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One thing to note if you're planning to take pictures of bikes - the 7D autofocus is quite a lot better. It really is superb.
Anyone know exactly why it's better?
Anyone know exactly why it's better?
Has a lot more focus points, its own processor and can be customised to a much greater degree, that will do for starters
Right just googled, it seems impressive. It has lots of points which you can group together if you want, and if you say choose a point on the left then rotate the camera it keeps your point on the left... Also lots of improvements on continuous AF apparently too. Seems very sophisticated 🙂
However, and this may be relevant, apparently many many cameras have had an AF fault...
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=33495689
Ken Rockwell thinks it's the best Canon APS-C camera ever, however despite that he lists cons related to AF:
1.) New AF system draws big, black rectangles as each AF sensor goes active — and they never turn off as you're trying to compose! These big, ugly, distracting rectangles don't go away until after you've taken your picture! This makes it difficult to see your subject's expression, or even your subject! (better cameras turn off the AF point indicators after focus locks.)2.) New 19-sensor AF system is so complex that it doesn't work as well as Canon's classic 9-point system. This is because when you need to change among settings, there are now so many settings that you need to stop what you're doing and click a few buttons to do what you used to be able to do with one finger.
I have to say that in my trial of the 7d I wasn't that impressed with the autofocus, but it was a friend's camera and I didn't want to play with it too much...
Not sure I agree with Ken Rockwell, but then I do own one so i'm not impartial. It's not the 19 focus points that makes it better in my opinion, it's the speed that it focuses at. The AI Servo tracking really is very impressive - never used to use it on my 30D (or the 350D i had before that) as it couldn't keep up with mtbing, now it's pretty much all I use for mtb shots.
And point 2 is rubbish - just configure the joy stick to do the choose the focus point - it's what I did on the 30 d and what i did now.
Point 1 is a load of bollocks as well as far as I'm concerned! Been using the 7D on a regular basis for about a year now and have never found the black boxes to get in the way at all.
Weren't Pentax fairly new to the market anyway?
Uh 😯
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1919)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax
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Do you need all this....Just look at what is possible with a micro four thirds camera.. which will save you a heap of cash and weight
http://2guysphoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/a-lasting-impression-meet-bob-tullis/#more-1343
I just handled a 7d in the shop. Holy cow what a serious lump! My hands were tired after a short play... seriously massive. I felt like a kid holding it.
MTFU!! 😆 'kinlightweight, fancy working with something like that with a 70-200 L f4 (so not heavy) and flash for 4-5 hours or more?
That's why Olympus are ace 🙂
Don't even notice it, I'd keep forgetting I was holding a camera if it came in any lighter and be scared of breaking it, even the small Canons, 350d etc, are tiny...
You wouldn't like mine then... I must say I'm not scared of breaking it because I don't smash it into things 🙂 At least, not yet.