7d Announced with specs

vincent_su wrote in post #8559033
That sounds good for sports shooters. I'll have to wait for 5D III then.

Should be great for surfing and kiteboarding.

hollis_f wrote in post #8664379
Alienware M17x. I was looking for something with lots of power for Lightroom and, after a bit of research, I realised that them gamers knew a thing ot two about high-spec machines. All I didn't need was the top-end graphics cards. Not cheap, but I thought it was worth it if were to be spending several hours a day using it.

Actually I found the M17x to be a pretty decently-priced machine, At least for what you're spending you're getting a lot heavier-duty specs than a Macbook Pro [Sorry mac guys]

iirc, I priced one out at about $2600 and it was better than my desktop...

And I'm a gamer as well as photographer and since everyone is sharin specs:

Core2Quad Q9300, 8gbs DDR2-800, GeForce 8800 GTS 512, 2x 640gb Western Digital Black Edition RAID 0, 1x Seagate 640gb, Asus Xonar D2, Antec 900 and OCZ GamexStream 700 watt power supply, Hooked into a Dell 2407FPW 24" LCD [Which i actually am thinking of upgrading to a 27 or a 30 at this point..with better specs given this monitor is a bit old] with a Razer Tarantula and Razer Lachesis mouse

And for the audio I have a Razer Carcharias headset for gaming, and I have my entire rig plugged into my home theater as well [Which has a Denon AVR2309 receiver and Definitive Technologies speakers]

And if you're considering a 7D, I'd say you should definately be considering getting a good computer, Quad Core processor and -at least- 8gbs of RAM with a 64-bit operating system...

When i was processing one of the 7D RAW files i will say i had about 75% utilization across the board processor-wise at some points, and the TIFF file that you get if you go into photoshop takes up a fairly large chunk of my RAM....

Note, its slower, but not -rediculously- slow in my case, I'm dealing with files that are SUBSTANTIALLY larger than my 30D's...

Roy Webber wrote in post #8666794
Should be great for surfing and kiteboarding.

should be great for everything

Reading the user's manual for the 7D, I notice that it states that Auto ISO wil work in M mode as well. Not like in the 40D, where it stays put at ISO 400, but actually change within the 100-3200 range.

Can anyone who've been able to lay their hands on any of these pre-production models confirm if the 7D actually has a mode where you can set shutter speed and aperture, while the camera fixes the exposure with the ISO setting?
I'm asking just because this seems to have been a no-no for Canon before.

actually auto iso is that way in the mark II and Mark III and 50D....I believe that is a brand new feature where it would actually float above ISO 400

KenjiS wrote in post #8666852
And I'm a gamer as well as photographer and since everyone is sharin specs:

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Note, its slower, but not -rediculously- slow in my case, I'm dealing with files that are SUBSTANTIALLY larger than my 30D's...

I'm a gamer and photographer as well. My system is a similar spec to yours and processing 5d2 RAWs does stress it a little bit... (using Windows7 64-bit RC). Doing HDR is somewhat painful so it's lucky I don't do that very often

gcflora wrote in post #8668078
I'm a gamer and photographer as well. My system is a similar spec to yours and processing 5d2 RAWs does stress it a little bit... (using Windows7 64-bit RC). Doing HDR is somewhat painful so it's lucky I don't do that very often

Oh I forgot to mention im running Windows 7 64-bit RC as well 7 is bloody fantastic isnt it?

KenjiS wrote in post #8668291
Oh I forgot to mention im running Windows 7 64-bit RC as well 7 is bloody fantastic isnt it?

Yep. I skipped Vista and stuck with XP, but Windows 7 has convinced me to upgrade

gcflora wrote in post #8668298
Yep. I skipped Vista and stuck with XP, but Windows 7 has convinced me to upgrade

eh I had Vista before 7, I actually wasnt that upset with it, but I also didnt have the problems many others had

Was quite a bit slower though...

gcflora wrote in post #8668078
I'm a gamer and photographer as well. My system is a similar spec to yours and processing 5d2 RAWs does stress it a little bit... (using Windows7 64-bit RC). Doing HDR is somewhat painful so it's lucky I don't do that very often

So with a quad-core, 64 bit OS, 8 gig of ram plus dual videocards your system is still having trouble with the large files and video?

butterfly2937 wrote in post #8668641
So with a quad-core, 64 bit OS, 8 gig of ram plus dual videocards your system is still having trouble with the large files and video?

Not a lot of trouble, just a bit (I am just impatient). I wouldn't say it 'struggles' to the point of being unusable so perhaps my original comment was not very clear. 3-shot HDRs process relatively quickly. 9-shot HDRs do bog things down, but that'd be 9 very large files that photomatix has to try and handle I apologise for the lack of clarity in my original post.

A lot of people I know wants this! APS-C.

gcflora wrote in post #8668298
Yep. I skipped Vista and stuck with XP, but Windows 7 has convinced me to upgrade

Me too! Seemed everytimg I used Vista on someone elses computer it would do something weird and p*** me off. When I built my new computer I decided to install Win 7 RC and I love it! It's gonna be the first OS I legally purchase!

Hey guys.
Instead of looking through 70 pages i'm just going to be lazy and ask -(perhaps it's been covered)
Does the 7D's recording support auto focus?
Or is it all manual focusing?

arn wrote in post #8659625
I posted this to another 7D thread, but I guess it's ok to post it here too. Many might be interested in this anyway.

I went to Imaging-resource and compared 7D RAW images with 450D RAW through the lastest ACR version, sandwiching the two files on top of each other with the 7D image resized with bicubic sharper to match 450D image's size. The difference was disturbingly small at higher ISO's like ISO 1600. 450D's noise performance is better than 50D's at ISO 800-1600, so that the noise is more even and the image looks more clean in general. I found it more fair to compare 7D to 450D than 50D. And trust me, no one is more surprised than I am. Everything else seems great in the 7D, but I'm starting to have second thoughts in regards to image quality and whether there's any significant improvent on cameras like 450D and 30D.

go and see for yourself if you like
7D:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E7D​/E7DTHMB.HTM
450D:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/XSI​/XSITHMB.HTM

I know that the 7D RAW support is not final in ACR or Lightroom, but having looked at and compared 450D, 50D and 7D images (and seeing the very close resemblance in noise quality and detail retention), I'm not expecting any miracles in the next ACR update. The quality might be (unfortunately) quite final.

I have been comparing the XSi and the 7D RAW files in Noiseware which decodes both and the differences are very minor if any at ISO 800 or 1600. The 7D does the extremes that the XSi won't do. It is very clean and usable with Noiseware treatment at 3200 or 6400. However, a straight comparison with the XSi at 1600 isn't much if any improvement.

Would I like a 7d? You bet! But not because it'll be an improvement at ISO 1600 over my XSi. I also have an XSi that focuses spot on and I don't shoot sports so the high frame rate is a non issue. Once the 7D euphoria has worn off and the price drops, I may be a buyer.

Jim