BebuLamar

But you know the piece of hardware is quite different from a person. Although I do asked them and got good answers but it's very difficult to get answers out of them and it did take a lot of time. I spent almost a whole year asking how a Noritsu printer did the color balance and exposure when printing color negative on RA-4 paper.

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

Try this: creativelive.com and look for John Greengo's video on the 1-DX. You have an amazing piece of gear that does more than most other cameras. It takes a while to get through the menus but there is much to learn. I was slightly overwhelmed by mine until Greengo showed how to utilize its features. Ken Rockwell did a review and calls it "three cameras in one" because it allows for three different camera settings all at the same time. Say for instance you wanted to shoot fast action at the ball park and still be able to shoot close-ups of spectators at night. You set the camera up under C1 for high-speed shots, then set it up again under C2 for the close-ups. C3 is the third option. Just a turn of the mode selector and you have another camera at your disposal. Canon blew people out of the water with it, and it took several years for it to need an upgrade. If you study the Olympics you can see the timeline unfold. Canon's 1D series gets "Olympic" treatment every 4 years. Best wishes for you and the "new" camera. You might not ever need another, it's THAT good!

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

Paul, I had the manual blown up to book-size and it is 2 1/2 inches thick. A camera such as the 1Dx does a lot and requires a lot of verbiage to explain, as you well know.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Excellent sources for a start! I was about to suggest almost the same. The CreativeLive John Greengo video courses are excellent start and he usually provides “makes sense” setup suggestions.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

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kcooke Loc: Alabama

I don’t own a 1D series camera but I do have a 7D MKII. The focusing system is extremely complex and is very similar to the 1D series. You have been given some advice and Google can be your friend to help setting it up for sports/action shooting. If I was in your shoes the first order of business besides getting the manual would be to perform a factory reset since it was a used camera. Then build your settings from there. Someone mention C1 C2 C3. These are great because once you get it set the way you want it you can save to these and recall at any time

compilot Loc: ARIZONA

I have learned more ab out my camera by watching YOUTUBE videos. Most are by experienced photographers who have a lot of experience with the camera. Go to YOUTUBE.COM, Put your camera's model in the search box and enjoy. Good Luck.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I would set the shutter speed to 800 to 1000, the aperture to 8 and let the ISO float. Then be sure you're on shutter speed priority.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

That is one of the most advanced cameras made today. You might have started with one of Canons less advanced cameras and mastered that first. There is way too much to explain to you in a blog here. You would be better off doing a lot of browsing in Youtube on that camera body.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Oy, and a Ham Sandwich!

MichaelMcGrath Loc: Ireland

It will shoot at ten frames a second, set that. Set shutter priority at not less than a thousandth of a second, depending on the light, whack up the ISO if needs be to compensate for increasing the shutter sped. For a field game like football you need at least a 300mm lens. Tripod if you don't use a VR lens. Fire away!

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Go on line and down load the manual.

MJPerini

Re the 1Dx, what Canon's 1 series (and Nikon's D3 [4,5,6])
As top of the line Cameras what they give you more than anything else is control. In some cases, it feels like 'too much control'. But the thing to remember is that no one uses all of it, but everyone uses a different subset of the control available.
Set the camera to factory defaults, so that you will know that you are starting from the base state described in the manual. Use it that way for a bit. Then think about the kind of photography you want to do and take one feature at a time and set it up while taking non critical test pictures. Make notes. See what the adjustments do. Only change default settings when you find a reason to do so that makes it better and easier to use for the kind of pictures you take. There are lots of on line tutorials on 'How to set up a 1Dx for 'X'" Some are good and some are not, but you want to view them NOT to copy their settings as much as why and when they use a particular setting. Then once you have a better understanding of what you really want, then set it up that way and try it.
Canon has lots of on line tutorials as well. The Goal is to understand the camera settings well enough to make it easier to get the pictures you want. It is a great camera with a learning curve to match it's cababilities. If you do that work, you will be rewarded. Good Luck

Art J

There is a lots of talk about the mirrorless
Sony and Nikon camera. How does Canon
rate ?
ArtCon

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Canon sells more total cameras worldwide than Sony and Nikon combined. Sony is leading in specifically mirrorless cameras. Both industry leaders #1 Canon and #2 Sony are outpacing #3 Nikon in the area of mirrorless. Sony leads overall in 2020, selling slightly more than 5 mirrorless cameras to Canon's slightly less than 5 cameras to Nikon's only 1 mirrorless camera. (Sony - 1.15million, Canon 1.05m, Nikon 250k).