Photography: Canon EOS 70D Review

Canon EOS 70D

The Canon EOS 70D is the company's latest enthusiast-oriented SLR. It replaces the Canon 60D, and has various enhancements that distinguish it from the likes of the Canon EOS 700D.

The viewfinder is significantly larger, there are lots of single-function buttons, a passive LCD screen on the top plate and a command dial and rear wheel for direct access to exposure settings. It's faster than both the 700D and the 60D, with a 7fps continuous mode that lasted for 108 JPEGs or 16 RAW frames before slowing to the speed of the card.


Canon EOS 70D Features

• This is the first DSLR camera to have all-new Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology. Two photodiodes are mounted within each pixel, both of which can be read independently to achieve autofocus or together for image capture.
• The AF system for stills has 19 cross-type AF points spread across the frame.
• Effective pixel count is 20.2 megapixels on the APS-C sized CMOS sensor.
• A 14-bit DIGIC 5+ processor is used.
• The 70D captures full res images at up to 7 fps for a continuous burst of up to 65 JPEG or 16 RAW images.
• HDR from three images.
• Creative filters (grainy, soft focus, fish eye effect etc).
• ISO range is 100-12800 (expandable to 25600).
• The 7.7cm LCD touch screen has a 1,040,000 dot resolution.
• With Wi-Fi connectivity, users can connect to the EOS Remote app as well as remotely use Live View mode.
• External mic input.

The camera captures a maximum image size of 5472×3648 pixels or 46x31cm as a print.

Movies can be shot in MPEG4 up to Full HD at 1920×1080 pixels resolution.

Yes, you can shoot stills in the middle of a video recording but the video is briefly interrupted.
A neat feature is video snapshot: each short clip can be set to last two, four or eight seconds; you can add each clip to the tally as you shoot so you end up with a bunch of short videos, neatly edited together. To be honest, I haven’t found a place for the feature in my style of video making … but give it time!