Canon 1dx parameters and how many pixels (when? How about the video)

Today, I will bring you the relevant evaluation of Canon EOS- 1D X Mark III. This camera was released on June 7, 2020. It is a flagship SLR camera with superior strength. The flagship SLR camera, with its powerful dynamic capture capability and excellent high-sensitivity performance, is the most important combat weapon for professional photographers in sports venues. Canon camera is the strongest flagship camera in recent two years.

At present, only Canon, Nikon and Sony are the battlefields of flagship cameras. Canon-1D X Mark III has been upgraded greatly, and almost all the functional points of the fuselage have been upgraded. On the other hand, Sony A9 II and Nikon D6 next door adopted a relatively conservative upgrade strategy this time.

As for the actual performance of 1DX Mark III, I think the advantages of this camera are as follows:

1. This camera is excellent in high sensitivity, and it has a very high usability under ISO 12800 and a certain usability under ISO 25600.

2. Brand-new 19 1 point focusing system with wide focusing coverage and sensitive focusing response.

3. Full-pixel dual-core real-time viewfinder, fast and sensitive focusing, supporting eye focusing.

4, continuous shooting speed up to 20fps, and is a mechanical shutter, so don't worry about jelly # 039.

Continuous shooting's endurance is the most amazing. After testing, when using the 5 12GB CFexpress high-speed card, it can continuously shoot 10 136 original JPG pictures.

6. Video shooting supports 5.5K 60P RAW format, and the format is CRM, which is the same as that of C series cameras.

7. Improved network transmission and remote control performance.

Flagship SLR cameras are mainly used in extreme environments such as sports photography, outdoor photography and bird photography. Therefore, this camera needs a more durable body design and stronger focus driving force. In terms of maneuverability, 1DX Mark III, as a full-size SLR body, can operate flexibly in various shooting environments and shoot freely.

For this camera, I gave a high score of 9.5, which is the highest score I gave to the camera body in the last two years.

Let's actually test this camera.

First of all, the fuselage design

Canon 1DX Mark III is a full-size SLR camera with a complete vertical handle design and a body weight of 1440g. For this level of camera, not only the performance of the fuselage is emphasized, but also the shooting control of the fuselage and the feeling of shooting with a super telephoto lens. This camera has a very good grip, and it won't be tired even if it is used for a long time with a telephoto lens of more than 400 mm

As far as the camera body design is concerned, the design elements of this camera are very similar to 1DX Mark II. Compared with other series, Canon flagship machine is more resolute. There are many custom buttons on the front of the fuselage, and photographers can use these buttons to set the button logic suitable for their own scenery shooting.

The back of the camera adopts a very classic button layout, and the button layout of Canon cameras has been relatively stable. Almost any Canon camera user can quickly use 1DX Mark III. The upper part of the fuselage is a common button design, and the lower handle position also includes a sub-screen, as well as AF-ON, exposure lock and focus mode switching buttons. Moreover, there is a switch that can turn on or off the buttons of the portrait handle to avoid accidental touch. It is worth noting that the AF-ON button of this camera adopts a brand-new design, and the button feels better.

On the top of the camera, there are mode selection buttons, shooting mode switching buttons and metering mode selection buttons on the left. On the right is a very classic Canon camera button layout.

The memory card of this camera adopts double CFexpress card slots to meet the needs of high-speed continuous shooting and actual shooting. The card has a locking device, which needs to be unlocked before it can be opened. This is the consistent design of 1D series.

The interfaces of the camera are very rich, not only the conventional TYPE-C, microphone, earphone interface, but also the network cable interface on the flagship machine.

Finally, in terms of battery, the camera battery model is LP-E 19, which can take 2,850 photos or 2 hours and 20 minutes of 4K video. But in fact, if it is a high-speed capture, the camera's shooting life can be longer.

Second, the image quality test

Next, let's take a look at the actual test of Canon 1D X Mark III. Let's talk about the imaging quality of the camera first. The original sensitivity of this camera is ISO 100- 102400, and the ultra-high sensitivity of 8 19200 can be achieved by expanding the sensitivity. Let's take a look at the actual high sensitivity performance of this camera. Because of the wide sensitivity range, let's take a look at the image quality performance of ISO 100-6400.

For this camera, the usability of ISO 6400 is very high, and it can achieve relatively good noise control performance no matter day or night. Above ISO 6400, it enters the high sensitivity range. Let's look at the highly sensitive noise control of ISO 12800-8 19200.

At ISO 5 1200, the image quality of the camera began to decline sharply, so the highest usable range of this camera is probably ISO 25600. However, for sports photography, shooting is far better than shooting, so ISO 5 1200 or even ISO 102400 can try extreme shooting.

Let's take a look at the high sensitivity performance of the camera in the actual shooting process. This photo was taken by ISO 1000. The details of the picture are quite rich and the noise is within the acceptable range.

This is a night photo taken by ISO 6400. Because it is night, this photo has many black areas, which is much noisier than the test environment, but the camera still shows good noise control ability.

The following photo was taken with ISO 12800. In terms of lighting, this photo was taken with only a few street lamps. At this sensitivity, the image quality of the camera is not bad. In the extremely dark environment, the camera can sacrifice certain picture details in exchange for a relatively pure picture.

Let's take a look at the tolerance test of 1D X Mark III. First, let's look at the tolerance of ISO 100.

The performance of tolerance surprised me. The tolerance performance of this camera is quite good. Under the rules of ISO 100, when you win there, don't make too much noise and color cast when playing the fifth gear. It can be said that the tolerance performance of this camera is excellent.

We use high sensitivity to test the tolerance, and the tolerance of the camera is still good. Under ISO 3200, we can brighten the dark part by 2 levels and still have good picture quality. For high sensitivity tolerance, this performance is quite good.

Three. Performance of continuous shooting

Before focusing, let's talk about continuous shooting. The continuous shooting performance of this camera can be said to have exceeded the camera's limit. In addition to this camera, Sony A9 has the longest battery life in continuous shooting, which can reach 362 JPG battery life or 24 1 compressed original battery life. Canon 1D X Mark III can reach the endurance of more than 0,000 continuous shooting pictures in RAW JPG format/KLOC-0!

This is not the end. If you use a high-speed CFexpress card, such as the 512GB Sandisk Extreme CF Express card used in the test, you can realize a truly infinite continuous shooting! In practice, we can take more than 10000 photos. In the test, the author took photos of 10 and 136, even though the endurance was amazing.

In fact, the continuous shooting speed of the camera has also made a qualitative leap. Under the optical viewfinder of the camera, the continuous shooting speed can reach 16fps, and if the real-time viewfinder is used, that is, when the reflector is not working, the continuous shooting speed can reach 20fps.

It is worth noting that Canon's 20fps supports both mechanical shutter and electronic shutter, which means that this is the first camera that can realize the continuous shooting of 20fps mechanical shutter, so you don't have to worry about the jelly effect when shooting at high speed.

One more thing, the camera can record not only JPG format, but also 10-bit HEIF format, which can provide better photo tolerance than JPG format. However, there are not many late-stage software that can open HEIF at present. If you need to use HEIF, you can open the camera settings and HDR photos.

Fourth, focus on testing.

One of the most important upgrades of this camera is the brand-new focusing system, and both focusing systems of the camera have been upgraded.

Firstly, the 19 1 point focusing system under the optical viewfinder is described. The focusing system of this camera not only covers a wide range, but also has 155 cross focal points. It is the SLR camera with the most cross focus at present. The camera's focusing system also supports -4EV weak light focusing, which can realize dynamic capture even at night.

We can look at the success rate of capturing when the sensitivity soared to ISO 5 1200 in this extremely dark environment. When we intercept the details of 100%, we can see that the focus is still very solid.

Let's take a look at the success rate of regular shooting. We still use the most commonly used loop test method, namely 19 1 point focusing system under the optical viewfinder and continuous shooting speed of 16fps. We randomly intercepted four facial information, and the focus was very accurate. In this state, the success rate of focusing can be said to be 100%.

The next test is the focusing performance of the camera when there are obstacles. We also used cyclic testing, but added trees as objects around the stakes. Canon 1D X Mark III can also focus quickly when there are obstacles. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the best camera focusing system at present.

You can see more examples of this camera's focus test in actual combat. Whether shooting a moving scene or tracking birds, the camera's focusing system has almost no pressure.

It is worth noting that the 400,000-pixel RGB infrared photometric sensor owned by EOS- 1D X Mark III has improved the ability to capture and track people during autofocus, and the high-speed processing of the new DIGIC X processor has improved the main tracking performance of EOS iTR AF. Therefore, even if the face is blocked, the face and trunk can be locked in real time to ensure stable tracking and shooting. This is a great advantage for covering your face with a helmet to shoot sports events, such as fencing.

On the other hand, the camera's real-life focusing not only supports face recognition and eye focusing, but also has a very fast response speed and the display will not be delayed. Moreover, when the camera actually focuses, the focusing accuracy of S is very high.

Not only that, in the scene without characters, the real-life focus of Canon 1D X Mark III is also very powerful. Even if birds are tracked at dusk, the tracking can be successfully completed with a focal length of 20fps.

It is worth mentioning that this camera's real-life focusing system, although also full-pixel dual-core focusing, is indeed the fastest S-pixel dual-core focusing used by one of Canon authors. Canon EOS R5 also has such a real-life focus level, so R5 # 039 will also have a strong dynamic capture capability.

Verb video shooting

Although flagship machine camera is not a camera in the strict sense, the video function is equally important for sports reporters, especially in sports events, when remote control seats need to be set up, then the video performance is very critical.

Canon 1D X Mark III video shooting can support 5.5K 60P RAW format output, and the RAW file is12bit; Or 5.5K is used as oversampling, and the normal video format of 4K 60P is output. At the same time, if 4K video output is used, the camera can record the Canon C-Log curve.

The 5.5K video RAW of this camera is the same as that of Canon C series cameras. We can adjust it with Canon DPP software, just like adjusting RAW files and photos, and color the video. If you use plug-ins, you can also open CRM files directly through software such as Final Cut and Da Vinci.

We can look at Canon's actual resolution 5.5K video RAW format. At 5.5K resolution, the details are more delicate than 4K video.

However, it should be noted that if we shoot in the RAW format of 5.5K 60P, autofocus and electronic image stabilization are not supported. In other formats, the autofocus of Canon video shooting is actually very sensitive.

From the perspective of resolution and image quality, because the sensor and processor of this camera are very powerful, the video sensitivity of the camera is quite excellent, which is very suitable for shooting video in low light.

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The network performance of this camera has also been greatly upgraded. The camera has RJ45 network port and system extension terminal, and can be installed with WFT-E9C, which makes the camera have the function of 5G Wi-Fi transmission and has better efficiency.

In addition, the camera also has FTP transmission, which is the basic attribute of flagship machine. The camera is also equipped with a voice memo, which can help the photographer to quickly record the photo content information.

For Canon Connect mobile APP, Canon 1D X Mark III not only has faster transmission speed, but also supports more connection modes. When using the mobile APP to directly control the camera, the shooting efficiency is also higher.

Seven. Summaries and examples

If Canon 1D X Mark III is the strongest SLR camera at present, there is no problem at all. This camera can be said to have broken many camera restrictions. It has unparalleled continuous shooting performance and powerful focusing performance. No matter day or night, this camera can bring the most extraordinary dynamic capture ability.

The image quality of the camera is the most basic guarantee of combat effectiveness. This camera has excellent high sensitivity and can provide pure shooting quality when shooting at night. The tolerance of the camera is much better than we expected.

Although flagship machine is basically used for photo shooting, 1D X Mark III provides a very powerful video shooting capability. However, when shooting 5.5K RAW video, the code stream reaches 2700Mbps, and the file size per minute in the actual test is about 3 10Mb, which also puts high demands on the speed of the memory card.

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