We have had the opportunity to get our hands on the elusive Canon 7D!!

Our local Canon Store had one on back order for a customer and when it arrived the customer didn’t want it. What were they thinking??

We went to pick up within a couple hours of them calling and saying they had one unclaimed.

We love it!

We spent the weekend back in West Virginia, taking lots and lots of pictures, and very quickly got accustomed to using the new camera.

We found NOTHING that we didn’t love about it.   It blows our XSi off the map.

I am going to tell you the two very minor issues we had FIRST, and then tell you the unlimited reasons why the 7D is worth it’s weight in gold.

SO, the two tiny tiny issues:

• The 7D takes compact flash cards instead of SD cards.  We had to invest in $90 worth of compact flash cards.  No biggie, in the long run.     We got two 8gb cards, which will hold about 300 RAW files. I KNOW the files are HUGE!  That’s what 18 MP will give you!
• When we uploaded our first batch to the computer we couldn’t view the files.  After a very brief panic, I realized that Adobe had a Camera RAW update available, I downloaded it and all was right in the world.  (You won’t have this problem if you shoot JPEGs)

That’s it. Those were the only issues we had with the 7D.

So that I don’t bore you with a list 5 miles long of things I love about it.  I would just like to say the camera is awesome and the picture quality, especially color, is AMAZING.

To prove it, I will be posting pictures here and on smugmug ASAP!

Please let me know if you have any questions about the 7D. Or about the 7D versus the XSi.

PS- To negate the one negative comment that I continue seeing about the 7D:

It is heavy, heavier than the XSi, and to me, to us, that’s great!

The extra weight makes it feel better in your hands.  It is not too heavy.