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In Our Canon EOS R7 Review Update, Read Our Important Thoughts

Chris Gampat
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01/11/2023
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Our Canon EOS R7 review has received an update with firmware 1.2 being released. This is overall a very minor firmware update. In fact, that’s really all that I’ve seen Canon issue to this camera. For the most part, it seems to be almost the same thing. Unfortunately, that’s very annoying. The Canon EOS R7 should really get the Canon EOS R6 Mk II’s faster selection for scene recognition. But as it is, I haven’t seen that come to the camera.

Sadly, I don’t think that the Canon EOS R7 will get very many updates if any at all. Canon has never really cared very much about them beyond perhaps one big update per camera. And I truly never saw that come to anything that’s not full-frame. Canon would probably say something like “It’s a differentiating factor.” But if you give it enough time, Sony will catch up and outdo them. Then Canon might honestly be forced to react. However, they might react with a completely different camera instead.

To be frank though, it’s arguably one of the best APS-C cameras on the market right now; if not the best one!

Such, unfortunately, is how consumerism works. With that said, I’ve been having lots of fun using the Canon EOS R7 capturing and photographing birds. Red-Bellied Woodpeckers come to my bird feeders these days and Canon does a fantastic job at finding and capturing them. However, it’s not always fantastic at keeping the focus locked on them.

Below is the text from our update to the Canon EOS R7 review. You can see it in its full display right here at this link. Want one? Check them out on Amazon.

Update December 2022

According to Canon, Firmware 1.2 adds the following:

Firmware Version 1.2.0 incorporates the following fixes and enhancements:

  1. The [User Def.] on [Picture Style] can now be selected in the Cloud Raw image processing settings.
  2. Fixes an issue that, in rare instances, displays an Error Code 70 when the camera is capturing small subjects.
  3. Fixes minor issues.

Firmware Version 1.2.0 is for cameras with firmware up to Version 1.1.0. If the camera’s firmware is already Version 1.2.0, it is not necessary to update the firmware.

We haven’t really used or found a major use for Canon’s RAW image processing in the cloud. But we acknowledge that it’s probably a very useful tool. However, we also think that Adobe and Capture One do a great job at doing the exact same thing. And for most photographers, we’re not sure that they’d stray away from their current workflow.

We also haven’t experienced the error code 70 either.

What I’m noticing, however, is that the autofocus of finding and focusing on birds has become faster for sure. But otherwise, nothing really else seems to have changed at all.

With the Canon EOS R6 Mk II, a photographer can have quicker access to things like selecting with scene recognition setting they want. And overall, I still haven’t seen or been able to figure that out on the Canon EOS R7. That’s to say that I know how to do it, but doing it faster is still not possible — at least not as fast as the Canon EOS R6 Mk II. I truly wish that Canon brought that to the Canon EOS R7 because it’s the perfect camera for just that need.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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