I was quite happy with my Mark II\'s and III until I started seeing some soft and totally out-of-focus images with the Mark III during this past seasons winter sports of gymnastics, hockey and basketball. I certainly didn\'t fall prey to this \"AF hysteria\" when I was constantly deleting image after image due to focus innacurracies
I\'d talked to a couple of recent Nikon converts and they mentioned NPS had a program to \"get back pro shooters who had switched to Canon.\"
A couple of e-mails and phone calls and I was shooting with a D3/70-200/24-70 for high school tournament basketball. Right out-of-the-box, I was getting more in-focus keepers than I ever got with the Mark III and I saw now why some shooters didn\'t hesitate to make the switch.
I could immediately see a huge difference in focus accuracy over the Mark III and realized that a change was a coming. Regardless of what negatives Rob Galbraith reported on the Mark III focusing, I knew there had to be a problem with that camera and my own tests have proven that. The AF systems on the D3 and D700 are either that much better or this Mark III is just not that good?
There may or may not be something wrong with my Mark III and I\'ll see after I send it in for the fix now that I have reliable focusing cameras I can use while the Mark III is in for repair.
Much success,
Lee Woolery
Speedshot Photo
Jun 01, 2009 at 05:05 PM
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