Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Ellis Vener on September 25, 2012, 03:02:12 pm
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If you are considering a Canon EOS 1D X please check out Canon's PDF on the new AF system: http://downloads.canon.com/cpr/software/camera/EOS_1DX_AF_Guide2.pdf
My experience with the 1D X is that its autofocus is the best I've worked with yet from Canon and maybe the best period.
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Indeed it is. That document is well worth the read, since there are a lot of options to learn and a lot of custom functions you can choose.
Now I just need to get it all into muscle memory.... :)
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In addition to the Canon paper, there is a guide for the 5DIII by Art Morris on his Birds As Art website where he describes the settings he uses for bird photography. I found them quite useful and worth the $40 he charges for the info, which includes his reasoning behind the specific settings. Since the 5DIII's AF system and options are essentially the same as the 1DX's, I am suggesting it here.
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i've found the Art Morris guide worth the money (i have 5D3) - practical situational experience is helpful as the settings are pretty complicated with a lot of combinations which still don't seem too intuitive to me after some study and practice. it appears that many sports situations can be preset or handled by two choices. wildlife seems to be a bit more complicated in the variety of situations that may be encountered in a short period of time (with possibility of getting the opposite of what's optimum - whatever optimum may be)
i'm in Madagascar now and have been trying to shoot "dancing" lemurs which can bound 2/3 of their height somewhat erratically on the ground. against a uniform background (rarely encountere) "all points" works moderately well - but fails miserably if there's any background as the furry lemurs aren't very high contrast. even allowing the lemurs to be relatively small in the frame i'm not very successful with point expansion either - partly my inability to track, but may also be autofocus response time. the lemurs leaping are considerably more difficult than anything i've ever shot