EOS 70D

Manufacturer specifications

Type

Digital, single-lens reflex, AF/AE camera with built-in flash

Recording media

SD memory card, SDHC memory card*, SDXC memory card* * UHS-I cards compatible.

Image sensor size

Approx. 22.5 x 15.0 mm

Compatible lenses

Canon EF lenses (including EF-S lenses) * Excluding EF-M lenses (35mm-equivalent focal length is approx. 1.6 times the lens focal length)

Lens mount

Canon EF mount

Type

CMOS sensor

Effective pixels

Approx. 20.20 megapixels

Aspect Ratio

3:2

Dust delete feature

Auto, Manual, Dust Delete Data appending

Recording format

Design rule for Camera File System (DCF) 2.0

Image type

JPEG, RAW (14-bit Canon original), RAW+JPEG simultaneous recording possible

M (Medium)

Approx. 8.90 megapixels (3648 x 2432)

S1 (Small 1)

Approx. 5.0 megapixels (2736 x 1824)

S2 (Small 2)

Approx. 2.50 megapixels (1920 x 1280)

S3 (Small 3)

Approx. 350,000 pixels (720 x 480)

RAW

Approx. 20.0 megapixels (5472 x 3648)

M-RAW

Approx. 11.0 megapixels (4104 x 2736)

S-RAW

Approx. 5.0 megapixels (2736 x 1824)

Create/select a folder

Possible

File numbering

Continuous, Auto reset, Manual reset

Picture Style

Auto, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful, Monochrome, User Def. 1 – 3

White balance

Auto, Preset (Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten light, White fluorescent light, Flash), Custom, Color temperature setting (approx. 2500-10000 K), White balance correction, and White balance bracketing possible * Flash color temperature information transmission enabled

Noise reduction

Applicable to long exposures and high ISO speed shots

Automatic imagebrightness correction

Auto Lighting Optimizer

Highlight tone priority

Provided

Lens aberration correction

Peripheral illumination correction, Chromatic aberration correction

Type

Eye-level pentaprism

Coverage

Vertical/Horizontal approx. 98% (with Eye point approx. 22 mm)

Magnification

Approx. 0.95x (-1 m–1 with 50 mm lens at infinity)

Eye point

Approx. 22 mm (from eyepiece lens center at -1 m–1)

Built-in dioptric adjustment

Approx. -3.0 – +1.0 m–1 (dpt)

Focusing screen

Fixed

Grid display

Provided

Electronic level

Displayable before and during shooting

Mirror

Quick-return type

Depth-of-field preview

Provided

Type

TTL secondary image-registration, phase-difference detection with the dedicated AF sensor

AF points

19 (All cross-type focusing*) * Except with certain lenses.

Focusing brightness range

EV -0.5 – 18 (with center AF point, at room temperature, ISO 100)

Focus operation

One-Shot AF, AI Servo AF, AI Focus AF, Manual focusing (MF)

AF area selection mode

Single-point AF (Manual selection), Zone AF (Manual zone selection), 19-point automatic selection AF

AI Servo AF characteristics

Tracking sensitivity, Acceleration/deceleration tracking

AF fine adjustment

AF Microadjustment (All lenses by same amount or Adjust by lens)

AF-assist beam

Small series of flashes fired by built-in flash

Metering modes

63-zone TTL full-aperture metering • Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points) • Partial metering (approx. 7.7% of viewfinder at center) • Spot metering (approx. 3.0% of viewfinder at center) • Center-weighted average metering

Metering brightness range

EV 1 – 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)

Exposure control

Program AE (Scene Intelligent Auto, Flash Off, Creative Auto, Special scene [Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Night Portrait, Handheld Night Scene, HDR Backlight Control], Program), Shutter-priority AE, Aperture-priority AE, Manual exposure, Bulb exposure

ISO speed (Recommended exposure Index)

Basic Zone modes*: ISO 100 – ISO 6400 set automatically * Landscape: ISO 100 – ISO 1600 set automatically, Handheld Night Scene: ISO 100 – ISO 12800 set automatically P, Tv, Av, M, B: Auto ISO, ISO 100 – ISO 12800 (in 1/3- or whole-stop increments), or ISO expansion to H(equivalent to ISO 25600)

ISO speed settings

ISO speed range, Auto ISO range, and Auto ISO minimum shutter speed settable

Exposure compensation

Manual: ±5 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments AEB: ±3 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments (can be combined with manual exposure compensation)

AE lock

Auto: Applied in One-Shot AF mode with evaluative metering when focus is achieved Manual: By AE lock button

Dynamic range adjustment

Auto, ±1 EV, ±2 EV, ±3 EV

Auto image align

Possible

Number of multiple exposures

2 to 9 exposures

Multiple-exposure control

Additive, Average

Type

Electronically-controlled, focal-plane shutter

Shutter speeds

1/8000 sec. to 30 sec. (total shutter speed range; available range varies by shooting mode), Bulb, X-sync at 1/250 sec.

Drive modes

Single shooting, High-speed continuous shooting, Lowspeed continuous shooting, Silent single shooting, Silent continuous shooting, 10-sec. self-timer/remote control, 2-sec. self-timer/remote control

Continuous shooting speed

High-speed continuous shooting: Max. approx. 7.0 shots/sec. Low-speed continuous shooting : Max. approx. 3.0 shots/sec. Silent continuous shooting : Max. approx. 3.0 shots/sec.

Max. burst

JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 40 shots (approx. 65 shots) RAW: Approx. 15 shots (approx. 16 shots) RAW+JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 8 shots (approx. 8 shots) * Figures are based on Canon’s testing standards (ISO 100 and Standard Picture Style) and an 8 GB card. * Figures in parentheses apply to an UHS-I compatible 8 GB card based on Canon’s testing standards.

Built-in flash

Retractable, auto pop-up flash Guide No.: Approx.12/39.4 (ISO 100, in meters/feet) Flash coverage: Approx. 17 mm lens angle of view Recycling time approx. 3 sec.

External Speedlite

Compatible with EX-series Speedlites

Flash metering

E-TTL II autoflash

Flash exposure compensation

±3 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments

FE lock

Provided

PC terminal

None

Flash control

Built-in flash function settings, external Speedlite function settings, external Speedlite Custom Function settings Wireless flash control via optical transmission

Aspect ratio

3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 1:1

Focus methods

Dual Pixel CMOS AF system/Contrast-detection AF system (Face+Tracking, FlexiZone-Multi, FlexiZone-Single), Phase-difference detection with the dedicated AF sensor (Quick mode), Manual focus (approx. 5x and 10x magnified view possible for focus check)

Continuous AF

Provided

Focusing brightness range

EV 0-18 (at room temperature, ISO 100)

Metering modes

Evaluative metering (315 zones), Partial metering (approx. 10.3% of Live View screen), Spot metering (approx. 2.6% of Live View screen), Center-weighted average metering

Metering brightness range

EV 0 – 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)

Creative filters

Grainy B/W, Soft focus, Fish-eye effect, Art bold effect, Water painting effect, Toy camera effect, Miniature effect

Silent shooting

Provided (Mode 1 and 2)

Touch shutter

Provided

Grid display

Three types

Recording format

MOV Movie: MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 Variable (average) bit rate Audio: Linear PCM

Recording size and frame rate

1920 x 1080 (Full HD): 30p/25p/24p 1280 x 720 (HD) : 60p/50p 640 x 480 (SD) : 30p/25p * 30p: 29.97 fps, 25p: 25.00 fps, 24p: 23.98 fps, 60p: 59.94 fps, 50p: 50.00 fps

Compression method

ALL-I (I-only), IPB

1920 x 1080 (30p/25p/24p) / ALL-I

Approx. 685 MB/min.

1280 x 720 (60p/50p) / IPB

Approx. 205 MB/min.

1280 x 720 (60p/50p) / ALL-I

Approx. 610 MB/min.

640 x 480 (30p/25p) / IPB

Approx. 78 MB/min.

Focusing

Same as focusing with Live View shooting * Quick mode disabled during movie shooting

Digital zoom

Approx. 3x – 10x

Metering modes

Center-weighted average and Evaluative metering with the image sensor * Automatically set by the focus method.

Metering brightness range

EV 0 – 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)

Exposure control

Auto-exposure shooting (Program AE for movies) and manual exposure

Exposure compensation:

±3 stops in 1/3-stop increments (±5 stops for still photos)

For manual exposure shooting

Auto ISO (ISO 100 – ISO 6400 set automatically), ISO 100 – ISO 6400 set manually (1/3- and whole-stop increments), expandable to H (equivalent to ISO 12800)

Time code

Supported

Drop frames

Compatible with 60p/30p

Video snapshots

Settable to 2 sec. / 4 sec. / 8 sec.

Sound recording

Built-in stereo microphone, external stereo microphone terminal provided Sound-recording level adjustable, wind filter provided, attenuator provided

Grid display

Three types

Still photo shooting

Possible

Type

TFT color, liquid-crystal monitor

Monitor size and dots

Wide 7.7 cm (3.0-in) (3:2) with approx. 1.04 million dots

Brightness adjustment

Manual (7 levels)

Electronic level

Provided

Touch screen technology

Capacitive sensing

Feature guide / Help

Displayable

Image display formats

Single image display, Single image + Info display (Basic info, shooting info, histogram), 4-image index, 9-image index

Highlight alert

Overexposed highlights blink

AF point display

Possible

Grid display

Three types

Zoom magnification

Approx. 1.5x – 10x

Image browsing methods

Single image, jump by 10 or 100 images, by shooting date, by folder, by movies, by stills, by rating

Image rotate

Possible

Rating

Provided

Movie playback

Enabled (LCD monitor, video/audio OUT, HDMI OUT), built-in speaker

Slide show

All images, by date, by folder, by movies, by stills, by rating

Background music

Selectable for slide shows and movie playback

Image protect

Possible

In-camera RAW image processing

Brightness correction, White balance, Picture Style, Auto Lighting Optimizer, High ISO speed noise reduction, JPEG image-recording quality, Color space, Peripheral illumination correction, Distortion correction, Chromatic aberration correction

Resize

Possible

Creative filters

Grainy B/W, Soft focus, Fish-eye effect, Art bold effect, Water painting effect, Toy camera effect, Miniature effect

Compatible printers

PictBridge-compatible printers

Printable images

JPEG and RAW images

Print ordering

DPOF Version 1.1 compatible

Custom Functions

23

My Menu registration

Possible

Custom shooting modes

Register under Mode Dial C

Copyright information

Entry and inclusion enabled

Audio/video OUT/Digital terminal

Analog video (Compatible with NTSC/PAL) / stereo audio output Computer communication, Direct printing (Hi-Speed USB or equivalent), GPS Receiver GP-E2 connection

HDMI mini OUT terminal

Type C (Auto switching of resolution), CEC-compatible

External microphone IN terminal

3.5 mm diameter stereo mini-jack

Remote control terminal

For Remote Switch RS-60E3

Wireless remote control

Compatible with Remote Controller RC-6

Eye-Fi card

Compatible

Battery

Battery Pack LP-E6 (Quantity 1) * AC power can be supplied via AC Adapter Kit ACK-E6. * With Battery Grip BG-E14 attached, size-AA/LR6 batteries can be used.

Battery information

Remaining capacity, Shutter count, Recharge performance, and Battery registration possible

With Live View shooting

Approx. 210 shots at room temperature (23°C/73°F), approx. 200 shots at low temperatures (0°C/32°F)

Movie shooting time

Approx. 1 hr. 20 min. at room temperature (23°C/73°F), approx. 1 hr. 20 min. at low temperatures (0°C/32°F) * With a fully-charged Battery Pack LP-E6.

Dimensions (W x H x D)

Approx. 139.0 x 104.3 x 78.5 mm / 5.5 x 4.1 x 3.1 in.

without Wi-Fi function

Approx. 750 g / 26.5 oz. (CIPA Guidelines), approx. 670 g / 23.7 oz. (Body only)

Working temperature range

0°C – 40°C / 32°F – 104°F

Working humidity

85% or less