Wonderful shots

I live in Knoxville and really enjoy making that drive as well as other locations in the Smoky Mountains. Great Picture

Thanks RSS - I am going on 11 years here and just loving every minute of it. I enjoy keeping busy doing whatever I can, although my medical problems do kind of keep me a little slowed down. At 76, I look forward to every day and just whatever it has in store for me - although so many Dr's appts at times that keep me off track. Hope you are enjoying your retirement also.

You must be reading my mind - have been so busy since getting this camera that I have not had any time at all to really learn more about the camera. This is the first time that I have had time to really look at the manual, and I was just reading that (microadjustment) and how to use it. Hopefully tomorrow will give me some time to really dig into that and go from there. Don't let anyone tell you that retirement will give you lots of time to "play around" because it hasn't worked for me. Maybe I am just too involved to really be retired.

Anyway - thanks for you reply, I will eventually get this camera set up correct and the "microadjustment" is certainly on my list. Only had a chance to use the camera this weekend at the hockey game and then haven't had a chance to even pick it up....

Thanks - appreciate it!

Not sure what you mean by "micro adjustment".

Would luv to have them here in Knoxville, but all we have is a minor league - Southern Professional Hockey - yes we do have hockey here in the south...!

I take about 1000 action pictures at each hockey game (home only) and after post processing and editing I upload around 150 or so. Taking that many pictures in a short time results in a lot of duplicate shots (especially at 14 FPS) so they get deleted and some that might be a little fuzzy that don't get used. Over that last 15 years taking pictures of our local Professional Hockey Team, I have taken around 500,000 pictures and this is my 3rd camera during that time.

I was going to slow down this year and retire from taking game pictures, but after the first game without a camera in my hands - I just had to get back at it again and just give up on the idea of "slowing down".....

OK - I am going to try a picture, never done t his before so this will be my first try at one of the hockey game pictures. Don't pick on me now!
I do notice that the focus isn't sharp on here for some reason. Not sure why that is.

I guess it looks better when it is downloaded.

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Used same lens that I have for my 7DMKII - Canon 70-200 F/2.8 EF Lens - That was one thing that I wanted to be sure of that my EF lenses would work on the 1DXMMII. Also have a Canon 24-70 F/2.8 EF Lens which I haven't tried yet. The 70-200 worked quite well, especially for hockey, which I use it for more often than anything else. The 24-70 will more than likely be my "carry round" lens.

I will try a picture or two later.

Thanks for all of the comments, I must say after playing with it for the last several days it is one SUPER camera. Now I don't feel bad about spending the money for it, and even my wife is glad that I went ahead and purchased it. Although I mulled it over for several weeks and read everything I could find about the EOS-1D X Mark II, there were very few negative comments regarding it and even those had really never used it, just commenting. I think I had everything there was to know in the back of my mind at least a week before I ordered it. Woke up one morning last week and told my wife I was ordering it and made it happen. Purchased it through B&H where I have got a lot of camera equipment from and it was on my front door that day after that. Yes - I was watching for the UPS truck all day and wouldn't you know it, he came late that day, but eventually got here. It was like getting up as a little kid on Christmas morning and looking for my presents.

Being the main photographer for our local professional hockey team, I got the first chance to use it this past Saturday. There was a couple of things that I noticed right away. 1) the focus is incredibly fast, was blown away by how quick it would focus compared to the 7DMII (and the 7DMII is pretty fast). 2) all I can say about the 14 fps is WOW. The focus at the speed blew me away. Although the post processing goes on forever with that many frames to go through - but just about all of them were great.

I don't normally use the high speed frame rate, just go on single shot - although I may now try a few more shots using the 14fps as it is kind of enticing. Fortunately most of the set up is quite like the 7DMII, so that part is easy to use, but there are a lot of other parts that I need to set down with the book and learn more about this camera.

Yes it is quite expensive and now I will just have to put off looking for a new car and just enjoy "driving the camera" around. If anyone has any great helpful ideas on using the EOS-1D X Mark II, just let me know. I will try and give any comments about how it works as I find out more about i.

Well I made the decision this past Tuesday (1/24) and received my Canon EOS-1D X Mark II DSLR Camera on Thursday. Wow - what a nice camera, very easy to use - almost exactly like my 7D MII to use with the exceptions of several additional details. It was really a difficult decision to make, but I though what the heck - you only live once and why not just enjoy the top of the line for whatever time you have left in this world. Will give it a good try out tonight at the hockey game where I usually use my 7D MII. There is still a lot of different things to learn how to use on this camera, but with the fact that it is familiar to my 7D, I don't expect much in the way of problems. It will be interesting to try the 14FPS, but don't think it will be the main way I will shoot because of the volume of pictures that you can take in such a short button push.

Just lookin forward to finding out all of the new things I can do with it.

Sorry it was supposed to say "EOS-1D X Mark II", guess the fingers just missed the "X"! Please forgive my fingers for missing that.

Thanks Jim - appreciate your thoughts.

THANKS SS - I do have the glass (2.8 70-200 Zoom) which is great for Hockey as well as several other great lenses so that should take care of any camera I end up purchasing.