Only today: Canon EOS 7D -$200 at B&H

B&H offers a very interesting deal on the Canon EOS 7D body that expires today.

Regardless of the meaning of this huge sale here’s a chance to get a new 7D at a very affordable price.

Why this deal is interesting even though the new & cheaper EOS T4i/650D (Review here: LINK) offers some better features and the identical feature:
Because Canon announced a significant firmware update for the 7D that will bring manual audio during recording. Scheduled for August: LINK
And because Mosaic Engineering released their anti aliasing filter that impressed us and shows that the 7D still has balls. Review here: LINK

Canon 7D for $1345 (only today) at B&H

Nikon D4 – Who’s the cleanest of them all? The D4′s 2.7x crop mode

Mirrors are not the only thing an HDSLR shooter doesn’t need. Here’s a reason to think differently about depth of field.

You can download the file and watch it in full quality.

Over the last months Johnnie Behiri used the Nikon’s new flagship HDSLR, the D4, to shoot this image video about the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

While some few shots were done on other HDSLR’s the majority came from the D4 and in particular from the D4′s 2.7x crop mode.

What is that mode?
It only uses a 1920×1080 pixels crop of the sensor. The result is much more depth of field (less blurry background) but also a very crisp, moire and aliasing free image.

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Canon T4i / 650D – more test footage

Here’s some more test footage from the new Canon 650D by Johnnie Behiri. Unfortunately no other word on the clean hdmi out he revealed this week.

From the vimeo page:
The camera is very easy and pleasant to use.
Picture quality is identical to the more expensive (but older) 7D.
The real news with this camera (beside the AF which I was not able to test) is the clean HDMI output, a first ever in any Canon VDSLR.
It is yet to be seen if in the final camera firmware it will be 100% usable and functional.

You can DOWNLOAD the source file here.

-No color correction
-Editing software, Premiere CS2 with Cineform engine

On a sidenote:

The new 40mm f2.8 STM (video autofocus) pancake lens is now available: LINK

Moiré & aliasing free Canon 7D is here! T2i,T3i,60D,D800 soon

Remember when we first heard about the Mosaic Engineering anti-aliasing / anti-moiré filter for 5D mark II in August of 2011? What a great invention that would solve our biggest problem with HDSLR.

Now that the 5D mark III is out, healed from moiré problems, people have a good reason to upgrade, but then there’s the issue with the price: The 5D mark III is $3500, hefty for many HDSLR shooters.

How good that the guys over at Mosaic Engineering have now officially started selling their filter for the 7D: The VAF-7D.
This upgrade will set you back by $325, but put you into the aliasing and moiré free realm of the mark III.

Versions for the Nikon D800, T2i/T3i and 60D are in production.

LINK: Mosaic Engineering Store