Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- EOS-1D X Mark II
- Introduction
- Getting Started- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Card
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Operation
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations
- Before You Start
- Displaying the Grid in the Viewfinder
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Setting the Viewfinder Information Display
- Help
 
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings- Selecting the Card for Recording and Playback
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Setting the ISO Speed for Still Photos
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Setting the White Balance
- Custom White Balance
- Setting the Color Temperature
- White Balance Correction
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Highlight Tone Priority
- Correction of Lens Aberrations
- Reducing Flicker
- Setting the Color Space
- Creating and Selecting a Folder
- Changing the File Name
- File Numbering Methods
- Setting Copyright Information
 
- GPS Settings
- Exposure Control for Photographic Expressions
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Image Playback- Image Playback
- INFO. Shooting Information Display
- Searching for Images Quickly
- Magnifying Images
- Rotating the Image
- Protecting Images
- Setting Ratings
- Recording and Playing back Voice Memos
- Quick Control for Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Back Movies
- Editing a Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Grabbing a Frame from 4K Movies
- Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- Viewing Images on a TV Set
- Copying Images
- Erasing Images
- Changing Image Playback Settings
 
- Post-Processing Images
- Sensor Cleaning
- Transferring Images to a Computer and Print Ordering
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Overview
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Specifications
White balance: Auto (Ambience priority), Auto (White priority), Preset 
(Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten light, White 
fluorescent light, Flash), Custom (5 settings), Color 
temperature setting (approx. 2500-10000 K), Personal 
white balance (5 settings)
White balance correction and white balance bracketing 
features provided
* Flash color temperature information transmission 
possible
Automatic image 
brightness correction:
Auto Lighting Optimizer provided
Noise reduction: Applicable to high ISO speed shots and long exposures
Highlight tone priority: Provided
Lens aberration 
correction:
Peripheral illumination correction, Chromatic aberration 
correction, Distortion correction, and Diffraction 
correction
• Viewfinder
Type: Eye-level pentaprism
Coverage: Vertical/Horizontal approx. 100% (with eyepoint approx. 
20 mm)
Magnification: Approx. 0.76x (-1 m
-1
 with 50mm lens at infinity)
Eyepoint: Approx. 20 mm (from eyepiece lens center at -1 m
-1
)
Diopric adjustment 
range:
Approx. -3.0 - +1.0 m
-1
 (dpt)
Eyepiece shutter: Built-in
Focusing screen: Ec-C6 provided, interchangeable
Grid display: Provided
Electronic level: Provided
Function setting display: Image type: JPEG/RAW, Shooting mode, Metering 
mode, White balance, Drive mode, AF operation, Flicker 
detection, Warning ! indicator, AF status indicator
Mirror: Quick-return type
Depth-of-field preview: Provided
• Autofocus (during viewfinder shooting)
Type: TTL secondary image-registration, phase-difference 
detection with the dedicated AF sensor










