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The Canon EOS 7D has an 18-megapixel 22.3 x 14.9 mm APC-S CMOS sensor with a 1.6x central length, and can shoot 8fps stills or up to 1080p HD (at 24, 25 or 30 fps) or 720p HD (50 or 59.94 fps) video. ISO ranges from 100 to 6,400, with an “H” stage set offering 12,800, and there’s a new 19-point autofocus system that allows you to name broader AF zones (as opposed to a single point) together with non-payment focus settings for landscape and portrait orientations. Interior there are two of Canon’s DIGIC 4 processors.

Around the back there’s a 3-inch, 920k pixel LCD set forth along with Canon’s first viewfinder with 100-percent field of behold and 1x magnification. There are more hardware controls, too, including a useful dedicated JPEG/RAW button (that captures the next essay taken in both formats), while the EOS 5D’s row of under-LCD controls have been moved to the left-custody edge, and the whole thing is weatherproof (though not to be confused with weather-shedding). At 148 x 111 x 74 mm and 860g it’s heavy-handedly the same size as the Nikon D300, though slightly heavier, and feels well constructed and robust.

Source: SlashGear

by Canon USA, Inc.

LAKE Triumph, N.Y., December 16, 2009 – The stakes have been raised for turbulent-property HD video coverage at racetracks nationwide. At New Mexico’s Sunland Greensward Racetrack & Casino, simulcasting horse races to 800 locations around the in seventh heaven relies on the DTV-rapid figurativeness of Canon BU-45H remote-power robotic pan-pitch-zoom HD camera systems, from Canon U.S.A., Inc., a number one in digital imaging.

Already unceremonious with the dependability of Canon robotic cameras from theretofore installed SD units, Sunland didn’t stumble to add the alfresco-immediate Canon BU-45H camera into their HD output furnishings enhance. The racetrack installed the BU-45H in their paddock where horses and jockeys are viewed by fans very recently until to the line. The remote camera captures the sound paddock awarding as the jockey mounts the horse to give viewers a termination look at each horse satisfactorily before the animals contend. Old to installing their Canon BU-45H, Sunland had needed a manned camera and tripod middle the paddock. With the introduction of the robotic BU-45H clandestine that territory, Sunland was talented to accredit direct of the camera to an manipulator in their check abide, allowing pinnacle use of their existing lenient and polytechnic resources.

“The Canon BU-45H camera has been a tremendous increment to our toolbox,” said John Nichols, video boss of Sunland Garden Racetrack & Casino. “The video from this camera is conspicuous. We have a set finger that we can counsel remotely from our authority extent, and we can whisk our capacity current for a compelling process instantly preceding to each foot-race.”

A MediaZoom PT controller was already in appropriate to supervise their two older Canon NU-700 SD cameras in use elsewhere in the system. This enabled Sunland to merely relate their BU-45H to the controller and go to toil.

“The MediaZoom controller has capabilities for up to four cameras, so we were masterly to shortly assemble the BU-45H into the system and cede to our suppress accommodation superintendent to pull off PTZ functions for an additional entity,” Nichols notorious. “The Canon BU-45H is about a put up-mile from our curb extent. We laid down CAT5 cablegram to tack it, and then converted that to RS485 to broaden the run. It worked conservative out of the box. The PTZ acting of the camera is very solution and uncluttered; we have a show look panning from horse to horse.”

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