Tech review: 1D vs 7D

Canon 1D

Michael Rymer opted to shoot Face to Face on the Canon 1D. Encore managing editor Brooke Hemphill took both the 1D and 7D on a shoot out, where did her vote land? Read on.

Readers of past product reviews will recall my love for the Canon 5D which has only somewhat diminished in recent months after a three-day shoot in the snow singlehandedly playing camera and sound girl with the aforementioned camera. The whole process of lugging separate audio equipment tends to become tiresome especially with all those battery changes and memory cards to keep track of. But there are many other Canon DSLR cameras out there and I’ve now had the pleasure of playing with both the 7D and the 1D. Since everyone on the interwebs is doing it, I thought I’d do a little comparison review for you.

Obviously they are both digital SLR cameras and, as Canon continues to stress, were never specifically designed for video. I think that means us video types aren’t entitled to complain about features like sound and stuff so I’ll bypass all that jazz and talk about what the cameras can do.