1Dx mk2 B&H order status

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#23
Today my central german dealer sent me my 2nd 1DX2 battery.

But the old ones do work, too - Canon just says for the max fps you need the new batteries. Wasn't able to prove that scientifically. As 4K recordings does also work with fast CF and not only CFast cards, it might not be true.
 
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#25
davidmurray said:
I'm looking to buy a good video camera, and seriously considered buying a 1Dx2 for video work because it's a good stills camera and can do video.

Alas the bit depth of the resulting footage is the show-stopper for me - It's not able to produce broadcast quality footage, but for cheaper I can buy a video camera from Sony that produces broadcast quality and has many good features targeting someone with a multi-camera broadcast set up.

So why would I want to pay NZ$11,000 for non-broadcast-quality when I could pay NZ$7,000 for a good broadcast quality video camera and have cash left over for buying a 5D4?

For me 8bit video is too much of a compromise even tho' the colour compression is 4:2:2.
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You wouldn't. But if you think a 1DX MkII is a video camera first that takes pictures too you are completely misunderstanding what the 1DX MkII is and who it is aimed at, hint, not you.

Besides, the 1DX MkII is very capable of broadcast quality capture, it might not have the specs you personally want or need, but we will see a lot of footage from them over the next few years vis broadcasting, and the one thing nobody will say is, "that footage is bad, if only it had been shot with more color depth!"
 
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#29
Well even tho I preordered 3 weeks after announcement I phoned b&h after reading others have, thinking it may help speed things up and they're sending it today! to arrive Friday, sweet. Also, they were going to wait until the wifi and extra battery arrived as I must've chosen all in one shipment back in February not thinking about it, so now they've separated the order to get the body out to me before they receive the rest. I recommend calling as maybe it speeds things up and make sure u separate peripherals if u chose them grouped!
 
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#33
B&H says the original delivery has been fully shipped and that they will need another delivery before other pre-orders such as mine can ship. They had no info on when they would receive another shipment.
 
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#35
Adelino said:
Out of curiosity and also for future shopping, why does almost everyone here use B&H? Thanks for any replies :)
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Historically, B&H offers:

  • A strong return policy
  • Get everything you need in one order -- no need to piecemeal one thing at one site, another thing at another site, etc.
  • Staggering inventory -- they seem to have everything
  • Pretty solid website
  • In the US, I want to say they (and Adorama) get new gear first if you're an obsessive about that.

But I've recently pulled all of my business from them due to recent allegations by the US labor department that they run a discriminatory business. I'm stuck with Amazon now.

I previously let B&H slide on a prior poor workplace conditions story. That was never corroborated or picked up by other news agencies, and it appeared to be a muckraking push for the warehouse workers to unionize.

But the discrimination story did them in for me.

- A
 
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