REVIEW CANON EOS 70D

REVIEW CANON EOS 70D  -  Various brands of DSLR camera offers many interesting features that quite easily make anyone drool. Canon is quite spry targeting the hobbyist who wants to start serious about photography with a Canon EOS 70D brings that comes with the latest series of advanced features.

Concept Design As the successor to the EOS 60D, Canon EOS 70D body still has a body design that looks similar. Even the 70D still maintain a flexible 3-inch screen that can be rotated. But the difference, 70D screen can now respond to finger touch users.

By carrying the body is made of polycarbonate material material, solid body still feels relatively light. In addition to the solid feel and comfortable when held, the button placement is also within easy reach. The size of a large button also facilitate the operation of the time you have to act fast shooting.

To set the function, you can directly touch the menu on the screen or using a combination of fixed and rotary button on the navigation side of the screen. Some functions can also be accessed more quickly using the Quick Menu which minimize the need to enter the menu settings.

Feature 
In addition to offering features P / S / A / M, Canon EOS 70D also carry a variety of other such Bulb shooting mode for shooting long exposure, scene modes, or the Intelligent Auto mode and creative auto for wanting to take pictures more easily without the need to take a lot of settings. Creative filter effects are also quite a lot and can be used directly in Live View mode. In fact, there is also a HDR shooting mode that can produce High Dynamic Range photos automatically.

Canon EOS 70D has also been equipped with a WiFi connection to connect to a smartphone or tablet. When tested, the camera can be connected very quickly to the Android smartphone that we have. The process of transfer of any photograph can run fast enough. WiFi connection also allows you to juggle smartphones and tablets into remote to take pictures from a distance. In that mode, all camera settings can be done directly on the smartphone, ranging from determining the focus to set the ISO, aperture and shutter speed of the camera. But unfortunately, we are still experiencing lag when determining the focus and when pressing the shutter button.

Performance 
The increase most noticeably from the Canon EOS 70D than the 60D is on autofocus system carried. Because the EOS 70D is the first Canon DSLR camera with Dual Pixel CMOS AF. From the results of our testing, this technology is able to offer faster autofocus performance in a variety of lighting conditions especially in live view mode.

This gives an extra advantage for you who like to record a video. With Dual Pixels CMOS AF and touch screen, you simply swiping a finger across the screen to focus on a subject. Then the 70D autofocus system will work quickly to follow the movement of your finger to determine the focus accurately. Coverage area of ​​focus is also broad enough to support a 19-point focus has.

For the photograph, 70D very unreliable. Using the kit lens Canon EF18-135mm, 70D is capable of producing sharp photos with accurate color. Performance of the AWB is also very good in uncertain lighting conditions. The performance is at a high ISO setting is also very good with the photos are still minimal noise up to ISO 3200. While in the ISO 6400 and ISO 12800, although the noise began to appear, but the results are still very worthy to be printed. For those who want to record fast action or want to shoot small children, the Canon EOS 70D is obviously very adequate thanks to the support of shooting without stopping to reach 7fps.

Conclusion 
Features offered and the latest autofocus technologies that has made the Canon EOS 70D is the right choice for you who want to start serious about photography or videography. Autofocus is very impressive capabilities supported by the results of the photo is okay in adequate lighting conditions or dim quite comparable with the price tag for the package reaches Rp14.906.000 Kit with 18-135mm lens.

Point plus: (+) Very fast autofocus performance.
(+) Control noise at high ISO very well.
(+) Continuos shoot 7fps.
(+) The touch screen is very responsive.
(+) WiFi.
(+) The images okay.

Disadvantages: 
(-) Battery life is quite wasteful when lit WiFi mode.
(-) WiFi settings menu quite a lot and is somewhat elusive novice user.