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Canon EOS-1D Mark III reportFrom Thursday, February 22 through Wednesday morning, February 28 I had the opportunity to work with the just- (and I mean just) announced Canon EOS 1D Mark III Professional Digital Camera Body.
Best advice: call Gary Farber at Hunt’s Photo and get on the list now; this will surely be the hardest-to-get-camera in the history of SLR photography. After one day in the field with this amazing camera I placed an order for two Mark IIIs through the Explorers of Light Program.
What’s the big deal?
10 frames per second. 10.1 megapixels (with apologies to the folks who were positive that a 22mp Canon body was just over the horizon. What Canon did was replace the EOS 1D MIIN rather than—as everyone had expected—replace the EOS 1Ds MII).
Images are processed at 14 bits for a total color depth of up to 16,384 tones per pixel, compared to 4,096 tones per pixel from 12 bit images. (This will result in smoother color gradations throughout the image file and should eliminate the circular banding effect when the sun is included in the frame.) 1.3X crop factor. The control of noise at the higher ISO settings is mind-boggling (See the two remarkable gator images above). The ISO settings range from 50-6400 (again, see the two images above). The Mark III, with the new high-capacity, lightweight, compact lithium-ion battery (thank you Nikon), much lighter than its predecessors. With a totally new AF system that features 19 cross-type sensors, autofocus is fast and responsive; you can almost feel the recoil as the image snaps in to focus. AI Servo AF is more accurate than with any camera body I have every used. The Dual Digic III processors allow for creating bursts of up to 30 RAW images; I never came close to filling the buffer.
The Mark III features something called the “
EOS Integrated Cleaning System”. The bottom line on that: I processed more than 40 images created over a span of 6 days with the DPP software and did not encounter a single speck of sensor dust. Amazing. You can fine tune AF accuracy for each lens that you own. Amazing again! The tiny joy stick can be used to scroll through a magnified image and to toggle back and forth between the central sensor and AFPS.
You can (I did) choose to apply Noise Reduction in high ISO images. Most of the previous Personal Functions (which were a pain to add and work with) are now included with the Custom Functions (which have been divided into four categories to make things a bit simpler). And several valuable new Custom Functions have been added. Though I barely had time to learn and set up the custom functions, by the time I had to send the cameras (I had two) back, I had personalized the Mark IIIs so that each could do things quickly that I never thought possible.
The Mark III features Live View; you press the set button in the center of the thumb wheel and you see the live view (as framed in your lens) on the bright 3 inch LCD screen on the back of the camera. At first it seemed that this feature is pretty much a dud for photographing birds or wildlife in action, but because of some mis-communication and a missed e-mail, I did not realize that you can view a live histogram on the LCD when you are in Live View. Thus, if you have a relatively static situation you can view the histogram before making an image and add or subtract light as needed to ensure that you are exposing to the right and creating the highest possible quality image file. I can’t wait to get my very own Mark IIIs to give this feature a test drive. Jeez, I almost forgot to mention that Highlight Tone Priority can be set to increase the dynamic range when working with bright whites in bright sun.
Above are the basics that guarantee that this is the finest wildlife and sports camera ever. You can learn more about the seemingly zillion other features, improvements, and accessories here at
robgalbraith.com.
And read
Canon’s 63 page White Paper.
There is some amazing stuff on the camera on
Canon Japan.
And, on an unrelated note, visiting the
Canon Camera Museum and taking the lens tour will be an enlightening experience.
Camera operation, controls, and custom functions on this amazing new professional camera body are quite different in most instances from the previous generations of Canon Professional Digital Cameras (all of which were either quite similar or identical to their predecessors). The learning curve will be a bit steep for most folks.
My one major criticism of the Mark III is that when you are working outdoors (even on cloudy-dark days) it is virtually impossible to see the edge of the histogram box; this makes it difficult to accurately expose to the right. I let Canon know about this problem after evaluating each of the previous pro digital bodies but alas, they still have not gotten it right. I am hoping that this can be fixed with a firmware update; if not, my Mark III will sport a one-inch strip of yellow masking tape along the right edge of the histogram box. That said, I am chomping at the bit to get my hands on my Mark IIIs.
Canon zit duidelijk niet stil, ik word steeds benieuwder naar de komende "EOS 40D". Maar als je professioneel werkt met Canon, lijkt deze me een ideaal werkpaard. 