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

Canon 7D firmware update imminent: Manual Audio Levels

Good old Canon 7D will soon get a firmware update.

According to canonrumors a firmware version 2 is on the way. Apparently it’s an official Canon release that briefly appeared on the Canon CPN website.

Aside from some improvements to the photo side of the DSLR it seems to be also getting a very nice addition to the video side: Manual audio controls, even during recording. Nice!

Together with Mosaic Engineering’s moiré and aliasing filter this will make the Canon 7D one powerful 35mm HDSLR once again.
MANUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR AUDIO RECORDING LEVELS
During EOS Movie shooting you will be able to manually adjust the audio recording levels to one of 64 levels, whilst the sound volume during playback can be set to one of 11 levels. During movie recording noise from the aperture is reduced and the camera also has an automatic wind cut filter.

There’s no word on when this is going to arrive, but it looks like it won’t be long.

via canonrumors

Canon 7D, Sony F3 and Canon C300 low light test

German filmmaker Sebastian Wiegärtner did a nice lowlight performance comparison between the Canon 7D, Sony F3 Basic & S-Log and Canon EOS C300 with C-Log.

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Canon 7D Firmware 1.2.5 [UPDATED]

This 7D 1.2.5 firmware came out several days ago, but apparently Canon pulled it from their servers again. Why? Nobody knew. Canon even denied the existance of this firmware as someone suggested in an e-mail to me. I was skeptical about posting this firmware, but now a phonecall with a Canon rep confirms that the firmware is fine. He also said that Canon is renewing their download portal thus delaying the availability of the firmware file.

 

Most important fix: As the image above suggests, this firmware fixes an error. It’s called “Err 02″ which seems to have messed up some video files for some of us and caused incompability with random CF cards.

Canons list of fixes (via CanonRumors):

- Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were rare cases where movie files taken could not be opened when repeatedly shooting movies with specific CF cards.
- Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were cases where “Err 02″ appeared when repeatedly shooting still images with specific CF cards.
- Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when using high-capacity (32 GB or greater) CF cards: If either a CF card with only a little available space remaining or the battery was removed and then reinserted into the camera, and then the user attempted to start shooting movies immediately, shooting would stop.
- Improved the writing/reading speeds when using UDMA 7-compatible CF cards.
- Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when custom function C.Fn 4-1 was set to assign IS start to the AF stop button on the lens: When used with lenses that do not have an AF stop button, the IS function would not work.
- Corrected some mistakes in the menu screens displayed in Arabic and Portuguese. (This applies to models in overseas markets. The models for the Japanese market do not display those languages.)

UPDATE: It can now be officially downloaded here:
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