Spotted Sandpiper MkIII in focus :-)

One of the rare in focus bird shots I have from the MkIII

The noise handling is simply astounding. Though here this is the "after" post processing shot which included NR, I actually printed this image on the IPF5000 at 17"x21" with no noise reduction.. it really didn't need any!

Taken with EF 500mm f/4L IS and 1.4X T-C f/7.1
Iso was 500

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Wow, stunning shot, I love wathcing these birds I'd never guess this was taken at ISO 500. I love the angle, was he high up or were you lying low? he looks rather fat in this photo

Wow, Very nice Shot Great color and Detail.

Very nice shot of this cute little bird, I really like the light and the pose and the low noise level of the mkIII is quite amazing.

Great shot with that morning light look. I thought Canon had fixed that focus problem with a firmware update?

canonloader wrote in post #3677639
Great shot with that morning light look. I thought Canon had fixed that focus problem with a firmware update?

LOL
Rob.

great shot and a good reason to have a mk3 -well if mine ever comes Oh and if it works too of cause.
firmware 210 should do it
Rob.

Well, I met a guy at the wetlands last week. He was using the 500L f/4 and a sigma 1.4 and tamron 1.4 and we stacked my sigma 2x in the middle and it autofocused just fine. I haven't seen the images yet on a monitor, but in camera preview with a magnifier, they looked sharper than anything I've gotten with my 30D, I hate to admit.

Nice! We'll have our MK III fixed one day, hopefully in 2007

thanks guys.
I was shooting "up hill" on these.. which gives a pretty unusual angle for a piper..

My MkIII goes in the mail to Canon this afternoon.

Beauty of a shot, at last something good good to say about the III. Apart from then putting it in the mail.

Oh well,
I've actually posted a number of good things about the MkIII
It's my dream camera in every sense, I feel as if Canon built it for me to my specs,.

Funny thing is that no one replies to the good threads I post about it

The one I got to play with with double TC's on it seemed to work exceptionally well and the owner was completely satisfied with it. I watched him shoot an egret at way to far distance against a tree background, then I used my little magnifier to view the previews expanded up and they looked better than anything I have shot.

That's why I asked, I thought Canon's firmware update had taken care of the problem. Not that I know much about the problem anyway, just seems bad business to put out a professional camera that has those kinds of problems.

Is human nature, bad news will always gather more of an audience than good news.

Still not going to put me off getting a III from Santa this year though. I hope I can take as good a shot as that when I do

Great shot Jake. So that's the lens I need to aim for?
I haven't tested my Sigma 1.4 tc since I bought the 1D. Maybe it's time to do so.