The Canon 7D has finally been released! I remem­ber read­ing rumours of this afford­able body long before the Canon 5D Mark II was even released so it’s about time..

From dpre­view:

As antic­i­pated Canon has today announced the EOS 7D dig­i­tal SLR. It boasts a new 18MP CMOS sen­sor, Dual DIGIC 4 proces­sors, ISO range expand­able to 12800, con­tin­u­ous shoot­ing at 8 fps and full HD video record­ing. It also incor­po­rates a new viewfinder with 1.0x mag­ni­fi­ca­tion and 100% cov­er­age and a 3 inch LCD with 920k dot resolution.

The EOS 7D is also the first EOS to intro­duce a Dual-Axis Elec­tronic Level – in the viewfinder and on the LCD — that indi­cates both pitch and roll angles. This fea­ture is par­tic­u­larly use­ful when shoot­ing land­scapes to ensure a level hori­zon, or when used in con­junc­tion with a Tilt and Shift lens to level the camera.”

I’ve fol­lowed this release with inter­est as it was some­thing I would’ve con­sid­ered if released more closer to the 5D mark II. By the looks of it a very nice release and puts Canon back on the play­ing field a bit more with a com­pet­i­tive Nikon.

What are your thoughts on the release? Will you be buying?