[UPDATE SEPT 1: THE 7D IS OUT. HEAD OVER HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LIVE DISCUSSION OF THE EOS 7D]
There is a scheduled press conference by Canon tomorrow. Where? I don’t know. It doesn’t matter.
What does matter is the thing that Canon going to announce. Everyone is talking about a Canon EOS 7D and some lenses but up until now there is still a guessing game on whether the 7D is a FF or APS-C camera.
Going by Canon’s naming convention, it looks like the 7D is going to be a FF camera — think 5D and 5D Mark II.
If it is a full frame camera, would it be sold around the same price as Sony’s A850, at US$2,000 body only?
Or if it is not, is the price going to be about US$1,300, around the same price as the Pentax K-7? Because if it is, that will surely hurt Canon fans like me who bought the K-7 because no other cameras come close to offering what the K-7 has to offer at that price range.
But I doubt the 7D’s price will go down to the K-7′s level. The 7D is afterall, according to rumours, an 18-megapixel camera and a rapid fire shooter at 8fps, with HD movie. If that being the case, I can sleep in peace as there won’t be any left hook landing on my jaw from the 7D in terms of pricing.
