Canon 7D being the flagship crop sensor camera from Canon 7D Mark II deserves a review done after more than a year of experience with using the camera. A lot of the reviews out there have been based on only a couple of days of usage. The 7D Mark II isn’t a camera that you can put through its paces in a couple of days.
Image Quality Image quality is arguably the most important feature of any camera. The Canon 7D is a cropped sensor camera meaning that there are some compromises for some gains. Since it is a crop sensor camera, images are a tad noisier than usual, but the density of the pixels allows for sharper images, due to the larger number of pixels per square inch.
Cropped sensors also avoid the corner parts of most lenses which are usually the weakest point of the lens itself, thus avoiding much of the vignetting and softness in the corners. Additionally, the cropped sensor gives more reach than any lens, thus a 50 mm lens on a full-frame sensor is 50 mm, while on a cropped sensor it is 80 mm equivalent.
Shooting Photos When purchasing a cropped sensor camera, one would expect noisier images compared to a full-frame counterpart. To be honest, I expected the same thing; I assumed that after ISO 3200 the photos would be useless. I was wrong. I can safely shoot up to 8000 ISO and the