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    YouTube Bird Photographers

    Also a guy to follow is Trond Westby think he’s from Norway
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    Donington no longer photographer friendly.

    You forgot one that boils my p*** “ Signage “ it’s everywhere warning this warning that grr
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    Photographing the London Marathon

    My wife ran the London marathon a few years ago I dropped her off at the start then I made my way to the Victoria monument in front of Buck house on the mall and stayed there. Think I arrived there about 0730, plenty happening from that time onwards and lots to photograph .. I pre arranged...
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Oh and BTW if you use Sandisc CFast cards, it is suggested by Sandisc that they be "sanitised" every so often to maintain optimum performance. I will shoot manual probably 90% of the time in raw and let the auto iso do its thing unless my background remains constant On the CFast card I've...
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    canon 400 2.8 is - repair anyone had?

    yes I had a 400 f2.8 is mk1 and had the mounting ring replaced, sent it in from Harrisons in Sheffield and I'm sure it was less that 300 quid :)
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Well bloody hell I've never noticed that , everyday is a school day lol, Any thoughts on af point selection using the eye ?
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Question what would you like on your 1D bodies ? For me I would love to have the option where the current time could be viewed in the viewfinder, if im out in a morning for a few hours doing some wildlife shots either hid in my makeshift hide or laid under my scrim net I would love to see the...
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    Canon AF options .. why not use AI Focus all the time?

    Not sure that the 1DX has even got the Al focus option I will check later
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Ive just bought a 600 mm f4 mk2 and like you haven't had any problems with lens over the years so have taken the plunge yet again and bought from digitalrev ordered 22 dec arrived on 28 dec , if it were to go wrong I ould always send it to fixation to fixed since ive saved over 2.3K on uk price
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    There is 7 enhancement as per the Canon web site although I'm not sure if I would need any of them but I just like to keep my camera up to date :)
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Thanks Neil somehow I seem to have muddled my way through it although I've had that many goes at it not sure how I've done it , doing 102 now , will try the latest version tomw night , deffo off to bed now
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Thanks George you would have thought I would have remembered from my 1dx days, yes I'm on windows so it looks like another night in bed trying to remember where I've gone wrong
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    ?? I can see a zipped folder but it will only allow me to send this to my memory, if I open it it only shows pdf instructions and as above card appears to have 40mb of info on it which is the same size as the firmware
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    Please help I'm going crazy trying to upload firmware to new camera but somewhere along the line I'm missing something :help: First of all I've removed both cards and used a old sandisk 8gb for the upload formatted the 8gb card in the camera next placed that card into a card reader and...
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    Canon 1D X Mk II Owners Thread

    And the fact that they DONT include a user manual :(
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