hi guys it's Pete from the Academy team and I'm here in a wood with the all-new
very very exciting Canon 1dx mark 3 absolutely unbelievable literally been
here five minutes picked the camera up late last night, not a chance to play
with it it is stunning keep watching to find out
why I'm so impressed
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and make sure you stay up to date with everything we're up to. Ok folks so first
up I want to get rid of the elephant in the room, yes alright Canon have lowered the
resolution versus the mark 2 by 0.1 of a megapixel seriously if you're that
bothered about that resolution changed this is not the camera for you. It's been
designed for speed it's been designed for performance it's been designed to
get that image out there published online as quick as physically possible
and it does not miss a beat there so the key reason behind lowering the
resolution of the camera is to increase the low-light capability Canon have got
a hundred and two thousand four hundred max ISO on this camera and the reason
they can afford to do that the reason the image quality can now cope with
going much higher into the ISO range is because of that all-important point one
resolution drop it makes the pixel density even better each pixel slightly
larger and it really does cope so much better in low light than the mark 2 did
just from that small change
yeah I stopped becauseI thought he was going to kill me
okay folks so one of the key things with this camera has always been autofocus it
leads the industry of the autofocus performance and the mark 3 does not
disappoint how Canon have done this I have no idea however they did it though
it is amazing they've managed to embed some of the mirrorless technologies into
the optical viewfinder it's like some sort of Star Trek holographic viewfinder
now you've got this amazing autofocus that moves seamlessly across and it just
looks like it's floating there there's no fixed autofocus points for you to see
they're all there you can just skip across them it does face detection and
face tracking through the optical viewfinder there's no need to have to
stand there using the screen there's no EVF on this camera there's no
lag it's a true hardcore DSLR built for nothing but performance and the
autofocus backs that up one hundred and ten percent
all right what are going to do is put the new the focus to the test it's got a deep learning
algorithms set in here so that it ideally ignores all this foreground that we're
buried in and maintains a constant tracking on you as you come through here
sweet. Not a great shot but it does the test. Here he comes so picked
him up nice and early
still tracking through still with him straight through all that undergrowth
the focus points picked him up literally soon as he cleared that corner and
despite the tree the other tree all this stuff that keeps smacking me in the face
didn't miss him a single beat there that was pretty awesome.I wish I hadn't actually
taken any photos and just watched the the tracking. Okay guys so we tried shooting
this sequence a couple of times now because I wasn't a hundred percent
convinced and what I've discovered is Canon have put deep learning algorithm
into the 1dx mark 3. Now it doesn't mean that it's you got you know artificial
intelligence. It learns on the job it's pre-programmed to understand
different movements different subjects and what I've found a couple of times is
I mean don't get me wrong you're not going to embed yourself in the bushes in
the trees like this I did it purely to test the capability of this focusing and
what I'm finding is if I pick Harry up literally in the apex of the corner it's
fine. It will track him past all the obstacles with no interruptions if I
leave it just a split second longer it's almost like the algorithm doesn't have
enough time to understand the speed the movement the direction of the subject
and when I get to around this central point here it's fine here it's fine here
but this central point it just tends to drop the focus slightly and it starts to
pick up on on this lovely little tree that keeps smacking me in the face so I
mean don't get me wrong it is brilliant and I could see myself if I pitch
side at a football match and I've got people running backwards and forwards
it's going to understand what's going on so much easier because there's so much
more time involved in obtaining that first point to focus I mean folks this
really isn't a negative this does not mark against the camera at all we're
deliberately forcing it to go wrong we know what Canon have done with the
technology we've been briefed we understand how it's supposed to work so
I am deliberately making it go wrong it's user more than the camera itself
because out of the sequence of shots that we have done three or four times
it's been passed now there's only one where it's missed it. Every other time
has been absolutely perfect
yeah that's pretty cool so the auto area AF not something I
normally use but in this instance you've got a single point of reference it locks
on and then suddenly you get sort of six or eight boxes depending on the subject and
they trace up that person it's finding his head even with the helmet on and
we're told that with helmet and goggles this will still identify the face and
that's through the optical viewfinder I mean I can't go over that I've been
luckily enough to shoot with the a9, a9 mark 2 - and you know I thought that
especially on the mark 2 - you know the eye detection and the AF on that was
gonna really struggle to be beaten but I'll tell you what Canon of they've
outdone themselves this time they really have
so that was that was really cool can we do it again
so while Harry goes and gets set let me just quickly run you through a few extra
bits of the camera so the auto focus has been blinding literally it's just
unbelievable whether it's the optical viewfinder I can't say enough nice
things about this camera in terms of the autofocus and I think a lot of that is
driven by the dedicated Digic 8 processor Canon have really really
stepped up the game when it comes to autofocus on this camera that coupled
with the speed and you know you hopefully will see it stop-motion shots
of what we've just done with Harry we're going to do a few more anyway so you'll
see one of the sequences coming up now we're shooting those at 16 frames a
second in the high-speed burst and we can do this because the JPEG format
continuously that was really awesome head on locked on the focus just held a
finger down there 16 frames a second just let it do its thing just held it
continuously and it tracked the focus across every single jump
we've got you're right in focus getting closer and closer to the camera up to
the point where I panicked because I didn't think you're going to turn the
corner to be honest mate, I don't know how many frames we've got there we've got a good
number of frames there's got to be probably 40 50 frames there every single
one is In Focus. That is is awesome
hi folks so next up my favorite feature I mean I've only played with it for a
couple of hours now but I can't get over this option it's such a huge upgrade
from the mark 2 and that is the introduction that what's known as the
smart control now the smart controller in layman's terms looks like an inverted
optical mouse sensor that's fitted to the AF on button. Now this is this for me
is game-changing because with the the focus in either single point zonal
expanded area pretty much anything other than the auto area I can attain focus
press the button down and then just by rolling the thumb on that sensor move
which focus point is active while it is still focusing now some of you are
probably sat there going well what would be the point in now I'm going to focus
on the subject and I want the camera to do all the you know all the fun stuff
for me I mean if I'm shooting football for example and I want to switch from
Player to Player I don't want to have to constantly lift off re obtain focus or
try and move the camera around too much I might have a beautiful set up you know
we've got lovely sunsets going on at the moment I just want to be able to go
right I'm locked on that player but now I want to keep focused and drag it to
that player or that face to that face you know car to car at the track the
ability just to roll your thumb on that sensor and change that focusing point
with live AF I mean why we didn't think of this 20 years ago it absolutely
changed the world of photography is unbelievable
so it's not something I use very often but given the advancements they've made
with the 1D X mark 3 I thought I'd give this live view a go largely for the 20
frames a second you probably heard I didn't use 20 frames a second here it's
quite often difficult for me just to continuously rinse a memory card like
that but mainly just to see what the the key difference between autofocus
performance was a much like through the OVF it did it exactly how they say it's
going to do it now we're pretty confident this is a pre-production model
and despite that it still did the face detection it still picked him up coming
forward with the helmet on so it's really easy and seamless to keep the
focus as he's approaching and then moving past me and had I had the wanton
desire to I could have just literally held my finger down on there and you're
just gonna get that constant machine gun up 20 frames a second non-stop we're in
JPEG unlimited buffer Tony's got us all these photos out so I'm gonna hold my
finger down for some fun. We've now come to the end of our time with the the 1d x marks
3 it's been pretty awesome well it's not been pretty awesome it's been amazing
if you're a pro photographer get your hands on it now no question you've got
to do it it's worth it, it's genuinely worth it if you're an enthusiast
seriously consider it, genuinely seriously consider it look at it check
that autofocus even as an amateur go out and see what it can offer if you've got
a burning hole in your pocket with a water cache you've got to invest it will
transform your photography and last you a lifetime I hope you've enjoyed
watching we've certainly enjoyed our time with the camera and until next time
we'll see you then