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See that's one of my points.
First and foremost was that the 7D AF is hardly crippled. There's been tons of discussion ad naseum and the vote seems damn close to 50/50 that it's on par with 1d3 and better than 1D2n. While I still think the 7D isn't 1 series, I can certainly see that it's not crippled either.
As for the Nikon d300 being "professional" in its AF...I outshot the D300 consistantly with my 7D, at the same type of events, and each of us using the equiv. major party lenses (Canon/Nikon). whether or not that's my experience vs the other person's, or the camera is up in the air (it did turn out that *not bragging, please don't think that*, that I continually delivered better results than the D300 guy. Could've been a lot of things, lenses, cameras, problems, technique).
Now, secondly, I will not defend Canon. What they did worked, but now they are in a pickle, because Nikon basically went all Honey Badger on Canon, and said, lookie at what I can do.
I swear to you, even though Canon has the better 24-70 and 70-200 (well the 24-70 is up in the air as it's not out yet...), if the D800 was 8FPS with an incredible buffer(even with it's 600 dollar grip), I'd probably buy 2 of them. For what I shoot, 8-10 is what I need. (this is of course if Canon doesn't offer something up).
j99, don't think I'm trying to beat you down or anything, trust me, I want just as badly as anyone, a FEATURE PACKED camera that says to the competition...hey, guess what I just did...yeah...how do you like that. I want Canon to go, hey Nikon done went and bonered us, so we're going to drop the 1DIV X dollars, and the 1DX X dollars as well. Not only that, we're going to release a 5D3, a 3D5, and Rebel against Nikon 3ft or whatever they want to call it, that's same price point or lower, has equal or better features, and you know what, we're going to deliver more to the consumer, that way Nikon can't give us shit anymore.
As it stands now though, I don't know what's going to happen. The new 24-70 is very welcome, but I, like you, want a body that's going to be excellent. I want an AF system (whether it's a refined 7D system (because even though I disagree with you about it being crippled, it would be a shame to see an old, unrefined AF system in a new camera) that nails the shot with high consistancy, and a price that makes it competitive.
I think LARGELY one of the reasons why the 5D2 sold so well was the video crowd.
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