It's interesting, what more can be added to these cameras any more? You can only physically mash so many cells on the sensor (this one has 20mp). It has 19 AF points, probably goes to 50K ISO which looks as good as the Blair Witch Project, lol. I did see 7FPS and the same LP-E6 battery which is good. LCD is a touch screen, etc.
Two big additions are full Live View video AF so you can shoot like a camcorder, and built-in wireless. You can upload your unedited images to Twitter and Facebook and WalMart on Mars if you want 4x6's. Actually, there is on-board raw processing, multi-exposure and HDR, so you actually could send edited images to Mars.
So, once again, amazing camera body especially for birding and wildlife. What's the best feature IMO? $1,199 list price!
Think what we had 10 years ago: ISO 400 was tops before image destruction, forget self-cleaning sensors, 2GB CF cards were $189 and the kid who wrote twitter was still in diapers.
Thanks for your insights on the 70D Paul.
90 % of my photography is birds and other wildlife and I've been using the 7D since shortly after it was released.
Would you have any comments on how the 70D might be a "step up" in equipment from the 7D?
Thanks again!
I'm curious--and Brian this may pertain to your question--as to how the new sensor performs. A lot has been made about the 7D's noise, so I'm curious if the sensor in the 70D handles high ISO well despite having so many pixels crammed in there. The write-up on DPreview mainly discussed the brand new auto-focus system, but they had no idea what the image quality was based on the test body they used.
At that price, if this new AF system works well and the sensor handles noise much better, it could be a great deal at that price.
Pretty good info can be found at canonrumors, com and digitalcamerareview.com. Brand new sensor on this baby at 20.2 I believe. Has an entirely new way of working to get fast and accurate auto focus. ISO is to 24K, I think. Touch screen- probably like that in the T5. And, of course, the price goes up.
I'm curious about how the actual pixel performance works here given the new phase detection capability within most of the pixels. That would seem to enable some new capability, but might hurt noise performance. (Of course, if Canon thinks they can spare the extra light, maybe they've made big strides in noise performance to begin with.) It's likely they've migrated to a new chip manufacturing technology node to catch up to Sony.
The main selling points on this model are definitely pointed to the video bandwagon, and while the 19 point AF with f2.8 CP crosshair is nice, Canon has been trying to be the first DSLR manufacturer to deliver true usable AF for video, and that's what this camera is all about. Again, how clean can a 20mp Canon be on a crop sensor? Especially on an $1,199 body? If this thing was a super clean monster, what would that do to the higher priced models? Believe me, I'm not trying to be cynical, just sorting through some questions that automatically hit us whenever these new models are released. Honestly, hands-on is the only test. Remember when the 5D3 hit the scene? The volume of "ho-hum" across the photo airwaves was deafening due to the specs on paper. Tie that to a $3499 list price and it seemed like a flop. UNTIL, we actually picked the thing up and saw the insane image quality coming off that thing along with an absolute marvel of an AF system and 6FPS, plus very clean ISO 6400 imagery with minimal NR and blazing data writes with a Lexar 1000x card. And for us video buffs, uncompressed 4:2:2 video output from the HDMI port is AWESOME. Noise-wise the 5D3 blows the 5D2 away at higher ISOs. Now the 5D3 is worth 3x the cost of a 5D2 IMO, and I was a faithful 5D2 dork for 4 years.
SO! We really needs hands-on and see what the 70D is all about, but for that lower price and all of the wireless/video AF push, I'm skeptical about how much R&D is in the sensor noise-wise.
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It's interesting, what more can be added to these cameras any more? You can only physically mash so many cells on the sensor (this one has 20mp). It has 19 AF points, probably goes to 50K ISO which looks as good as the Blair Witch Project, lol. I did see 7FPS and the same LP-E6 battery which is good. LCD is a touch screen, etc.
Two big additions are full Live View video AF so you can shoot like a camcorder, and built-in wireless. You can upload your unedited images to Twitter and Facebook and WalMart on Mars if you want 4x6's. Actually, there is on-board raw processing, multi-exposure and HDR, so you actually could send edited images to Mars.
So, once again, amazing camera body especially for birding and wildlife. What's the best feature IMO? $1,199 list price!
Think what we had 10 years ago: ISO 400 was tops before image destruction, forget self-cleaning sensors, 2GB CF cards were $189 and the kid who wrote twitter was still in diapers.
Things sure have come a long way!
He's actually older than that, but barely.
I've got socks older than some of the young guys working in our IT department here...
90 % of my photography is birds and other wildlife and I've been using the 7D since shortly after it was released.
Would you have any comments on how the 70D might be a "step up" in equipment from the 7D?
Thanks again!
At that price, if this new AF system works well and the sensor handles noise much better, it could be a great deal at that price.
Max
SO! We really needs hands-on and see what the 70D is all about, but for that lower price and all of the wireless/video AF push, I'm skeptical about how much R&D is in the sensor noise-wise.