-Official- 1D MK III AF Thread.

mdurisseau wrote in post #4493456
I understand from a gentleman that shoots for SI that the "will not allow" him to use his Mark III...

did he say why?

Permagrin wrote in post #4493461
interesting...

(well to be truthful, I didn't know they listed settings for other cameras, but assuming from your statement that they do, it's)

interesting....

(that they do not)

http://www.siphoto.com​/?canon20D.inc

Actually, it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

He did not say specifically why, but his observation on the Mark III is, and I quote, " The Mark III as it currently is sucks major ass. Mine have been in my closet since September 2. I do not have the time or energy to write you about it. The camera sucks."

Permagrin wrote in post #4493465
did he say why?

mdurisseau wrote in post #4493648
He did not say specifically why, but his observation on the Mark III is, and I quote, " The Mark III as it currently is sucks major ass. Mine have been in my closet since September 2. I do not have the time or energy to write you about it. The camera sucks."

Hopefully he can now come out of the closet.

belmondo wrote in post #4493669
Hopefully he can now come out of the closet.

Tremendous!

kenyc wrote in post #4492347
You think they did anything to it? Maybe just checked, inspected, checked.

KAC

work order states the following (attached)

havent done any testing yet, hopefully this afternoon.

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While in Tampa Florida vacationing this past week, I received my Fed-Ex stuff here at home. I took about seven hundred pics in FL and upon return, way too many of them were soft. Tampa was over 80 degrees, I was on the water with lots of light (not on the water but overlooking it.) Totally unacceptable, as a buddy posted a ton of pics with his point and shoot that look so much sharper than mine even after PP. This thing better work, as I have seen conflicting reports on other Forums where threads have both praise and contempt for Canon's customer relations throughout this, as well as some serious questioning of IF this will ever be totally worked out. I have my fingers crossed.

CIDER wrote in post #4493748
work order states the following (attached)

havent done any testing yet, hopefully this afternoon.

Hope it works like a charm.

I wish companies would have an invoice for warranty work where no charges are incurred. Something like, Free Repair and Cleaning on Warranty. Whenever I first look at an invoice like one of these I get a small panic attack, like oh no, is there a charge, and then I search for the fine print, lol. Good luck.

belmondo wrote in post #4493435
Somewhat off-topic, but I see that Sports Illustrated doesn't have any recommended setting for either the 1Ds Mk III or 1D Mk III.

Unexpected!

Not.

joegolf68 wrote in post #4494465
While in Tampa Florida vacationing this past week, I received my Fed-Ex stuff here at home. I took about seven hundred pics in FL and upon return, way too many of them were soft. Tampa was over 80 degrees, I was on the water with lots of light (not on the water but overlooking it.) Totally unacceptable, as a buddy posted a ton of pics with his point and shoot that look so much sharper than mine even after PP. This thing better work, as I have seen conflicting reports on other Forums where threads have both praise and contempt for Canon's customer relations throughout this, as well as some serious questioning of IF this will ever be totally worked out. I have my fingers crossed.

that's weird because i am also in Florida right now and have spent the entire week shooting on the water (in the water in my case ) and so far, every image that is either soft or OOF is my fault or just the conditions fault.

CIDER wrote in post #4492256
i dropped mine off just before lunch yesterday and i am walking out the door now (9am) today to pick it up

a100years wrote in post #4488725
how many aussies have had their mkIII fixed? mine went in today (from melbourne) and they are promising 24 hour turn around. i wonder what 24 hours actually means.

over 24 hours later now, no word yet.... i don't mind if they take a little longer if it means that it actually works though

/crosses fingers and throws salt over shoulder

eh? look above i picked mine up repaired already

CIDER wrote in post #4494770
eh? look above i picked mine up repaired already

I'm in Melbourne though and dropped it yesterday morning, so I guess one must account for travel time to Sydney - though that wasn't mentioned in the 24 hour turn around.

blonde wrote in post #4494643
that's weird because i am also in Florida right now and have spent the entire week shooting on the water (in the water in my case ) and so far, every image that is either soft or OOF is my fault or just the conditions fault.

Don't you have a fixed MkIII? Joe did not..

a100years wrote in post #4494971
I'm in Melbourne though and dropped it yesterday morning, so I guess one must account for travel time to Sydney - though that wasn't mentioned in the 24 hour turn around.

perhaps you needed more than the fix, some cameras needed a little more done which takes longer, are they fixing them in melbourne or all in sydney? i cant see them shipping everything to sydney to fix but who knows, given them a call? rick at cps is extremely helpful.