One is a still shot while the other is a 4K movie Frame Grab. I put the above two images by the EOS-1D X Mark II side by side. 4K Frame Grabs are of astoundingly high quality The camera is equipped with a more intuitive and practical AF function that even older lenses can benefit from. (text: Yasushi Sugawara)įrame grab taken from a 4K 60 fps movie. ![]() And with this, together with the dramatic improvement in AF capability, it’s small wonder that the camera has been launched in an Olympic year. This is probably what it all boils down to for the EOS-1D X Mark II. In this sense, it can be said that this is a dream camera, which allows you to capture the perfect moment, rather than have to chance upon it. You might only have had a 50% chance of doing so if you were shooting at the 4K speed of 50 fps/60 fps. You can capture even fast-moving wild birds at just the right moment-to the point where you would be able to extract the exact frame in post-production. And it is because of this that I believe that it is more apt to describe the EOS-1D X Mark II as an “ultra-high speed still camera” rather than a “movie shooter”.Īmazing performance is evident even when shooting in Full HD 100 fps/120 fps, which the EOS-1D X Mark II also supports. Indeed, the 50 fps/60 fps movies, which are a first for Canon’s full-frame cameras, turn out smoothly! If you were to break down the movies and look at them frame by frame, the quality of each individual frame is so high that, speaking as a movie footage creator, I would say that they are just as good as individually captured still photos. On the other hand, when it comes to 4K movies, those taken by the EOS-1D X Mark II are truly, conclusively movies. However, no matter how high the image quality is, individually, they are still more “movie-like pictures” than actual movies. The burst shots taken at the continuous shooting speed of 14 fps (16 fps in Live View mode) on the EOS-1D X Mark II have a continuity that is sufficient to form an animation-like clip if you were to stitch them together. The 4K movie shooting function on the EOS-1D X Mark II is, in a certain sense, slightly different from that on other still cameras to date. However, HDMI output is limited to Full HD.įirst Impressions: An “ultra-high speed still camera”-not a mere “movie shooter" 4K and Full HD 100p/120p videos are recorded on CFast 2.0.Ī cable protector is included among the bundled accessories to ensure that HDMI and other cables are kept in place. This makes Frame Grabs possible, in which a single image frame is extracted from a 4K movie and saved (in JPEG) all on the camera itself.ĭual slots for CF and CFast 2.0. Even though focusing in 4K Movie Shooting is said to be difficult, Movie Servo AF has been realised, and AF tracking can be carried out across the frame even when shooting at a high frame rate of 100p/120p in Full HD.ĤK movies are recorded in Motion JPEG, allowing for videos to be coded without compression between frames. In terms of its functions, this is also the first time that Dual Pixel CMOS AF has been adopted in a 35mm full-frame DSLR. ![]() ![]() With the launch of Canon’s flagship DSLR, the EOS-1D X Mark II, movie shooting is now possible in 4K at 50p/60p, and in Full HD at 100p/120p. Shoot movies in 4K at 50p/60p, and in Full HD at 100p/120p Be astounded by the high quality images of fast-moving wild birds extracted from 4K Movies shot on the camera! (Edited by: Video Salon) Following the launch of Canon’s flagship model, the EOS-1D X Mark II in February 2016, I share my first impressions of the camera’s movie shooting functions.
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