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jwcdds wrote in post #17999937
Just to check (redundancy) before you make the call and send it back. This is the menu area where you get to turn on the Grid in viewfinder. You got all this enabled and still no grid in VF?

Just double checking.

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This is the same menu scheme as the 7D2. The 70D just had a single menu item to turn the VF grid on/off. The 7D2 has a top level item to turn VF info on/off, but then the sub menu items determine which VF items should be displayed. You can control the level, grid, and each of the little icons along the bottom of the VF (not the information bar below the VF; that's not changeable).

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jwcdds wrote in post #18000281

My son and his family are moving from Seattle to San Luis Obispo in July. They've been looking at houses and landscaping that look a lot like your photo. It's a different world down there.

Yup, I am seeing the 6x6 grid through the viewfinder with Setup2 > Viewfinder Display > Grid Display set to Show. Also checked that all the other things (levels, the mode display options) work too.

In other news, have to report that my 1DX2 has acquired its first minor battle scar today, but I got over it pretty quick when I loaded the images up in my computer

LJ3Jim wrote in post #18000414
My son and his family are moving from Seattle to San Luis Obispo in July. They've been looking at houses and landscaping that look a lot like your photo. It's a different world down there.

Hehe. This is a house in my neighborhood up for sale. Think this one is 5 bd 3ba, 3400 sqft. I am jealous of the 3 car garage/driveway. I can do without the extra sq footage.

If any of you are looking for a good discount on a Canon 1D X Mark II battery, check out this POTN post:

https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=18000522

Cheers,
Bryan

frankchn wrote in post #18000445
Yup, I am seeing the 6x6 grid through the viewfinder with Setup2 > Viewfinder Display > Grid Display set to Show. Also checked that all the other things (levels, the mode display options) work too.

In other news, have to report that my 1DX2 has acquired its first minor battle scar today, but I got over it pretty quick when I loaded the images up in my computer

Have you tried switching to a different grid style like 3x3 for example?

LincsRP wrote in post #17999554
Hi Jake,

The chisel analogy is not lost on me as I own just over 200 woodworking chisels ...

I was going to ask "Witherby, Stanley, Union, Swan or Jennings?" Then I saw UK so, Sorby, Ilse, Taylor? etc..


The jpeg engines and how far they've come has truly taken me off guard even more than the low light low noise abilities. I'm on record on this forum dozens of times with my feeling that the Camera will never be able to do it as well as "we" can. I may be out of touch.

Used to we embraced RAW for it's malleability right? Thinking correctly then that jpg was 'fixed' with little latitude.
Are you all suggesting now that this has changed and a jpg is more forgiving now? And/or that this new camera
is just plain better at internal processing?

jwcdds wrote in post #17999937
Just to check (redundancy) before you make the call and send it back. This is the menu area where you get to turn on the Grid in viewfinder. You got all this enabled and still no grid in VF?

Just double checking.

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This works for me too. No problems seeing the grid lines in the viewfinder.

Cheers,
Bryan

zman wrote in post #18000559
Have you tried switching to a different grid style like 3x3 for example?

I don't think you can switch the grid sizes in the viewfinder, but playback grid (and size switching for that) works as well.

Mea Culpa:

I stand corrected.....I can get the grids (3X3, 6X4) only to display in live view for both iterations of the 1DX.

It was also confirmed by CPS in Australia that the grids will only display in Live View.

If you want grids to display in the view finder then you need to get to the yellow choice on the Menu, Turn Viewfinder Display to on and turn the Grid Display to Show.

Hope this helps.