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

mfingar wrote in post #18013026
While I really love this new camera body there are some consequences to such a high frame rate. shot about 2,000 pictures at an airshow yesterday.

I'm interested in your opinion about the camera for air show photography, especially compared to your 1DMKIV (what I have now).

Gadget-Guy wrote in post #18013219
Never had a problem with any of my crops or my 5DSr either but the 1 DX and it seems the 1DX MKII are going to be well known for it

Trouble is that blower bulbs are only any good at shifting dust around or putting more in.

Wet cleans are great for getting rid of oil once you have some confidence and i also use a special pad called Dust Aid along with a sensor loupe and not only do i not have many problems any more with loosing the camera for a week while Canon clean it but i have never damaged a sensor in well over 4 years of doing it with the correct equipment and methods.

Working trackside and changing lenses in the pits or by the track every other race weekend i need to be able to do it myself rather than send it away every other week for service.

Anyone in the UK after cleaning stuff etc then please give these guys a go as their service and support is fantastic http://www.cameraclean​.co.uk/index.php

Hi and thanks for sharing your experience and advice. Are we talking sensor cleaning after every outing or does it build up over time....I can deal with spots quite happily in PS. I am hoping to get mine before RIAT and FIA where it will be well used for the 2 weeks and would hope it would last without a clean ?

with the 70-200 F2.8 + cropped

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Depends on how often you change lenses and how many shots you take in each outing and bursts.

I take about 3000 images per day of a race weekend across two or three bodies so they get a hammering and i clean as often as needed so normally about once a month or when it becomes a pain to edit hundreds of images in Lightroom

It so easy to use the dust delete data especially at airshows when the slow shutters for prop blur give apertures that can show just how bad your sensor is in need of a clean that its worth doing and incorporating the use into your workflow to save loads of time,its not 100% as you do get a few new specs appear either from the mirror assembly helping move dust around or in the heat of summer throwing a little lubricant from the mirror box around as it becomes more fluid with the heat,or at least it seemed i had more trouble in summer at BSB than the colder months at the MX races.

mfingar wrote in post #18013026
While I really love this new camera body there are some consequences to such a high frame rate. shot about 2,000 pictures at an airshow yesterday. Towards the end of the day I had a lot of oil splatter on my sensor. Anyone else getting this? I'm at the Airfield again all day today, I'll share some pictures tonight of what I'm seeing. Cleaning the sensor last night was easy enough but not for the timid

My one had done a race meeting by this point so had a few thousand clicks and a fair few lens changes and it looked like this before its first decent clean.

The second image is the inverse which i do as a deletable layer just so i can make sure i clone out all the spots that sometimes you can miss on the original layer below as this way they are so much more visible.(Click link for full size image)

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shot a 100 frames today & had no file corruption problems since I used the Sandisk "sanitizer" program...

one file straight from camera shot in RAW converted to Jpeg in Lightroom ,no adjustments...

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18013226
I'm interested in your opinion about the camera for air show photography, especially compared to your 1DMKIV (what I have now).

Just shot another 3k images today. The oil was minimal (two small dots vs several yesterday...I assume things are settling in). The focus speed and frame rate are stunningly fast. Subjects vaulted into sharp focus instantly. I didn't wait for buffering either. Not once. It was total freedom. I'm very impressed so far. My 1DX seemed to search a bit before "locking on". Not this body.

I've got a couple nit-noids, but going from a MkIV (which I also use) to the 1DX MkII will blow your mind.

While I'm new at videography, this body is worth it for 4k and focus tracking alone. I can't wait to set it up with my Sedicam chest rig.

mfingar wrote in post #18013652
Just shot another 3k images today. The oil was minimal (two small dots vs several yesterday...I assume things are settling in). The focus speed and frame rate are stunningly fast. Subjects vaulted into sharp focus instantly. I didn't wait for buffering either. Not once. It was total freedom. I'm very impressed so far. My 1DX seemed to search a bit before "locking on". Not this body.

I've got a couple nit-noids, but going from a MkIV (which I also use) to the 1DX MkII will blow your mind.

While I'm new at videography, this body is worth it for 4k and focus tracking alone. I can't wait to set it up with my Sedicam chest rig.

I am particularly enjoying the 50/1.2L on this camera. When situations allow, I can shoot using live view and let the dual-pixel AF work its magic. Won't have to worry about the focus-shift issue.

The focus speed using live-view is quite fast using the 50L as well. So much fun.

Just messing around with colors

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Dankata, was that done by filter, or white balance?