Canon EOS 70D Digital SLR Camera, Review

This is a quality camera for the advanced user. While it has many automatic modes to choose from, that work under a variety of lighting conditions, I prefer to use one of the manual modes for the ultimate photo. With lighting not always ideal I prefer setting a fixed Shutter, Aperture, with auto to manual ISO. I have two lenses which take care of every situation for me. Canon 24x70mm 2.8 & 70x200mm 2.8 lenses. My 70d simply takes amazing professional quality photos but if I wanted better I would try the 80d, 7d Mk II, or wait for the next 5d Mark IV. NOTE: when they come out with a model like the 7d Mark II features with a 28 or higher Megapixel, then you will see higher quality photos. I have been shooting with the 7d for 2 years now and it has been a great camera. I mainly shoot family, action, safari park in escondido, ca, and sports. Also enjoy night shots on the tripod. Yes... a great choice

I used the 70D primarily for shooting film. And I am in love with this gear. My main glass is the Sigma 18-35mm and this is truly a match made in heaven! I've done some stills and have been equally impressed. There really is no need to get another piece of gear unless it has 4K capability!

The EOS 70D directly replaces the EOS 60D in Canon's range, and is very similar in terms of size and design. It's a bit smaller though, and has a sensibly-updated control layout. Here we take a more-detailed look at the two cameras side-by-side.

Performance

With the exception of focusing speed in dim light, the Canon 70D delivers excellent performance. It powers on, focuses, and shoots in about 0.4 second, not quite Nikon fast, but generally fast enough and better than many Canons. Time to focus, expose, and shoot in good light runs a zippy 0.2 second and in dim light a modest 0.8 second. Two sequential JPEG or raw shots also run about 0.2 second, rising to only half a second with flash enabled. In Live View mode, that rises to 1.5 seconds.

Continuous shooting operates really fast for this class, with a sufficiently deep buffer to make the speed useful. JPEG runs past 30 shots at a rate of 7.1fps; raw shooting slowed down to about 2.5fps after about 17 shots during testing, but in field testing I sustained reasonably fast 9-shot bursts of raw+JPEG with Servo AI focus. That's pretty good for a prosumer model. (Using a 95MBps SanDisk Extreme Pro SD card.)

The photos are so clear and the speed awesome. Photography is my hobby and canon is so easy to work. I have used canon for several years and love it.

20.2 MP APS-C CMOS sensor and DIGIC 5+

19 point cross-type AF System

Up to 7 fps shooting

ISO 100-12800, expandable to 25600

Dual Pixel CMOS AF for fast focus in live view and video

3" articulating touch panel LCD screen with 1,040,000 dots

Built-in flash with integrated speedlite transmitter and hot shoe

Intelligent viewfinder with electronic overlay

1080 (30, 25, 24 fps) and 720 (60, 50 fps) HD video (H.264/MPEG-4/MOV)

Instant sharing and remote control with built-in Wi-Fi and EOS Remote app

GPS compatible (sold separately)

Full manual mode in video

Built-in stereo or external microphone terminal

SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card