I held a 1DX

Big Mike · Oct 31, 2011

I was working a trade show and the Canon booth had the first Canadian appearance of the 1DX. So before the show was open to the public, I sauntered over and got my hands on it. Fairly impressive, but I'm not really all that familiar with 1 series bodies.
The exposure meter/scale was vertical, on the side of the view finder....that felt really odd.

ghache · Oct 31, 2011

did you play fapmaster after?

Compaq · Oct 31, 2011

MLeeK · Oct 31, 2011

JEALOUS!!! I am still trying out how to finagle my way into one of those suckers! Thankfully I have some time before it's finally released. Not that I think I'll figure it out, but a girl can dream.

gsgary · Oct 31, 2011

Light meter is vertical on all 1D's

mangtarn · Oct 31, 2011

did you try out the 12fps? they were firing them off like machine guns in japanese trade shows.

usayit · Oct 31, 2011

Yup... vertical meter... I liked it actually. In multi-spot, it marks each reading on the same scale and shifts it if you choose to do so.

Big Mike · Nov 1, 2011

did you try out the 12fps? they were firing them off like machine guns in japanese trade shows.

Yes I did...it was pretty cool.

Light meter is vertical on all 1D's

I wondered about that...but the Canon rep I was talking to...didn't know when I asked him about it.

They actually didn't know much about the new camera. They said that they didn't get a manual with it, and that they had to ship it back to Japan after the show.

I liked it actually. In multi-spot, it marks each reading on the same scale and shifts it if you choose to do so.

That may be the feature of one of the front buttons. I asked (and tried to figure out what the two (4 actually) buttons on the front of the body do. They didn't know but I easily deducted that one of them was DOF preview...but the other one would switch a highlighted box from one position to another, in the viewfinder. I thought maybe it was AF point selection, but it wouldn't move with any of the dials while the button was pressed, so I couldn't figure it out.