Welcoming the new year with a Canon 7DMark2

The front of my 'new' 7D Mark II. It's pristine and looks brand new even though it's refurbished. Comes with the same 1-year warranty from Canon
The front of my ‘new’ 7D Mark II. It’s pristine and looks brand new even though it’s refurbished. Comes with the same 1-year warranty from Canon

My last camera body purchase, a refurbished Canon 5DMarkII,  was almost 6 years ago.

Since then, my eyes aren’t what they used to be but more importantly technology has improved by leaps and bounds, so it made sense that I not fight it.

Just like the last time, I bought myself a refurbished Canon 7D Mark II.

The rear of the camera shows exactly no scratches just like the front or the bottom.
The rear of the camera shows exactly no scratches just like the front or the bottom.

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I paid $1230 shipped.

Like the new camera body, my refurbished 7D Mark II comes with Canon’s 1-year warranty.

The brown cardboard box that it came in is actually very nondescript.

So nondescript, I actually thought they had shipped me a wrong camera.

I actually bought an App that lets me check on the number of shutter  actuations just to make sure my 7DMark II was ‘new’.

I believe the shutter count was a lot lower because I had fired off quite a few frames once I got the battery charged. At 10 frames-a-second, it was easy to clock 300 shutter actuations
I believe the shutter count was a lot lower because I had fired off quite a few frames once I got the battery charged. At 10 frames-a-second, it was easy to clock 300 shutter actuations

Peter Phun Photography

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