1D Mark IV Update
I've been driving around picking gear up and testing the 1D Mark IV. Everytime I think I have a good first review done, I notice something else. There's also a swelling group of people wondering why Canon gimped spot AF for the 1D Mark IV. We'll give full coverage on that soon.
I purchased the Sennheiser MKE-400 flash shoe mic for the 1D Mark IV and I've been pretty impressed with its performance so far. It's the right size and price for a video newbie like myself. I still need to get a “dead cat” for it.
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If the price dropped a couple thousand pounds I would… ;)
On the 1 D MKIV, spot AF cannot be assigned to any camera buttons. It can only be assigned to the buttons on the big White Lenses. There are a lot of users wondering why it can’t be set in the body to work for any lens.
It might be a technical reason, but no one knows.
So those claiming to use spot AF without those big whites, please lets know how you set it. There is nothing in the manual.
I can almost hit their (Onecall) warehouse with a rock from where I live. They are pretty honest, at least as camera sellers go. Unfortunately, they have backed off from competiting with adorama and B&H on prices, so when I buy from them, I have to pay a little more plus 9% sales tax.
They also no longer carry the pro models in their retail store, so a local buyer cannot pick one up and try it before buying it. They can be picked up at the warehouse, and I’ve done that several times, but for extra $$ on a big ticket item, I’d like to see it first.
Still, they are local, and I can return a defective item to their retail store and get a replacement immediately, so it is often worth more to me when I buy a lens that has a less than perfect record for variation in sharpness or AF.
:D :D
They gave it 4 starts? That was overly generous.