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Canon EOS 7D
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The Canon 7D breaks the mold that Canon has had with DSLRs for several years: it presents many features from the professional 1D line in a crop-sensor camera. With 18 megapixels shooting at 8 frames-per-second (bursts up to 126 jpgs or 15 RAW files) it is a sports and action shooter’s dream camera. Canon has added an enhanced all cross-type 19-point autofocus system that is claimed to allow extremely accurate AI Servo AF subject tracking and user-selectable AF modes for precise focusing. It also features a new 63-zone iFCL metering system that takes focus and color data into consideration when establishing exposure times. Plus, it’s weather and moisture sealed.
The 7D has a couple of very new features that are worth discussing. First, it’s the first Canon camera to have integrated wireless control of off-camera flashes. You can control up to three groups of four flashes each directly from the camera, no ST-E2 transmitter required. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the autofocus system described above is an entirely new and very robust system, allowing you to select single points or groups of points for autofocus emphasis. Finally, the camera’s movie mode allows manual control over shutter speed and aperture. It will shoot full HD Video at 1920×1080 resolution at 30p (29.97), 24p (23.976) or 25p, for up to 4GB per clip. Movies are saved as .mov files and can be directly viewed in Full HD with HDMI output. Note also that HD movie recording requires fast CF cards.
Videographers: SLR sensors that are run for prolonged times (several minutes), run at high ISO, and sometimes simply randomly will develop “hot pixels”. Each camera is tested before being sent out for any hot or dead pixels, but they still happen during shooting. Check your video in the field! Resting the camera for 15 minutes may clear the issue up, but not always.
Roger's Take
Roger Cicala
President of LensRentals.com
With a fast CF card you can basically shoot 8 frames/second in jpg mode as long as you want, hundreds of frames. It’s rather amazing. In RAW mode Canon says 24 frames before the buffer fills, and I came really close to that. I found ISO 1600 to be excellent and 3200 quite usable but clearly saw loss of detail at ISO 6400. It was still usable, but there was a penalty being paid to in-camera noise reduction. The in-camera noise reduction works OK, but I’d rather do it in post-processing on a RAW image myself. Overall though, I’m comfortable saying high ISO performance is better than the 50D even with the increased resolution, and the resolution does shine. These are 18 usable Megapixels, and it shows. The 7D clearly outresolves the 50D handily.
So my take? This is different. The 30/40/50D were steady, progressive improvements. This is NOT a 60D; it’s a markedly better camera with markedly improved capabilities compared to the 50D. They’re not close, except in price. That’s a home-run formula I believe.
- Canon EOS 7D camera body
- Body cap
- Strap
- Battery
- Charger
- Manual or Cheat Sheet
- Camera bag
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- The spare battery for this camera is the LPE-6
- The Battery Grip is the BG-E7 Grip
- It uses any CF memory card although only UDMA cards should be used for video.
LensRentals.com offers rentals ranging in length from 4 to 90 days. The shopping cart will automatically update the quoted price as you adjust the length of your rental. Our most common rental periods are shown below:
| Rental Period | Waiver Price | Rental Price | Total Price | Approximate Day Rate |
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| 4 days | $15.00 | $75.00 | $90.00 | $22.50 |
| 7 days | $20.00 | $100.00 | $120.00 | $17.14 |
| 10 days | $27.00 | $135.00 | $162.00 | $16.20 |
| 14 days | $35.00 | $175.00 | $210.00 | $15.00 |
| 21 days | $47.00 | $235.00 | $282.00 | $13.43 |
| 30 days | $59.00 | $295.00 | $354.00 | $11.80 |
| 45 days | $77.00 | $385.00 | $462.00 | $10.27 |
| 60 days | $90.00 | $450.00 | $540.00 | $9.00 |
| 90 days | $116.00 | $580.00 | $696.00 | $7.73 |
| Rental Period | Rental Price | Approximate Day Rate |
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| 4 days | $75.00 | $18.75 |
| 7 days | $100.00 | $14.29 |
| 10 days | $135.00 | $13.50 |
| 14 days | $175.00 | $12.50 |
| 21 days | $235.00 | $11.19 |
| 30 days | $295.00 | $9.83 |
| 45 days | $385.00 | $8.56 |
| 60 days | $450.00 | $7.50 |
| 90 days | $580.00 | $6.44 |
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