{"id":10606,"date":"2010-08-26T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2010-08-27T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:18:27","slug":"canon-60d-officially-er-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/canon-60d-officially-er-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon 60D officially, er… official."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t seen it, played with it, touched it, shot with it or done anything to or with it! So I all I can do is regurgitate the press release and talk a little about how you should approach it. I can’t tell you what I think of it truly until I have used it. <\/p>\n

Canon have confirmed what we kind of already knew. The 60D, the 50D replacement is coming out at the end of the September for just under $1,100 body only. It’s a consumer model that sits between the T2i and the professional 7D.<\/p>\n

The best thing for me is the articulating screen. The press release offers us no clues as to whether the video mode has been improved. I guess we will find out soon…but it has all the frame rates of the 7D and T2i\/550D and manual audio like the 5DmkII.<\/p>\n

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Stills wise it has a fun feature that can let you do special effects like fake tilt shift and toy camera look. I wonder if you can do them in video mode? Again, time will tell if this is useful or a gimmick…Most likely the latter but could still be a bit of fun!<\/p>\n

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Read the press release by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Couple of videos here to take a look at on DPreview.com. Here<\/a> and here.<\/a>
\nIf you are about to get a T2i then save up and get this, the extra features make it worthwhile. About to buy a 7D? That’s tougher. I don’t know how it stands up to the 7D in picture or build quality. It will be inferior in many ways I am sure otherwise it would not be cheaper but just what those are I am not sure yet…Certainly the build quality of the 7D is totally Pro Line and that is going to be a major difference I am sure. <\/p>\n

That is all the info I have. No word on any other features. I guess we will find out soon! Nice preview on DPreview here…<\/a><\/p>\n

One last thing…some of the comments perplex me and some of the attitudes are pretty poor. Why are people pissed off? This is a much expected replacement for the 50D, yes it’s better than the T2i…it’s more money. Yes it has features the 7D does not have…and personally Canon need to urgently bring firmware to the 7D, 1DmkiV and T2i to give them manual audio…but your 7D or other camera is now not suddenly obsolete and as one comment says, a doorstop. That’s nonsense. It shot great video for you yesterday so why today is it a doorstop? Just because they bring out cool features on a lower camera does not make your current camera a pile of junk!<\/p>\n

Yes…Canon do need to make improvements with many things, like the codec, moire, aliasing, rolling shutter and let’s hope the next professional line camera that comes along does do this for us as it is almost 2 years since the 5DmkII came along but I have absolutely zero problem with them updating old cameras and giving them the current video capability. I am all for it and certainly won’t complain. I just hope we see the big improvements to picture quality soon!
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