Canon EOS 7D Mark II arrives: Designed to meet the demands of photographers and videographers

The Canon EOS 7D Mark II digital SLR camera is designed to meet the demands of photographers and videographers who want a camera that can provide a wide range of artistic opportunities.

At the heart of the new camera is a newly-designed APS-C sized 20.2 Megapixel CMOS sensor with Dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors for gorgeous imagery. It has a native ISO range from 100-16,000, but it's expandable up to 51,600. All that processing power also pushes the maximum frame rate up to 10 fps for 31 raw files or 1096 jpegs.

One of the biggest upgrades in the new Canon EOS 7D Mark II is the AF system which now uses a 65-point configuration, all of which are cross-type. Cross-type AF points ensure stable AF that is not influenced by the subject's shape or color. On the EOS 7D Mark II, the AF points are spread over a wide area of the frame, enabling faster AF, wherever the subject lies. With a central dual cross-type AF point of f/2.8, AF is enhanced with lenses faster than f/2.8. And thanks to this new system, AF is possible even in dim lighting as low as EV-3.

The AF improvements continue when the camera is in Live View as Canon has included the Dual Pixel hybrid AF originally found on the 70D. Using a combination of pixel types, it drastically improves the speed, smoothness and accuracy over a system that uses purely contrast-based AF. It also offers handy features like facial tracking and FlexiZone AF.

Scene Detection, meanwhile, uses a new 150,000-pixel RGB+IR 252-zone metering sensor, while the AE system can spot flickering lighting and tweak the shutter release timing to match.

As for video, there's support for 1080p and 720p at up to 60fps, with a choice of .MOV or .MP4 formats. A stereo microphone input is joined by a mini-HDMI output, and there's a headphone jack, external flash socket, and an N3 socket for Canon wired accessories. Data output is via USB 3.0, and there's an SD/SDXC card slot as well as a CF slot too.

The whole 7D II is weather resistant, and there's built-in GPS for geotagging photos. When using the logger function on a computer, you will see the exact route you travelled, and the map will show you where and when you took each image.

To help photographers with achieving high quality images, the EOS 7D Mark II corrects image distortions like peripheral illumination, chromatic aberration and distortion, in-camera, as the image is recorded. When shooting in Live View mode, the results of distortion can even be monitored in real time through the EOS 7D Mark II's Image Simulation Function.

The Canon EOS 7D Mark II features a USB 3.0 digital terminal for fast transfer to PCs and printers, plus offers connectivity to Canon's WFT-E7 (Version 2) for wireless transfer and Wi-Fi® compatibility.

As for the larger capacity LP-E6N battery that comes as standard with the camera, that's compatible with the existing LC-E6 battery charger, Canon says, though if you already have the LP-E6 you can use that too.

The Canon EOS 7D Mark II will go on sale in November, priced at amazon.com:

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