70d - Videographers wet dream

It looks very compotent indeed but professionals uses manuals a lot, actually preferred.
 
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"Intergrated speedlite transmitter"

Wondering if that's optical or radio?

Love the wifi feature same as on the 6d.

Not enough to get me to upgrade, waiting to see if a 7d2 ever comes.
 
Not worried about that, expecting £1300ish for the body. If it's a slightly improved AF, wireless and built in radio trigger with the same body type and better ISO handling I'm sold. If not I will just buy 5D3 or whatever replaces it if time drags on.
 
I've been holding out on upgrading to see the specs on this, I'll be going with the 6d I think.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Another camera without a joystick - this is a worrying trend IMHO.
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Agreed, I also hate the newer back of the body wheel compared to the older bodies. I was looking at the 7D alongside the 6D a couple of days ago and the 7D wheel or even the 50D wheel is so much better and doesn't feel anything like as cheap.
 
Nice to see some actual sensor improvement from Canon and the AF in video is really big plus point and a very welcome addition. I wonder how quick it will be in live view for stills?

However having used a 60D quite a bit, I can't believe they have left the same hateful and simply awful rear control wheel as it was on the 60D and it would have been nice to have added dual card slots.

Other than that it should give some Canon users a really decent option of an upgrade if they feel they need one.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Agreed, I also hate the newer back of the body wheel compared to the older bodies. I was looking at the 7D alongside the 6D a couple of days ago and the 7D wheel or even the 50D wheel is so much better and doesn't feel anything like as cheap.
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Well the 5D3 still has the joystick so hopefully they're keeping it for the higher-end bodies and the 7D2 will keep it too.

I'm also hoping the 7D2 grip gets a joystick like the 5D3's has as this is one thing I'm really really envious of. Moving the focus point when using a grip in portrait orientation is a serious pain in the backside.
 
Phal said:
Surely if you knew it worked pretty well then you'd certainly find use for it occasionally though? :)
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It will never work as well as you because you know exactly what you want to focus on, the camera doesn't. In stills this doesn't matter because you can compensate and there are mechanisms to tell it what you want to focus on, but there's no way to do that seamlessly.
 
Never work? I find that rather hard to believe! Perhaps not with current tech but I definitely believe that at some point the AF for video will definitely be worth using and will be faster and more accurate than manual focus. As for when it happens... Who knows lol.

There's a reason why these things are automated and that's usually because the automated version is quicker or more accurate etc. Even if you don't want to use it, they'll probably just develop it anyway so they can market it as a feature lol.
 
The point is that for autofocus to work it needs to know what you want to focus on. The only way to do that is for you to manually move the point of focus using the mighty joystick. Well that's no faster than zooming in on your focus point with the joystick and focussing manually.

I never use AF. Professionals dont use AF. Professionals have a focus puller with their own monitor :P
 
Phal said:
Never work? I find that rather hard to believe! Perhaps not with current tech but I definitely believe that at some point the AF for video will definitely be worth using and will be faster and more accurate than manual focus. As for when it happens... Who knows lol.

There's a reason why these things are automated and that's usually because the automated version is quicker or more accurate etc. Even if you don't want to use it, they'll probably just develop it anyway so they can market it as a feature lol.
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That is like saying with a zoom lens the camera can decide what co,position you want and change the zoom and t,ad a photo all by itself without input from you, which is absurd.

Within a single scene without changing compsoiton the focus point might change sereveral times, e.g. With A Couple speaking the focus might shift between the 2 people back and forth following the conversation. And it is not even about choosing focus locations, it is things like the speed of focus change that th director wants control over, e.g Smooth fade vs quick snap.

Professionals have a focus puller who's job it is to rotate large wheels to accurately and quickly change the focus.
 
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