Canon EOS 70D Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm STM Lens with Seagate 1TB Hard Drive and 1-Year Amazon Drive

This was one of the best cameras I ever used. However after almost a year and half of using it, the PCB board went out. I thought I would get a little bit longer use of the camera, but as I did further research, found that it is a fault in canon itself. HOWEVER that is NOT the sellers fault. Just be warned, it may happen to you with your 70D! My camera froze up while taking a picture and wouldnt turn off unless I took the battery out. Now its completely dead- other than when I use a sigma lens and turn the camera on, you can hear the lens trying to focus but it continues to do so even when the camera gets turned off. You guys might as well buy the Canon Rebel T6i, T7i, or 80D to avoid spending $400+ on a pcb replacement thats more than likely going to go out again.

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I have a love hate relationship with this camera. Ive been shooting with it for about 5 months now and it has the ability to take amazing photographs. Previously I had been shooting with a lower end Rebel that my brother gave me, and I upgraded to this because the Rebel was limiting me creatively and technically. Specifically, I wanted more auto focus points to allow me to compose the images in ways which the Rebels 9 point focus system wouldnt allow. I mainly use a 50mm 1.8 II, the 70-200 2.8 L , and a 100mm Macro 2.8 L IS. Sometimes the 85mm 1.8 USM. The biggest downfall of this camera, in my experience, is that it has a severe consistency issue with its auto focus. I take photos which, based upon the lighting conditions and the settings, should produce sharp photos. Sometimes they are absolutely tack sharp and amazing. And the other half of the time it is (usually) front focusing. If it was consistent one way or another I could make micro adjustments, but since it is so inconsistent, if I micro adjust it will just have the same problem on the other half of the photos. It happens wide open and even on higher apertures, and It makes me very frustrated!! It ends up wasting my time due to the volume of photos I have to take and sort through to pick out the usable images. If I were able to go back in time I would have just spent the extra money and went for the 5D Mark III, which is what I wish I had right now. I love the layout, the build and build quality, and all the functionality of the 70 D except for this auto focus consistency issue. It make me miss the perfect facial expressions that flicker just once and are just enough out of focus when I pull it up in lightroom to render the photo useless. I end up having to take many more photos than I normally would just so I can be sure I have some in focus for my clients. At first I chalked it up to my inexperience as a semi-pro photographer, but Im confident now, as others have had this same issue, that it is a problem with the system, not me. Perhaps its only some of the camera bodies and I was one of the unlucky ones, but its very frustrating. I will attach some photos that show my love of this camera though, because when it nails it, it really nails it! It can produce some amazing, simply stunning photos. (most of these were taken with my 50mm 1.8 II STM)

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