sivrajbm wrote:
Buying one now is like shooting craps, it's a gamble. You roll the dice you take what you get. I think I'll wait till the Mk3N or when Canon annouces a fix.
I think I would wait even longer than that so that any of the old ones floating around have been repaired or returned to Canon.
John Power wrote:
Why aren't the current owners piping in here about how blown out of proportion the alleged 1DMKIII focus problem is...?
I had a great copy of the MKIII but I know of many pros that have had several bad copies. They are not strangers to the 1 series and compared to mine they were definitely defective so I think the jury is still out as to whether the AF problem is truly blown out of proportion.
I would flippin' well hope that the 40D has different AF hardware from the 1 series - otherwise why is the 1D3 more than three times the price of the 40D?
Seriously though, the 40D and the 1D3 share almost nothing from their AF system. The 1D3 and the 1Ds3 - that's a different story.
I had the same one shot autofoucus issue as shown here. Also using the same lens......... Sent the camera to Canon.
They said " electrical adjustments to autofocus system, installed new firmware" .
The one shot autofocus works fine now. Not so sure about A1 servo..
That one shot seems badly OoF.
Yet, I think we all get occasional "inexplicable" OoF shots, even with best gear and best practices used, on the type of targets we habitually/routinely shoot . Therefore, the key consideration ought to be a change in frequency/persistency of misfocused shots......based on a fairly large number of images.
Could it be that the extra sensitivity to the dark is creating havoc w/ the extra bright? As if the whole thing was shifted and now dark is fine but bright is overwhelming (as in overexposed) and auto focus simply isn't able to get a lock?
Look at it this way. Canon spent some amount of time (2-3 years?) designing the MkIII and obviously the engineers designed some things that aren't working as advertised. Then the testing process failed to detect the problems. The full extent of the problem was initially surfaced by photogs out in the real world (i.e. Canon had to find out from somewhere else that their product has issues, or at least a significant number of the bodies do.)
During this process Canon rolled out at least a couple firmware updates that pretty much fell flat, at least in terms of their ability to fix the AF issues. So the problem would appear to be pretty complicated and, to be honest, if you're a Canon exec you've got to be wondering what's going on with your engineers and testing folks. I would imagine that they're trying to fix two major things: the MkIII and also the various processes that allowed this product out the door with its various problems. I agree that Canon should have done something to communicate a bit more with consumers although given the fact that they probably have been, or are, as confused as everyone else they might simply have made things worse through public statements. I'm confident that they'll get it fixed, if only because it's in their own financial interest. But it may take some time because they clearly had no idea about the extent of the problem. It will be interesting to see what happens with the 40D, which seems to be getting good reviews, and the 1DsMkIII. On the latter, if I were them I'd be pretty nervous about that roll-out.
Since Aug. 29, Ron G. announced that firmware 1.1.1 is being installed and tested at Osaka.
15 days later, the silence is hurting my ears. Could this mean the new firmware helped and they cannot replicate the problem? I do believe that if the problem was still there, someone would be itching to tell. I would think. Maybe they are trying very hard to make it fail and just can't. I don't know.
Everyone who was at the Osaka event was killed in a freak accident when an unspecified camera exploded sending shrapnel for 2 miles. I'm sure we'll read about it a few years from now when the gov't is done covering it up...
Nikon suicide photographers detonated thermonuclear devices in clear breech of the health n safety guidelines, as Japan is extremely environmentally friendly, except to dolphins and whales, the name Osaka has been removed from all maps and school children have been brainwashed into thinking that the remaining hole, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshϋ was in fact a dormant volcano that erupted with a Krakatao force explosion, like it did in 1883.
President Bush then ordered a news blackout as the cartel thought it was a prime opportunity to levy more taxes for the resultant fallout and blame it on you SUV drivers but is using the tax money surreptitiously to finance his invasion of IRAN whom hell blame for supplying the Nikon Suicide Photographers with enriched weapon grade plutonium, from which they made their devices and caused all the destruction in the first place.
Naturally it is clearly Canons fault, we need no evidence of this, all we need to do is talk to God, hell tell us that Bush planned the whole thing and Canon, finding themselves in an untenable position actually paid the Nikon suicide photographers to bomb Osaka with weapons of mass destruction which went missing from Blairs arsenal who then unknowingly, tried to convince President Bush that it was someone called Sadam who stole the plutonium, Bush, never slow to use an opportunity, said believed and hoodwinked Blair into thinking he really did believe when in fact Bush knew exactly who and where .
And all because Canon wanted a measly firmware to fix their AF .
