1D X Mark II Owners Unite! Discuss & Post Photos

Why the 1DXii is a life-changer to me. If any of you have seen my posts in other threads you know I live in land of serious crap light.
300+ days of cloud, rain, fog, snow, ice. It's always lush and green but the big yellow orb is a precious thing. Here is an example again
well before the Sun has crested the hills surrounding us...even after it crested it was still dark and gloomy. Up until now not a possibility
without huge ISO cranks and the consequent noise to deal with. Hard to imagine that I can now image at 12,8K with impunity, also continued
tests with the 400DOii + cTCiii. I can tell you AF is snappy and loving more than just a center point-

Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
EF400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +2x III
ƒ/8.0 800.0 mm 1/1600 12800 Flash (off, did not fire)

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Gx2k​M7

Cfast 2.0 cards are nice. Solid construction and FAST!

I kind of wish Canon had just jumped the gun and put two in there and dropped CF altogether. I say this as someone heavily invested in CF.

Now, if everyone would be so kind as to go out and buy a ton of them please so the price goes down that'd be awesome.

aehric wrote in post #17999210
Cfast 2.0 cards are nice. Solid construction and FAST!

I kind of wish Canon had just jumped the gun and put two in there and dropped CF altogether. I say this as someone heavily invested in CF.

Now, if everyone would be so kind as to go out and buy a ton of them please so the price goes down that'd be awesome.

I agree! I'm holding out until the price comes down or a job comes along where I need more than one CFast card. Whichever gets here first is the way I'll go.

Cheers,
Bryan

That's what I am seeing . I must say that I haven't tried Lightroom or photoshop yet.

aehric wrote in post #17999210
Cfast 2.0 cards are nice. Solid construction and FAST!

I kind of wish Canon had just jumped the gun and put two in there and dropped CF altogether. I say this as someone heavily invested in CF.

Now, if everyone would be so kind as to go out and buy a ton of them please so the price goes down that'd be awesome.

Nikon got it right by letting you choose.

Yes, and by the looks of the D5 the memory card assembly is modular so its probably somewhat trivial for them to adjust production as sales dictate simply by swapping the memory card module.

I would have preferred dual CFAST slots. I come from an IT background where my motto with data is "1 is none and 2 is one" so I have always written the same images to both cards.

aehric wrote in post #17999210
Cfast 2.0 cards are nice. Solid construction and FAST!

I kind of wish Canon had just jumped the gun and put two in there and dropped CF altogether. I say this as someone heavily invested in CF.

Now, if everyone would be so kind as to go out and buy a ton of them please so the price goes down that'd be awesome.

thenextguy wrote in post #17999247
Nikon got it right by letting you choose.

tonyxcom wrote in post #17999255
Yes, and by the looks of the D5 the memory card assembly is modular so its probably somewhat trivial for them to adjust production as sales dictate simply by swapping the memory card module.

I would have preferred dual CFAST slots. I come from an IT background where my motto with data is "1 is none and 2 is one" so I have always written the same images to both cards.

Well, even with CFast + CF, you should still be able to get 14fps and buffer of ~70-ish RAW, which is still better than the original 1DX. Which I'm sure is comparable to the D5 CF-card version. I can understand why Canon opted to do this. After all, they've been doing CF/SD for years and no one seemed to really complain. It was when Canon went double-barrel CF with the 1DX that the SD community got pissy for a bit cuz that forced them to buy CF.

So the CFast/CF combo would generate the least uproar for now and allow more people to focus on the improvements, instead of the "boohoo, I now gotta buy 2 CFast card and they're (currently) SO-MUCH-MORE expensive" whiners.

It's not like you can't write to both CFast and CF card and still have backup capabilities.

SQZ wrote in post #17999138
I have an observation that slightly concerns me , and it's the fact that I can't even come close to duplicating the noise reduction on high ISO raw pictures compared to in camera jpgs , in DPP. My experience with the 1DX is the opposite, the raws always look better.
Is anyone having success making their raws as clean as in camera jpgs?

I think the in camera JPEGs are actually aweful and that it is incredibly easy to create a far better end result manually with Lightroom. The Canon JPEGs at higher ISO use NR that is too strong and generally use far too much contrast crushing the blacks.

Please make sure I'm thinking correctly---if one wants the highest possible frame rate do we leave out the CF----I'm remembering back to the
SD card throttle on the 5Diii.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17999270
Please make sure I'm thinking correctly---if one wants the highest possible frame rate do we leave out the CF----I'm remembering back to the
SD card throttle on the 5Diii.

I don't think so. I think you just need the new battery to achieve 14fps. The CF card will just limit the buffer clearing so if you're simultaneously writing, then you'll clip the RAW buffer at ~70 images. (But I reserve to stick my shoe in my mouth if/when someone comes around and prove otherwise.)

Got it. Thanks. So really if you don't intend to overshoot 70 RAWs then battery is more important than which card.
For my fleeting little birds if I can't get them in 1/2-1 second they're gone.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17999278
Got it. Thanks. So really if you don't intend to overshoot 70 RAWs then battery is more important than which card.
For my fleeting little birds if I can't get them in 1/2-1 second they're gone.

Yeah... I think if you go the full 170+ (which would be 12-13 seconds or so), you will clear out the entire neighborhood of all critters big and small.

I haven't given Lightroom a go, but I am relieved that you have had success with it.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17999278
Got it. Thanks. So really if you don't intend to overshoot 70 RAWs then battery is more important than which card.
For my fleeting little birds if I can't get them in 1/2-1 second they're gone.

I have enjoyed my 5D3 ever since I bought it and plan to keep it after my next body. TI am ready for a 1 series but will most likely wait til 4th quarter this year or early 2017.

I laughed at the fleeting birds comment. I became a bird shooter (bad phrase I know) about 6 or so years ago and realize even with 14 fps it is the blackout that is more important in many cases. Birds seem to move 1000+ mph over 6 mm and often that is the difference. Birds continue to be challenging though which makes it fun. And while the 5D3 was rated as up to 6 fps, it is a very slow 6 fps. I will welcome the blazing speed of the DX-2!

\Keep posting those wonderful bird photos MedicineMan. Might make it harder to wait!