Is it my imagination or are the EOS crop sensors bodies price dropping like a stone?

[Busted Knuckles]

Effective 1,150 for a 7d if you sell the kit lens for $100.

If you have no life and remember my posts, the T3i is a "starter" body and I intend to go to the 5d3 in late summer. Hopefully after the flock version 1.2 fixes roll through.

A 7d for $1,200 oof sell the T3i for $400 ish? net $800 that is quite tempting.

The 7d would become the "sportsy" body w/ the reach and the FPS for "good" IQ. The 5d3 becomes the event/landscape body. hmmmmm

[nvitalephotography]

I agree, the 7d seems to be cheaper everytime I look. It gets more and more tempting to trade in my 50d for one all the time.

[HDNitehawk]

Maybe Canon is clearing the supply chain to make way for the 7D II

[shutterdown]

Maybe Canon is clearing the supply chain to make way for the 7D II

Works for me! Do you know something, or heard anything about that possibility?

[Photog82]

Maybe Canon is clearing the supply chain to make way for the 7D II

I just bought the 7D 2 months ago too... I'd consider the 7D II if I could get a lot of my money back from selling my 7D.

[jrw]

Would it be entirely unreasonable of me to expect that the 1Dx will hit the shelves before yet another camera body is announced and released prior to seeing the flagship actually in stores? I didn't miss a Canon news release apologizing for a 1dx prank gone too far have I?

[HDNitehawk]

Well, I correctly predicted that the 5D III would be released in the future. I made that prediction several years ago.

I would make the same prediction now, there will be a 7D II released someday.

[Dr Croubie]

I would make the same prediction now, there will be a 7D II released someday.

Over at CR there's a lot of talk that there won't even be a 7D2, that the 70D will merge the 7D and 60D back together.
(I don't believe it, I think there'll be a 7D2 one day, but I won't buy one, my 7D1 is good enough)

[ChadS]

Give me the AF system of the 5DIII and the 1D-X with the current FPS (8?) on an 18 MP APS-C sensor and I'd consider that a proper 7D II. And that wouldn't even require much in the way of engineering (cropping of the AF points to match the sensor not withstanding).

[HDNitehawk]

Dr, you can't believe anything you read on CR.

Here is what my sources are telling me;

The 7D II when released will have a full frame sensor as a pro-summer model. The reason cameras had the crop sensor all along is because of the slow processing power of processors, and the amount of data required to get a reasonable pixel count. With the new faster processors and technology, crop sensors are just not required now to get the performance and IQ that the camera companies were looking for. The 7D II will have a full frame sensor, and in the future the full frame sensor will trickle down to the consumer models.

Remember you heard it hear first, now someone will pick this information and put it on CR and the whole world will know the truth.