Announcing The Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
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I'm with you on that one and I for one was happy to see that the touchscreen is fairly limited. I'm not a huge fan of them and usually end up changing my settings by accident with them. I suppose an option to enable or disable when it functions would be nice tradeoff, though, and may come in future firmware.tpatana said:
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GuyF said:Plenty videos now available to let us hear of the sound of 14fps but none have the silent modes. The suspense is killing me
+1. Though it is supposed to be quieter than the 1DX it is still much louder than the 5D MkIII and 5DS/R silent shutter.
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mackguyver said:
1. According to a Canon video on their website, touchscreen can be enabled or disabled. At least that's what I recall seeing.
2. Touchscreen isn't for us stills guys. And it's not even really for menu surfing. It's more for the video guys to perfectly compliment the totally unique Canon DPAF. No more manual focus pulling or even moving a toggle around to rack. Just set the rack speed in the menu and, start shooting and then touch the damn screen to pull/rack focus. This thing is going to do better in the video market than most suspect.
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BTW, it's nice to see all these reviews popping up from the Canon EOLs. Some of them seem to discuss details not mentioned directly by Canon ... like confirming the on sensor ADC as it's build out with DPAF
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Uncompressed HDMI output to external recorders is also possible at 4:2:2 Full HD resolution. 4K videos can be
recorded to CFast™ cards as Motion JPEG files, while Full HD can be recorded as MOV or MP4 files
I think I found the cripple that defends the C300II's video prowess. No HDMI output for 4k. Kinda frustrating if true and probably not something they will firmware fix. That said, certainly not a dealbreaker for video uses. Just happened to catch it (unless it's an editing error)
recorded to CFast™ cards as Motion JPEG files, while Full HD can be recorded as MOV or MP4 files
I think I found the cripple that defends the C300II's video prowess. No HDMI output for 4k. Kinda frustrating if true and probably not something they will firmware fix. That said, certainly not a dealbreaker for video uses. Just happened to catch it (unless it's an editing error)
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neuroanatomist said:Mark D5 TEAM II said:I'd love to get more info on the 1DX Mark II's new "invisible subject area AF detection" that is apparently larger than the indicated AF area in the VF:
Interesting comment about this from the DPR Nikon rah-rah boys:
Looks like the 1D2 AF is even better than the specs sheets suggest.
Fixed that for ya. Next time, please don't selectively quote DPR's totally unbiased statements!!
Thanks for making a point we repeatedly try to make for us. We've mentioned repeatedly at DPR that for long distance, telephoto subjects, one doesn't need face or eye detection because the depth-of-field (measured sometimes in meters) is enough to cover most of the entire body. And that body is typically well-isolated in depth compared to either an infinite background (sky behind birds-in-flight, e.g.), or crowd-goers at a stadium many meters behind the running QB.
In such cases, a general understanding of initial subject distance, combined with intelligent analysis of AF points registering either similar distances, or similar distances +/- approaching/receding trends, works quite well. Which is why even a 5D Mark III without an image sensor as a metering sensor can even subject track at all. Although this method works well for subjects isolated in distance - which tends to be the case for telephoto subjects - it has its limitations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F58xGAaxhrA). Complement distance-based subject tracking with some weighting towards color/pattern information, though, and you decrease the chances that the subject tracking algorithm jumps off to the wrong subject, a problem inherent to cameras like the 5D Mark III that rely only on distance information to subject track. That's why wildlife photographers, for example, have found the 7D Mark II to progress over the original 7D with its introduction of a high-resolution metering sensor (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8712824369/tamron-sp-150-600mm-f-5-0-6-3-di-vc-usd-field-test).
But a bride or a toddler at 35mm f/1.4 and closer subject distances is a different story: depth-of-field is measured in centimeters, so for accurate focus, you need to distinguish an eye from a nose from an ear from hair.
Your comment appears to imply we thing face/eye tracking is the end all, be all of photography. Not true. Face/eye tracking, and even that level of subject tracking, matters for certain types of photography, and doesn't matter for others. And if you're not subject tracking, even the 1DX's (let alone the 1DX II) ability to focus continuously on subjects with one AF point is second to none. You can consider that our official statement, and suggesting we're suggesting otherwise is, frankly, specious.
Rishi
Technical Editor | Digital Photography Review
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ajfotofilmagem said:1DX is not intended for novice photographer. But if money is burning the pocket, and needs to spend it immediately, then go ahead.ritholtz said:
The current 1DX already offers a large jump in photo and video quality over the 70D (exception of Dual Pixel AF). As the new 1DX Mark II will have Dual Pixel AF, you'll have everything better (exception to the articulated LCD).
1DX is like a car of Formula 1:
It's the best there is for the work to which it is intended. But it is not appropriate to take the family for a ride.
In fast car (etc.) action I'm a little confused with the slo-mo specs. You get Full-HD/120fps but why not possible higher fps at less than Full-HD? For example a very affordable GoPro Hero4 Black gives you 4K UHD/30fps and 1080p/120fps & 720p/240fps. Why not include 720p/240fps in 1DX2?
And what about H.265 (x265) video encoding (v.1.9 already). Much smaller file size.
I think we have more to see with firmware updates.
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Pricing in Japan. Japan normally has deep discounts for visitors/tourists.
Canon - 678,000 Yen or 5,685 US dollars
Nikon - 695,000 Yen or 5,828 US dollars
Canon - 678,000 Yen or 5,685 US dollars
Nikon - 695,000 Yen or 5,828 US dollars
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dolina said:Pricing in Japan. Japan normally has deep discounts for visitors/tourists.
Canon - 678,000 Yen or 5,685 US dollars
Nikon - 695,000 Yen or 5,828 US dollars
If oil hadn't bombed Canada would have be a very good place to buy it, sigh!
Jack
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http://www.fotosidan.se/cldoc/vi-har-provat-canon-1d-x.htm?page=2
JPEG pushed 5-stops in the shadows, 1D X Mk I vs 1D X Mk II.
JPEG pushed 5-stops in the shadows, 1D X Mk I vs 1D X Mk II.
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Stu_bert said:
Help. Novice here. It doesn't look promising to me but what should I be looking for to see improvement? This is an honest question.
Jack
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Jack Douglas said:
Jack you are looking at the difference between the third image and the sixth image. The third is a crop from the 1DX, the sixth from the 1DX MkII, the colour and blotchyness in the 1DX crop are very noticeable, as is a colour cast. As for the MkII, it is the best jpeg lifting capability we have seen from a Canon, ever. If you were working the RAW file to adjust for noise etc then I think it is a stunning result, a couple more images like this and I'll be pre-ordering.
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Thanks, so the 2nd and 4th are just equally blown images to give a context to what has been done and the 3rd and 6th are the detail of the ceiling that show much better with the 1DX II - is that it?
Jack
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LetTheRightLensIn said:
I would have thought RAW too. Why would one be working on a JPEG to fix what is best fixed in RAW unless there was no other option?
Jack
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