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hi I'm Laurie Brennan and this is the canon eos 70d the big update for the 70d is the new 18 megapixel dual pixel CMOS sensor based autofocus system which really is responsive and reasonably accurate combined with its 7 frame per second burst rate quick designed for changing auto focus area settings and a decent viewfinder the 7d d is really quite nice for action shooting it's not pro class but it's not too shabby for a $1200 body in video the touch focus works well for racking it snaps decisively but not unattractively fast from subject to subject the camera has roughly the same body design as the 60d with some important tweaks the mode dial is more streamlined with fewer auto options the articulated LCD has canons very nice touchscreen with its excellent interface and the lock button for the multi controller is better my one complaint is about the multi controller it's smaller than before and even harder to precisely manipulate also the 70d still has only a single SD card slot compared to the dual slots in the Nikon d70 100 it does have a reasonable if not stellar Wi-Fi implementation though the only significant issue with the cameras in the image quality part of that stems from canons default color settings which I've never liked you certainly have the ability to change them to something more natural-looking and less crunchy though JPEGs look fine through ISO 1600 though overall I think the photos are soft without the detail resolution of the d70 100 in Raw's there doesn't seem to be a lot of preserved highlight detail in high contrast shots and I couldn't bring up shadows without introducing more noise than I liked video displays edged artifacts ringing aliasing Moray and crawling edges which has as common get worse as ISO sensitivity Rises it looks a little better than the t5i they're not obviously and most casual users probably won't see a big difference low-light video has a nice tone ality and a reasonable dynamic range but there's still quite a bit of color noise it's unfortunate that the image quality falls short because the rest of the package excellent autofocus system Street shooting design an appropriate feature set for the price that's up to a camera I really like I'm Laurie grinning and this is the cannon