1DX owners unite! Discuss and post photos!

jase1125 wrote in post #17260938
my 10 month old english creme golden retriever.

Add 15 (!) years and you have this:

Zweihaender wrote in post #17267397
Add 15 (!) years and you have this:

Born in 1999.

I think I need to check myself into photography rehab. One look at the above photo and I suspected 200/2.

Checked the EXIF and indeed it was. I think when one is able to tell which lens was used to take a particular photo, then perhaps it's time to check one's self into rehab.

I think my sensor is failing. I went out shooting a few days ago & my camera began to behave oddly. It was working great & then it started to take blank images and images with lines going through them. It cleared for a while and then returned to lined images (see below). I'm hoping that the card was corrupted instead of sensor failure as cards are easily replaced and less expensive than camera repairs. The camera has less than 5'000 actuations on it and has not received any harsh treatment such as shocks or bangs. Fingers crossed that it is a card problem.

Looks like it could very well be a bad card.
Try another ASAP.

David Stallard wrote in post #17265548
I am 'on the brink' but still going around in circles whether 'I' would really notice the difference compared to my mkiv. It's a big hunk of cash to put on my credit card after all.
Be VERY interested to hear from any of you that made the same swap. Thanks

.DAVID.

For me, I could go either way. The cleaner high ISO is nice, especially when I am shooting indoor basketball. When you get to ISO 6400 and higher, the 1Dx actually resolves slightly more detail than the 1DIV based on some tests I saw. The extra FPS is nice, but isnt significantly different than the 1DIV. AF is definitely better, especially Servo in low light. With all of that, it is still quite more expensive than the 1DIV. Personally, I would rather have the 1DIV and a canon body similar to the D810. Rumors are a high megapixel body is coming soon. If you do landscapes, then I would keep the 1DIV and use the savings for a high MP body. YMMV.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17267996
Looks like it could very well be a bad card.
Try another ASAP.

I've tried new cards, but no luck. Guess it will have to go for repairs.

Miki G wrote in post #17269035
I've tried new cards, but no luck. Guess it will have to go for repairs.

I had a similar problem and it turned out to be bad drivers on a USB port. Try plugging the Camera/Card reader into someone else computer and open the same files and see if they are still like that.

RileyNZL wrote in post #17271126
I had a similar problem and it turned out to be bad drivers on a USB port. Try plugging the Camera/Card reader into someone else computer and open the same files and see if they are still like that.

The shots were displayed broken with horizontal lines on the camera's LCD screen even before the USB / card reader being used. Now the camera is shooting totally black images, so I reckon the sensor has died. Thanks for the suggestion though.

David Stallard wrote in post #17265548
I am 'on the brink' but still going around in circles whether 'I' would really notice the difference compared to my mkiv. It's a big hunk of cash to put on my credit card after all.
Be VERY interested to hear from any of you that made the same swap. Thanks

.DAVID.

Hi David,

I took the leap and collected one two years ago last month. Here's something I do often:

http://www.lincsraceph​otos.co.uk/html/ajdr_8​.html - theres about 800 images from dress rehearsal and all shot at 6400ISO. I use between 6400 and 10000 for shows as the lights are only an amateur dramatics setup. Typical is 1/500th at f4 on a 24/70L.

The web quality is deliberately poor as we restrict misuse this way. I'm seriously now thinking of chopping both my mk4's in this weekend and collecting another 1DX.

The only thing is the 1.3 crop gives me a bit more reach which as you do motorsport might make you think it's not worth it. For a social/wedding/dance shooter the 1DX is a dream with it's clean high ISO. There's a whole host of stuff it will do which I've never gotten around to doing such as multiple exposure and the focussing choices leave little to be desired for me.

Thank you Stephen,

I have pretty much made my mind up and have been offered a good trade in for my mk4 even with 118k on it so now it's just a case of finding the time to do the deed (day job gets in the way a lot)

Will hopefully be back here soon

.DAVID.

WooHoo

Couldn't wait so beat the hell out of the credit card and picked up my 1DX today. Just need to get some quality time with it now to suss out the best settings for motorsport etc. Oh and a day or two off my day job would be nice. . . going to be a long wait until the weekend (be prepared for some bad indoor cat photos this week lol)

.DAVID.