good news for 1dx March 3 owners can I
develop a fix for when the 1dx becomes
temporarily unresponsive this occurs
when the camera is used with the
electronic level set to show in the
viewfinder but there's another problem
carried over from the Wendy X series of
cameras that's much more annoying will
this be the reason you go mirrorless
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description down below several weeks ago
actually I think it was back in February
I talked about an issue that the Canon
1dx March 3 was happening in a few
situations it was randomly locking up
while in continuous shooting mode but
this only happened under certain
conditions and I think from this video
that would see on YouTube that these
were people who are testing to see what
they could find out was wrong with the
camera see what they could break top 10
says it only occurs under certain
conditions and specifically when the
electronic level is set to show the
workaround is to hide the electronic
level in the viewfinder it's very simple
to do go to menu click the setup tab
number 2 the viewfinder and then set
electronic level 2 high which is the
default setting but the really good news
is for those if you really don't want to
have to go through that little hack
there's a firmware update coming in
early April and so that's good news
but there's another problem you need to
be aware of if you're seriously
considering getting the 1d x mark three
however if you do own the 1d x or the 1d
x mark two you've already become
familiar with this issue and you've
found a workaround to it you'll be very
familiar with this in this image here we
can see what looks to be water spots on
the sensor they're scattered towards the
top and off to the edge of the sensor
and they're not water spots they're lube
spots and they're coming off the mirror
this is not dust this is actually the
Lube coming off the mirror now there's
no need to worry this isn't gonna cause
any damage to the sensor but more
importantly it is gonna cause damage to
your shots but there are ways of dealing
with this and this is kind of one of the
issues with having a high-speed camera
that's capable of 16 frames per second
in mechanical you don't have this
problem in electronic because the mirror
is not in use so what can we do about
this well the first thing is if you just
bought this camera it's gonna be it's
gonna be absolutely the worst you're
gonna just you're gonna think oh my god
I just spent $6,500 u.s. or 6,500 pounds
on this and it's ruined well the first
thing to do is take about one to two and
a half thousand shots do it don't do
them continuously like 2,000 shots and
RL but do it in bursts and what you're
trying to do is you're trying to get all
that Lube off of the mirror and onto the
sensor and then clean the sensor off and
you'll have to do a really good job of
it because it's gonna as you can see
from the image or you saw from the image
there's a lot of it there now once you
do that then do some more sample shots
and what you should notice there's
probably far fewer loop spots on there
if you still have quite a few then you
know go through it again because this
issue does dissipate as the camera gets
older it's kind of like if you've ever
bought a new car the one thing they tell
you is for the first leg I think it's
thousand miles or 600 miles don't push
the car take it easy on it because the
engine and the parts need to break in
and I think that's maybe somewhat of a
sort of analogous here take it easy just
run through a couple of thousand shots
and that should really really help you
this is an architectural problem this is
not something Canada's gonna fix in a
firmware well they could but they would
have to reduce from 16 frames per second
down to something more like a Canon 90 D
so they're not gonna do that and you
don't want that so the only way to
really deal with this is you got to
clean the sensor you want to clean up
before or after the shoot or at least
check it before the shoot but I would
recommend cleaning after the shoot but
there's no other way around it this is
part of what you get when you're playing
with a camera of this type now I know
some of you're probably getting ready to
write a comment already and just hold
off because there is a way of just
completely moving away from this issue
all together and that's to move Tamara
hooks because if you have a mirrorless
camera you no longer have that moving
part that needs to be lubed that's gonna
release that Lube all over your sensor
there are other there are other I don't
know no I don't want to really call them
issues with mirrorless but I'm not gonna
get into that this is not a comparison
but if you move over to the nearest
you're not you're gonna completely
sidestep this you should issue all
together the only problem is if you're
in the Canon ecosystem there really
aren't a lot of mirrorless options right
now a lot of people when they saw the
specs for the Canon r5 thought yeah this
is a Canon 1dx Mark three killer and it
isn't the the Canon r5 is more or less a
mirrorless equivalent of what the 5d
Mark 5 should have been or may still be
we just don't know
there is no Canon r1 yet Canon there's
no rumors about a Canon mirrorless
equivalent of the 1d at this point it'll
likely be called the r1 there was one I
heard about a couple of weeks ago from
the new camera but there was there was
nothing really
reliable about the sources so I'm just
gonna keep this one as not we're not
gonna see anything soon so if you're
into fast action sports photography the
r5 might work for you but we don't know
anything about the buffer can we shoot
300 raw before the buffer fills up can
we shoot 500 raw before the buffer fills
up I think the 1dx mark 3 can do a
thousand shots the 1dx mark 3 is built
primary
for fast action sport shooters just like
the 5d is built for well wedding event
photographers as well as videographers
the the r5 might give you enough for
what you're doing it might be perfect
for wedding photography but for fast
action sports photography we really
don't know what if you're thinking of
getting the 1dx March 3 and this worries
you well do some research talk to other
photographers to make comments in the
section down below because other people
who have this camera are gonna tell you
how they deal with it because you can
see there's tons of people with these
cameras they're taking shots and they're
not really complaining too much they're
living with it a lot of us live with
issues with different technology that we
have so do your research and look into
it and as far as if you're thinking well
maybe this is kind of scaring you - the
mirrorless section wait to see what the
r5 is we've probably should know
sometime May June what the full
specifications are going to be for the
r5
while I was doing research for this
video I stumbled across Ian Robertson he
has a channel on YouTube just like me
related to photography and he had the
1dx mark 3 and he was actually showing
these sensor spots really really great
detailed video it's about 14 minutes
long I highly recommend you guys take a
look at it and thank you Ian Ian let me
borrow his photos some frames from this
to use in this video so everything I've
used is from with permission from Ian
but one thing really surprised me about
his channel he only had 664 subs now
when I saw the content it was really
well put together very professional the
intro is good the the ending was good
and when I first saw the subscribers I
thought it said 664 K again my eyes
aren't the best but no 664 subs so if
you guys could please do me a favor
kind of a special thanks from me to him
is this shout out but can you go visit
his channel let's get him up to a
thousand subs subscribe to his channel
like it I think you'll like his content
but in this is a special thank you to
you I really do appreciate you the last
minute letting me use your content for
helping put together my video it's tough
sometimes we don't always have access to
gear and I really do appreciate your
assistance
thank you very much Ian
thank you for engaging my channel I
appreciate your comments and your likes
and the discussions that we have now
from time to time I do receive some
criticism and I do appreciate that
criticism is very useful information to
me I don't have to go out pay for
consultants I'm getting this free advice
and I do take it to heart yesterday on
my video about the r5 this one here I
received two comments you are not
comfortable being in front of the camera
this was definitely true when I started
now I have no problem yes I'm looking
directly into this naked rough black
lens in my dark basement and it's a
little bit foreboding at first it's a
little bit intimidating but I don't feel
that way anymore I feel like I am
talking directly to you but when I first
started yeah I was a little bit stiff I
was a lot stiff and I think I've come a
long way I don't feel that I personally
don't feel that I'm uncomfortable in
front of a camera I know that at times I
do feel a little bit like I'm like I'm
trying to be a professional newscaster
I'm a little bit too serious and that's
something that I need to work on a bit
more I don't want to appear serious all
the time I want to make sure I present
information that is factual and that is
informative I do not want to mislead you
in any way but I don't want to come
across as too serious I like to make a
little bit I like to take I like to take
the mickey out of myself I like not to
take myself too seriously you see I've
got a British background and to a large
part a lot of our humor is
self-deprecating we're making fun of
ourselves and that's how we like to make
people laugh and as as the months go by
you're gonna see a little bit more humor
coming out of me I'm gonna try to
interject it a little bit more humor
where I can and I'm starting to leave a
few more stakes in there so you can see
the real the real raw me what what it is
like for me to put together this video
the mistakes that I made so continue to
be critical but maybe it just maybe give
me a bit more information what could I
do better what do you think I could do
better again I welcome all your comments
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