Canon EOS 7D Mark II Specifications Confirmed
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neuroanatomist said:Ebrahim Saadawi said:
It's horrible because it's made by Canon. Any DRone will tell you that all Canon sensors are horrible. I know you think comparing actual pictures is a way to learn something about these cameras, sorry to tell you it's not. All that matters is what DxOMark says about the sensor. Actually, that's not quite true. The pictures you take with the lens cap on followed by a five-stop exposure push…those pictures matter.
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If the 7D2 doesn't improve lens cap test shots then I am going to Nikon. That's it!!! ;D
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simongking
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Ebrahim Saadawi said:
I'm not complaining I'm just waiting for it to be in the shops or at least pre-orderable
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dtaylor said:ULFULFSEN said:
Oh boy :
Reading DRone posts is like listening to a 12yo boy discuss what it must be like to drive a Ferrari.
Did you read the link? Oh wait...that would be an obvious no. Maybe you should?
So what, i should use DPP instead or LR and that fixes everything?
Sure that sounds like a great idea.
But having used DPP for years beside LR it never gave me the WOW effect like processing a Sony EXMOR file.
People like the EXMOR sensors because they actually see a difference.
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Ebrahim Saadawi said:
If you don't already own a DSLR, particularly a crop-sensor, this is a pretty nice camera. But speaking as a 7D owner, I'm a bit underwhelmed after 5 years. 5 Years is a long time for what is basically a piece of consumer electronics. With most other products, we would expect a pretty big leap in this time (long enough that some products have almost come and gone, e.g. BluRay players). For most purposes, my 7D is fine, particularly when I can de-focus/re-focus a few times to give the AF a few tries to get it right (or use live-view). But as someone who shoots a lot in ISO-challenged circumstances (sports at night, evening weddings with existing light), along with better AF, I was hoping for another stop or more of usable ISO. Without that, they could have brought out this model 2.5 years ago with the 5D3 AF. Now I wonder if I should just buy the 2.5 year-old 5D3 (1DX isn't practical, particularly when you include the cost of the divorce).
I think this slow pace of innovation reflects the capture effect of a lens collection. Once you have a sizable lens collection, it's not really feasible to sell everything and re-buy another brand with it's own set of shortcomings. (I'd be interested in hearing from people who have done this and what the total $ cost was to switch.) So we just take what Canon gives us, letting them make us their bitch :-\.
Granted, for the vast majority of uses and users (most of whom are still shooting in P), the current technology is pretty great and beyond what most people take advantage of. It is only a tiny minority of us that are whining. In fact, if you believe Reichmann over at LuLa (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/cameras/the_mirrorless_revolution.shtml), in 5 years, the masses will have switched to mirrorless, small-sensor cameras, and we will be left behind like MF, paying more and more for glacial innovation. Well, "in the long run, we are all dead." In the meantime, I guess I'll just make some more pictures and focus on the majority of situations where it's not my camera that's holding me back. (Still thinking about that 5D3, though...)
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sgs8r said:
I doubt Moore's law will continue to apply in photography as there's a "good enough" point just like computer power for word processing. Canon have an ace upon their sleeve with the dual pixel af, and adding more computing power will make better in-camera processing available like the 1dx' face recognition. But in terms of phase af and sensor, 5 years isn't that long to expect revolutionary changes anymore in the old-school dslr segment.
bowtiez said:
On the other hand, let's better start discussing about the famed 5d4 and 7d3 models right after the 7d2 release, there's got to be an excuse why my shots aren't what I'd like them to be :->
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Canon Rumors said:
If this price were accurate it would make sense that we are not expecting to see a revolutionary sensor. I look at this rumored retail price as a great indicator of this. If it is going to be $3k I would expect to be blown away. At $1800 it fits this spec list well.
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There is still hope that despite the same pixel count, has new technology for better picture quality than 70D. :
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Lee Jay said:
Wifi most likely works from inside the camera just fine for the ranges that are most likely to be used. An electronic compass for gps position (i.e. compute what the camera was pointed at and what angle was covered) seems to need an outside position, that's probably why the 6d doesn't have it.
neuroanatomist said:
As long as there will be old-school photos with money around who request it, dslrs will be around, too. The question is where the innovations happen, and advanced image processing needs the processor to see the image all the time (i.e. mirrorless). I'm actually really surprised the face detection on the 1dx seem to work with the legacy tech.
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Lee Jay said:
My guess (and it's nothing more than an educated such) is that GPS is a passive receiver, and it won't need to draw much juice from the battery. Any built-in WiFi would need to have electronics for both receiving and sending data, and it would suck out the available juice much quicker.
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