-=1DS Mark II Admirers, congregate!

Thanks the last view is from Twin Peaks. I drove down here from Seattle so I was able to get up there and get some shots.

Also have this from my 80-200 at about 100mm

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Very nice. The SF Bay is a lot like Puget Sound - many, many photo ops - never enough time.

JH

SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #10907454
Some 14mm in SF

Mike,

Beautiful exposure, particularly photo #2. Most times the skylights are blown out in these types of shots, good work!

Ventured down to Baker Beach tonight....only saw one naked guy. Mostly 14mm here

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Awesome bridge photos. I especially like #3 and #4.

Water Lilies from the San Francisco Conservatory

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I really like the bokeh in #2

I found a mark II locally for $1800, but it has around 180k clicks on it. Told the guy he needed to work on his price some since he admitted that it has NOT been serviced. What is a fair price to you guys?

Wow, I just got my 1Ds MkII back from Canon and it looks like my front focusing issues have been taken care of. I'd post an image but all I've taken is a shot of my neighbors house across the street. Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute to this topic a little more now.

OH, what really surprised me was the shutter count. According to Canon, it's 1092!! I could be wrong but that seems pretty low for a camera that's been out as long as it has. I suppose it's possible that the shutter is a replacement but the body is very clean. At any rate, I'm pleased with my results so far.

Mike...I paid $1850 for mine (body only). Here's a shot of it to show it's condition.

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Hello all. I just purchased a used 1ds Mkii today and am excited and impressed (this is the first full frame I have owned). I am trying to get rid of the Artist/copyright info from the previous owner and put mine in. On my 7d, I could enter it on the camera. I would apprecialte any help on how to do this. Thanks.

SoBlessednTX wrote in post #10930519
Hello all. I just purchased a used 1ds Mkii today and am excited and impressed (this is the first full frame I have owned). I am trying to get rid of the Artist/copyright info from the previous owner and put mine in. On my 7d, I could enter it on the camera. I would apprecialte any help on how to do this. Thanks.

Hi ang congrats with your 1ds2!

You will need to connect the 1ds2 to a xp or vista 32bit via the firewire port.

Take a look on my post https://photography-on-the.net …p=10841783&post​count=6082 and https://photography-on-the.net …p=10497420&post​count=5588

When you have managed to make contact with the camera by firewire I also recomend to have a look at the P.Fn's. You will need a pc connection to set the settings, but you can enable and disable them on the camera. Have look on the last pages where I have given some few examples of nice features that the P.Fn's can reveal. (In fact I really reccomend to read all the pages, though I have to admit it was a smaller job when I joined at page 200 )

Good luck!

Arild

Thank you so much Arild. I so appreciate your help. I don't have access XP or Vista; my system is Windows 7 64-bit (I do have a netbook that is Windows 7 32-bit. Would that work?

Hello again Arild. I forgot to mention that I did not get the CD's with mine. In reading your references, I saw that one of the needed files is not downloadable. Do I need to purchase a cd from Canon?

MichaelBernard wrote in post #10924558
I found a mark II locally for $1800, but it has around 180k clicks on it. Told the guy he needed to work on his price some since he admitted that it has NOT been serviced. What is a fair price to you guys?

A few months ago I paid $1650 (local purchase on Craigslist) for a 1Ds2 that had just over 40k actuations. It came with two batteries, though they had significantly diminished capacity, so I bought a new third-party one on Amazon and it lasts forever.

The seller turned out to be a local pro photographer who mostly used it in his studio. It had a bit of wear on the button labels and paint scratched on the flash hotshoe -- the kind of wear you'd expect from day-to-day use. On the whole it appeared that it had been used fairly gently. No signs of any dropping, abuse, etc.

Granted I think this is a better price than you can usually get, but it may still be a benchmark for the kind of deals you can find if you are really patient. I was waiting for a cheap 5D classic but when I saw this I couldn't pass it up. It had been posted at $1800 and he accepted my offer of $1650.

^^That's a great deal. I have to add $200 to my original purchase price of $1850 for my 1DSMkII to have Canon fix the focus issues it had. I think it was well worth the money though.

I took these photos today at the Orange Empire railroad museum in Perris, Ca. I used the 24-105L lens for these images.

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