Not to rag on Sony or the A77 II, but the combination of a lag-inducing EVF along with a comparatively limited lens lineup really kills the overall comparison. Granted, the A77 II would likely spit out better images when combined with Sony's 70-400G than the 7D II combined with Canon's aging 100-400L, but that's only…

The 6D is similar in price and lens mount, and that's about it. One might consider pairing a 6D with a 7D II, for instance, but they're not very likely to be cross-shopped.

The 7D II has GPS, which is much more likely to be used than WiFi- and at that, Canon would have had to compromise the build in some way in order to put WiFi on the camera. Also, there are a number of ways to either add Wifi or otherwise quickly get images off of the camera for social media/reportage type purposes.…

Michael, you nailed the title on the head! The 7D II is really designed as an 'in the elements' action camera above all other considerations. For those whom this camera was designed, pre-orders have already been placed :).

However, I'll add three things to the overall discussion:

It has been done for a long time; Photoshop even includes a function to put the focus stack back together, and it can be done with any sort of still subject- landscapes come to mind here.

Sure, but even if the government of Pakistan was entirely complicit we wouldn't take it out on the Pakistani people, and we definitely have to weigh India's take on the whole thing as well. If we start disassembling Pakistan's military and government, India would quite likely want to get involved too.

I guess that depends on what you consider 'PCIe storage'. The latest Macbook Air, for example, has PCIe storage, and any decent motherboard has the hookup for builders such as myself.

Note that in both examples, I'm talking about an SSD that that has a PCIe controller instead of a SATA controller, and is in a 'stick'…

Everyone *is* using PCIe-based storage these days. Apple has been using it for years...

-PC only guy that will have a PCIe-based SSD in his next custom desktop

GoPros and other recording devices do present a security concern for sensitive movements; my guess is that this was more of a routine patrol, and the only thing that's really sensitive is the route that they'd be patrolling, and thus recording anything during the patrol would be of little to no value.

"People die at the fair"

Here's what I want to know- how do I hook it up to a gaming PC?!?

Was thinking of that too- should be in the article!

The military tends to enforce chain of command with more vigor than the mayor of Toronto's coke habit; the first thing they want to know when a situation arises is 'who is in command'. If the President was no longer performing in a leadership capacity, they'd take all of five minutes to get the succession sorted out,…

If the military is in general control as the article suggests, then the likelihood of retaliatory strikes against Pakistan proper would be very low. They're used to the idea of being shot at and not being able to shoot back in full force, unlike most civilians and politicians; especially the glut of politicians that…

We build ships slowly in peacetime to keep costs under control (they could be worse!), and we keep our active duty stock of military personnel fairly small relative to the number we train.

One of the realities of fighting the US is that we have a ton of trained individuals and individuals ready to be trained for…

There's a joke to be made about the effectiveness of military logistics, but the flip side of the coin is that the citizens of the US would pull together and work to make it all happen as we have in the past.

This is probably the least believable part; consider 9/11, where we negotiated with the Taliban(!) for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. We only invaded after they refused.

The nation of Pakistan, which we would have no good reason to destroy outright, knows very well what we're capable of in force (unlike the Taliban) and would…

Do you believe that there's any major news source that is anything other than a propaganda arm?

It's a serious question.

Biggest reason to pack light- more lenses!

DSLRs are still the kings of image quality (that includes Medium Format setups), and have the most developed lens systems, while the same companies are rushing to release larger-sensor compacts that can 'bridge' the image quality gap and the size and weight gap with cell phone cameras, and the RX100 III is an…