Art Morris just published a user's guide to the 1DIII for birding photographers. Check his website. I have a copy. While you may wish to modify his settings, they might give you a good place to start. Guide is $20. www.birdsasart.com
I just looked. I don't see the guide listed on his site yet. You will have to call or e-mail him.
For those interested in using Leica lenses on a 1D3 I've been running some tests. None of the Leica WA lenses I have work on the 1D3 without some modifications. That includes the 19mm and the 21-35mm. The 28-90 doesn't work either. HOWEVER, if you are willing to use live mode, all the WA lenses work because the mirror is locked up. You have to experiment a little to get the steps right so you put on the lens after the mirror is locked up for Live VIew and then take it off before you return to using the viewer and before you turn the camera off. In those cases the mirror goes back down and will hit the lens.
All the longer Leica lenses I have tried work fine -- 25mm, 50mm, 60mm, 100 macro, etc.
Art Morris just published a user's guide to the 1DIII for birding photographers. Check his website. I have a copy. While you may wish to modify his settings, they might give you a good place to start. Guide is $20. www.birdsasart.com
I just looked. I don't see the guide listed on his site yet. You will have to call or e-mail him.
Thanks so much, I purchased it, best $20 Iv'e spent in a while, I'm up and running, time to have some fun, fine tune later I
Steve A wrote:
Will someone please explain CF111-8 and 9 please, I'm confused on how to set up the AF for birding, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm coming off of a 30D body, the MK3 custom functions are a little intimidating, I need a jump start please.
Steve Steve A wrote:
Thanks so much, I purchased it, best $20 Iv'e spent in a while, I'm up and running, time to have some fun, fine tune later I
Steve
Hi Steve,
Its a good guide but it doesn't explain how custom C.Fn III-8 and C.Fn III-9 work, perhaps Art doesn't think this setting is relevant to BIF shots.
Edited by NickRno77 on Jun 07, 2007 at 10:46 PM GMT
Lenspen actually just came out with a lenspen that's specifically designed for sensor cleaning, it's on their website. His procedure was designed using the original lenspen system with some mods to make it work on sensors, not sure if he's updated it for the new sensor specific model.
He just announced the mkIII guide in his last newsletter. Just paypal him $20 and tell him you want the guide and he emails it to you.
I have got my MKIII three days ago and have been shooting baseball and some family portraits. I have been using a MKIIn so the learning curve did not seem that great. My first impressions are as follows.
• I like the feel of the body. It is lighter and has a great grip
• The shutter release seems more precise. On the high speed mode it is easier to take only one shot if you want vs my MKIIn.
• Sound seems about the same
• I like the set up for the controls and the quick dial vs the two finger approach of the older 1D series for many commands.
• I like the fact that you can program the (set) button for multiple functions depending on your needs. I am currently using it for viewing the picture. It is seems faster then the view button. I also use a 20D so the dial is not a new item.
• The view finder is brighter and easier to see the settings in. I like the fact that you can see a lot more information on the display. Like ISO, battery, shots remaining etc.
• I do not know if it is just me but the spot metering seems like it is more precise. Maybe all the metering modes are but tonight I noticed it a lot while doing some family portrait stuff outdoors.
• I had some focus issues on my 70-200 IS when tracking a player running right at me and not using the center AF point. I was using an off center point and it seemed like it had trouble getting into focus. After I looked at the shots on my monitor that night it confirmed that the player was not sharp. I have not experienced this problem with my MKIIn.
• I had to change the AF-on button back to the * button since I was so used to using it on my other camera but now when I want to zoom out of the picture on the monitor I have the use the AF-on button. I keep hitting the * button and turning off the preview. To me the AF-on button is not in a great spot for all day use. It is in a better location when holding the camera in portrait orientation but not in landscape in my view.
• AF seems faster then the MKIIn and it took a little getting use to.
• I like the new menus a lot and the new My menus settings is great.
• I shot with the highlight priority on for a lot of yesterdays game and I am not sure if it was better or not. It was a late game so the sun was not the high in the sky. I am interested to use it when we are at high noon with white uniforms and see how much difference it makes.
• I shot some low light football practice yesterday after the baseball game at 3200 ISO and the images were great. I believe this is going to make football season a lot better this year. Noise Ninja may not get as much work as last year, I hope. As all you who shoot high school football know, most fields are a bummer and we are always trying to balance the problem of noise vs blur. You can fix noise but not blur. I believe this camera will put a lot of high school fields back on the shoot list. That is one of my main reasons for the investment. Low light sports.
I could go on for a lot longer but that is my initial impressions after only three days and three games.
I have a question. Has anyone tried this camera with a Sigma 120-300 2.8. I just purchased one and am wondering if there are any issues with the new MKIII. I tried a used one a few months ago and it was a lemon would not focus at all so I sent it back to the guy. Now I have put in an order for a new one praying I get a good copy.
Is there a way of quickly going from One Shot to AI-Servo with one button without taking your eye out of the viewfinder? I know you can use a button on some super telephotos, but I don't believe that's available on the 70-200L 2.8 IS. Am I missing something? Any ideas?
Tim Larson wrote:
Is there a way of quickly going from One Shot to AI-Servo with one button without taking your eye out of the viewfinder? I know you can use a button on some super telephotos, but I don't believe that's available on the 70-200L 2.8 IS. Am I missing something? Any ideas?
Tim
I don't think so. The index of the manual is quite good.
Tim Larson wrote:
Is there a way of quickly going from One Shot to AI-Servo with one button without taking your eye out of the viewfinder? I know you can use a button on some super telephotos, but I don't believe that's available on the 70-200L 2.8 IS. Am I missing something? Any ideas?
Tim
I think the most simple thing for you to do is to hit the AF-DRIVE button then rotate the top wheel one click. That will toggle it between the two with ease and shouldn't require you to remove your eye from the viewfinder.
I realize it's not going to give you any confirmation in the viewfinder when you do this, other than how the focus reacts.
mlee wrote:
I think the most simple thing for you to do is to hit the AF-DRIVE button then rotate the top wheel one click. That will toggle it between the two with ease and shouldn't require you to remove your eye from the viewfinder.
I realize it's not going to give you any confirmation in the viewfinder when you do this, other than how the focus reacts.
Mike
I was just wondering the same thing as Tim (just getting into the pre-programmed features on my MkIIn.) The 1D-series has a great set of pre-programmed features but it would be way cool if in future iterations of this beast Canon could allow a user to move to any pre-programmed combo they wanted to input (i.e. we'd select the drive, frame rate, ISO, etc) and then we'd be able to "go there" just by pushing one button on the back of the camera. Just one combo would be fine with me although I don't see why they couldn't allow several "custom combos"......
, perhaps Art doesn't think this setting is relevant to BIF shots.