I just take photos for pleasure and want to update my camera from a Sony a300 to a Canon 7d. Looking at the Canon range there looks like very little difference between the 7d and 550? apart from the price, with the 7d costing almost twice as much? Is that right? Thanks Ed
Canon 550 v 7d
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The 7D has a number of features that the 550D doesn't have.
It has a different focusing system, faster frame rate, micro adjustment, larger body - That's just off the top of my head!
For those wildlife and sports togs that use the 7D, the first two points are well worth the extra ££'s.
It has a different focusing system, faster frame rate, micro adjustment, larger body - That's just off the top of my head!
For those wildlife and sports togs that use the 7D, the first two points are well worth the extra ££'s.
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Personally I think you're mad, I just wish I had in body IS. Why not get something higher up the Sony range? In fact why get a new camera at all? Wht not get some better lenses? I don't know what lenses you have but there are always better ones 
quite possibly
I do need to make a video though and the 7d has the same HD, and senor.
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If you want video from what I've read Panasonic is king.
See here...
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/
Scrole down for Panasonic articles.
See here...
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/
Scrole down for Panasonic articles.
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Canon if far superior in Video modes, and the quality of the 7D instantly feels much better in your hand than the cheaper 550d.
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Have you tried an SLT-A55?
If you want to go Canon, and want a camera slightly bigger than the 550D, the 60D is also coming down in price nicely
If you want to go Canon, and want a camera slightly bigger than the 550D, the 60D is also coming down in price nicely
For months I was completely torn between the 50D and the 550D. Time after time I would go into the camera shop and compare the two, but kept coming to the conclusion that both had some of the functions I required, but neither had all of them. So in the end I stumped up and went with the 7D.
Things that were important for me that the 7d had, but the 550D didn't were; faster/longer burst rate (I was beginning to shoot more sport), custom modes (from previous cameras I had gotten used to have a couple modes set up for different functions), no rear menu wheel or joystick for fast changes (i.e. shutter speed/aperture size in manual or changing focusing point), and a real biggy for me, the 7d (and 50d) just felt so much better in the hand than the 550d. I know that the modern plastics in the 550d are probably perfectly adequate for the job, but it just felt too light and plastic'y to me when compared to the other two.
With sensors/metering/focusing systems being so good these days, the main difference between cameras (excluding sensor size), is the amount of options a camera will give you and the build quality. In the main most of these options wont improve image quality, but will instead make life easier for you in certain situations, but it does mean that to get the best out of these options you will have to spend to learning and testing them. So it comes down to a trade off between ease of use and flexibility.
Obviously not every thing (or anything) I listed will be important to you, and if the 550d does everything that "you" require, then you will have a really decent camera at a fraction of the price of some other cameras.
Things that were important for me that the 7d had, but the 550D didn't were; faster/longer burst rate (I was beginning to shoot more sport), custom modes (from previous cameras I had gotten used to have a couple modes set up for different functions), no rear menu wheel or joystick for fast changes (i.e. shutter speed/aperture size in manual or changing focusing point), and a real biggy for me, the 7d (and 50d) just felt so much better in the hand than the 550d. I know that the modern plastics in the 550d are probably perfectly adequate for the job, but it just felt too light and plastic'y to me when compared to the other two.
With sensors/metering/focusing systems being so good these days, the main difference between cameras (excluding sensor size), is the amount of options a camera will give you and the build quality. In the main most of these options wont improve image quality, but will instead make life easier for you in certain situations, but it does mean that to get the best out of these options you will have to spend to learning and testing them. So it comes down to a trade off between ease of use and flexibility.
Obviously not every thing (or anything) I listed will be important to you, and if the 550d does everything that "you" require, then you will have a really decent camera at a fraction of the price of some other cameras.
Thank you for all the excellent advice. I am warming back to the idea of 7d, I know it feels better in the hand.., it was really just the price being so dramatically different to the 550 when so many features are identical.