Freeze proof! 1DX FTW!

not sure if this has been posted yet but read on ...

http://gizmodo.com …ed-this-is-what-they-mean

That is one Kool Camera !!

If only I had a spare $7k... that's pretty cool none the less.

hey, if it can do that, maybe someone can invent an EF mount refrigerator!!

Nice! Impressive!

Shooting at -13 deg F, now that is cold!

That's pretty bad@ss!

Nice to know if I take my 1Dx in to sub zero conditions, that it will perform better than I am likely to

I've had my T1i (500D) out in 10F (-12C) temperatures for several hours doing astrophotography with no trouble other than short battery life, and the grip with dual lithium batteries makes a huge difference in that. Unfortunately it was a pretty wimpy meteor shower that night, so in 200+ shots, I only got about 2 pictures with meteors in them.

I've used my 300D at -35. The biggest strain on the system at these temperatures is on the batteries. The camera couldn't care less.

The 1DX is a beast, no doubt, but the problem isn't the freezing, it's the thawing that kills cameras

Looks like two different cameras in the pictures. A 1Ds and a 1Dx.

The article states there were about five cameras involved. All were Canon 1D models.

I'm pretty sure I have most (all?) of you beat here haha...I used to work up in Northern Canada as a reporter/photographer. At the time I had a 10D, a 20D and a 30D, mostly using the 10D and the 20D.

The coldest I worked/shot in was -55C or -70 Fahrenheit. That's right...-70 F. (-40C/-40F were to be had for weeks and weeks at a time). At that temperature, I was carrying tons of spare batteries...and was constantly warming them in my hands/pockets because the batteries would last a few minutes in the camera and then die, so every handful of shots I had to rotate batteries.

None of the cameras ever gave me any trouble at all...however, the LCD displays tended to "slow down" haha...