farscapes wrote: - the trouble is, this is the year before the Olympics. The first umpteen hundred 1d3's off the assembly line will be earmarked for the world's press and the wire agencies. As a non-internationally-acclaimed sports photographer, I'll dutifully get into line with all my brethren and gaze enviously at Donald Miralle et al several hundreds places further up towards the front of the queue, smiling and joking with Canon executives while the rest of us shiver in the rain and try to keep our money dry.
By the time I get to the front of the queue, the 1d3 will be sold out. I'll trudge home and ring around the usual suspects, hearing rumours of bizarre little side-street camera outlets which have mysteriously taken delivery of one of these beasts. Several hundred pounds in fuel, parking tickets and fast food receipts later, I will throw myself to the floor sobbing in defeat.
My frustration will come across in my work during the next few weeks, I'll be snappy with people and to the point that I'll start losing friends and making both women and men of a nervous disposition cry. A conversation with me will feel like much like the journey to Valhalla with 'I Hate Vikings' written on the giant sandwich board you're wearing....
Months later, standing up to my knees in salt water and getting sunburnt, bitten by various bugs and generally falling into a poor state of repair, I'll look at my 1d3 sat alluringly between my trusty gitzo monopod and 400 f2.8 and laugh slightly manically at the ridiculous lengths I went to to get this silly little expensive Japanese black box. Then I'll carry on taking some of the finest photos I've ever taken, and gladly look forward to doing it all again in another 18 months.
Thank you Canon, for keeping my life real ...Show more →
It says the dynamic range at low ISOs is about the same as the 1DmkII, then a little further on in describing "highlight tone priority" it says this feature extends the DR of highlights by 1 stop. Am I missing something?
Edited by Jeff on Feb 23, 2007 at 08:25 AM GMT (Reason: MERGED)
Damon Spencer wrote:
Where was that from? I want one, and would like to get it before 1st April when the World Superbikes roll into Donington...
I ordered it from Calumet in Birmingham. They had 20 on backorder for customers this morning, now they have 21, 1 for me! ETA for delivery is 1st week of March, hopefully 1st of March. Not really excited one little bit you understand Damon!
That΄s Canon΄s retail price !!! look in the Canon Australia web pages, they state that dealers has not to follow that price, so expect something less !
I like everything on this camera except the sensor.
But I'll get one, I already sold my 1D2
In my case I would like to have a 1.6 crop with 10-12 Mpx and/or a FF with 14-16 crop in this body. In that case I would buy two
(framerate is not that important to me)
Calumet in Amsterdam is taking pre-orders; 4300,00.
Delivery March/April
The highlight tone priority feature only works at ISO 200 to ISO 3200 range (said on page 12 of the white paper). I am not sure whether I understand this correctly, but I assume the missing ISO 100 setting provides for the 1 stop of dynamic range that this feature utilizes.
I.) High ISO Performance, I dislike ISO 1600 shots on my MkII, very unforgiving. Most gyms I am in are ISO 1600, 320, 1.8, no fun.
II.) Focusing adjustments: A lens is a precision instrument, bump it a round for a few years and it could go out. Being able to dial in each lens is appealing to me.
III.) Improved focusing is always good, cross points off center are helpful especially for basketball which is all portrait for me.
I can see myself picking up a clean used one in a couple years. I think Id like a 300 2.8 before that.
What really is mind bending it is to consider what will be available in 10 years?
What will ISO performance be?
Is anyone bothered by the issue of having the PC sync flash sync speed being dropped to 1/60 of a second? Also, with the new battery system (about time the 1 series got lithium batteries), you will either be shooting all 1D MkIII's, all older 1 series bodies, or else carrying 2 bulky chargers and more bulky batteries. I'm also a bit disappointed with the new WFT-E2a wireless interface using the camera's battery for power. Nothing on the camera itself would be anywhere near a power hungry as that WiFi transmitter.
There are so many really nice, new features with this camera. It's a shame that Canon felt a need to compromise on the shutter sync though.....
People said that vibrating sensor covers were gimmicks for soccer moms' Drebels...
And livepreview was only good for point and shoot Ixus pocketcams....
Scott, would you have preferred a separate battery & charger for the WFT-E2a? I guess it uses camera's battery to minimize the battery related overhead & to minimize the size of the WLAN unit itself.
Many very good features on the camera. One that jumped out at me was the ability to access and set the 580EX II from the 1D Mk3 menu. Now you do not have to enter the settings on the flash itself. Much improved ergonomics.
Rob Eckert
