Canon EOS 1D X Press Release - Pre Announcement Thread

[kb2zuz]

Re: Canon EOS 1D X Press Release

It's on the USA site: http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_1d_x#Overview

As far as those complaining about no Wifi, different countries have different Wifi frequencies, so either Canon would have to make different cameras for each Wifi frequency sets. The US wifi bands might be the police bands in another country. They are offering a WiFi+Bluetooth add-on.

In regards to ethernet. This might not be useful to sports photographers but as a studio photographer, it's great. USB 2 is too slow (too much over head) and not all PCs have Firewire 800 and no Macs have USB 3.0, so Gigabit is a good compromise for fast speed. Also you can use rather long cables that don't weigh much and won't fall out of the camera very easily... this is GREAT for anyone who wants to shoot tethered in a studio.

This is the camera I've wanted for the past 5 years, unfortunately I have a feeling it's going to cost about as much as the 1Ds Mk III. If they can do it for the cost of the 1D Mk IV, I'd jump at it.

 

[messus]

Seems like UDMA 7 CF is officially supported! Which is NICE! Finally I can put my SanDisk 128GB UDMA7 card to the test!!!

Still, even if Giga Ethernet is nice, especially for press photographers under the upcoming Olympics,
I am still waiting to find confirmation for USB 3.0 support !!!

Unlikely this camera has not been upgraded from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 !?

 

[messus]

It's official on Dpreview!!!!!!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1110/11101810canoneos1dx.asp


Tech overview here:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5149972341/canon-eos-1d-x-overview

 

[floman]

there is also a good write up at
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-11666-12012

 

[hambergler]

hope the price comes in close to 5K instead of 7K because this camera is the one i've wanted forever

 

[Ghostdive]

In germany we have it also ;-)

http://www.canon.de/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_1Dx/

english desciption

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/technical/eos_1d_x_explained.do

Want to know the price.... If its in the range of the 1D IV i'll buy on.

 

[corpusrex]

Ahh can see why the processing power of the 2x Digi Vs is needed.

From the write up at posted earlier at http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-11666-12012

Chromatic Aberration Correction, Multiple exposure mode and In-camera RAW converter.

 

[ski2slow]

Well, one of the major camera store's has justed started taking pre-orders of the 1DX online.

The pre-order price is at ￥583,200.

http://shop.kitamura.jp/DispPg/002028001019020?aid=mail&me=sg1018

Price is still way too high for me, but looking forward to what it will bring.

 

[KitH]

Re: Canon EOS 1D X Press Release

	Gigabit Ethernet	USB 3.0	802.11n
Theoretical speed	1 Gigabit	5 Gigabit	0.3 Gigabit
Real world speed	1 Gigabit	??	0.05 Gigabit
Installed base	Everywhere	Some PCs (not Mac)	Everywhere
Reliability	Proven	Unproven/Dubious	Unreliable in public areas
Cable length	100+ meters	3-5 meters	(50-100 meters of air, less with walls)
Wireless Extension	Possible	Not possible	N/A

Gigabit Ethernet is a good decision. End of story.

Well when you put it like that...

If they're smart they'll include power over ethernet (PoE+) so the camera can be powered as well as controlled over the single cable.

This spec looks like they want people to use a flock of cameras (what's the collective noun for these going to be?) all working together and sending synchronised data to a controller, without wireless latencies. There's a lot that can be done over a wire to provide guaranteed bandwidth that's not guaranteed over radio.