My service report from Canon said that only an auto focus accuracy adjustment was made. No parts were replaced. My serial number is 557xxx. (Manufactured in February \'08). Whatever they found to be the problem it certainly was an easy fix. Too bad nobody found it a year or two ago. My thanks to Canon for sticking with it and ferreting out the issue. I can\'t believe the fix ended up being so simple with no replacement parts needed.
The auto focus is so good now that I would bet it against anything on the market. I always thought the MKIIn\'s servo focus was brilliant, but now it has been upstaged by the MKIII. It is now my #1 action cam for this year. I shot over 100,000 frames of in-flight stuff in \'07, and when I shot the first 25 frames with this fixed MKIII I knew the problem had been fixed.
Funny how it\'s being called an outer focusing point fix. If you are hesitating in sending your MKIII in, don\'t. Even if you think it is working okay, still send it in. They are performing miracles on this cam in VA. I had sent mine in twice to New Jersey shortly after I bought it, and they claimed it was \"functioning up to factory specs\" in its auto focus. What a difference it makes when someone knows what they are doing. I\'m glad they set up a seperate repair facility just for this problem.
After all this time, the MKIII really is the “best performing auto focus camera” , how ironic. I know a lot of dissatisfied customers have completely switched to Nikon recently. I’m sure the D3 and the other newer Nikons are fantastic. Fortunately for Canon the MKIII auto focus bashing can finally stop.
Thank you Canon!
Mar 25, 2009 at 07:12 AM
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, how ironic. I know a lot of dissatisfied customers have completely switched to Nikon recently. I’m sure the D3 and the other newer Nikons are fantastic. Fortunately for Canon the MKIII auto focus bashing can finally stop.