Rumor mill: Canon EOS 7D
Posted on July 3, 2007 by Mark
Would you credit it? I’ve just been googling (for something entirely unrelated), and came across several sites talking about the brand spanking new EOS 7D! This will (allegedly) be full frame, loads of megapixles, supper fast in every way possible, and be cheap. Hmmm. Another suggestion was that it will be a 1.3x crop instead (i.e. the same as the EOS 1D). Now that’s an interesting thought: a new 1.3x body…
So what happened to the EOS 3D?
Looking back to the days of film (as is frequently done when people try to predict the future cameras from Canon), the EOS 3 was introduced fairly late in the EOS film time line. The EOS 5 (EOS A2/EOS A2E) was launched in 1992. I had one of these and it was a lovely camera. Six years later came the EOS 3, but in the UK there was never officially an EOS 7. I say ‘officially’ because there was, except it was called the EOS 30.
So what does history tell us? Well, not a lot frankly. The days of film were a slow era, with with little change required from year to year. However with the rapid advances in technology these days we see new bodies hitting the market all the time. The progression (in my opinion) cannot be compared to the old film body evolution when trying to predict future Canon DSLRs.
Another point to remember is that the market is significantly different today than it was in the 80’s and 90’s. When I first got into photography (which was only in the early 90’s as I recall), it was quite a strange thing to be seen using an SLR if you weren’t someone’s granddad. I remember going on field trips at school and university being the only one with an SLR.
It’s a different world though these days. With the amazing accessibility of digital photography and the continual craze for ‘gadgets’, having a DSLR seems to be the “in thing”. It doesn’t matter if you know what an aperture is or understand how the light meter works these days - if you’re anyone then you simply must have a DSLR!
Maybe I’m being a bit extreme…. I just remember saving for nearly two years to get my first DSLR, but seeing gadget freaks snapping them up “because they’re cool toys” used to really annoy me (people with far more money than sense). These were the kind of people that would leave the thing on fully automatic (green star) and snap away, never ever considering the possibility of venturing into aperture priority, let alone using exposure compensation or, dare I say it, manual mode!
I’m having a rant now which means it must be time to stop. So EOS 7D? EOS 5D Mk II? Who knows? Does anyone really care? Well, sadly a lot of us do. But the important thing is not to have gadget envy - it doesn’t do you any good. Instead, get out there, understand how your camera works, and use the thing.
Happy snapping!
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Yeah, it’s easy to complain about those folks in a knee jerk kind of way…but look at it this way, lots of chumps buying cameras means more fancy cameras are created, at lower costs for use by those of us that know what we’re doing. Throw in the fact that you also get a whole whack of people who are interested in photography but don’t know a fucking thing about it, and you get a lot more comments on how fantastic your work is. Win. Win. Win.