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Canon is upping the ante on Digital SLRs. The new Canon EOS 7D is an 18 megapixel camera with 8 FPS continuous shooting thanks to dual digic 4 processors. That’s 18 megapixels at 8 FPS . Ya gotta love it.

This camera also has a 19 point all cross-type AF sytem with 63 zone dual-layer metering sensor. This comes in a magnesium body with a 150,000 cycle shutter.

Also, thanks to the dual Digic 4 processors, it will record HD video at full 1080p resolution at 24, 25 and 30 fps.

This camera sits between the EOS 50D and the EOS 5D Mark II.

I want one of these now. This is a very capable looking system with a great price point. Here are some quick shortcuts to keep checking for its availability.

Quick shortcut to Amazon’s lowest price for the Canon EOS 7D:
Canon EOS 7D

Quick shortcut to Ebay for the Canon EOS 7D:
EOS 7D on eBay

If you get one of these, don’t forget to get extra UDMA CF cards. You’ll need them to try out that 18 Megapixels at 8 frames per second:
UDMA CF Card Required for Canon EOS 7D Camera

Yes, I’m mostly a film geek, but believe me I love them all for different reasons and it looks like Canon’s newest digital camera will be very nice indeed.

And here’s the treat for today… Here are 6 VIDEOS of the new CANON EOS 7D These are perfect for showing off all the new features

Video #1 is an introduction to the EOS 7D. This is the weekest of all of them. Kinda Boring. Keep going. They get better.

Video #2 Ahhhh. Much better. Development of the EOS 7D.

Video #3 EOS 7D 18 Megapixel CMOS Sensor. Digic 4 processors. 8 FPS demo. Check out the metering sensor and the 19 point AF sensor.

Video #4. EOS 7D 100% viewfinder and all the information available in the viewfinder. Live view. HD Movie creation.

Video #5 – EOS 7D customization that you can use and auto lighting optimizer

Here is video #6 on the EOS 7D accessories such as the Canon WFT-E5 Wifi transmitter.

Oh, you say you want some sample video from this beast. OK. Enjoy it.

This is a good little story about a guy who is a photograph collector who ended up with a collection of photographs by J.R. Eike.

This is from KETC in St. Louis. The show is “Living in St. Louis” and the segment by Anne-Marie Berger is “Glass Plate Photographs”.

I liked the show. The only thing that drove me nuts was the nonsense mentioning that luckily he could use his digital scanner instead of a darkroom. Gag.

More important than the video is the web site where he has pictures that document St. Louis in the early 1900s. Great stuff. Here is the web site of Thomas Kempland and has glass plate collection

Glass Plate on eBay

A relative called about the last blog post and asked about video cameras.

My most recent camera is a Canon HV-20. This has been replaced by the HV-30 and some other models.

The beauty of the HV-20 and HV-30 is that they still use tape. Tape is great because you have a backup mechanism built into the camera. Shoot it, download it to the computer, and pack the tape away. Tape last a long time and it’s good to have backups.

The downfall of tape is that it’s another thing to have around. We’ll see how long cameras are available in this format, though.

A lot of people have switched to cameras with digital storage. But, I like having tape backups. Also, editing support has taken a while to develop for these and compression was bad when I last looked.

DV Camcorders on eBay