Also, video image quality appears more like the 5D Mark II and 6D in terms of moiré and aliasing.

For one, there's no headphone jack for monitoring audio, which many professionals and video enthusiasts need. Of course there are always trade-offs, and there are few small details that might deter some users from the 70D. There's also a 3.5mm microphone jack for external mics, as well as manual audio level adjustments with a wind filter and attenuator. Like the 60D, there's Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution video at 30p and 24p (for NTSC, 25p in PAL mode), plus 720p HD video at 60p (50p PAL). Other video specs of the 70D are fairly standard fare for Canon DSLRs. And this whole package is built upon a game-changing AF system that will not only provide major competition to other MILCs and HD-DSLRs, but some segments of the camcorder market as well. With the 70D, Canon is blending features of their higher-end DSLRs, such as offering both ALL-I and IPB formats and time code (though not SMTPE) from the 6D and 5D Mark III, with the articulated LCD of the 60D (adding a capacitive touchscreen in the process), all at a very reasonable price point. The GH2 and GH3 made big leaps in the HD-DSLR/MILC video space with lots of video-centric features like higher bitrates, an articulated LCD screen, as well as full-time AF for video. Phase-detect AF, the same AF technology DSLRs use for shooting with the optical viewfinder, provides much faster and smoother autofocus for DSLR video shooting.Ĭanon is putting interchangeable lens video/still cameras like the Panasonic GH3 squarely in its sights. With the 70D, Canon has introduced its all-new Dual Pixel CMOS AF, replacing the Hybrid AF systems found in the aforementioned models with one that splits each individual pixel on the imager into its own phase-detect AF sensor, with no need to fine-tune via contrast detection.

Several more recent Canon DSLRs such as the T4i, T5i and SL1 feature full-time continuous AF for video recording, but they still rely heavily on slower and sometimes-jerky contrast-detect autofocus to fine-tune focus. When Canon introduced the 5D Mark II, it stunned crowds with its video quality and price, but it lacked a big mass-market feature: autofocus during video recording. The EOS 70D is Canon's latest entry in the HD-DSLR market, and the company is aiming to make a big splash with it, thanks to its brand new Dual Pixel CMOS AF focusing system.

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