late..!!
If you’ve seen sample images of the 7D using ANY zoom lens, you know what he’s talking about. Fuzzy, especially at the borders.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the high resolution of the 7D – it’s just apparent that we are approaching the limits of the APS-C system for the most common lenses. You can get a little extra juice out of good prime lenses but for most practical purposes I don’t think a lot of additional detail will be captured at resolutions higher than this.
Go look at photozone.de’s retests on the 50D and you’ll see very quickly which lenses outresovle high-density sensors and which don’t.
Hint: most of them have a red ring on the business end…
im really confused now… some reviews says that the t1i is even better than the 7d in terms of IQ and noise performance. i’ve been thinking of upgrading to a 7d but i want to make sure that the IQ and noise performance is really WORTH the upgrade. otherwise i will stick with my reliable 40d. the 5d2 is way beyond my budget.
I just can’t get it. All the rave. I did the film thing for years….loved it. Did the camcorder thing, served it’s purpose. Then came the age where more than one thing was incorporated in what you bought. Bought myself a telephone with answering machine built in. Hmm answering machine works good but telephone was not clear…and so on. Every time i bought something that had some other thing attached to it to save space or supposedly make my life easier, it gave me grief. So i learned to keep my phones and answering machine separate. Here comes the digital age. Bye bye film (kinda). I now can shoot forever and no more sending in the film. I can manipulate my pics. I try it. I do the Canon thing, i buy the L lenses. I try the 1.6 crop i try the full frame. I’m in heaven. Then it starts AGAIN. Live view, movie mode. Review after review,
not big enough lcd, not bright enough, not enough lcd pixels. Movie is grainy, no stripes on the Zebra and so on.
HEY… i just want a pro DSLR that takes excellent pictures, limited only by the monkey behind it. Put the money into that. If i want to shoot movies i’ll buy a movie camera, that’s what its called and that’s what it does. Seems i won’t get that option. Sorry for the Rant.
Uh, no. That’s a common misperception. What we can say is that it took Canon 2 yrs. to realize they need to compete on the higher-pricepoint, pro-crop level like the D300. The xxD line was never meant to compete with that for the simple reason that it cost ~$500 less. Now we get the true D300s-level competitor, and the price, naturally, is higher by ~$500.
I think that 7D is extremely capable camera. It just needs good lenses, nothing more. I’ve tested with 50/2.5, 50/1.8 II, 85/1.8, 100 2.8 is, 300/4, 300/2.8, etc. and it totally rocks!
http://www.all4smartphone.com/personal/7d/6431_N_Staykov_05_12_2009.CR2
“that’s way better than what most people expected from the most pixel-dense APS-C sensor on the market.”
I’m tired of reading 7D reviews including comments like that.
I’m tired of caveats and I wish that reviewers would just stop it and just give an honest, no excuses, no caveats, no ifs or buts review.