Canon today unveils the EOS 7D digital SLR camera – a totally new design to meet the precise demands of photographers. Imposing technologies are coordinated by outstanding build-quality designed with the photographer in intelligence – to create an entire new photographic experience. Canon unveils the EOS 7D digital SLR camera – a completely new design to the new 18MP APS-C CMOS Sensor, developed by Canon, the EOS 7D also features: Dual "DIGIC 4" processors to offer fast, high-quality presentation in all glow conditions, an ISO range stretchy to 12,800 and incessant shooting at 8 frames per second – without the require for additional accessories. This better AF system offers a range of manual and automatic settings including Zone and Spot AF to track and capture subjects rapidly and accurately. The camera features a new 3 inch Clear View II LCD screen with a solid structure screen, designed to battle look angrily by removing the air-gap between the LCD's defensive cover and the liquid gemstone. The EOS 7D is compatible with all EF and EF-S lenses as well as Canon EX Speedlites. Canon has listened to photographer feedback when designing the body, as well as the internal technologies.

Canon today officially announced the much-rumored EOS 7D digital SLR. The new camera features 18-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, dual DIGIC 4 processors, 8fps incessant shooting and full HD video recording. Zone focus lets you select one of five clusters of AF points in different areas of the screen, helpful for shooting off-center subjects. Manual opening and shutter speed control are available along with program AE mode when shooting video, though continuous focus is still not available. The camera's ISO setting can also be controlled in video mode. And unlike the 5D Mark II, in-camera clip trimming is available. The camera features a new 3-inch Clear vision II LCD screen with 920k resolution. The ISO variety obtainable by the camera is 100-6,400, which is expandable to 12,800.

Canon unveils the EOS 7D digital SLR camera Other features on 18 megapixel CMOS sensor (APS-C, 1.6X crop factor) , Canon EF/EF-S lens mount , Dual DIGIC IV processors, Dust reduction , 3 inch super-high resolution LCD (920k pixels) , 100% viewfinder coverage with 1.0X magnification (wow, that's huge) , Shutter life rated at 150,000 actuations , 19 point AF; 8 are dual cross-type sensors , Live view with contrast detection autofocus , Electronic level indicator (so you can take straight landscape photos), On-board flash; covers as wide as 24 mm and with built-in wireless control , SO range of 100 – 6400 (expandable to ISO 50 – 25600) , Auto Lighting optimizer (brightens pictures) and vignetting correction and HDMI port and 5 image processing modes.

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This was my first Canon full CMOS DSLR camera. Prior to it I had owned and operated a Canon 40D, Canon 30D and Canon Rebel XTi. I am a wedding and sports photographer primarily, so I have been able to test the Canon 5D Mark II out under both of these conditions.

For basketball I used it with AI Servo, Center Point focus, but went into custom settings and enabled the AF assist dots. It worked like a dream, focusing faster and more accurately than my 40D ever had. While no, the FPS aren't ideal for sports, if you can lock on focus like this from the start, you can still achieve amazing sports photographs. Plus the fact that I was able to shoot at ISO 4,000 and not have noticeable noise was just incredible. The shots auto-white balanced correctly too which normally in the arena I shoot at is not what happens on my 40D.

My first wedding all I could say all day was wow. I was getting available light photographs I never would have dreamed of before. The new screen also made it incredibly easy to determine if something was in focus or not. When I would switch between my 40D and 5D2 I found out just how spoiled that screen had made me, since the 40D screen looked terrible to me now when previously I thought that had a great screen. I sure was wrong! 920,000 pixels is definitely the way to go on this LCD. I primarily shot with center point (one shot) for my focus and it nailed focus every time. I did a mix up of manual, aperture priority and some program (Program mostly for the formals)

What else do I love about it? The 98% view finder is awesome. I like being able to use UDMA cards in it...

Video! Although I'm not a video / motion person by nature, I prefer stills, I've been testing out the video quite a bit. At Christmas I took a few short clips of my nephew and was really happy with how they look. It's very neat to be able to take high definition video of a little kid and have that awesome affect of a wide aperture blurring out the background. The only downside is that the files are huge. My 1 minute clip was over 300MB, but that's what I get for shooting in 1080!

The batteries this camera use really do hold a charge for a while. I used mine with the battery grip at the wedding, and the two batteries after going for over 500 shots (maybe close to 600 shots that day?) still had about 72% charge each left on them. I could easily have shot 3 times that much and still have had left over charge on the batteries. Also the new battery info screen is really nifty since you can see what serial number battery has what charge, making it a lot easier to keep track of.

So far I've used a 35 1.4/L, 135 2/L, 70-200 f2.8/L, 50 1.4, and 100 2.8 Macro on this camera body and all have performed wonderfully. I don't miss the pop up flash that my 40D has since I never used it anyway, I always throw my 580 EX II on top when I need flash.