OFFICIAL: Canon 5D Mark III Announced

IMHO, they have obviously been working on making these for a while since they're (seemingly) flooding the market with them. The only question is was the ship date pushed up to beat the D800 to the market... It is funny that the included DPP is pretty bad from what I've heard. You would have thought they'd get that setup perfectly for the new files before people could complain about NR smearing details ETC. What adobe does is obviously out of canon's control, but yeah, their OEM software should have been more polished IMHO.

I plan to use CS5 for any RAW edits I do until LR4 releases an update... I don't have any serious shooting going on until May though, so I should be fine to learn the camera, get my lenses microadjusted, etc... No rush for RAW capability just yet, but I have a feeling when LR4 is updated, people will be happy with the RAW performance (as always). The difference between my 5D2 JPEG's and a simple RAW->JPEG conversion in LR4 is huge. So much more detail, better images. I expect the same with the 5D3.

I've also read in the Adobe forum that they likely have no plans to include the 5DIII RAW update applied to LR3 ... we must upgrade to LR4 to expect the update.

Scatterbrained wrote in post #14132018

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If it was a Nikon lens they'd have that handled already.

lol....very true! It think Adobe see the 8-15mm fishy as a very niche lens and very low on their "to do" list. Camerawise, I think the d800 was Nikon's worst kept secret, where as the 5DIII was one of Canon's best kept secrets and as such....Adobe didn't get much time to react.

Cody21 wrote in post #14132030
I've also read in the Adobe forum that they likely have no plans to include the 5DIII RAW update applied to LR3 ... we must upgrade to LR4 to expect the update.

True, but ACR 6.7 into CS5 can convert CS2 files into DNG format raws....which both LR3 and LR4 can open. Although it's an additonal hop, it's still a workable solution.

GMCPhotographics wrote in post #14131940
Mark, I collected my 5DIII on saturday 17th (5 days early) and I had a manual in the box. The Canon Supplied DPP works fine to convert CR2 to Jpeg/tiff formats. But Adobe (different company) has been slow to push out compatability with their raw converter in Light Room 4. Photoshop is working, but not LR. This is not uncommon, Adobe launches LR updates every 3-4 months and the 5DIII just missed inclusion with the latest release. I've had this problem with both the 5D and 5DII...so why should anyone expect the 5DIII to be any different? I've had an ef 8-15mm fish eye for ovver 6 months and Adobe still haven't provided lens correction filters for it....but have for other lenses. So the fault lies with Adobe and their haphazard appraoch to updates.
I terms of the 5DIII's marketabilty, it's a code locked product and it's a fantastic camera. Probably the most versatile DSLR ever made.

Thanks for the clarification.

But wouldn't it have been good for Canon to contact Adobe and have their information available a while ago?

mtimber wrote in post #14132300
But wouldn't it have been good for Canon to contact Adobe and have their information available a while ago?

I don't see that its Canons issue in any way. If Adobe wants our business it needs to be approaching Canon NOT the other way around.

Does the 5d3 HDR mode actually bracket the raws? As in 3 separate shutter actuations? It appears its counterpart uses a single shutter actuation to create the HDR - which would actually make it useful for more than just tripod landscapes? Or do I have it wrong?

Cody21 wrote in post #14132030
I've also read in the Adobe forum that they likely have no plans to include the 5DIII RAW update applied to LR3 ... we must upgrade to LR4 to expect the update.

Got to love Adobe...

Cody21 wrote in post #14132030
I've also read in the Adobe forum that they likely have no plans to include the 5DIII RAW update applied to LR3 ... we must upgrade to LR4 to expect the update.

yeah, no secret there and I wouldn't be surprised if LR4 got shipped, what, 2 weeks ago,, JUST to make sure all the new 1Dx D4 D800 and 5Diii owners HAD to update. The CS6 release is also suspect, I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled CS6 out in production form very soon here, then the ACR update to handle these new cameras comes out just after it's release. IE forcing you to get new software with your new camera.

They are nice enough to give all of us free DNG converters though. They don't need to do that and it allows you to use whatever you want. But I'm 99% sure they're timing their software releases right now with these 4 new cameras to milk the cash cow as much as possible.

jthomps123 wrote in post #14132345
Does the 5d3 HDR mode actually bracket the raws? As in 3 separate shutter actuations? It appears its counterpart uses a single shutter actuation to create the HDR - which would actually make it useful for more than just tripod landscapes? Or do I have it wrong?

it takes and saves 3 RAWs.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #14132382
it takes and saves 3 RAWs.

It appears it does this with 3 shutter releases. I was happy to learn about this feature but im not a landscape shooter so it appears like it will be useless to me. HDR mode would have been great for bridals / wedding etc... but ...

Some more review

http://www.fredmiranda​.com/forum/topic/10970​85

mtimber wrote in post #14131643
I think that it is a given that most images get cropped, even if a little bit. That gets around the focus not quite reaching the 3rds intersections... Leave a little more room with your framing, then crop in post...

When one's subject can't pose and there isn't always room/time/zoom range, that's not always an option.

Have you looked at the posted diagrams? The corner points are roughly the width of two of the AF point boxes inside of the RoT vertices.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #14131977
IMHO, they have obviously been working on making these for a while since they're (seemingly) flooding the market with them. The only question is was the ship date pushed up to beat the D800 to the market...

Given that the D800 is a downgrade relative to the D700, I have to wonder about that.