I was able to spend some time with a pre-production 1Dx MkIII and was pretty impressed with the focus improvements. First off, I am not a bird or wildlife photographer (unless you count images of my Tibetan Terrier who dominates my Instagram feed.) I am doing mostly editorial and commercial documentary work. In the time I was able to use the camera, I was impressed with the new method of changing the focus point using the sensor on the rear focus button as well as the camera's ability to follow faces and heads (when the face is turned away.)
I have an eclectic client base, hospitals/medicine, education and sciences, food, agriculture, and editorial clients who have even more diverse interests. The challenge I always face is nailing focus in chaotic environments where people are moving in different directions, things are passing between your subject and the camera from time to time, working in bad weather as well as dusty and/or smoky environments with less-than-ideal light, and there is no real "setting" for general visual chaos with people and things moving unpredictably in poor light.
The MkII was a huge leap forward in its focus ability compared to previous pro bodies and have been using it happily for the last four years. In my time with the new camera, it's pretty clear MkIII has not only improved focus speed and accuracy, but has also increased the toolbox of how you can use it to focus with the ability to pick focus points more quickly and the camera's ability to follow a face/head despite distractions and things passing in front of the subject.
Of course the MkII had the autofocus feature to ignore things that passed in front of the subject, but I found in using it, there was typically a pause after the distraction had moved through the frame before the camera picked up focus again... that pause is gone with the MkIII.
I was also able to use it in a rather dark and un-contrasty environment and it definitely kept focus better than any Canon I have used in the past. The high ISO jpegs looked very nice.
I am also so glad that Canon has finally set it up to use two of the same (blazing fast) cards in the camera. It was silly to spend the $$ for Cfast cards only to have them hobbled by the speed of Compact Flash.
Looking forward to getting mine soon and being able to run some raw files through C1.
I was able to spend some time with a pre-production 1Dx MkIII and was pretty impressed with the focus improvements. First off, I am not a bird or wildlife photographer (unless you count images of my Tibetan Terrier who dominates my Instagram feed.) I am doing mostly editorial and commercial documentary work. In the time I was able to use the camera, I was impressed with the new method of changing the focus point using the sensor on the rear focus button as well as the camera's ability to follow faces and heads (when the face is turned away.)
I have an eclectic client base, hospitals/medicine, education and sciences, food, agriculture, and editorial clients who have even more diverse interests. The challenge I always face is nailing focus in chaotic environments where people are moving in different directions, things are passing between your subject and the camera from time to time, working in bad weather as well as dusty and/or smoky environments with less-than-ideal light, and there is no real "setting" for general visual chaos with people and things moving unpredictably in poor light.
The MkII was a huge leap forward in its focus ability compared to previous pro bodies and have been using it happily for the last for years. In my time with the new camera, it's pretty clear MkIII has not only improved focus speed and accuracy, but has also increased the toolbox of how you can use it to focus with the ability to pick focus points more quickly and the camera's ability to follow a face/head despite distractions and things passing in front of the subject.
Of course the MkII had the autofocus feature to ignore things that passed in front of the subject, but I found in using it, there was typically a pause after the distraction had moved through the frame before the camera picked up focus again... that pause is gone with the MkIII.
I was also able to use it in a rather dark and un-contrasty environment and it definitely kept focus better than any Canon I have used in the past. The high ISO jpegs looked very nice.
I am also so glad that Canon has finally set it up to use two of the same (blazing fast) cards in the camera. It was silly to spend the $$ for Cfast cards only to have them hobbled by the speed of Compact Flash.
Looking forward to getting mine soon and being able to run some raw files through C1.
Feb 04, 2020 at 09:22 AM
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