October 2009 Archives

Madilyn - 7D Halloween Movie

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A short halloween movie shot with a Canon EOS 7D.

Capture ONE 5 Pro released

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Besides Canons own Digital Photography Professional software, RAW processing software supporting Canon EOS 7D are still sparse. But now PhaseONE has released the latest version of their Capture ONE RAW converter and workflow software which includes support for EOS 7D RAW files.

The software are available as a 30 days free trial download.

Some time ago I was at a Canon arrangement presenting the 7D, and was told that Canon Denmark and PhaseONE was trying to intensify their cooperation. So it might be software worth trying?

7D ghosting

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Canon confirms that in certain camera settings and shooting conditions, "ghost" of previous captures might occur in continues shooting mode. The problem is currently being analyzed by Canon and a firmware update to solve the problem are planned.

Read Canon service notice.

The problem has been reported on various forums, including on DPReview. Though, for most people it is not easy to reproduce the problem.

Yesterday Lexar introduced a new Professional 600x CompactFlash type Memory Card supporting UDMA 6. This is following similar announcements from Sandisk and others. The 7D is the first Canon camera to support this new standard. How does the first UDMA 6 cards perform in it?...

In a mini-test Rob Galbraith compares speed of the latest and fastest cards in the Canon EOS 7D and Nikon D300s. Newest cards from Lexar, Sandisk, Transcend and others are included in this little test, and used in the Canon EOS 7D there are significant speed differences.

Read the test...

Planet 7D for Canon EOS 7D users

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I bought this domain to make an interesting and information-sharing place for users of the new Canon EOS 7D, the most ambitious APS-C camera Canon have ever made. But so far I only got this little blog/news-page up.

A few things to look at while waiting for more content on this site...

links

Most previews and mini-tests are done with pre-production versions of the Canon EOS 7D camera: