Amateur Photographer - UK (2019-09-13)

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Canon EOS 90D

Michael Topham inspects

Canon’s latest APS-C DSLR off ering

for enthusiast photographers

Ataglance

£1,210 body only

■ 32.5MP APS-C CMOS

sensor

■ ISO 100-51,

(extended)

■ 10fps continuous

shooting

■ 3in, 1040k-dot vari-angle

touchscreen

■ 4K video recording

Viewfinder

Theopticalviewfinder,like

theEOS80D,offers100%

coveragewith0.95x

magnification.

Button

placement

TheQuickmenubuttonhas

movedandtheplayback

buttonis nowbelowthe

four-waycontroller.

Buildquality

Thebodyis constructed

fromaluminiumand

polycarbonateresinwith

glassandconductivefibre.

It’snotweather-sealed.

AFTER accidentally leaking videos

revealing details of the company’s

soon-to-be-released cameras on its Australian

website, Canon has followed up by offi cially

announcing the EOS 90D. Successor to the

Canon EOS 80D that hit the market in early

2016, the new EOS 90D draws attention to

the manufacturer’s strategy of continuing to

strengthen its EOS DSLR line-up whilst at

the same time expanding and developing its

EOS M and EOS R mirrorless ranges.

The headline upgrade is the EOS 90D’s new

32.5-million-pixel CMOS sensor, which teams

up with a Digic 8 image processor to provide

an ISO range of 100-25,600 (expandable to

ISO 51,200). It’s the third double-digit EOS

model to benefi t from Dual Pixel CMOS AF

that enables on-sensor phase detection for

much-improved autofocus in live view and

video mode – you may recall the Canon EOS

70D being the fi rst to introduce this

technology back in 2013. With a healthy 10fps

burst using the viewfi nder (11fps in live view) it

now shoots at the same speed as the

fi ve-year-old EOS 7D Mark II.

The AF system for viewfi nder shooting is

identical to the EOS 80D’s. Out of the 45

cross-type AF points on offer, 27 are f/

compatible, with the centre point being

sensitive down to f/2.8. The working range of

the AF system covers -3EV-18EV. Other new

features include a 220k-pixel RGB+IR

AP reviews editor Michael Topham gets hands-on with the new 32.5MP Canon EOS 90D metering sensor, and when you’d like to exceed