Canon EOS 7D with lens (Black)
18.0 MP EOS dSLR w/ 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens
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Redefining EOS with more speed, more detail, and serious performance
You're used to associating Canon's EOS digital SLR cameras with the height of advanced, high-performance digital photography. But it's time to expand your expectations. With the EOS 7D, Canon redefines digital SLR photography with a new class of features. Providing a foundation for its impressive feature set, the EOS 7D combines a large, 18.0-megapixel APS-C size CMOS image sensor with dual DIGIC 4 image processors. Not only does a megapixel-capture resolution as high as 18.0 allow you to capture an incredible level of photographic detail, but it also makes it possible to enlarge and crop photos well beyond 8" x 10" prints without sacrificing any clarity or resolution. Further, the use of a CMOS sensor — as opposed to a CCD sensor — dramatically reduces visual noise for remarkably smooth images. And then, the EOS 7D's pairing of two DIGIC 4 image processors adds a variety of shooting features to your repertoire, including an incredible 8.0 fps continuous-shooting mode, ideal for shooting action sequences. Dual DIGIC 4 processors also deliver a Face Detection Live Mode, an Auto Lighting Optimizer, and Lens Peripheral Optimization for semi-professional-level shooting.
Optical versatility
Shooting conditions are never consistent. In fact, there's no such thing as a "normal" shooting condition. Further, your subject and creative intent are constantly changing, too. Accordingly, there's no way a single lens can meet all of your practical and creative needs. This is one of the main reasons dSLR cameras are so much more versatile than point-and-shoot digital cameras — dSLRs allow you to swap out lenses based on your current needs. Helping get you started with a single lens that is versatile in-and-of itself, this Canon EOS 7D kit includes an EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens. Offering a zoom range from 28mm to 135mm, this lens delivers both wide-angle and telephoto shooting capabilities. Further, built-stabilization technology ensures clear, stable, and blur-free images, whether you're shooting in low-light conditions or are zoomed in using the telephoto capability.
The ideal view (times two)
Image sensors, processors, autofocus systems, and megapixel resolutions aside, two of a dSLR's most important tools are its viewfinder and viewscreen. Sure, all of a dSLR's other components are essential to capturing a photographic image, but the viewfinder and viewscreen are your mediums of composition. Without these, you'd might as well be shooting with your eyes closed. But keep 'em open, because the EOS 7D brings you a clear, versatile, and functional view of your subject. When composing each shot, choose between the eye-level pentaprism viewfinder or the 3.0" LCD viewscreen, both of which offer 100% coverage of your subject area. Further, the viewfinder offers visual autofocus, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, flash, image, and composition information, all of which can also be viewed on the LCD viewscreen at the touch of a button. Finally, the LCD's Live View functionality eliminates the delay between what you see on the viewscreen and what the image sensor captures when you press the shutter, serving up the same visual responsiveness you enjoy when using the optical viewfinder. Experience wide compositional control with the EOS 7D from Canon.
Remember your director's chair
Imagine shooting Full HD video with a dSLR's level of control. With the EOS 7D from Canon, this isn't a stretch of the imagination. This Canon EOS dSLR is capable of shooting Full HD 1080p video, HD 1280 x 720p video, and VGA 640 x 480 video. Beyond shooting mere video clips, however, the EOS 7D delivers enhanced image quality, smooth frame rates, and adaptive exposure compensation. That is, everything necessary in a professional movie-making tool. By shooting HD video with a large, advanced CMOS, the EOS 7D is able to take full advantage of the imaging characteristics found on dSLR cameras but absent on most digital camcorders. Select different recording sizes or frame-rate modes. Manually control exposure and focus. Edit in-camera. All at the touch of a button — the EOS 7D sports a dedicated Live View/Movie Recording lever with start/stop button that allows you to start filming fast.
RAW creative freedom
If you're seriously considering a digital SLR camera like the Canon EOS 7D, that can only mean one thing: you want nothing less than complete creative freedom over your photography experience. While a dSLR's manual controls are important for creative freedom in the field, you need the same level of control back at home in the editing studio. Here's where image formatting comes into play. While the EOS 7D does allow you to record images in JPEG format for convenient, compact, near-universal use, it also offers a second formatting option: RAW. Free of the compression given to JPEG files, RAW-formatted images are not only clearer but they also allow you complete creative freedom during the editing process. Further, if you want the best of both worlds, the EOS 7D is capable of recording in JPEG and RAW, simultaneously.
Formidable features
As a serious or semi-professional photographer, you're looking for serious, semi-professional performance from a dSLR. Most often, this means high-performance digital-imaging capabilities and broad manual/creative control. However, you also know that sometimes specific shooting conditions require you to pay more attention to your subject than to camera settings, and you need advanced autofocus and auto-exposure performance. The Canon EOS 7D delivers on all counts. First, a TTL-CT-SIR autofocus-dedicated CMOS sensor with an 19-point all cross-type autofocus system is capable of handling the most demanding focus situations effortlessly. The EOS 7D's high-speed microcomputers use advanced algorithms to ensure the fastest, most accurate AF performance under a variety of conditions. Further, the EOS 7D's autofocus modes can be customized to suit any situation. Second, iFCL metering with a 63-zone dual-layer metering sensor complements the AF system, taking into account color and luminosity around AF points. The metering sensor's color measurement function minimizes exposure and focus errors caused by different light sources and stabilizes exposure in situations where light changes. Truly formidable.
How 'bout a little more versatility?
Let's be honest: "ideal" shooting conditions simply do not exist. Not only are well and fully lit situations rare, they rarely make for very interesting photographs. The most creative and expressive shots capture bright, wind-swept snow scenes, or dim, shadowy dusk or indoor settings. Imagine snapping a birthday photo of your daughter about to blow the candles out with all the lights on in the dining room. So much for the warm glow of candle light on her face. Equipping you to shoot confidently and successfully in bright or low-light situations without sacrificing the finest of detail, the Canon EOS 7D offers an ISO sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 6,400 that can be expanded all the way up to ISO 12,800.
Bring on the adventure
Chances are you don't plan to shoot every photo you take with the Canon EOS 7D inside a climate-controlled studio somewhere. Heck no. You plan to take it with you on every variety of outdoor adventure. As such, you do run the risk of encountering water and dust in your travels. Good thing, then, that Canon has designed the EOS 7D with a lightweight and rigid magnesium body with seals designed to resist both water and dust. Now, should you happen to expose the camera's interior to dust when swapping out lenses, the EOS 7D offers automatic and manual dust-removal systems that clean dust from the low-pass filter in just a matter of seconds.
Lens compatibility
The Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera body is compatible with Canon EF and EF-S lenses.
Product advisory
Canon reports that under specific conditions, some images captured using the EOS 7D's continuous shooting mode may contain barely noticeable traces of the immediately preceding frame. Currently, a Firmware update correcting this issue is available for download at usa.canon.com. The Firmware Version 1.1.0 update is intended for EOS 7D cameras with the Firmware Version 1.0.9. Cameras already featuring Version 1.1.0 do not experience this phenomenon nor require an update.
Included with purchase
The following items are included with the purchase of the Canon EOS 7D kit: EOS 7D digital SLR body, EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens, Eyecup Eg, Wide neck strap (EW-EOS7D), Stereo A/V cable (AVC-DC400ST), USB interface cable (IFC-200U), Battery pack (LP-E6), Battery charger (LC-E6), EOS Digital Solution Disk, and software instruction manual.
Review
Almost a perfect camera (June 23, 2011)
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Reviewed By: colton S. - encinitas, CA
Does the 7D beat full frame cameras? No, but its so good that one starts to contemplate this question, which was never the case before the 7D was introduced. Both systems, crop and full frame, have their pros and cons and place in photography. But before I get into that let me say I have not been as excited about a camera since the introduction of the 5D MK I four years ago. Thats because the 7D raises the crop camera bar to the point where crop users will not feel at a disadvantage to full frame camera users, especially if coupled with awesome ef-s lenses such as the 17-55 f2.8. How so? The 7D sets a new standard in four major ways. 1. It produces whopping 18MP pictures, which are just 3MP shy of the current top of the line full frame Canon cameras. Just few years ago most pros were producing stellar results using the 1Ds MKII 16MP camera. Now you have more MPs in a crop sensor, thats a major achievement. This achievement translates into bigger prints and, perhaps more importantly, cropping power. Out shooting wildlife with a 300mm instead of 400mm? You can crop the 7D files down to 50 of their original file size and still obtain sharp pictures. Its just not that easy with the 1D MK III 10MP files. 2. Many worried that extra MPs in small crop sensors would translate into nosier pictures, but the amazing thing is that this camera produces images with what seems to be less noise than the 1Ds MKII. The noise level is very good. At ISO 1600 I still prefer pictures coming from my 5D MKII, but below ISO1600 they are very close. Frankly, I can go with either camera because most of my professionally shot portraits and product pictures are shot at ISO100. At ISO100 both produce very clean files and are practically indistinguishable. 3. Focus is the one area that was lacking on the previous 1.6 crop Canon cameras and this camera changes that. Its not a 1D in focus speed and accuracy, but its the next best thing compared to them. Its faster than the Canon 5D MKII, which is known to be slightly faster or around the focus performance range of the 50D and 40D. 4. The drive chain is fast, so fast its beyond anything I needed in my professional work in portrait, commercial, and product photography. Going through pictures taken at 8fps produces very little difference from frame to frame. One probably has to shoot a very fast moving subjectobject to see the advantage of such fast drive system. There are obviously many other things that I have not covered in this review. But based on the above, all I can say is that this camera has really raised the bar for all cameras and made it much more affordable to obtain a professional level camera for all types of photography. If you were considering buying the 5D MKII as an upgrade give this camera a test because it might be all you need. As for the advantages of crop cameras I always find it odd that casual users who shoot many things but focus on landscape think they need a full frame to realize their potential. Crop cameras such as the 7D and 50D are fine for most users and offer many advantages including 1. greater depth of field at lower aperture for landscape photography 2. greater tilt and shift effect because of sensor size relative to effect 8mm in shift is greater in effect relative to a 22mm sensor compared to a 35mm sensor 3. greater magnification with micro lenses and extension tubes because of smaller sensor 11 in full frame equals 35mm, 11 in crop equals 22mm 4. smaller lighter lenses with wider aperture that achieve greater reach such as the 17-55 2.8 vs the 24-70 2.8 similar reach but much lighter and smaller Traditionally the three areas full frame cameras outshine crop cameras are a bigger brighter viewfinder, shallower depth of field for portrait photography, and better ISO performance, which on the last point the 7D has proven not be an issue anymore. And for the second point really, most beautiful low depth of field portraits are done around f2.8-2.0 in full frame going wider will make depth of field too narrow to place two eyes in focus. Hence, if one is using a wide prime, a crop sensor will produce the same depth of field at 2.0-1.4. Considering an affordable 50mm f1.4 lens on crop has the same field of view as 85mm lens on full frame there is really no reason to discount a crop camera any more as the 7D levels the playing field.
Review
Canon 7D (March 22, 2011)
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Reviewed By: Vu N. - Kent, WA
Canon 7D is a rock solid camera. I love it.
Review
Amazing Camera (December 15, 2010)
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Reviewed By: David P. - Conway, AR
I had originally purchased the 7d to film short films and it did an amazing job! I couldnt believe how rich the colors were and how sharp the image was. Most of the film was shot in low light settings which is where the 7ds high iso range with minimal noise mixed with a fast 50mm lens really impressed me. The depth of field really gave me the film look that I just couldnt seem to get out of digital camcorders in the same price range. The build quality is second to none! It has been through some extreme heat, rain, and extreme cold and keeps on going! In an interesting turn of events I have a new Public Relations job that requires photos for publications. The photographer didnt show one day so I pulled out my 7d and took my own pictures. Everyone was so impressed by how good the pictures looked that I became the colleges photographer! I know that you can get a good picture with any camera, but if you want one of the best pictures you can get, get this camera. I gave it a four in value, not because I don’t think it is worth it, but more so because you can get the Canon t2i for half the price. Personally I still think the 7ds build quality, 8fps burst, etc. was worth the money I paid, but if you are a bit more on the casual side, the t2i has a better price point for the beginning photographer.
Review
Canon EOS 7d (April 30, 2010)
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Reviewed By: Lewie W. - Dana Point, CA
This camera is truly awesome! I was amazed at the ability to take high quality pictures in low light without a flash. I was fully expecting all the features, but I am pleasantly surprised by the feel of holding and shooting along with the intuitive layout of the all the controls. Nevertheless, I put a 4 down for ease of use because there are a lot of things to learn!
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Canon 7D (March 31, 2010)
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Reviewed By: Terry H. - Gillette, WY
The Canon 7D has allowed me to capture pictures of my daughter in the highest quailty ever. Whats nice about the camera is all the buttons are well placed and easy to understand. One thing about taking digital pictures is its almost free. This has allowed me to experiment and I have produced some photos I wouldnt have dream possible.
Review
Excellent camera (February 12, 2010)
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Reviewed By: Tom D. - Los Angeles, CA
I bought the 7D because I had high expectations of its quality and ability to serve as a pro-level HD camera for video. So far, it has not disappointed in any way. Even the stock lens performs well, and once you get a prime lens on this baby, youre cookin!
Comparison Specifications
- Maximum pixels: 18.0 megapixels (effective) / 19.0 megapixels (total)
- Memory: Compact Flash card (Type I and II) / UDMA-compliant CF cards
- Lens: EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens / 16 lens elements in 12 groups / Built-in stabilization / Inner focusing system / 1.6' min. focusing distance / 72mm filter size
- Shooting modes (picture style): Standard / Portrait / Landscape / Neutral / Faithful / Monochrome / User-defined 1-3
- Flash: Built-in, auto pop-up flash / E-TTL II autoflash / 3-sec recycling time / Flash exposure compensation of ±3 stops
- Movie mode: Full HD video recording / 1920 x 1080 (30p, 24p, 25p) / 1280 x 720 (60p, 50p) / 640 x 480 (60p, 50p)
- Manual custom: Manual focus / Manual AF point selection / Manual exposure / Manual exposure compensation / Manual focusing / Manual brightness adjustment
- Viewscreen: Intelligent 3.0" TFT LCD display with Live View / 100% coverage, 170° viewing angle / 920,000 dots
- Digital interfaces: 1 USB v2.0 port / 1 mini-HDMI out / 1 video out terminal (NTSC/PAL)
Additional Specifications
- Dual DIGIC 4 image processors
- Image sensor: Large, single-plate CMOS sensor / 22.3mm x 14.9mm (APS-C size)
- Continuous shooting: 8.0 fps / 126-image max, JPEG / 15-image max, RAW / 6-image max, RAW+JPEG
- Autofocus: TTL-CT-SIR AF-dedicated CMOS sensor / 19-point all cross-type autofocus system
- iFCL metering with 63-zone dual-layer metering sensor
- Recording formats: JPEG, RAW, sRAW, mRAW, RAW+JPEG (still) / MOV H.264 (video), LPCM (audio)
- Viewfinder: Eye-level pentaprism / 100% coverage / 1.0x magnification / 22mm eyepoint
- Automatic Sensor cleaning
- Magnesium body
- Compatible lenses: Canon EF and EF-S lenses
Manufacturer Specifications
- Image processing: Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten Light, White Fluorescent Light, Flash, Custom, Color Temperature, Auto White Balance
- Viewfinder information: AF / Exposure: shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, AE lock, exposure level, spot metering / Flash / Image / Composition / Battery check
- Face Detection
- Working temperature/humidity ranges: 32°F - 104°F (0°C - 40°C) / 85% humidity or less
- Metering: Evaluative (still) / Center-weighted average (video)
- Shutter: 1/8000 sec - 30 sec / Vertical-travel, mechanical, electronically controlled, focal-plane shutter
- Image playback: Single image, Single image + image-recording information, Histogram, Index, Magnified view, Rotate, Slide show
- ISO: 100 - 6400 (expandable to 12,800)
- Battery: LP-E6 battery pack / 1000-shot battery life @ 73°F, autofocus
- Direct printing via PictBridge-compatible printers
Dimensional Specifications
- Dimensions: 5.8" W x 4.4" H x 2.9" D
- Weight: 28.9 oz
Canon EOS 7D with lens Warranty Details
1-year limited parts and labor warranty
