The latest report on 1D Mark III AF issues

All right, boys, play nice. No reason to insult one another.

And I highly doubt sales will slow as a result of internet banter. People are snapping up this camera and it will continue.

Our very own Cosworth here just attended an Expo and heard Dennis Reggie speak. He is one of the world's foremost wedding photogs, and certainly one of the highest paid. He proclaims the Mark III as the best camera for weddings ever made. There's a lot more shooters out there than birders.
There have been posts here of boat racing wherein the owner of the camera extols its virtues.

I hate to be repetitive. I've seen AIServo problems with mine also. Perhaps they all have them. In other areas, though, this camera shines. So come on, Canon, fix it's one flaw and we can all be happy.

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MDJAK wrote in post #3915655
He proclaims the Mark III as the best camera for weddings ever made.
mark

he said that in a Canon event?!?!? shocking!!!

Point taken. But when I saw him and he extolled the virtues of Canon, he was speaking at an Adobe event.

the point is that he is obviously affiliated with Canon and therefore has a good reason to try and hype up their products.

PhotoGeek wrote in post #3915355
I was told they received a new shipment. Berger Bros. shows them in stock as well. Looks like there was no significant production stoppage after all.

Unless the blip (if there was one) was while the modified the production line to correct the hardware problem.

KAC

You guys may notice there are now a few posts less on this thread due to personal attack & potential flame baiting (Sorry Dwight, You were an innocent victim of collateral damage. )
The message is; Play NICE in this playground.
-Bruce

blonde wrote in post #3915773
the point is that he is obviously affiliated with Canon and therefore has a good reason to try and hype up their products.

he was probably talking about the 1DS III

Im taking my toys and going home before i burn this play house down.

bmx43 wrote in post #3911896
great. but did you use any selective points? ring of fire is one thing, but i know i never shoot with that. i need the ability to pick where i want the image in the frame. and, if i understand correct, you didn't have a problem to start with??? so you are updating us that there is STILL no problem???

RoF, center point, center left point, af expansion on/off, weather between sunny 100 and 90% humidity to nighttime 60 and 20% humitity. red shirt, blue shirt, brown shirt, jeans, shorts, black shorts. you name it, it worked... i do believe that not all of them are bad, and in fact, a lot of problems are user incurred (misfocused first then the camera tracked that one point very well, even though that is not the point the photographer wanted)
out of 200 soccer shots, i got maybe a dozen noticeably oof shots, of which half where my fault (focused on the player behind by pressing af-on too early). maybe another 15 or so are slightly off, though it may also be just motion blur (ones shot at 1/200th iso1600 before i bumped up to 1/500 iso3200). to say that they are all broken cameras is quite a stretch, most people i personally know with an mkiii have no real problems with it

Performa01 wrote in post #3915081
What did you expect? The D3 has roughly the same size photo sites as the 5D, so you could expect a marginally improvement due to larger microlenses and thinner filters at best.
If Nikon continues using strong NR, as they have done in the past, the high ISO images will look cleaner for sure – at the expense of losing tonal accuracy and detail.

As you stated already, one can always tweak an image all the way to make it look pretty good even at high ISO – at least at the first glance - they have done so even with the rather noisy D200.

it does seem to have alot of detail btw.

http://chsv.nikonimagi​ng.com …a/slr/d3/img/pi​c_003b.jpg

can you do that with your 5D at iso 6400

blonde wrote in post #3915773
the point is that he is obviously affiliated with Canon and therefore has a good reason to try and hype up their products.

Hey you know - maybe not all good comments are made by people being bought out by Canon.

SilverOnemi wrote in post #3916538
it does seem to have alot of detail btw.

http://chsv.nikonimagi​ng.com …a/slr/d3/img/pi​c_003b.jpg

can you do that with your 5D at iso 6400

Looks unusable to me

Mr. Clean wrote in post #3916878
Hey you know - maybe not all good comments are made by people being bought out by Canon.

i never said that all good comments were made by people that were bought out by canon. what i did say is that it is no surprise that a key note speaker in a canon's event is saying good things about a canon's product.

After seeing those sample photos, I'm a bit more relieved. It looks like Nikon has made marked improvements where high ISO is concerned, but "revolutionary?" I'll have to see some more, but those pics don't say "revolution." (Does the model's face, especially the nose area, in the 3200 bar- scene sample look cooked to anyone else?)

And where's the ISO 100 sample? *wink, wink*

Now, if only Canon can solve the AF issues so many are having, the company may yet salvage mindshare this generation.

Mr. Clean wrote in post #3916878
Looks unusable to me

here's a 5D iso 3200, see any improvement

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Dekka wrote in post #3916940
And where's the ISO 100 sample? *wink, wink*

are you expecting anything out of the ordinary from them ?

MDJAK wrote in post #3915748
Point taken. But when I saw him and he extolled the virtues of Canon, he was speaking at an Adobe event.

He must use manual focus..