5D Mark III in the Zoo

Went to the zoo today. All shot with 400 mm f/5.6L. For exif check the photos here: LINK

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Tommy.. That is a terrific series!
The bear and cat faces are priceless!
Glad to see you are out shooting with the new 5D3
and getting beautiful results..

Excellent work, especially the bears, what focus point setting did you settle on?

cmosman wrote in post #14190925
Excellent work, especially the bears, what focus point setting did you settle on?

I think it was center with extension.

Very nice. I love the lions feeding and the hippo.

Love the big fat hippo and the bear.....glad to see some zoo pictures as that's my favorite place to go. Thanks Tommy

great set! love 2 and 8. how's the AF on that camera? did you notice any quicker than normal battery drain?

Thanks.

I shot mostly static subjects or very slow moving and I think focus worked great. I used center expanded and case 1. I did try a couple shots for birds in fligth in case 5 but my own tracking of the birds sucked so did not get anything in focus, definately not the cameras fault. I need more practice for that.

As for battery. I just checked the battery info. I had 3 old batteries from my 5D2 and its one of those that I put in when I got the camera on tuesday so it migth not be a top performing battery. Anyway with 29% left I have shot 729 images. Given that with a new AF system and options lcd use has been higher than normal I think. So overall I don't think battery drain is worse than it would have been on a 5D2 under the same conditions. I think my normal use of 5D2 gave me around 1500-2000 shots pr charge.

These are so wonderful, especially that gorgeous hippo!

Very nice I know you said they were all shot with the 400 f5.6 but the Bears playing / fighting the EXIF says 70-200 f2.8

Nice series of shots.....well done!

SVTmaniac wrote in post #14192132
Very nice I know you said they were all shot with the 400 f5.6 but the Bears playing / fighting the EXIF says 70-200 f2.8

Yeah you are rigtht. I forgot about that one.

Very nice stuff, Tommy!

great series, good exercise with the MK3 with remarkable results, no 6 is very deep.

I was sitting here thinking DAMN this looks so much like Copenhagen... but then I noticed that you are from here as well haha

Nice photos! I can't wait for Autumn when the polar bears get their new settings