Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Josh-H on July 03, 2012, 05:41:17 am
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Just in time for a month long trip to Paris, Italy and Iceland. ;D
Excited to put it to to the test in the streets of Paris, canals and alleys of Venice and wilds of Iceland.
I have heard several others in Australia also received theirs today; but that stock is still extremely limited.
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Congrats on your new camera.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Congrats on your new camera.
Cheers,
Bernard
I hope it lives up to the considerable expectation that has built up ::)
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I hope it lives up to the considerable expectation that has built up ::)
They did make you wait a bit on that one. :)
There is little doubt that it is going to be an excellent camera though.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Very nice, congrats!
One item I was curious about... perhaps you can answer if you have the gear handy. Does the RRS L plate from the 1D III/1D IV/1Ds III fit onto the camera? I know the ports on the side are going to be blocked, just curious if it will work at all.
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It does not fit, the new RRS plate will have to be made the new 1DX body as the fron of its vertical grip area now with a little contour while the 1DsIII is stright. I have a pre-ordered RRS plate not coming yet, and I was in fact waiting for the Capture One Pro to finally support tethered shooting for either 5DIII or 1DX so I will sell my 1DsIII + RRS plate, now I am just waiting. The 1DX is really nice, I received mine last weekend in Bangkok, not really tried it yet.
Pingang
, Very nice, congrats!
One item I was curious about... perhaps you can answer if you have the gear handy. Does the RRS L plate from the 1D III/1D IV/1Ds III fit onto the camera? I know the ports on the side are going to be blocked, just curious if it will work at all.
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Thanks for the info! Too bad about the price of the L-Plate though... $250 is steep for a tripod bracket. I'll have to take a look and see what Kirk is charging once theirs is available.
Since you've got both bodies, what are your preliminary thoughts about file quality at ISO 100? I know the high ISO performance is going to be stunning, but I'm curious if I'm going to be making a trade-off in low ISO image quality if I sell my 1Ds III.
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It does not fit, the new RRS plate will have to be made the new 1DX body as the fron of its vertical grip area now with a little contour while the 1DsIII is stright. I have a pre-ordered RRS plate not coming yet, and I was in fact waiting for the Capture One Pro to finally support tethered shooting for either 5DIII or 1DX so I will sell my 1DsIII + RRS plate, now I am just waiting. The 1DX is really nice, I received mine last weekend in Bangkok, not really tried it yet.
Pingang
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Actually the L plate from a 1DS MK3 DOES fit the 1DX. It just doesn't fit perfectly - but its certainly useable.
I have my 1DSMK3 with a RRS L bracket here next to me and just test fitted the bracket to the 1DX and it bolts on without problem. Its not a perfect fit, but its easily useable and can be used without major issue. See attached photo. (sorry for quality, just snapped it on an iPhone)
BTW: You can also use a tripod collar plate from a 70-200mm sideways as an interim solution until RRS ship the 1DX L Bracket. Of course this doesn't give you a vertical mount, but it does at least give you a horizontal mount (if like me you want to keep your 1DS MK3 bracket on the 1DS).
I have also ordered the 1DX L Bracket - but as above, in the short term you can certainly use the 1DS MK3 bracket.
EDit - forgot to add. I always offset my bracket as shown in the picture so that I can use a cable release vertically.
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That's excellent news Josh, thanks. As long as I can attach it to the 1D X without causing damage to the body, I may just hang onto my existing L bracket. I don't need much access to any of the ports when shooting tripod mounted, and lately it's only been the rare occasion when I use the tripod.
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That's excellent news Josh, thanks. As long as I can attach it to the 1D X without causing damage to the body, I may just hang onto my existing L bracket. I don't need much access to any of the ports when shooting tripod mounted, and lately it's only been the rare occasion when I use the tripod.
It certainly won't damage it in any way - it works just fine.
Since you've got both bodies, what are your preliminary thoughts about file quality at ISO 100? I know the high ISO performance is going to be stunning, but I'm curious if I'm going to be making a trade-off in low ISO image quality if I sell my 1Ds III.
More or less identical to the 1DSMK3 at ISO100 (I can't see any difference and if anything I think I prefer the 1DX file over my 1DSMK3 at ISO100; but that might just be my imagination). High ISO performance is phenomenal.
I'll probably sell my 1DSMK3 when I get back from Iceland and replace it with a 2nd 1DX or whatever else might be on the horizon ;D