Canon 1DX II Battery Life

[PureClassA]

Graham, yes. Sorry, that's an iPhone picture of my monitor I had on my phone. I didn't have access to the original clean image at the time I posted that one You can see some of the on screen Lightroom markings at the upper left corner. Here's the original:

Hi PureClassA.
Some lovely shots you have there, seems that the labour that might be deemed above and beyond the call of duty actually works out really well in the long run. I'm curious about the last shot you posted, I'm seeing coloured vertical banding mostly on the skin and hair, is that some kind of upload artefact, some sort of lighting artefact or deliberate "watermarking" to make the image less appealing to download illegitimately? Either way, it is a nice shot of some relaxed subjects.

Cheers, Graham.

We shoot everything at the dance school. The staff creates the basic poses before I get there, so they are mostly ready to roll. These older girls are all business (with a decent bit of goofing off to keep things light).

All these were done with my 5D3, not the 1DX2 btw.

Battery life I get one on LPE6 is uaually around 350-400 shots in situations like these. It's tethered to my MacPro here. No LCD activity or writing to a card.

 

[PureClassA]

Graham, in terms of workflow I managed to import and catalog all 18,000 images yesterday afternoon into LightRoom. Tonight I managed over about 5-6 hours to color grade them all by selecting one image from each dance number and then doing a sync settings to all the rest. Each dance number has its own Collection Set in LR within a single, large Catalog just for this Recital each year.

Now that they are within a highly reasonable range of visual appeal, weeding out the junk and then making further tweaks is much easier and faster. I have learned through experience that developing the proper workflow can tremendously accelerate the post production process. I also have invested in a wonderful SanDisk 480GB External Solid State HD that I have labeled as my "Work Drive". This is my initial "go to" drive when ever I import a new job. Doing this volume of post production from a traditional mechanical spin drive would take twice as long. It was very much worth the relatively meager investment of $140 on amazon.com I would HIGHLY recommend this.

Typically once I complete my edits on a job from my SSD "Work Drive", the images are exported IN LIGHTROOM (very important to move your RAW files within your software and not manually through Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows)) to my dual 5TB RAID drives for long term storage and access.

 

[RustyTheGeek]

Graham, in terms of workflow I managed to import and catalog all 18,000 images yesterday afternoon into LightRoom. Tonight I managed over about 5-6 hours to color grade them all by selecting one image from each dance number and then doing a sync settings to all the rest. Each dance number has its own Collection Set in LR within a single, large Catalog just for this Recital each year.

Now that they are within a highly reasonable range of visual appeal, weeding out the junk and then making further tweaks is much easier and faster. I have learned through experience that developing the proper workflow can tremendously accelerate the post production process. I also have invested in a wonderful SanDisk 480GB External Solid State HD that I have labeled as my "Work Drive". This is my initial "go to" drive when ever I import a new job. Doing this volume of post production from a traditional mechanical spin drive would take twice as long. It was very much worth the relatively meager investment of $140 on amazon.com I would HIGHLY recommend this.

Typically once I complete my edits on a job from my SSD "Work Drive", the images are exported IN LIGHTROOM (very important to move your RAW files within your software and not manually through Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows)) to my dual 5TB RAID drives for long term storage and access.

I also use SSD drives during the editing phase. But you might want to consider FastRAWViewer as a better (much faster) tool to cull the images BEFORE Lightroom. I stopped using lightroom to cull images a couple years ago due to its abysmally slow final focus rendering of each image.

 

[PureClassA]

FastRAW Viewer? Where can I find that? MAC capable?

 

[CSD]

FastRAW Viewer? Where can I find that? MAC capable?

Yes:

http://www.fastrawviewer.com/

Another application worth looking at is Photomechanic which is heavily used by sports photographers and events.

http://www.camerabits.com/products/

 

[RustyTheGeek]

FastRAW Viewer? Where can I find that? MAC capable?

Yes:

http://www.fastrawviewer.com/

Another application worth looking at is Photomechanic which is heavily used by sports photographers and events.

http://www.camerabits.com/products/

I had to step out so thanks for supplying the links. If you search, you'll find some other threads where I discuss my experience with PhotoMechanic. Short version is essentially that I didn't have a good experience with their staff so I didn't buy the product after evaluating it. That's when I found FastRAWViewer. It works BETTER for what I use it for (culling mostly), is updated often (every month or two) and is a fair price ($15). IMHO, Photomechanic is way overpriced for what it does ($150). Heck, it costs as much as Lightroom!