*****The Official Canon 5DMK3 Thread*****

Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
People will buy it because there's an RF model with the new ste3. Something people have wanted more than a new 5d for years n years n years. I remember my 580 was £400
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I purchase my brand new 580 MkII for £270 when Jessop's priced match from magerzines they advertised in. Now they only price match locally so I can not get another for that price.
Sweet !
 
An Exception said:
I personally don't like using the AE-L or AF-On button ect. Though sometimes it comes in useful for me doing 'Brenizer Method' type shot's or something out of the ordinary.

Personally for portrait photography I can't think of anything simpler or faster than being able place an af point over someones eye, not even bother with a half press and instead just do a full press and the camera meters, locks AF and releases the shutter almost immediately...
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It depends on your style obviously, that's a lot of trust to put in the camera. If it was me and a one off shot I'd rather spend three seconds and know it was right than spend 1 and hope the camera did the right thing. I know it would four times out of five but the fifth time will inevitably be the best shot sometimes.

I don't use either button regularly myself either, I appreciate the utility for sports and action but wouldn't use it day to day. That said, I'm happier with Aperture priority, exposure comp and the feel for a particular camera's metering which comes with familiarity. I know pretty instinctively how much EC I need to get the look I want with matrix metering on D300s/D700 class Nikon's. 5DII I can't hit quite so reliably because I don't use it as much.

That said, I've been shooting DSLRs since they were a lot less sophisticated than today and I still shoot lots of film, my instinct is not to trust the camera too much and rely on my own judgement. Today's cameras are a different proposition, I rather want to try a 1DX simply to play with the enormous amount of processing power on offer - there's a DIGIC4 for the metering and AF alone - not long ago that chip ran an entire camera...point being, my mistrust of the cameras ability might be misplaced today.
 
I know someone in the US just got his hand on his.

The focusing in this is "outstanding", even the outer points, in a low lit room.
 
Hope to have 2 before the year end but will get a few bills settled first before, namely accountant's fee and interim tax in July and car insurance for the year due next month.
 
D.P. said:
Those are out of camera jpegs, the jpeg engine has improved a lot in the 5D giving much better noise reduction. What needs to be examined is the improvements in RAW output, the differences are no where near as big from the extensive samples around the net.
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Indeed, will wait for a big old review from DPreview and some proper real world samples. Still either way impressive performance from JPEGs straight from the camera
 
Rojin said:
RAW comparisons against the 5D2 look pretty good actually:

http://jmphotocraft.smugmug.com/Other/5DII-vs-5DIII-ISO/22057894_WrBPCZ#!i=1760348963&k=rg2zqnp
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hmmm, leffe.:D

The raws look better than the 5dMKII but they aren't blowing me away. Doesn;'t really seem to be a generational difference but a tweak. But I guess that is perhaps what it really is. The AA filter is weaker but that might be from a little pre-processing adding some sharpening.

Somewhat on topic, DXOmark have reviewed the D4 and as expected it is stunning, jumping straight to second place behind the Phase IQ180.

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Publications/DxOMark-Reviews/Nikon-D4-review/Sensor-performance

Obviously in a league of its own until the Canon 1DX gets reviewed.
 
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