Great Summary Ariel...I concur with your assessment. The 1D3 is more that what meets the eyes in a lot of ways.
One thing I noticed also is the colors that come out of the 1D3 has more POP straight of camera than my 1D2. The original 1D was one of my favorite cameras for color reproduction and I even think the 1D3 beats it IMO. The camera produces some of the best looking files of the current Canon cameras.
I do agree that with the new layout that manually selection AF points takes some getting used to. I was frustrated with this at first because I tend to change AF points a lot during my shoots, but now that I am use to Joy Stick I am good with it. I like how you can immediately select the center focus point by tapping down the joy stick.
I will only upgrade this camera if Canon comes out with a FF version in the future. Even then I will still keep this camera. The funny thing is with the whole AF debacle this has become one of Canon\'s best value cameras and very underrated.
This camera is so polarizing that it will never get the credit it deserves for the things that Canon actually did right with this model.
Nov 24, 2008 at 02:11 AM
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