Wait for the reviews, read the experiences from those who were brave enough to buy one early and then decide.Īnd many of the people that couldn’t wait to buy the 7D are now experiencing exactly what I meant when I warned not to become Canon’s beta tester. You really do not want to spend money to become Canon’s beta tester. Looking at Canon’s recent DSLR releases and all the quality control issues they’ve had, it would be wise to wait at least 4 months after general availability before you actually buy a 7D, just to make sure that there aren’t any issues with it. Another thing I mentioned was the following: JPEG images coming out of the camera look better because of the noise reduction being done inside the camera, at the expense of lost detail, but RAW images look terrible so far.Īs you will soon see, this is exactly the case.
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However, looking at RAW files, I still think that the images produced by the 7D contain a little too much noise, even at lower ISO values, and the images at high ISO contain way too much noise. I could see no pattern noise and banding issues so far, like I mentioned before, and this is a very good thing. Canon has included a new 18MP sensor in the 7D which, from the sample images I have seen so far, appears to deliver much better image quality compared to the EOS 50D even while having a higher pixel count, and comes close to the EOS 5D Mark II.
The only thing that I’m not so sure about right now is the image quality.
I mentioned right from the start that the noise in 7D images was a concern for me, this is what I wrote: Before I continue with my review of the 7D, let me take a moment to discuss some of the things I said in that previous post. Shortly after the announcement of the EOS 7D camera by Canon, I wrote a post here on my blog where I mentioned that the 7D looked like a very promising camera.