Canon Digital SLR Camera Body [EOS 80D] with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Image Stabilization STM Lens with 24.2 Megapixel (APS-C) CMOS Sensor and Dual Pixel CMOS AF - Black

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I replaced my well worn 70D with a shiny new 80D and, although they look and feel similar, I found the 80D laden with new features and image quality improvements over its predecessor. CONTROLS: Buttons and wheels feel sturdy and may be used while looking through the viewfinder. Exposure modes are set with a topside knurled dial: manual, semi-auto modes and assorted full auto modes. Menus are easier to navigate than the 70D: five icons (reduced from the 70Ds fifteen) and organized by category. If youve owned prior EOS models, the interface will be familiar and you’ll barely need to crack the manual. The VIEWFINDER is a joy to use: bright and clear and, with 100% coverage and .95x magnification, an improvement over Rebels and the 70D. I love the transmissive LCD display (transparent LCD over the focusing screen) as it’s almost like using an EVF: display of icons, AF and metering patterns, grid and plain matte screens and an electronic level. AUTOFOCUS: The 45-point cross type AF array is fast and sure-footed in low light, besting my 70D in most situations. It has the same AF modes as the 70D—single-point AF, zone AF and automatic selection AF—plus a fourth mode, large zone AF. I was surprised how much more “human aware” auto select mode is compared to the 70D. If a human enters the frame, it locks on them like glue. LiveView has a new AF mode: AI Servo. Tap the subject on the touchscreen, half-press the shutter button and it does a great job of tracking the subject across the screen. It’s perfect for low level shooting of moving critters or kids. IMAGES show pleasing detail, color and impressive control of noise. Specifically, there is a significant reduction in shadow noise over the 70D, allowing aggressive lifting of shadows should the need arise. VIDEO: HD video quality is excellent: less moire artifacts, cleaner in low light and smoother and more film-like compared to 70D files. I’m disappointed 4K HD wasn’t included. However, 1080P is fine for YouTube since audiences mainly watch on phone and notebook screens. Movie servo is faster than 70D servo and less prone to “hunting” in low light. Focus-pulls are a snap with the touch screen. Movie servo with face recognition works great, allowing me to both shoot and perform in video clips. WI-FI: Diddle settings, fire shutter, upload images and monitor LiveView and video on an iPhone/iPad, Droid or computer with the Canon Connect app. Wi-Fi eats batteries crazy fast, so carry spares. Video and LiveView are also available via wired USB or HDMI connection and are smoother and less battery draining. The 80D kit ships with the Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Image Stabilization USM Lens (Black) lens. It’s a wonderful optic and I wrote a detailed review on it here . FINAL BURB: The 80D is a nimble and capable camera, and an impressive upgrade over the 70D in terms of AF, resolution and control of shadow noise. The bottom line is the many small improvements add up to an enjoyable experience and excellent images and videos.

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Bought this camera just in time for a cross-country trip, and I absolutely love it. Ive owned a lot of cameras in the past, both slr-digital and slr-film, and while this camera is a bit bigger in my hands than I would like (Im female), its actually very easy to handle as far as the buttons are concerned. I really was wondering if I should buy this one or the smaller version, but this choice has really been perfect. Im still learning all the settings - its been a while since I used a manual/auto SLR, but it worked really nicely during my trip and I love the images it captured! I have a degree in Art/Photography from the late 80s, and Ive been using digital cameras since about 1993 for my professional work, but in the past 10 years Ive been using primarily my cell phone(s) for my images as my work has taken me away from the photography field. While my cell phone has been OK for family events, Ive been looking into something more sophisticated in recent years. I have no regrets whatsoever about the Canon EOS 80. This camera has captured some truly amazing photos for me in the past couple of months, and my only frustration is I didnt buy it earlier.

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I love this camera. It has many wonderful features. I do most of my photo editing on my iPhone. This camera can download its pictures to the iPhone X without any cables or cards. The view finder is excellent as well. Pictures are superb. Its only drawback is the number of features. It is hard to use them all and to know when to use them. I made a wise decision to get this amera. If you are serious about photography then you should look at this one.

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This is my new go-to body after destroying a 7D and finding the 6D Mark II complete rubbish. Seriously, this crop sensor body has more DR than a FF? Canon used the most sub-standard sensor (prob 5D rejects) they could in the 6D MkII..., avoid that POS at all costs. Anyway, this is about the 80D and its a fine camera, not much more than the 70D, but a better processing engine and a few upgrades for those who dont have a 70D. If you have a 70D, this wouldnt be worth the "upgrade" to you, just subtle changes, nothing worth the cost of the "upgrade." If you want a do-it-all crop sensor camera, this is it.

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I spent many weeks reviewing cameras and finally decided on the Canon 80D. I shoot mainly wildlife and have been to Africa twice, using a Nikon D3200. But with another trip booked in September I knew I wanted to step my game up. I finally narrowed down my decision to the 80D and the 7D mark ii and went with the 80D, mainly for the newer features and better image quality. I also purchased the Canon 100-400mm ii lens to round out the perfect safari combination. Then I took my camera and lens to the LA zoo a few days ago and was blown away by the image quality! In one word, amazing!! Check them out for yourself. Both pics are shot at 400mm and look impressively sharp!!

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Buyer beware. If you’re buying this camera make sure you’re getting a new camera. The quality of the unit I got is good but after buying the camera putting a brand new card in, setting it up and taking it on a shoot, I dumped the files on my computer to find my image numbers starting at 600 plus. A quick check of my other cameras finds that with a brand new card installed the numbers start at 001, so I was sold a used unit for full price. Needless to say this was kind of a punch in the gut.

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- BUILD QUALITY - So let’s first take a look at the build quality and design of the Canon 80d. Now Ive been testing the 80d out for a while now and felt comfortable using it pretty much straight away. That’s because the body itself isn’t changed that much from the old 70d, which his the camera I’ve used for 2 years or so. There are a few new things that have changed though. The buttons on the back of the camera are different and feel a lot easier to use. They’re a little bit more pronounced and this is nice. The grip itself is nice. It’s not a very heavy camera like the Canon 5d or 6d, but it’s also got enough weight on it to easily deal with a heavier lens like the Sigma 18-35mm that I also use. On the side of the camera you’ll also notice a new port, the headphone jack which is something I’ll talk about in a bit. But overall the build quality is fantastic, and to me is the sweet spot size for DSLR’s. - MENUS - Now when I first heard about the new Canon 80d, one thing I didn’t expect to change was the menu system. But it has. It’s now a little bit more compact and is using a new tabbed system rather than the old system. It’s taken me a little bit of time to get used to it but it does seem pretty easy. Fortunately it’s not too overloaded with options, especiaslly for beginners, but if you do put it in manual mode you do get a lot more options to play around wiht. - LCD SCREEN - Now one of the best features of the old Canon 70d was it’s touch screen and I’m pleased to say the Canon 80d is just as good. Because the Canon 80d has such fantastic autofocus, having the touch screen really makes things easy, especially if you want to do some nice focus pulls. I use this nearly overtime i make videos and it’s how I do those product focus pulls from time to time. Of course the 80d’s screen is also articulating and it’s something I couldn’t live without now. Being able to switch it around to any angel is great, especially for someone like me who films all my own videos. Its also a pretty big lcd screen, especially compared to a smaller camera like the Sony A6300 and that’s something I like. It’s deinfitely one of the best LCD screens I’ve ever used. - AUTOFOCUS - One thing that I’ve been incredibly impressed with on the new 80d is it’s autofocus performance. And to be fair I was a little bit sceptical at first. That’s because the Canon 70d’s dual pixel autofocus was so good. But Canon have seemed to have been able to make it quicker and a little bit more acurate. Especially using the LCD on the back. Its incredibly snappy autofocus and when you pair it up with one of the dedicated Canon lenses it really is impressive. I’ve even used it with my Sigma lenses, and it’s pretty consistent across the board. -VIDEO - Now the Canon 70d was one of the most popular video cameras over the last 2 years and for good reason. It’s dual pixel autofocus system was by far the best around. But it was lacking a few things. Firstly it could only shoot 60 frames per second in 720p. Now I’m not a huge fan of filming in 60p, but i was impressed with it. If you want to see a test video I made in 60frames per second, click the link here to see. I didn’t really expect the dual pixel autofocus to be any better than the 70d but it is. Which is pretty incredible. Being able to quickly pull focus using the touch screen is great and the face tracking works pretty well. It does have problems every now and then if you are wearing a hat or sunglasses though. To be fair, the Canon 80d is still lagging a little bit behind in terms of resolution. There are a lot of cameras that have 4k now and it would have been nice to see it included, but I didn’t expect it to be fair. Although it is still only 1080p thought the video quality was nice and I’ll definitely be upgrading to the 80d from my 70d for my future videos. - HEADPHONE JACK - One of my favorite new additions to the Canon 80d is a little inclusion on the side here, a headphone jack. This is something so basic that has been missing from a lot of Canon DSLR’s for so long and it’s great to see it in. Being able to really monitor your audio is huge and it’s worth the upgrade in itself. If you’re going to be filming a lot, then the 80d is definitely going to worst the upgrade.

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This camera has come under a lot of criticism for its lack of 4K, and I think that resentment trickled over into a lot of the venom being thrown at it in some online reviews. I know it deterred me from purchasing it right away. But then I saw a glowing review on Chris and Jordan’s YouTube channel (TheCameraStoreTV), so I decided to take the plunge. And I’m so glad I did. This is a seriously amazing camera, and a considerable improvement over its predecessor, the 70D (which I owned). First, the 4K issue. I also own a Samsung NX1, which is more or less the gold standard in hyper-detailed 4K realism. It’s a visually stunning image, and it’s no exaggeration that you can see every single blade of grass in a lawn. But while stunning, it’s not “filmic.” By that, I mean we’re accustomed to a certain “look” and “feel” in movies. Film flickers past at 24 frames per second; and if it’s shot at 30 frames per second (NTSC video rate), it feels “off” – the so-called “video” look. The same goes for detail. The hyper-detail in 4K cameras feels off cinematically. A cinematic image needs to be focused; but if you’re seeing pores on a face (which 4K is more than capable of rendering), then the image is no longer pleasant. The footage from the 80D is pleasant, focused, and cinematic. I also wanted to touch on the ALL-I codec. The immediate default for filmmakers is to shoot “flat,” and turn sharpness completely off. The reasons for this are twofold – to reduce aliasing and moire artifacts; and historically, in-camera sharpness was just ugly. That’s not the case with the 80D’s ALL-I recording codec, which produces an impressive high-bitrate recording (I’ve heard it’s around 100 mbs). Using ALL-I, and with in-camera sharpness at 2, I put the camera through the ringer on everything I could find that produced aliasing and moire in every other camera I’ve owned (a bookshelf of DVD’s, telephone wires, brick walls, etc.), and none of it resulted in aliasing or moire. And the in-camera sharpness looks great! It no longer has the harsh, scrunched up contrast lines; the 80D’s sharpness looks better than anything you could do in post, and still allows for a gentle falloff on highlights and shadows. As for the cameras dual-pixel auto focus, its everything youve read about it and more. It really sets the gold standard for video auto focus. It locks in smoothly, and accurately, without any back-and-forth "hunting." Anyway, that’s my two cents.

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LOVE IT!! FIRST CAMERA AND I LOVE IT. IT MAKES ME SO EXCITED TO SHOOT. Its extremely comfortable to hold its light and makes me so more passionate about shooting and I just love it I cant wait to get home from work to go shoot I cant wait to start doing night time shooting its amazing. This is the picture that I took with it.

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LOVE LOVE LOVE!! I was a little hesitant to go with a crop sensor but I absolutely love it! You just cant beat the face tracking, autofocus, plus photo capabilities! Ive used a variety of lenses as well and had great results. Also came within 2 days with Prime shipping and I strongly recommend getting the Amazon Hard Drive with it!

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