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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: October 07, 2012, 06:32:12 PM »

Katmai, August 2012

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: October 07, 2012, 06:30:11 PM »

Katmai, August 2012

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Lenses / Re: missing 200-400 and 100-400 announcements?

« on: October 07, 2012, 06:23:30 PM »

I spoke with someone who actually used it in London.  He said it was an awesome lens, for what that's worth...I have been on a waiting list for the 600 for several months now and still don't have it....right now that is the one that I can't wait to get my hands on...Got the 1Dx back in late July, after being on another list since November so I guess that is just kind of SOP with Canon right now.  Damn I want that new 600...sold my 500

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EOS Bodies / Re: More Big Megapixel Talk [CR1]

« on: September 28, 2012, 03:18:28 PM »

Perhaps someone here can shed some light on the rumored 46 megapixel camera that was supposed to be announced at Photokina.  Just got off their website and there was apparently no announcement of any kind that I could find of such a camera yet we still have the story here at the CR forum....did they not do any type of announcement at Photokina???  Just asking

Thanks, my mistake....just got em all mixed up!

It wasn't Photokina. It was a different show called PhotoPlus that is supposed to happen soon (sometime in October) in New York.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon 1D MKIV VS 1DX Cameras

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:33:09 PM »

I took both my  MK IV and my newly purchased 1Dx to Katmai late last month and it was no contest.  The 1Dx gave me a ratio of keeps to throw aways on my Brown Bear shots of about 4 to 1 more....the 1Dx's autofocus is plain and simple, UNREAL!!

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EOS Bodies / Re: More Big Megapixel Talk [CR1]

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:31:01 PM »

Perhaps someone here can shed some light on the rumored 46 megapixel camera that was supposed to be announced at Photokina.  Just got off their website and there was apparently no announcement of any kind that I could find of such a camera yet we still have the story here at the CR forum....did they not do any type of announcement at Photokina???  Just asking

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What does the future hold for Wildlife photographers ?

« on: September 15, 2012, 09:51:14 PM »

Personally as an owner of both a MK IV and a 1Dx I think that the future is now and the 1Dx is unsurpassed....this camera is unbelievable!!

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Lenses / Re: Keep 70-200 f4 IS or go for f2.8 IS II?

« on: July 21, 2012, 07:54:50 AM »

If you are primarily an outdoor shooter the f4 should suffice.  If you are shooting indoor, or in low light, the decision to go with the 2.8 is a bit of a no brainer in my opinion.  Indoor sports photographers all have this lens and there is a reason.  Plus the version II is a sharper and better lense, period....of course cost and weight are a lot different as well.

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EOS Bodies / Re: So who has ordered 1DX in Canada. Let's keep each other posted.

« on: July 10, 2012, 12:00:56 PM »

I called Henry's Toronto downtown store last Wednesday. The rep said as Canon Canada requested, the initial batch of 1DXs will directly go to CPS member. Non-CPS member, even placed their pre-order in mid-March will (probably) have to wait until after the Olympics (mid-August) timeframe.

Not sure I understand the relation to the CPS situation.  I am a CPS member and I called them and spoke directly with them and they told me in 'NO UNCERTAIN TERMS' that being a CPS member AT ANY LEVEL, would not expedite getting a 1DX!!!!

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X - June 20, 2012 in Japan

« on: June 25, 2012, 07:24:38 PM »

Maybe someone can answer this question.  If Canon has, in fact, distributed this camera to specified folks in preparation for the Olympics, why hasn't someone taken the camera and done some serious work in evaluating it?  DPReview, I would think, would have gotten one to evaluate by now.....just wondering....I ordered mine back in December from Hunts and just pre-paid the entire amount so that I could go on the 'A' list, which has me #10 to receive my camera when they get them....they are not predicting when they will get them but they did say that they think that they will have them soon, like by July.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X - June 20, 2012 in Japan

« on: June 25, 2012, 07:19:34 PM »

Yeah, I would think that based on what they are saying that their credibility is in serious question?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is it too early for the first "The Canon 1DX sucks" posting?

« on: June 22, 2012, 05:33:04 PM »

I am buying this camera for one main reason:  hoping that it has the absolute best auto-focus sytem in the world...also like the full frame and 12 fps....don't care about 14 fps.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Announcement Day July 24, 2012? [CR2]

« on: June 22, 2012, 05:31:36 PM »

Lets hope the 200-400 f4 is one of the len's announced. I need one for October as im off to the forest to shoot bears, with a camera not a gun.

Mick

400 + 1.4x is not enough for close ups at a safe distance of bears in the wild.

You need 700mm or more in glass.

I will be in Katmai in late August to shoot bears...I always take the biggest lens that I have with me, my 500.....but I also take my 100-400 along with my extenders.  I have gotten a lot of great shots with my 100-400 with the 1.4x and have been plenty close to the bears on many occasions to get great shots....having said that if I had an 800 I would never go there without it, with or without the extender....on the MK IV that gives you a lot of distance.  Really depends on where you go and just how close you can get to the bears....I really prefer to be able to get within 50 yds of the bears....makes for some awesome stuff!

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X Availability [CR2]

« on: June 01, 2012, 08:13:18 AM »

Seems to me that when they announce a new camera such as this, at a press conference, with all of the hoopla, and then go underground for several months, and then give you another impression of an imminent release in February or March, then nothing again, and then you are told June, and then nothing again, and now the rumors are anywhere between July and SEPTEMBER, and only in limited numbers, we are now looking at upwards of an entire YEAR since the initial press-conference/release....WOW, is all that I can say.....wish I'd have kept my 1Ds MK III instead of selling it, in anticipation of getting this camera....still a huge disappointment as it is looking more and more like 1 year after initial press conference before the little guy can get one of this, not like they are giving them away

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X Delays [CR2]

« on: May 31, 2012, 02:55:10 PM »

I have had this camera on order since late December....this is really getting old and all I can say is that Canon has done a very poor job in the PR field with respect to the delays.  If I didn't have so much invested in my lenses, etc I would switch to Nikon tomorrow.  Was at a college baseball game last weekend and watched the guy next to me shooting with his new Nikon D4 and when I asked him about it he was thrilled with how it was working....frankly the delays in the new Canon are getting ridiculous.  I am leaving for Arctic Svalbard in a little more than 3 weeks hoping to have the new camera to take with me along with my MK IV but that ain't happening.  I am just hoping that I will have mine by mid August when I head back up to Katmai for 3 weeks.....the Canon folks re really pi--ing me off!