Canon EOS 70D Digital SLR Camera with 18-135mm STM Lens

I just absolutely love this - I have been able to learn so much, and have a great time with it. Couple of things that I have had to get over it: a. the speed for fast moving objects - 7.5 fps is not enough b. the writing speed of the SD card - The Extream-Pro UHS-I helped - it doesnt support UHS-II c. the multi-point focus / autofocus can be hard to use and can make you miss fast action shots, or low lighting shots d. not being a 1 for 1 from what you see on the viewfinder to what the actual picture - you have to compensate the stock lens is good enough - but if you really want to unleash its fullest potential investing in a better lens is paramount

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Ive upgraded from a t1i, so I am VERY happy with this camera. Its a great camera, but enough people have brought up its strong points, so here are some things I am disappointed with that I havent seen in the reviews. In Camera HDR will only work if youre shooting in JPEG! And it wont save the individual shots, only the final blended image. I never planned on using the In Camera HDR image as a final image to begin with, but I thought it would be awesome to take HDR photos, then see a little preview of the result before going back home to edit. But it is still a neat little feature. Ill just have to take more steps while shooting to utilize it. Switch to JPEG, shoot the In Camera HDR, enjoy the preview, then go back to RAW and shoot for the real HDR photo. I hope they have a firmware upgrade that allows HDR to be shot in RAW, and for the individual exposures to be saved as well. The same is true for multiple exposures. It wont save the individual images; only the final result. Thats what you would get from film, but digital shouldnt be held to that same limitation. At least this one can be saved in RAW format. Those were two features I was really looking forward to having fun with, but I guess Ill stick to the old ways of taking them individually and throwing them into Photoshop. Its not a deal breaker by any means. And their creative filters suck compared to my girlfriends Nikons creative filters.. Again, these are not features I was going to take seriously, but I like to have fun with my photos until I get home to get serious (well, I like to have fun in Photoshop there too). I do LOVE having the ability to process RAW images to JPEG in camera! It saves on space not to have to shoot all images in RAW+JPEG to get my cameras settings to stick to the images (since Adobe strips those (customized) color profile settings away when editing the RAW files (even their "camera standard" , etc., is not how my camera standard, etc., is set up in camera)). Oh, one MAJOR flaw with this camera is that there isnt a sensor by the view finder to turn the screen off when looking through it! The work around to this is to half press the shutter to get it turned off. Or keep the screen off and only turned on when Quick Menu is pressed, but I like having it stay on so I can constantly easily access it. And to be clear, that awesome AF feature only works when Live View is turned on, not when youre looking through the view finder. Through the view finder is just as its always been. Aside from those minor issues, this is an amazing camera. Very well under low light, so much less noise at higher ISOs than my old t1i. Great tonal range, and beautiful color range. I love the little leveler in the viewfinder. Being able to access my images from the cameras wifi onto my phone is awesome (though its just a JPEG format, and my phone can handle RAW (at least, thats what some of these apps have claimed that I havent tested out yet)). Still, better quality than what my phone produces ;p. Love that it has a mic input, a lacking feature in my t1i that made it useless, though not impossible, for serious video work. Oh, and there is a night mode that takes multiple shots and aligns them together additively to reduce motion blur from one long shutter realease! Havent tested this one out yet, hope it saves in RAW! If not, at least reading about that feature taught me a new technique for night shots that I can achieve in Photoshop.

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