Canon 7D Digital SLR

The Canon EOS 7D is a fine digital SLR for serious photographers and semi professionals. Due to its feature to price ration it will be a fine second camera set up mode camera for professionals, but also a firsthand camera for many as well. It’s indeed the best APS-C sensor sized digital SLR that Canon has ever produced.  
Salient features of Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR camera:

• It has a whooping 18.0megapixel APS-C size that is just 3 MP short of any top line full frame cameras.
• Along with that Dual DIGIC 4 processors help in high image quality and speed.
• ISO 100-6400 (expandable even up to 12800) helps in shooting in all kinds of lights.
• It has got 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Is USM zoom lens that gives a fantastic capture.
• 19 point AF system along with dual diagonal cross type sensors are a great combination, for an intelligent automatic viewfinder with 100% field of view.
• Shoots up to 126 large JPEG’s with UDMA CF Card and 15 RAW. Image captured to CF card type I and II, however UDMA CF cards are not included.
• Advanced high definition video mode with manual exposure selection and frame rates.  It has got three recording sizes for videos.
• It has got iFCL metering with 63 zone dual layer metering sponsors.
• Its greater depth of field in low aperture makes it ideal for landscape photography.
• Its durability up to 150,000 cycles owing to its magnesium alloy body makes it tough weather and dust resistant.

Like all other digital cameras making their way to the digital world, the Canon 7D has a few cons that need to be considered:

• It has got small buffer for RAW images.
• It has got no carrying case and better kit lens could have been available.
• Automatic Gain Control at MIC inputs. There should be manual mode to this.
• For a camera of this quality the sensor needs to be 1.3x
• Complicated menu/ functions.
• Short battery life
• Missing features and controls.

Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera has really raised the bar for all competitive cameras of this genre. It’s affordable and even if 7D files are cropped to 50% it gives sharp pictures. It’s not a 1D in focus and accuracy but certainly a next best thing in this category. Pictures taken at 8fps make very little frame to frame difference, and make it the kind of camera generally used for all kinds of photography.

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