After many years of lusting after its predecessors and then waiting for the 1Dx to arrive once it was announced, I have finally bought one of the top of the line Canons!!  I picked up my 1Dx from Georges Cameras this Tuesday just gone (20th of November) along with an EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II Lens, an EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Lens, an Hahnel Giga T Pro II wireless remote control and a spare LP-E4N Battery Pack.  I am very excited and look forward to learning all about this camera and of course more about Photography itself over the coming years.

I took some photos of the unboxing of my new gear once I got it home.  The camera has such a nice solid feel to it and the weather sealing on these Series 1 cameras I think will come in handy for what I have in mind in the future.

Below are pictures of it coming out of its box, starting with a shot showing the front of the box:

The box from the top:

This is the box open with the top layer, containing the manual and CDs removed.  The next box down is the camera.

This is the camera box taken out:

This is how the camera is packed into the box:

This is the battery charger which was packed in the next layer down, under the camera.  It can charge two Batteries, though reading the instructions you find that it can only charge one battery at a time.  It will charge the first battery plugged in first, then when it is done it will start on the next one:

This is the 70-200mm lens in its box beside the camera:

This is the lens box opened with the top layer consisting of a CD and some paper instructions on top of a foam insert removed:

The lens in its case:

The lens also comes with a hood and a small strap which attached to the lens case:

The 16-35mm lens in its box:

The 16-35mm lens unpacked:

I also got this spare battery:

And this wireless cable release.  This cable release is only $99 where as the equivalent Canon branded cable release is approximately $927 (shown here).  A Canon Branded wired cable release is approximately $317 (shown here).  As such this Hahnel Giga T Pro II wireless remote control tends to be the most widely used alternative for canon cameras.

This is the first picture I took with my new 1Dx.  It is of my Birman Cat, Rogan.  The camera has a very satisfying shutter sound when you take a picture, it is very hefty, and very fast:

I tried to get a bit closer and the camera focused on his eye, which was open, but in doing so it took the exposure it needed from the darkest part of his face.  The result was that everything else was very over exposed.  Not a bad artistic shot, but perhaps a bit much if you are just trying to take a picture of your cat:

The same thing happened when I tried to take a picture of the outside of the house.  It was 6:30am, so it wasn’t that bright yet, so the camera increased the exposure resulting in the top, white part of the house over exposing.  I will have to learn how to control exposure manually:

This was a picture of two of my rabbits in the back yard.  I couldn’t look through the view finder as I held the camera down into the rabbit cage so this was what the camera came up with on auto focus.  It missed the eye of the closest rabbit, but it is not too bad for catching two fast moving rabbits approaching the lens in lowish light.

Over the coming months and years I look forward to learning this camera inside out and developing my Photography skills as I go.  In particular now that I have this camera I will be able to start on my life long photographic project called the Ark Project.  More on what that is in future posts.