The Canon 7D sits at the top of Canon's range of dSLRs with crop sensors. It has a very solid build, with a magnesium alloy body and a nice rubber grip on top. It feels very solid, but not as chunky as the D300s. Canon nails ergonomics on its head *the 7D has a near perfect control layou t and ergonomics. Whether it is selecting focus points, or changing some setting, the 7D is very intuitive to use. The but*tons are well spaced and large, and while they have a bit extra travel.

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At ISO 800, there is a fair bit of noise present in dim condi*tions, but our test scene with its bright lighting looks clean and largely noise free but textures look softer. The D7000 in com*parison is a little more detailed. At ISO 1600, the 7D still manages a clean au tput, but wi th textures and details losing their liveliness. However, for small to medium sized prints, the output is accept*able. At ISO 3200, the 7D starts to lose a bit of dynamic range, and noise now becomes clearly visible. However, in com*parison, the 60D with the same sensor shows a bit more chroma noise, and had some anomalous
bright pixels whereas the 7D is free from this. ISO 6400 isn't the cleanest around, but for a crop sensor it does pretty well. The D7000 preserves more detail, while showing about a similar amount of noise, and is thus better than the 7D at ISO 3200 and more so at ISO 6400..