Canon 7D MkII questions

[Henry Gentles]

I bought a 7D MkII for Birds and Wildlife Stills but was wondering if anyone is using the mk2 for Video / Film and if it's any good for that? Anyone have the low down? Films shot on Canon and Nikon Cameras on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059550382/

[mkabi]

They should add Mad Max: Fury Road to that list.

Anyway, are you any good at birding and wildlife?

How about general photography?

In my opinion, a lot of the philosophies of photography are easily transferable to video.

To answer your question, it's a good camera for film/video... But what you film, how you film and edit all comes to play in the overall scheme of things. 

The low down, it suffices for what most people would consider as good video aka 1080p. It gives you decent AF in video. It has some slow motion 1080/60p... You can get that through HDMI output too.

I don't know what else to say. Any specific questions?

[Zach Ashcraft]

Yes its plenty good for that, nice usable image and AF is really helpful in that situation. I've filmed deer at nature preserves with mine and loved the footage 

[TheRenaissanceMan]

It's good, not exceptional. The Dual Pixel AF is pretty nice, although you're hamstrung by the lack of touchscreen AF. Solid 1080p, but no 4K. 

[BenEricson]

I was pretty blown away by the auto focus when I used it.