November 2009 Archives

Screenshot from one of the Canon tutorials at Digital Learning Center.

Canon US has posted a series of 16 Canon EOS 7D tutorial videos on their Digital Learning Center site. The videos are available for download in different sizes optimized for playback on various devices, including versions for playback on the camera's rear LCD. But of course you can watch them online on your PC too. 6 of the 16 tutorials are about the camera's many AF options, but subjects also include live view, movie mode, customizing the camera, flash and the WFT-E5 Wireless File Transmitter:

• EOS 7D On-Camera Tutorial Videos at Canon Digital Learning Center

Speaking of tutorials. Especially video shooters might also find these two tutorials interesting:

• How to Setup Your 7D by Tyler Ginter
• How to increase the Canon 7D dynamic range by Luka

In other news, Adobe earlier this week made release candidates of Camera RAW 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 available for download on the Adobe Labs site. Both have official support for Canon EOS 7D RAW files, and the word is that they are doing a much better job than the unofficial 7D beta-support found in Camera RAW 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5. Being release candidates means that the software might not be completely equivalent to the final versions, but should be very close. Download from Adobe Labs:

• Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 Release Candidate
• Adobe Lightroom 2.6 Release Candidate

Here are three videos from a Canon EOS 7D presentation at B&H. Very informative with lots a details about the AF-system and more:

• An In-depth Look at the Canon EOS 7D - part 1
• An In-depth Look at the Canon EOS 7D - part 2
• An In-depth Look at the Canon EOS 7D - part 3

Also the Canon EOS 7D review is now up at The-Digital-Picture.com. I haven't read it yet myself, but it should be a quite positive review.

Two new Canon EOS 7D reviews. First of all the, by many eagerly awaited, review from DPReview. A very favorable review:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0911/09110603canoneos7dreview.asp

Secondly a private user review by Roland Lim might also be of interrest:

http://rolandlim.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/canon-eos-7d-review/.

Update: Two more reviews. These are more skeptical towards the camera, and has created some discussions (discussions on dpreview linked too):

• British Journal of Photography - Maginificent 7? (discussion)
• Darwin Wiggett - The Canon EOS 7D Review (discussion)

Related posts:

• Planet 7D for Canon EOS 7D users (October 30, 2009).

Canon today released a new firmware version 1.1.0 for the Canon EOS 7D, fixing the recently reported possible "ghosting" in continuous mode shooting.

Download latest firmware for Canon EOS 7D.

Honolulu Hills Supercross Academy- Canon 7D from Simon Cudby on Vimeo.

Some nice video action shot with a 7D. Simon Cudby used Canon 10-22mm and 70-200mm f2.8L lenses for this.