{"id":840,"date":"2014-08-07T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2014-09-15T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T15:34:19","slug":"the-next-big-thing-the-buzz-around-new-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/the-next-big-thing-the-buzz-around-new-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Big Thing &#8211; The &#8220;Buzz&#8221; Around New Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding possible upcoming cameras, the rumor mill regarding Canon cameras is ridiculous. Back in 2007, the rumors were circulating about the upcoming EOS 5D mark-II, which was not actually available until 2009.\u00a0 Sometimes, I wonder if the manufacture is secretly feeding the anticipation buzz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/eos_x2_back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-841\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/eos_x2_back-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/eos_x2_back-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/eos_x2_back.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am patiently awaiting the EOS 7D mark-II, a revision of the 7D.\u00a0 Over the past 12 to 18 months, rumors have been cropping up every month and the predictions just keep slipping further out, month by month.\u00a0 The latest rumor suggests the camera will be announced the Photokina show in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why 7Dm2?\u00a0 Because it promises a few features that would be useful to me.\u00a0 First, faster auto-focus and high-speed shooting for sports (maybe 10 frames\/second), similar or better than the existing 7D model. Second, auto-focus for video similar to the 70D, which was released several months ago.<br \/>\nThese features are not curiosities that I simply &#8220;want&#8221;; these are limitations in my current DSLR, which I seriously need to remedy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planet5d.com\/2014\/08\/what-would-be-a-big-splash-by-canon-at-photokina-next-month\/\">Canon to make Big Splash in September<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the camera is announced in September, there is only a very small chance that it would actually be available to purchase by end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding possible upcoming cameras, the rumor mill regarding Canon cameras is ridiculous. Back in 2007, the rumors were circulating about the upcoming EOS 5D mark-II, which was not actually available until 2009.\u00a0 Sometimes, I wonder if the manufacture is secretly feeding the anticipation buzz. I am patiently awaiting the EOS 7D mark-II, a revision of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[121,120,119],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","category-equipment","tag-7d-mk-ii","tag-canon","tag-canon-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}