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

Only Canon know the answer to that. It's widely known Canon sample galleries are crap. I would never have bought the 1D3 if I had only looked at their samples.
 
Plus what you have to consider as well.

The last round of camera took everyone to the 20+ mp range, going from around 10-12...that's a huge difference.

This time it's only a 2mp increase, you aren't going to see THAT much of an improvement (which I think everyone is looking for). They've basically completely over hauled the AF, given the dual memory card slots of instant backups yo, added some other gizmos for the videographers and tweaked it.
 
Nexus said:
Given that what originally brought this discussion on was a ticket to Florida, I'd make the saving for that state, compared to the UK price to be roughly £432.

It's still an expensive camera and I think for that £400 I'd rather have a warranty, especially for a brand new product.

I think most of the Canon chargers for the Pro/Semi-Pro level do use a figure 8 and a battery housing charger. I simply referenced the fact that back with the 350D, the North American wall plug was built into it. I've not seen any box contents for the mk3, but presumably it will be the same as the mk2.
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Florida sales tax is ~7%, that makes £650 saving, not £432 (where did you get that?)

The 400D charger came with a figure 8 charger as well so I assume all Canon cameras will have had them for years.

I'd agree though, a saving of a few hundred isn't worth the warranty, unless you go back to the IS/have relatives in the US for when it breaks.
 
Nexus said:
Chances are you unlikely to be stopped by customs as it is. But if you really wanted to make it look like you had used it, you would need to bin the box, warranty certificate and receipt.

Believe me, when they do stop and search you they will go through everything and find and check every receipt that you have.

If you did the above, you would have even less of a warranty than you did before.
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Send it by post.

If you want to keep the box you probably won't have space to take it with you anyway. $10-15 to post it to the UK is cheap. :p
 
Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
You'd be unwise to judge the 5D III purely on those images.

Give it a month. Wouldn't put me off one bit. Those samples can be sharpened brilliantly with effective sharpening in photoshop to a very high acceptable level.
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And if you process the noise the noise then you loose even more details.

Will wait to see some review materials but the current samples are certainly disappointing. The sensor should be giving nearly 2 stops better noise performance than the 5dmkii sensor but I don't see that with the current samples.
 
Phate said:
Plus what you have to consider as well.

The last round of camera took everyone to the 20+ mp range, going from around 10-12...that's a huge difference.

This time it's only a 2mp increase, you aren't going to see THAT much of an improvement (which I think everyone is looking for). They've basically completely over hauled the AF, given the dual memory card slots of instant backups yo, added some other gizmos for the videographers and tweaked it.
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There should still be a large increase in high ISO noise performance, dynamic range, colour depth but I'm not sure we are seeing tat n these samples.
 
As a Nikon shooter, I have to say that the technical specifications for the 5D Mark3 look good on paper. An excellent general purpose camera. But is it enough of an upgrade for those who already own a 5D Mark2 ? Price isn't very competitive either. Like others, I haven't been impressed by the high ISO samples that have been released thus far, but it's too early to draw any conclusions.
 
And who would be shooting jpeg using in camera NR for landscapes... Until Adobe RAW is updated and we start seeing proper output, none of this speculation is worth much to me. I don't think I have shot 1 jpeg on my current camera.
 
Rojin said:
And who would be shooting jpeg using in camera NR for landscapes... Until Adobe RAW is updated and we start seeing proper output, none of this speculation is worth much to me. I don't think I have shot 1 jpeg on my current camera.
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Exactly and also you often get bugs with the cameras early on. It was quite a while before people realised that the 50D was applying JPEG noise reduction to RAWs when it shouldn't have been and you have to turn it off. Look at all the early complaints about the performance of the 7D at 800 and above.

It took a while with people playing to get the best settings in the 7D. It's far too early to make comment on this camera.

It seems to me exception you are desperate for this to be a failure to justify your own brand choice? I don't care whether it fails or not, I can't see me ever getting one but why not wait until you can walk in a shop yourself take a few test shots and compare it to what you already have?

Then if it sucks fair enough but plucking jpegs off the internet doesn't prove much really. I will wait until the masses get their hands on it and show us some proper in the field tests in comparison to what they already own.

:)
 
I'd be very surprised if Canon release the 5D3 with worse IQ than the 5D2. I'm hoping for improved ISO, DR and no more shadow banding. The AF improvement is the biggest thing for me though, and I'm not impressed with the price premium that now commands, so will be waiting a while. I've got no problem moving to Nikon, in fact the D700 is looking pretty tempting.

Also you really need to be wary of release media of tech stuff, it may lead to false representations of the abilities of said tech:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/news/whoops_nikon_uses_canon_dslr_footage_to_launch_d800.html

Someone's head is going to roll for that! :o
 
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