5D3 Firmware to address slow focus issues?

digital paradise wrote in post #15632100
http://usa.canon.com …il&docId=0901e0​24807f5f70

This URL indicates the fix will be out in late April

To add to 5D3 woes I'm finding my 35L is totally borked and front focusing on outer points about 67% of the time (like my 1D3...)

Beginning to think it's a 35L design flaw

(note my 35L has been calibrated about 3 times)

smorter wrote in post #15705838
To add to 5D3 woes I'm finding my 35L is totally borked and front focusing on outer points about 67% of the time (like my 1D3...)

Beginning to think it's a 35L design flaw

(note my 35L has been calibrated about 3 times)

Smorter

have you sent it to Canon for calibration ?? The reason i ask is i had problems with my 85L. It just missed. I would shoot 5 and get 3 OOF. Canon asked me to send body and lens in. When i was visiting in California i took in the 50,85,35 for calibration checks. It was off. Got them back and used them at our first wedding this weekend for 2013....spot on. Very few misses and the only time the 85 missed was due to movement and not focusing fast enough on dance floor shots.

85L is my very best friend now,, and i cant keep the 35L or the 50L out of my wifes hands.

Hi. I just noticed a prob with my 5diii as well. On Manual settings low light with single selective AF it wont focus, but when the camera is on Full Auto, it focuses perfectly on the same target. so i tried Manual settings with the 61point AF, it focuses but comes out soft. Is this just a setting issue? or is this the same problem that everyone here is experiencing.

wadaknicka wrote in post #15826326
so i tried Manual settings with the 61point AF, it focuses but comes out soft. Is this just a setting issue? or is this the same problem that everyone here is experiencing.

were your settings the same in Manual mode as they were in Auto mode (everything except the focus)?

My wedding on Saturday went great until the grand entrance where my 5D3/70-200/580II would absolutely not lock focus fast enough to shoot the moving couples, I had to manual all of it. Switched out cameras to my 5D2 for the rest of the night and it went off without a hitch. Seems like bad quality control to me.

jklewer wrote in post #15855108
My wedding on Saturday went great until the grand entrance where my 5D3/70-200/580II would absolutely not lock focus fast enough to shoot the moving couples, I had to manual all of it. Switched out cameras to my 5D2 for the rest of the night and it went off without a hitch. Seems like bad quality control to me.

You bought a 5DIII for a reason. Use AI Servo.

JakAHearts wrote in post #15855155
You bought a 5DIII for a reason. Use AI Servo.

This

Mine is money in AI Servo. I've set the DOF preview button to switch to AI Servo. Works great.

I just shot an entire wedding last Saturday in AI servo. While I do have the DOF button set to switch between focus modes, I didnt touch it the entire time. Even when I was shooting at 1/200th, 2.8, iso 12800 late in the evening, AI servo was still working great.

I read somewhere this morning that 5D3's coming back from Canon have the new FW installed so 7 more days when we all get it if Canon sticks to the projected schedule.

digital paradise wrote in post #15855680
I read somewhere this morning that 5D3's coming back from Canon have the new FW installed so 7 more days when we all get it if Canon sticks to the projected schedule.

I got my 5D3 back from Canon about a week ago. It still had the older firmware on it.

I wish I could remember which site. Too many forums.

http://www.dpreview.co​m/forums/post/51347694

http://www.dpreview.co​m/forums/post/51317926

My 5D3 is on servo 100% of the time. Only times it misses are my fault or shooting directly into contrasting light.