

It's clear that Canon does listen to its customers, as manual audio has been one of the major features that customers have been vocal about. It's interesting that Canon is going back to support a camera that will likely be replaced sometime this year, but it's certainly possible they will hold off until 2013 to introduce a new 7D.


**Viewfinder Test: **Accuracy, 100% (Excellent) magnification, 1. **Street Price: **$1,799, street, body only **Battery: **Rechargeable LP-E6N Li-ion, CIPA rating 670 shots (with optical viewfinder) or 250 shots (live view) **Output: **USB 3.0, mini HDMI video, composite video and analog audio **Viewfinder:****** Fixed eye-level pentaprism **Flash: **Built-in pop-up with E-TTL II autoflash and wireless control of optional flash units, GN 36.1 (ISO 100, feet) flash sync to 1/250 sec dedicated Canon hot-shoe **Video: **Records at up to 1920x1080p at 60 fps in MP4 or MOV format with selectable IPB or ALL-I compression built-in mono microphone stereo minijack input clean HDMI out maximum clip length: 29 min 59 sec **Metering: **252-zone TTL metering using 150,000-pixel RGB+IR sensor evaluative, centerweighted, partial (approx.

The body construction remains among Canon’s most rugged in terms of weather sealing and the toughness of the magnesium alloy chassis. Canon boosted the burst rate to 10 frames per second from the 7D’s 8 fps. The new camera’s traditional phase-detect AF system steps up to 65 selectable cross-type AF points with a dual-cross type center point when using lenses faster than f/2.8. This required a fundamental change to the sensor, though there’s only a modest bump in effective pixel count, to 20.2MP from its predecessor’s 18MP. The 7D Mark II ($1,799, street, body only $2,149 with 18–135mm f/3.5–5.6 Canon EF-S IS STM lens) boasts Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS autofocus system for focusing during video capture or live-view still shooting. But after a promising preview at Photokina last fall, the new EOS 7D Mark II finally landed in our hands for a comprehensive assessment in the Popular Photography Test Lab and in the field. In the five years since Canon introduced the EOS 7D, so much has changed in the world of cameras that we were wondering if we’d ever see an update to the company’s pro-level APS-C sensor body.
