RedRobin
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Had my first opportunity recently to pit the 7D MkII against the 1DX. Same lens, shutter speed, aperture, AF point, AF case, photographing the same subject.
I don't know if there is a slight difference in the AF case parameters in each camera and if I had been using the MkII in isolation I would have been very happy with the results. However the 1DX, although shooting at 2 FPS faster, had a higher hit rate than the MkII. The MkII, for some reason, couldn't pick the sudden appearance of the subject up quite as consistently.
....To be fair, 99.9% of us would expect the 1DX to always have a significant edge over the 7D2 if making direct comparisons if only to justify a very substantial price difference.
I can only compare the 7D2's 10 fps with the 70D's 7 fps and just 3 fps makes a huge difference when photographing small fast birds, well, any birds! So the 1DX's 12 fps must be really nice. I think that many folks under estimate the usefulness of fast fps rates - You need only fire a short burst of 3 images but it can make the difference between a keeper and a deletion.