1D X Tips and Tricks

[Jonathan Huyer]

I clean my sensor fairly often. My APS-C cameras only very rarely get dust, but my 1D X attracts it like a Swiffer. Rocket Blower, Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly and a Sensor Loupe are all I've needed (I have Sensor Stamps just in case).

My 1DXII has been very good so far at avoiding dust. Mind you, most of the time I use it for wildlife photography and I'm shooting with a wide open aperture, which makes all but the worst dust spots unnoticeable. I agree with Neuro's protocol for cleaning, in the exact order that he lists. The sensor stamps work very well, but I'd try all the other methods first.

[apersson850]

Basically allows changing parameters with one of the wheels instead of two while staying in M mode and keeping the chosen exposure constant.

Which is exactly what happens already, if you use P mode with locked exposure. So the functionality is almost there already in the camera, just not combined with a completely manual mode.

[Joel Eade]

I attempted to download the new guide for 1DX autofocus. It opens fine but doesn't seem to actually download to my phone. Any ideas?

[neuroanatomist]

I attempted to download the new guide for 1DX autofocus. It opens fine but doesn't seem to actually download to my phone. Any ideas?

What phone?

It's a .pdf file, when accessing it on my iPhone I can tap to open it in iBooks, or download it on my Mac and sync it to the phone via iTunes.

Nice format, and the navigation is very good.

[Joel Eade]

It's an iPhone 5

[neuroanatomist]

It's an iPhone 5

Weird. Once the file opened in Safari, I tapped on it and got the prompt to 'Open in iBooks...' which saves it to the PDF section.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

you have to wait for it to load, took a while for it to load on my iPhone 5 on AT&T LTE, if you still have problem give me your email and I'll send it to you.

[Colin500]

And just think of the possibilities! Automatic in-camera AFMA? Somebody will write a script for that! Want to do an automatic sunrise picture sequence? Write a script that starts shooting when the light arrives! Want the two wheels to do aperture and ISO instead of exposure time and aperture? Just change the function that's called for the wheels! All buttons would be mappable to any script. You'd be really free to let your camera do whatever you want. If you don't have the programming experience, odds are, somebody else with the same requirements will, or you can find and pay somebody to do whatever you need. The internet would be full of scripts, and here on TDP there'd be a well-chosen selection of them :-)