Well if you weren’t aware, I’m now a proud owner of a Canon EOS 7D camera. This bad boy shoots both great still pictures and up to full 1080p HD video. I just received it yesterday so I’m still making friends with him, and adjusting to all of the new things I can do with this bad boy. My last camera, the Rebel XT, has a nice new home and we may be re-united every once and awhile. Perhaps even this Sunday.
Before I can write up a full review I obviously have to use the camera quite a bit. That’s what I’m trying to do right now. The frigid temperatures are not helping, but I got out today for about 20 minutes maybe. I walked just right in front of my apartment and started shooting the magic hour tones. The other pictures were of the day I got it and whatever was there to shoot, just FYI. I brought out my handy nifty fifty. That’s the Canon 50mm 1.8 (hopefully getting the 1.4 soon), and a Sigma 10-20mm 4-5.6 lens. That’s a nice variety to test some shots out with. Just playing around is helping me get use to the menu setup, changing settings as I shoot in Manual, setting up the wireless sync, etc… I also experimented with some beautiful looking video on the camera. I have a Rode Videomic that I didn’t bring out today, but shooting at 1080p 24fps was great. The video will be up tonight shortly after this post.
Overall I am already digging on this camera. It’s only drawback, it’s not full frame. That’s quite alright with me at the moment, that’ll be my next upgrade to a super great full frame camera. Anyway, here are my test shots. Let me know what you think about this 7D!
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