7d how long can you record

Hi Scott — Sadly, there is no way to increase the 12 minute limit on the 7D. Bill Hybrid Camera Revolution. Thanks for taking the time to reply Bill. I will have to check out the panasonic cameras you mention. Just out of interest, how do they compare in quality to the canon cameras? Glad I could help, Scott. On the other hand, Canon APS-C cameras have large sensors and generally better low light performance and shallower depth of field.

I can fix low light with faster lenses and shallow out my depth of field with ND filters, wider apertures and longer focal length. As Bill said, Magic Lantern will auto-restart but you will still lose some frames. Having said that, ML is still an amazing firmware and I highly recommend you install it. It's not possible with standard firmware, not ideal with Magic Lantern either. From the ML wikipage:. To record continuously for more than 30 minutes, you need to use a HDMI recorder.

Enable the Clear Overlays feature to hide the focus box and the bars, and make the half-shutter button sticky to prevent the camera from turning off LiveView after 30 minutes. Technically, there's no 12 minute limit.

There's a 30 minute limit and a 4 GB limit, whichever comes first. With default bitrate settings, the 4 GB limit is reached after around 12 minutes more or less. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 years, 8 months ago. Manual page , 1st bullet point: "If the attached lens has an Image Stabilizer, the Image Stabilizer will operate at all times even if you do not press the shutter button halfway. The Image Stabilizer may cause the total movie shooting time or the number of possible shots to decrease. It indicates how much data has not yet been written to the card remaining capacity of the internal buffer memory.

The slower the card, the faster the indicator will climb upward. If the indicator becomes full, movie shooting may stop automatically. Alan, Larry, thank you both for your replies. No parts of it appear hotter than any other. The function worked with this until a few weeks ago. I have recently upgraded the firmware to 2. I look forward to your suggestions The camera will stop recording when the file reaches 4GB or when you reach 29 minutes 59 seconds, whichever is first.

If you're shooting full HD, you're always going to get to the 4GB mark first. This is indicated on page of the user manual. Thank you Rob. I'll make sure it's taken care of if you ship it to me.