I would just sum it all up in the sense thata you can make some customers happy and yet others will always want MORE MORE MORE!!!
Hey, I over exposed a photo by 2 stops during a wedding (one of those quick moments you have to capture, no set up time) and when I brought the exposure down in bridge I was amazed at how much detail remained! Almost NO posterization at all!!!!!! the film like Latitude on the sensor alone make me love this mark 3. and maybe these problems you state dont occur to me since I always shoot in manual or av mode and never really bother with all the bells and whistles, just a few of them.
How about being happy you have a kick butt camera , some others that want and deserve this camera cant have it for whatever reasons.
More? Even the $1300 40D or the discontinued 30D has a C Mode that's instant to use without fiddling through too many menus and saving to the media. I shoot manual all the time and it's great having a useable C mode. Set it up for flash shots and then have a no-flash setting with correlated f-stop settings, etc. Allows quick changes for varying conditions.
All right, enough for beating a dead horse. My biggest complaint is the crop in all truthfulness. I got so used to FF on my 5D that I feel a bit constricted and odd with all these funky length lenses. Doh. That 1Ds Mark III is calling my name though... Hm.
A client has just asked if I can shoot an entire evening party without using flash at all. Looks like the 1D3 just got a reprieve, as I had already got my dealer to agree to take it back for a refund. Instead I'm ordering a manual focus screen and girding myself for a gruelling evening.
Canon has also contacted me in response to a long conversation during which I calmly explained the difficulties of using the camera in a fast moving event environment. The rep I spoke to agreed that the joystick focus-point control and incomplete camera settings memories are serious omissions. They have given me the email address of the rep at Canon UK who deals with pro photographer product feedback. Although it's unlikely, it's not impossible that one day the joystick will work. Maybe we can even get them to include iso in the 'basic camera settings'. If anyone wants to request these and other features please PM me and I will give you the email address. It would be great if someone in the US would find out who to complain to there.
