Canon EOS 7d Body - New - £699

Alright seeing as I'm just having to repeat myself over and over because nobody seems able to read unless I've directly quoted them:

The 7D is a capable camera, but it has a feature set which is a bit odd which I just flagged up.

For consumers: Its size and weight may be a negative trait rather than a positive one. Its IQ is no better (marginally worse) than the other cameras in its line - the 550D+ and the 60D, and it is worse still in comparison to its rivals from other manufacturers.

For enthusiasts/semi-pros: Its sensor is a potential drawback depending on the usage of your images, particularly in difficult situations where detail is paramount (read: wildlife in poor light) the 7D's sensor isn't ideal at all.

I'm only pointing out the drawbacks which do need to be considered when weighing up whether to buy a camera, beyond "oooh it's an xD camera it must be infinitely better than anything else I can buy".

@ElDude: Good luck with that. That's only true for web purchases or if you're handling the sale of your images yourself. Agencies will almost always have a minimum requirement for the quality of the files you submit as they always want to keep the quality of their prints up, and so most representatives will want that as well even if they're not directly involved in the sale of your prints. A low light image or high contrast image from a 7D is much more likely to be low quality than from, say, a D7000, and that does make a difference to whether you can sell the image or not.
 
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People disagree with you that's all.

You seem to have a big hang up over its designation, who cares what a camera is called? It's price and feature set is all that matters.
 
Ksanti, have you sold any shots from your D800 that would not have sold if you had shot it on say, your old 5D? You seem to be quite well versed with agency work so I was curious to see what kind of paid work you do, but all I can find on you are the regular FB/flickr/MM/dA pages.
 
A lot of my latest serious work cannot be published at the moment as magazine editorials etc. can very rarely be released before the magazines come out, otherwise they won't publish the images, and my fine art stuff isn't really commercial enough for me to want to put it all online. I doubt there are many images that wouldn't have sold full stop if I shot with a 5D instead of a d800, but I wouldn't be comfortable printing the massive prints that I want to (and a few people have asked for) from 12MP files instead of at least 20MP files.

I'm not currently agency represented primarily because I'm working almost entirely in personal work and don't want selling images to cloud the way I work, though I'm in touch with galleries and agencies increasingly often nowadays. I've sold a few of my old exhibition prints up to 30*20" prints but nothing towards recouping the costs of my camera systems - that mostly comes from working on commission and residual earnings from stock photography that I've done over the last couple of years.

It's also a matter of how much I could sell the images for rather than if they'd sell at all. If you can print larger you always open yourself up to a larger profit on each print given you always have to limit supply of the images unless you have a massive following who'll make up for it in quantity of sales rather than price. You can obviously quite often get away with giving pretty pants quality prints as the general public won't know the difference, but an interior decorator will know the difference and will likely advertise the quality of their art pieces which gets undermined by 72dpi prints.
 
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Well once those magazines get published, post 'em up (or at least drop me an email via trust), I'm interested in seeing the current work you do.
 
Will do, but with the way fashion in particular works, the SS (spring-summer) stuff is shot over AW (Autumn Winter) so very few of the shoots I've done lately are going to be out there until May/June sort of time. The Fine Art stuff I can get up soon enough but it's not in a position at the moment where I think it's presentable - I've got about 8 series running at the moment but I don't feel any are finished just yet
 
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