The Canon EOS 7D II is the long-awaited follow up to the 7D, offering a 20.2MP APS-C sensor, dual-pixel AF with a 65-point phase detect system and continuous shooting at 10 fps. It’s also equipped with 1080/60p HD video capture and a number of compression options, as well as microphone and headphone ports. We put the 7D II (and its predecessor, the 7D) through its paces in our studio and have updated our first impressions review with the results. Read more
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Raw conversions added to Canon EOS 7D Mark II: Real-world samples (beta)
The Canon EOS 7D Mark II is the long-awaited replacement to the 7D, which was launched in 2009. It features a 20.2MP APS-C CMOS sensor and dual DIGIC 6 image processors. It has a new 65-point, all cross-type autofocus system as well as an updated version of Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF system. We’ve just been provided with an early build of ACR 8.7 and we’ve taken the opportunity to add seven Raw conversions to our previously-published gallery of real-world samples. Click through to take a look
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Blood Moon Eclipse: Mark Your Calendar 10.8.14
View full size courtesy of NASA Eclipse Web Site
If you’re looking for a great photo opportunity this week look no further than October 8th. The Blood moon will be in full eclipse in the white areas of the map above. Check dates and times for your area on the Lunar Eclipse Computer.
For my fellow Californians the date and times will look similar to this.
Note: These times are specific to San Francisco.Moon's Azimuth Altitude h m o o Moonrise 2014 Oct 07 18:23 84.4 ---- Moon enters penumbra 2014 Oct 08 01:14.1 190.7 57.1 Moon enters umbra 2014 Oct 08 02:14.5 215.2 52.7 Moon enters totality 2014 Oct 08 03:24.6 236.4 43.1 Middle of eclipse 2014 Oct 08 03:54.6 243.4 38.2 Moon leaves totality 2014 Oct 08 04:24.5 249.6 33.0 Moon leaves umbra 2014 Oct 08 05:34.7 261.9 20.1 Moon leaves penumbra 2014 Oct 08 06:35.2 271.2 8.7 Moonset 2014 Oct 08 07:25 278.7 ----I highly recommend geeking out with your planning now in preparation for your shoot. Good luck!
Animation of the October 8, 2014, total lunar eclipse as the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow from west to east. Image credit: Tomruen
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Blood Moon Eclipse: Mark Your Calendar 10.8.14
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II: Real-world samples (beta)
The Canon EOS 7D Mark II is the long-awaited replacement to the 7D, which was launched in 2009. It features a 20.2MP APS-C CMOS sensor and dual DIGIC 6 image processors. It has a new 65-point, all cross-type autofocus system as well as an updated version of Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF system that provides continuous phase detect focusing during video recording. We’ve been using a pre-production camera for a couple of days – just long enough to prepare a quick sample gallery. Click through to take a look
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Twice as good? What you need to know about the Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Five years is a long time in the camera world, but that’s how long Canon’s EOS 7D was on the market – buoyed by a midlife firmware update that kept it impressively competitive against APS-C offerings from other manufacturers. Canon has not been idle in the past few years, it seems, and the new EOS 7D Mark II is a huge upgrade over the original 7D, offering improvements to every aspect of its feature set. We got hands-on with a pre-production sample recently. Click through to see more.
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Interview: Canon’s Chuck Westfall Discusses the 7D Mark II
Join us for a video interview with Canon’s Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor at Canon U.S.A.’s Professional Engineering and Solutions Division, in which he talks us through some of the features of the new EOS 7D Mark II DSLR, introduced this week at Photokina.
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II beta image samples
We got a chance to shoot with a pre-release beta of Canon’s EOS 7D Mark II, so we grabbed it. We have prepared a 23 image gallery from a Canon event running at the Photokina show in Cologne. Although the image quality hasn’t been entirely finalized, this should give some first impressions of what that camera can do. We’ve included a sequence of 10fps shooting. Click through for more details.
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The wait is over: Canon EOS 7D Mark II First Impressions Review
Enthusiast photographers have been waiting in agony for a replacement to the Canon EOS 7D for five years. Their wishes have finally been granted – and in a big way – with the arrival of the EOS 7D Mark II. With a new sensor, improved AF system, faster image processor, and Full HD video, we think that it was worth the wait. For a lot more on the 7D II, read our detailed First Impressions Review.
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Apple Raw update adds support for Canon G1 X Mark II and Nikon D4S
Apple recently released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 5.02 for Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11. The update adds Raw image support for the following four cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T5, Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II, Nikon D4S and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10. Get the update
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Smaller, faster … better? Canon G1 X Mark II review
The Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II is an ambitious product that addresses some of the shortcomings of its predecessor by adding a 24-120mm F2.0-3.9 lens, faster AF system, tilting LCD, and 5.2 fps continuous shooting. Its 1.5″-type CMOS sensor also allows for image quality that should rival consumer or midrange interchangeable lens cameras. But do these improvements make the G1 X Mark II the large-sensor compact for enthusiasts? Read full review