The original Canon 7D was a hit with video - maker , which is why the big question surrounding its successor , the7D Mark II , has been what the video calibre looks like . With our beta sample distribution unit of measurement in - hand , we mounted a everyday comparison with Canon ’s other television - forward DSLRs .
Canon ’s current DSLR lineup offers a range of quality in terms of picture . At the top is the 4 K shooting 1DC , which be $ 10,000 and is out of most citizenry ’s grasp . Below that is the 1DX , and the uber - popular 5D Mark III , whose image , despite a lack of sharpness , is pretty fair of moire and great in low Christ Within .
At the mid - kitchen range , you have the 70D , which has large video feature film like Dual Pixel autofocus and a swiveling display . However , its TV quality is muck up by moire and is even soft than the 5D.
The 7D Mark II features a brand - new sensor and tops - knock-down dual Digic 6 processors . By all accounts , its video recording quality should sway . What we find in our brief test , however , was telling .
Note : All 7D Mark II footage was shoot with a beta sample unit of measurement . mental image quality could be tweaked for the output model .
Basically the 7D Mark II inherit the video caliber of the 5D Mark III . It lack moire , and its keenness is almost equal ( maybe every - so - slightly softer ) . However , it ’s a whole lot better than the 70D , particularly in depleted light . While its stochasticity stratum do n’t quite reach the criterion of the full - frame sensing element on the 5D Mark III , it ’s still terrific in the dark .
That all sound honest , right ? Well , it does — sort of . But let ’s put it in this context . The 7D Mark II is a brand - novel , cut - bound ( supposedly ) auto . Yet it has the video timbre of a two - year old camera in the 5D Mark III . Low light will in all probability prove to be near best - in - year for a crop - sensing element tv camera , but the detail is still nowhere near the quality of the Sony A7s , or the Panasonic ’s GH4 with 4 K answer . Take from that what you will .
Click Expand to blow up the side - by - side compare below to 100 % plate . Everything was shot with a Canon 24 - 105 mm f/4 lens , with sharpness , contrast , and saturation dial all the way down .
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Many of our readers are quick to charge out that the 7D Mark II is n’t intended to be primarily a video outfit . It ’s intended for sports and wildlife photography , and so we should n’t complain when the television quality is n’t up - to - snuff . But even if the television camera is suited to that recess , it ’s still a reality that there is a huge detail of Canon customer who are in it for the video , and who grease one’s palms these gadget for that purpose . It ’s peculiar for Canon to entirely brush aside those customers , when better choice are cropping up from its competitors .
The video calibre of the 7D is surely a step up among its own family of APS - C sensor camera , but mix in other brand , it is nowhere near the top of the deal .
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