New technology

I played around with Josh's new camera yesterday, a Canon 7D... It's nice to be holding a bulky camera for a change. After my last film camera died, a medium format Bronica, I took to using his other digital camera, a Canon Ixus, you know the little pocket ones. They are great, take nice pictures and are easy to use. But the 7D, I mean, wow. The pictures look great and I hardly had to touch them up (big bonus since I'm useless with photoshop and the likes). Is it me or does the camera naturally take good photos???