OFFICIAL/NO LEAK: Canon 7D Official US Press Release

Just noticed one potential flaw, looking at the ISO settings there are none of the good lower noise in-between settings like 320 640 etc. But maybe the X00 settings are cleaner than on the MKII?
 
KeithAndrews.TV said:
(He, he, he. Now that everyone is distracted with the release of the 7D, I'm gonna run my ass over to ebay and pick me up a nice 5D Mark II for cheap! OH NO, THEY'VE HEARD ME!)
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LOL yeah I'm waiting for Letus and Redrock to hit the clearence aisles at Wal-Mart.
Seriously the 35mm lens adapter companies need to drastictly reduce prices and get what's left of the 1/3" cameras outfitted or thier gonna be warehousing a bunch of achromats and spinners. Redrock is pretty smart though, they seem to be embracing DSLRs and transitioning to creating products for the emerging segment. :thumbup:
 
squig said:
I started film school on monday and they have a red that I have free access to but I'd rather shoot everything with the 7D because I know how to get great looking stuff out of the MKII and it's only going to look better with the 7D.
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Yeah but where are the firmware updates to the 7D? And don't use the excuse that the camera just came out, everyone knows new firmware=better, new camera models=fail! (I'm trying but I just can't wrap my brain around the way Red fanboys think :()
 
so there is kind of a focus assist in live view mode it appears

"Just as in playback mode you can magnify live view by pressing the enlarge button (or back out again with reduce), to reach 5 or 10x magnification. While magnified you can use the multi-controller to move around the live image. Unfortunately as on the 50D you cannot magnify right out to the extreme corners."


http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos7d/page9.asp
 
Don't expect a firmware release for the 5D Mark II enabling 24p recording any time soon (if ever) now that the 7D has been announced and is in production. Canon would never do it alongside the release of a new camera with 24p because they know that it would directly influence the sales of the new camera. Why go out and buy a new camera and lens for a couple grand, when you can just download a free firmware update. It won't happen. Especially now that the 5D Mark II has been out for 12 months. They want you to update every year or so. The cameras may be on a 18-36 month cycle, but the technology is closer to a 6-12 month cycle. Also there was talk about a month or so before the manual control firmware release was official and it was released when nothing else was happening in the industry. We haven't heard even a little bit of a whisper from Canon about a possible 24p firmware update.
 
Just watched "The Passage" and man that video is really deceptive! I hope people don't think they are going to be able to run out and shoot video that looks like that. There were so many shots in the video that utilized tilt-shift lenses to acheive that soft-edge look that is not associated with the cameras' DOF capabilities.
 
When is it gonna hit the shelves? I just called Service Photo here in baltimore and they had no idea what the hell I was talking about when I asked about pre-ordering the 7D. They have plenty 5DMKII's though.
 
KeithAndrews.TV said:
Just watched "The Passage" and man that video is really deceptive! I hope people don't think they are going to be able to run out and shoot video that looks like that. There were so many shots in the video that utilized tilt-shift lenses to acheive that soft-edge look that is not associated with the cameras' DOF capabilities.
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Some of those shots I liked the least actually. I think anyone who has a good Idea what they are doing can achieve video that looks like that. barring the tilt shift-stuff of course.

I don't know about you, but If I can get fantastic images out of a old HVX with a LEX I am confident that with practice I can murder the 7D. :beer:
 
KeithAndrews.TV said:
Just watched "The Passage" and man that video is really deceptive! I hope people don't think they are going to be able to run out and shoot video that looks like that. There were so many shots in the video that utilized tilt-shift lenses to acheive that soft-edge look that is not associated with the cameras' DOF capabilities.
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Links? I wanna see!

EDIT: nvm just found it http://cweb.canon.jp/camera/eosd/eosmovie/index.html
 
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I can see good use of the GH1 in combination with the 7D. GH1 feels more like a videocam but I don't like to take stills with it. Mainly because a lack of great primes.

Some videos of the 7D seams very nice and some screams of washed out details due to overexposure. Question is if the row skipping is gone and we have scaling?
 
Not sure if this has been said before but I think it's worth mentioning. Obviously, there will be lots of comparisons between the MKII and any new Canon camera. But I don't think the crop factor can be too easily dismissed. For video, perhaps 1.6 or 1.3 is OK, maybe even preferred. For photography, though, there is no substitute for FF. So it seems completely reasonable to me that the MKII would be geared to the photographers and another camera (e.g. 7D) be geared toward videographers.

Remember that Canon was completely surprised by the positive hoopla regarding the MKII's video capabilities.
 
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