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ABOVE: Reidsville, NC. An addition to downtown, this pavilion functions as a weekend market
and a place from which residents can watch concerts.

ent camera bodies constitutes exhaustive ex- Servo auto focus system, the 1Dx would serve

perience, I can say that the speed of the 1Dx well for photographing quick-action events
is unparalleled in our opinion. The fact is, the such as sports and NASCAR.

1Dx focuses faster than any other camera we Also new with the 1Dx is an expanded ISO
have ever used. In the case of Canon's 85mm range: 50 to 50,200. Coming from the world of

L Series lens (F:1.2), there was no delay in fo- the 1Ds Mark II and III (where ISO is limited
cusing. (When we use this particular lens with to a max of 3200), the expanded range of the

the 1D Mark II and III we often experience sig- 1Dx was liberating. As the photos in this article
nificant delays, as the camera just can't seem show, we were able to work in urban settings

to "lock on.") The auto focus mechanism of the with nothing but ambient light at an aperture
1Dx is unbelievably fast. Using AI Servo, the of 8 and shutter speeds of 1/100th of a second

auto focus adjusted as quickly as we moved the and faster. While we were on the top level of
camera. a parking deck, I was able to use the Canon

Burst mode is 17 frames per second. To us, 100-400mm L Series lens to photograph a car
this is breathtaking. Using our Hoodman 600X moving through an intersection about a half

UDMA cards, the time from shutter release to a mile away as though it were stopped in the
image committed to memory card was so fast middle of the intersection. (See photo on op-

that we may have been able to exceed the 17 posite page.)
frames per second. Coupled with the new AI

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