The camera can sustain a burst at about 9.5fps for an essentially unlimited number of JPEGs and approximately 30 raws before it begins to slow it achieves 10fps over 1/500-second shutter speed.
And with a fixed LCD, it's hard to frame shots at odd angles or to adjust the view if there's sun shining on it. That's longer than it sounds when you're trying to focus on a moving subject.
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In Live View (with the optimized 18-135mm STM lens), shot-to-shot time rises to about 0.8-second while time to focus and shoot in good light is a decent 0.4-second, in dim it jumps to a full second. So if all you shoot are stills in decent light or with flash/strobes and you don't need any of the other performance enhancements in the newer model, you're probably better off getting (or sticking with) the much cheaper older model and spending the not-insubstantial savings on a good lens.
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The 7DM2 offers an expanded ISO sensitivity range beyond the 7D's maximum of ISO 6400, but between ISO 100 and ISO 6400 there's nothing about the M2's images that jump out as significantly better. The 7DM2 delivers good photo quality: but then, so did the 7D.
They're not as sharp - in part because the 7DM2's 18-135mm IS STM kit lens isn't on par with the camera, but even with a better lens it can't quite resolve the same amount of detail and has a slightly narrower tonal range, losing some shadow and highlight detail, even in the raws. However, the raw images can't compete with those from models like the Samsung NX1.
That's in part because Canon's JPEG processing is excellent. JPEGs look good up through ISO 1600 and depending upon scene content and how large you plan to view them, you can get decent results as high as ISO 25600. As long as you don't get hung up on pixel-peeping comparisons, the 7DM2's photo quality looks great.