Canon 1DX - Official Owners Thread

andyst2409 said:
just about to join the club (ordering my 1dx tonight for Tuesday delivery), just wanted to ask if anyone had any problems with it in regards to hooking it up with the older supertele's (as i'll be hooking mine up to my old 600mm mk1 and on occasion 1.4x mk2). I only ask as I seem to recall a firmware update to address such a problem but cant remember if it was for the dx or another of canons bodies.

ta in adv
Andy
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I have a 1Dx and a 600mm mk1 and they hook up no problem. The 1.4 mk2 works fine too :thumbs:

PS welcome to the club
 
nigpd said:
I have a 1Dx and a 600mm mk1 and they hook up no problem. The 1.4 mk2 works fine too :thumbs:

PS welcome to the club
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EXCELLENT! that removes my 1 and only worry. Thank you for the quick reply :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

cant wait to photograph wildlife with this.... Africa here I come :) (well early next year :D )
 
andyst2409 said:
EXCELLENT! that removes my 1 and only worry. Thank you for the quick reply :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

cant wait to photograph wildlife with this.... Africa here I come :) (well early next year :D )
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nigpd said:
Should be able to get close enough to the wildlife with that combo :thumbs:

Mind you, with that combo, you could probably see it from here :D
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Whats the battery life like Nige, when focussing a big lump like that all day ?
 
The 1Dx was picked up today by UPS so should bewith Canon on Monday and they said it should be back in 2-3 days that may be with me being a CPS gold member.
 
They just want the camera body, no battery etc. I packed mine in loads of bubble wrap in a plain cardboard box.
 
Icee said:
The 1Dx was picked up today by UPS so should bewith Canon on Monday and they said it should be back in 2-3 days that may be with me being a CPS gold member.
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sent mine to canon a few times (not 1dx but other bodies) they usualy send a link to a UPS label.. this time its just an email with address and ups number.. is that what you got.. no atatchment and no link to a UPS label ?
 
KIPAX said:
sent mine to canon a few times (not 1dx but other bodies) they usualy send a link to a UPS label.. this time its just an email with address and ups number.. is that what you got.. no atatchment and no link to a UPS label ?
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Yes. When the UPS guy picked it up he had a big sticky label with all the details on that he stuck on the box, job done. according to the tracking mine will be there on Monday.
 
Mine's back with Canon now. CPS rep told me it was an issue with oil in the mirror mechanism. But NOT the one I had told him I'd experienced (loads of spattered oil on the sensor) but it is apparently a problem with too LITTLE oil. If that's the case, I guess it could dry up and seize after a while.
 
mrjinxx said:
Mine's back with Canon now. CPS rep told me it was an issue with oil in the mirror mechanism. But NOT the one I had told him I'd experienced (loads of spattered oil on the sensor) but it is apparently a problem with too LITTLE oil. If that's the case, I guess it could dry up and seize after a while.
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Haaa... I just recently found my sensor is a complete disgusting mess... I nearly always shoot around f4 or wide open.. f5.6 at cricket... but recently i shot the sky at f32 and couldnt believe what I saw... the mess isnt apparent wide open but it is a real mess.. was going to put a note in and ask for the shutter to be cleaned and if not then get it cleaned when its back.....
 
Icee said:
Yes. When the UPS guy picked it up he had a big sticky label with all the details on that he stuck on the box, job done. according to the tracking mine will be there on Monday.
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Cheers Iain
 
Lol, I keep meaning to sit down and run through with people to get this working
 
my 1dx will not work with fuji cf cards, Dont know why but it seems they dont like each other. I had to send two back to WEX and i now have a new sandisk which works fine, as do a old kingston card, sandisk and a card from calumet.
 
I got a confirmation email from Canon this morning saying they had my 1Dx.
 
Regarding this recall malarky, when the mk 2 super teles had the software update last year, did Canon pick up the shipping tab as they seem to be doing here?
 
Got an email tonight to say my 1Dx is on the way back, all being well it should be back tomorrow.
 
Icee said:
Got an email tonight to say my 1Dx is on the way back, all being well it should be back tomorrow.
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I wonder if they will clean my snesor as I have asked them to...hhhm Mine landed at canon today...
 
George said:
Regarding this recall malarky, when the mk 2 super teles had the software update last year, did Canon pick up the shipping tab as they seem to be doing here?
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Anybody????........
 
How long after filling in the form on the web site were you guys contacted and they collect the camera?

I did the necessary last week and still haven't heard a dicky bird from them.
 
Ploddles said:
How long after filling in the form on the web site were you guys contacted and they collect the camera?

I did the necessary last week and still haven't heard a dicky bird from them.
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next day I think...yeagh pretty sure next day.. certainly wihtin 48hrs
 
George said:
Anybody????........
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I had both my 600 and 300 upgraded but, since I live 5 min away from Canon Elstree, I took them and collected them. So, sadly, I can't help. :(
 
Ploddles said:
How long after filling in the form on the web site were you guys contacted and they collect the camera?

I did the necessary last week and still haven't heard a dicky bird from them.
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If you are not a CPS member like me, they took around a week to send a email. With a date of nearly a week later to collect. But as I am hols and other things I can not be around for collect till mid july. One thing I will say due to the way filters are set on my email system it got marked as spam. Hope that helps.

Ray
 
I was sent an email last Friday and as I had not heard anything yesterday I called them and arranged everything. They are collecting on Tuesday 2nd July (as i need it on the 1st) via UPS and to speed things up it is going to Fixation for repair, as a gold CPS member I'm hoping the turn around should be 2-3 days.
 
IGADIZ said:
I had both my 600 and 300 upgraded but, since I live 5 min away from Canon Elstree, I took them and collected them. So, sadly, I can't help. :(
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Ivan, did they charge you for the update?

Kipax, there was a software update on all the super tells approx last year some time, if you want I'll look out the link and post it but it may be that your lens was newer than that, Ivan got his pretty early on and it may only be the first few that were affected.

Sent my 1 Dx form off yesterday, they told me I'd get an email today some time from 2nd level support:shrug::shrug:
 
Icee said:
Got an email tonight to say my 1Dx is on the way back, all being well it should be back tomorrow.
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UPDATE just got another email from Canon to say my camera missed the pickup so it's going to be Thursday for delivery now.
 
George said:
Ivan, did they charge you for the update?

Kipax, there was a software update on all the super tells approx last year some time, if you want I'll look out the link and post it but it may be that your lens was newer than that, Ivan got his pretty early on and it may only be the first few that were affected.

Sent my 1 Dx form off yesterday, they told me I'd get an email today some time from 2nd level support:shrug::shrug:
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Firmware update was done free of charge.
 
George said:
Kipax, there was a software update on all the super tells approx last year some time, if you want I'll look out the link and post it but it may be that your lens was newer than that, Ivan got his pretty early on and it may only be the first few that were affected.:
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never heard of this.. my 400m is just about 3 yrs old now.. brand new july 2010
 
richardhurst said:
as a gold CPS member I'm hoping the turn around should be 2-3 days.
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platinum member here.. now wed and no notification that its done or coming back yet..but they only took it monday.. got it tuesday.. so today is day 1....

I queried this with them some time ago for a different job and they reckon the turnaround days is from the day after they recieve it..
 
George said:
Thanks, Ivan.
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Any time George :).
What got me intrigued is that lens firmware is user upgradable (via compatible EOS body).

So I don't know why they didn't provide a file download and instead wanted the lenses at the service centre. :shrug:
 
Ziploc said:
If you are not a CPS member like me, they took around a week to send a email. With a date of nearly a week later to collect. But as I am hols and other things I can not be around for collect till mid july. One thing I will say due to the way filters are set on my email system it got marked as spam. Hope that helps.

Ray
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I'm a Platinum CPS member so I thought I should have heard from them by now. Time to drop them an email I think. Cheers.
 
KIPAX said:
never heard of this.. my 400m is just about 3 yrs old now.. brand new july 2010
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Ah if it's a mk1 then it doesn't apply, if a mk 2 then chances are it will need the software upgrade, although I don't know what difference it makes.
 
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