This Canon 7Dis ready to shoot with a Sandisk Compact Flash card. It comes with an original Canon battery and charger. Canon EOS 7D Features The 7D offers the ambitious photographer a host of operating features in a non-intimidatory package. The CMOS sensor has 18.0 megapixels and can capture a maximum image of 5184×3456 pixels; in print-speak, sufficient to make a 44x29cm print at 300 dpi. The sensor’s dimensions are 22.3×14.9mm so the 18-135mm lens would measure up, in 35 SLR terms, as having a focal length range of 28.8-216mm, using a factor of 1.6x. Still image file formats are 14-bit RAW, JPEG and of course simultaneous RAW+JPEG. Full High Def video at 1920×1080 res is recorded in MPEG4 at 25fps or, at 1280×720 res, 50fps. The ISO runs to 6400 with an expansion notch up to ISO 12,800! Couple this with a shutter speed range of Bulb, 30 seconds to 1/8000 second; X-sync for flash is 1/250 second. Canon EOS 7D ISO 100 f8 1-30.jpg ISO 100 f8 1/30 second. Top quality. Continuous shooting can be done at up to 8 shots per second. If you’re shooting JPEGs this means you can fire off a burst of 94 shots at the top quality; up to 15 RAW shots in a burst; and six RAW-JPEGs … all written to a CF card. The EOS 7D carries a pop-up flash, useful for unexpected situations and not only the province of the happy snapper! At ISO 100 the flash has a Guide Number of 12 in metres. Canon EOS 7D Portrait 4.jpg You can enjoy Live View on the rear, smudge-resistant 7.6cm LCD screen or view via the optical turret viewfinder; unfortunately, the LCD screen is fixed and neither swings out nor rotates. The new Live Face Detection AF mode identifies and captures faces in frame and focuses on them automatically. Other, intuitive features like Auto Lighting Optimiser and Peripheral Illumination help exposure. When you power up or down, the system auto cleans the sensor by shaking dust off its surface. You can also trigger this cleaning action at any time — or disable it. Should you face the more serious problem of dust adhering to the sensor surface you can attach a tag to images (Dust Delete Data) and ‘erase’ the dust spots later with the supplied Digital Photo Professional software. This is only a stop gap until you can tow the camera into Canon’s service centre to have the dust removed. Handling With the 18-135mm lens attached, the camera weighs 1.5kg — so it is a substantial piece of gear. With a strap over the neck to take the weight it feels good in the hands and if you’re a reasonably competent photographer you won’t find the array of controls intimidating.