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

Rojin said:
Most important thing... Users are reporting that outer AF points actually work :D
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Indeed. The 5DMKII had a great sensor so it doesn't matter too much if the upgrades here are small since the rest of the camera has been heavily upgraded and that is where the mkii lagged.
 
The Canon sensor won't get close to the Sony EXMOR sensor. This may well be the end of the road for Canon with their current tech if they can't squeeze any more DR or ISO performance out of it. It'll be interesting to see what direction they take in the future.

The tech in the Fuji X Pro 1 looks very promising. Shame the AF is suspect!
 
It is not out of the question that Canon start using Sony sensors but that would kill competition. Maybe a partnership with Fuji or even Sigma could work for them.
what is strange is that Canon on the face of it took a sensible approach, stop the MP race and try to boost performance with a oslid 21/22MP sensor. But ti seems they just didn't manage to make a generational change. Conversely, Nikon broke from their conservative balance of MP and IQ. I guess with the D7000 they new a tweaked variant of the Sony EXMOR at a FF size sensor will just dominate, which is what we see.

I think the technology is at the stage where some more unorthodox technologies will be needed to really progress things. A Modern up to date version of the sensor in the Fuji F5 etc could boost DR a couple of stops.
 
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Jessops seem to have these in stock now, and are offering 6 months 0% finance. £400 a month! Ouch! WEX are doing 29% which is a bit steep!
 
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I'm just sitting here with the 60D taking photos of my new Danbo (shipping was amazingly fast from Japan! Faster than normal internal UK post infact!) and trying to convince myself I don't want the mkIII :D
 
Rumours of this model being potentially recalled due to a manufacturing fault. Something to do with the auto exposure being affected by LCD bleed.
 
James J said:
Rumours of this model being potentially recalled due to a manufacturing fault. Something to do with the auto exposure being affected by LCD bleed.
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I saw that a few weeks ago on canon rumours, saw today that they have acknowledged the fault. Not a good start.
 
It's a complete non-event if you go and read what the issue is. Potentially when shooting at night if you set exposure during the 3 secs that the top LCD is lit then it may throw off the exposure...
 
Rojin said:
It's a complete non-event if you go and read what the issue is. Potentially when shooting at night if you set exposure during the 3 secs that the top LCD is lit then it may throw off the exposure...
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Not a big deal but may be sufficient to make a recall apparently.


This is the reason why they don't make huge stock piles of cameras before launch, better to get the feedback of the early adopters to track down bugs before production is too large.

The D800 might have a a problem with a few cameras having a green cast on the LCD.
 
Well for a £3K camera you'd damn well hope they fix any glitches! :D

If they are placing themselves as a premium product company, Canon have to act on these issues I guess. It's hardly in the same league as the 1D3 AF issues at launch though.

I've noticed that both the D800 and 5D3 owners have been mentioning lock ups as well. This should be fixed with firmware updates though I imagine?
 
Sensor has been reviewed at DXOmark:
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Pu...s/Canon-5D-Mark-III-Review/Sensor-performance

More or less as expected with a similar performance to the 5dmkii, 0.5 stop more high ISO performance, but about 0.5 stops behind the Nikon D800.
However, the dynamic range instill pretty disappointing. Improved at high ISOs but no change lower down with 11.7 stops. For comparison, the Nikon D800 gets a DR of 14.4 stops, A clear 2.5 stop advantage and a massive help for many Complex photograhic scenes.


The 5dmkiii may still be suffering from the banding issues in the shadows that plagued the mkii, which would explain the low DR at base ISO.

A very strange sensor decision by canon, should have been the sensor in the 1Dx IMO. At least they have nailed the AF by all accounts and now the 5dmkiii is a viable sports/pj type body. These results will only reinforce those canon landscape photographers jumping ship to get the D800, for landscape work there is simply no comparison and since many canon landscape togs owned the Nikon 14-24mm it makes a relatively cheap transition. For everyone else it's pretty academic since they are too invested in L glass.
 
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Hi all.

just a heads up. 5d3 is going down in price now

http://camerapricebuster.com/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_III_Body_pc.html

fantastic news. If you get it from a Hong Kong dealer like Digitel Rev, you can get it for 2.2k.

Come xmas this may go down to 2.6-2.5k and thats when i will bite the bullet :)

i may even bite the bullet sooner if i decide to buy from digital rev.

This is my next camera. no if's or buts. this is THE CAMERA i have dreamed of having that past models like teh 7d and 5d2 just did not cut it for me as i wanted a camera thats a 7d+ 5d2 rollled into one for versatility and longetivity.

once i do get this camera i dont think will upgrade for 10+ years easily unless Mirrorless tech kicks off big time before then or the 5dmk10 has Eye assisted AF(done before in older slr camera's), 20fps or ISO 512000 that is as clean as the 5d3's ISO 100.
 
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