Canon ’s very glad with all the people clamoring to grease one’s palms their cameras for filmmaking despite not needs knowing what parole like “ rolling shutter ” and “ aperture ” mean . Their latest DSLR is perhaps more explicitly gear towards filmmaker than any tv camera it ’s made before .
The Canon EOS 80D follows in the footstep of the very affordable and very excellent 60D and 70D DSLRs . ( And yes , these have mirrors in them — canyon has yet to go all - in on mirrorless gun . ) It ’s a crop - sensor camera , which means it dash less of what is in front of it — it also means it ’s a helluva mountain cheaper than the professional “ full - frame ” models like the Canon 5D series . To be precise , it ’s a 24.2 megapixel APS - C sensor , for those of you keeping count .
The biggest melioration on this camera is the much improved autofocus arrangement . utilize the dual pixel sensor first introduced in the 70D , the 80D manages to squeeze in 45 autofocus points . The 70D , by comparison , has a respectable 19 point of focus .
The photographic camera also adds another decisive contingent that ’s important for filmmaking : a Headphone jackstones , so you could monitor the audio that ’s being recorded by either built - in or international mike .
Overall , this is a self-colored camera , especially if you ’re in the market for a midrange gun with some powerful filmmaking powers . That tell , Canon ’s scarcely reinventing the bicycle here . The 80D is simply a solid melioration on an already solid camera . There ’s no intelligence on Leontyne Price but the 70D launched at $ 1099 and the comparable Nikon D5500 plunge at $ 849 .
While we ’re on the topic of things that are solid but unremarkable , have ’s plough our aid briefly to the Canon G7 x Mark II that ship in May for $ 700 . Wedug the infernal region out ofthe Mark I back in 2014 and , barring some awful and unforeseen issue with its improved face tracking we ’ll belike wish the G7x Mark II too .
Which is why we ’re pleasantly distracted by the accessories Canon denote . Besides a new outfit crystalline lens ( 18 - 135 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM ) , which will be great for the great unwashed who do n’t make love anything about lenses , Canon also announced its own shotgun mic ( DM - E1 ) for $ 249 and Power Zoom Adapter ( PZ - E1 ) for $ 119.99 . Both accessory are slimy for bud wedding photographers , but super budget well-disposed accoutrements a film producer might enjoy .
Those same filmmakers could go drop more money : they could get a proper audio frequency dress up and hire someone to pull focus for them . Or they could spend $ 369 and be “ skillful enough . ” Canon ’s banking on that and there are rumour that this is just the first fusillade in a young war for filmmaker ’ money . Get your billfold quick .
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