Day at the track: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II samples

I still wonder why people are surprised that a 2016 6K Camera performance is awesome!

The 1DX II is a great camera, probably the best out there, but it is $6000, without a lense.

How much money did the photographer that did the photos for this review get?

Interesting

Canon colour - I wish all sensors had it!

...of course it's the particular magic of the colour bayer filters over the sensor.

I'm still seeing that harsh RGB digital colour from the Sony sensors - yet probably will be ordering the K-1! - really wish it had the Canon colour ...and no I don't think RAW processing can emulate Canon colour.

Come on Sony, listen to photographers not scientists!!

Canon, great job, DR nearly there.

Good pictures in an overcast situation

Lovely samples: nice realistic color/tones and clean yet detailed images typical of Canon sensors. I know Sony and the like rank the highest these days in terms of sensor performance on paper, but in the field Canon still delivers the best looking output no question.

Surely not a true test of this new camera. I've shot the equivalent of this with my old Nikon D70.

This is a good effort to show the capabilities of 1DxII in the hands of experienced casual photographer. Very good indeed.
Would like to also see some pictures in more demanding venues like indoor sports or even a macro and wildlife photography which this camera should be excellent at.
Overall, very pleasing results.

Shallow DOF sports and action shots would be a much better test of this cameras capabilities. Almost none included in these samples

I like these samples compared to other junk that has been available for download lately.

These actually show a nice color balance and files that seem easy to work with. Then again, light was perfect and any camera should do fine in that department. But it is still a mystery why the tint slider still goes down to -20 or so when using anything but the Adobe Standard profile. This must be some sort of bug in LR.

The only thing I miss is more "canon punch" in the color response, but that can be adjusted to taste in the profile of course. I think Canon and Adobe deliberately dialed down the colors so that they don't start to bleed when users start to lift shadows like an 8 year old playing with his new toy! :-D

I would love to see how it performs in capturing MMA fights.

Next time try shooting wide open for a change, you are not inches away from the subject. Don't be shy.

Isn't the point is to see accurate the camera focusing is? why shooting everything at F5.6 on a 70-200mm? Forgot how to use aperture?

Very good set of a difficult action subject.

We do get a feeling how the camera performs but it is obvious the light was not the best to work with.

At this offer level, it has probably come to a point where third party appraisals are not enough and one actually has to use the equipment to see how much an improvement it might be from the previous interaction.

mmmm these images tell me more about the photographer than they do about the camera.....

Motocross is not so hard to shoot. I did fine with a Pentax K-3 and screwdrive AF lenses. In fact I even switched to catch in focus or simply prefocus and got shots just as good as when I was using AF. I doubt my keeper rate was as good though. :-P

I think with motox you need to either have fast glass and open it up or use a slowish shutter speed and pan to get notable shots. It's easy to get carried away with FPS and come home with thousands of pics that all look more or less the same (boring). The trick is knowing when to shoot and from what perspective.

It seems to track fine in the conditions it was used in but I don't see anything many lesser DSLRs or mirrorless cameras couldn't do here.

I want to see what seperates this camera from the ones mere mortals use.

Why are most bike shots at f5,6 ? To much DOF, almost looks like its been shot from a camera with 1/2.3" sensor, background way to sharp. Only pic 4 has a nicely blurred background, because it was shot at f2,8. Pic 3 is also nice, still f5.6, but closer.

I'll probably cop some flak for this but I'm quite unimpressed with these. I shoot motocross quite a bit with a 7D and yeah, it's hard to photograph well, but these are not that great.

This does make me feel better about my 7D though, which I generally don't care for. Seems it's not as awful as I thought :P

Decent pictures, but honestly, they are easy targets, many bikes were moving parallel to the frame, and they have distinct shapes and patterns. I'd say an entry level DSLR can do the same with the same lens, only lower FPS

If you want to be taxing on the AF, shoot a dog (I always do it, and the AF always jumps to the collar rather than the eyes)

Nice photos but most cameras can shoot well in good light. Please show us some low light action.

This is so good for SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHERS!!!!

don't want to be gloomy, but I can't help but to be disappointed in the shots, nothing about the camera, but not a single panning shot?!

general sports looks cool shot "frozen" (like football or swimming), but motorsports ought to "feel fast".

About the camera itself, can't see how anybody couldn't use the mk1 to shoot the same set.

Good shots. Would like to see some oncoming shots in series to see if will grab focus and hold focus at 14fps. Side shots are a lot easier, especially with sky in the background.

Good stuff, Don.

I'm concerned by the amount of postprocessing that needs to be done with all these new cameras because it seems like none of them can nail the correct exposure. And it's not just this Canon. Looking at the meta-data from all these cameras it seems like you guys are constantly dialing in exposure compensation in the field, and are still having to come home and do more exposure twiddling in ACR.