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Review on Discontinued Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR πŸ“· Camera Body Only with 18 MP CMOS Sensor by Seo Jun ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Nothing special, there are positive and negative sides.

A one-digit number is written on the case - 7D, from this the owner falls into euphoria and does not admit that the camera, according to its characteristics, should be positioned in an amateur line. Let's take a look at what is so fundamentally useful for professionals in it, what is rarely available to amateurs compared to, for example, the 50D? Fast autofocus? And how he smears, have you seen? Video without tracking autofocus and poor color depth of the encoded video stream? So it has already been built into all the lines, all the more, this indicates an amateur segment. A little more megapixels? Obviously, everyone is already tired of the marketing race of megapixels, which do not add tangible quality, and the cropped matrix with all its noises makes you want to hug and cry. Rate of fire? It has already grown in the 10D-50D line from 3 to 6.3 frames per second, i. E. upgrading to 8 frames per second against the background of this is not striking in any way (especially since amateur cameras with a rate of fire of 10 frames per second have long been in vogue, and you will never see 8 fps on a 7D without a raised mirror). 2 processors? And besides how to increase the rate of fire, are they still needed for some reason? I suspect that it was because of them that a very voracious camera (in terms of batteries) turned out. Canon didn't even deign to use one of the processors for tracking autofocus in video shooting mode. There are a couple of other innovations, such as external flash control, an electronic level, etc. I agree that external flash control is a professional option for using the camera (an ordinary amateur will limit himself to one external flash and bright man-made lighting). But external flash control is already in Canon's amateur line (for example, the Canon 60D), as well as the electronic level. So, can someone tell me what professional-useful quality can be seen in this camera compared to the 50D and its 60D mutant?

Pros
  • Very convenient controls. Fast autofocus. Fast burst shooting. Full HD video. Software alignment of back/front focus. Remote control of external flashes. Fairly bright and informative viewfinder. Three highly customizable user modes quickly switched by mode dial. Metal dust / moisture-proof housing.
Cons
  • In terms of noise, the matrix is ​​​​slightly better than that of the 50D, but not very noticeable (the noise pattern is slightly different). The battery, though capacious, but quickly eaten up. Autofocus is fast, but frankly smears (more smears than 50D). In video mode, there is no tracking autofocus (even contrast).