Riley Posted February 22, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) "Canon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its top-selling EOS single lens reflex camera system by announcing the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, the world's fastest digital SLR camera" Â Steve's Digicams - Breaking News - Canon 02/21/2007 Press Release Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hans Roggen Posted February 22, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Anyone interested in a 1d? These are going to be an expensive couple of months. Just recovered from my M8 and lenses...now this.... Hans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted February 22, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Anyone interested in a 1d?.... house bricks are cheaper... maybe smaller Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venkman Posted February 22, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Sounds like Canon actually did listen to their customers on this one - looks like a lot of the commonly requested features are included, so this will be one heck of a cam. Â For my sole unprofessional use it would be too large, but as a pro tool it at least sounds great. Â I wonder if they can release a cam with such heavily tech based features without running into problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Roggen Posted February 22, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Just read the entire pdf listing all features...this is one beast of a camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krabat Posted February 22, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Fortunately, I do not need 10 images per second... or 110 in a single run...I take my time to take pictures slowly, so there is no time left to choose the best one out these 110... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eronald Posted February 22, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just read the entire pdf listing all features...this is one beast of a camera. Â I used my 1DII once, close to when it came out, at a fashion show - at the end a few of the photographers were looking at ME, not at the girls. Ok, so it was a small undersubscribed show and some amateurs got in. That thing makes a racket when going at full speed. And then I sold it because it would never get a sharp shot and Canon couldn't fix it. The old 1Ds would just take one picture for three from the 1DII, but that one would be nailed focus and sharp.The old 1DII got removed from the product lineup VERY quickly. Â Execution is as important as features. Â Â Edmund Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddp Posted February 22, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Honestly? Yawn... Â Major announcements from Canon & Nikon fail to raise my blood pressure at this point. Simply another piece of planned obsolescence for the scrap heap...down the road of course. Will help to line their coffers as people rush to embrace the latest & greatest. And then you will have those who simply MUST have it to show off to the rest of the world and then flood the web with motor driven images because they CAN. Â How tiresome it all has become.... Â Will be interested though to see what ISO 6400 looks like.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted February 22, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Dan I do have to agree with you on this , just added more stuff to the pile and does not stand out image wise. Have not read the whole thing yet but even the headlines would say something good except 10 fps and the size of a house. I was looking for a completely new TYPE of sensor, same stuff as there always was it looks like. If i ever need 10 fps to get the decisive moment than i need to retire and hang up my camera straps. I don't even think i will visit them at PMA. Â Honestly I'm with Edmund on this the 1ds was there shining moment and pretty much lost it from there on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted February 22, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Honestly, I am probably going against the stream here, but I would like to see its image quality. Does it produce sharper images than the 1D2N? Does it have more dynamic range than the 5D and 1Ds2? How are the high ISO settings? How are the colours? How are the skin tones? Â I couldn't care less about 10 fps and already have 10MP with my M8. 2200 shots on one battery is cool, but at that weight, if you carried an M8 and 10 batteries, you would get 3000 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometsoft Posted February 22, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I don't care about the fps, but the dynamic range and better focusing are pretty intriguing. Using the 1DSII I find I get more out of focus images than I'd been led to expect. Â Hopefully those might spill over to the 1DSII replacement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted February 22, 2007 Share #12 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Canon's new offering is a very impressive technology platform, but it still lacks the "press-here-to-take-better-photos" button. I might consider buying one when they introduce that feature. But in the meantime, their engineers really need to get cracking to solve that problem because this camera is unacceptably flawed without that button. Â Larry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giulio Zanni Posted February 22, 2007 Share #13 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I guess that it doesn't need filters....sorry I couldn't resist :-). I love my M8. Â Giulio Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted February 22, 2007 Share #14 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I can't understand the downer that this camera is getting here. It's a tool, and for the people that need 10 franes a second a damn useful one. If someone doesn't need that - and I certainly don't - then they should be able to recongise that other people have different needs. There's no 'one size fits all' camera out there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
macusque Posted February 22, 2007 Share #15 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I guess it could be a fine sport and nature photography tool. 1.3x is a balanced cropping factor, 10.3 Mp is more than enough providing not-strong AA filter, clean high ISOs are useful when light goes down and 10 fps... well, maybe for some birds-in-flight, but usually 3-4 fps are enough. Â What I'd like to know is if there's any improvement in AF precision which is what drove me crazy with Canon... I don't care about superfast back-focussing... Â They claim better and bigger viewfinder, right move. Â Live preview is nice for closeup, it also includes a 5x magnification for accurate focussing, again much useful also for Leica-R lenses via adapter . Â 14bit is another nice feature (to be seen), along with auto-sensor cleaning. Â And it weighs 225g less, mainly because of much lighter and smaller battery. Charger is also finally redisegned to decent size. Another move in the right direction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted February 22, 2007 Share #16 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Well I think the disapointment more or less is they just added another same brown wrapper camera to there line, if it does not improve the image quality from the previous version than it is just another model that doe's not seperate itself image wise from the rest of the line, yes the speed is nice for sport shooters but I was hoping for a completely new sensor and so where a lot of canon shooters that I know. Rumor was no bayer layer sensors and something completely different. Certainly for me nothing to go back too. But that would take a lot to do. But 10fps per second is very nice for some folks and i guess it is good to have that available when needed, just hoping for a better image maker.This is not it at least for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted February 22, 2007 Share #17  Posted February 22, 2007 Very interesting, it makes me wonder if Canon feels that 1.3x and 10 megapixels is a particular "sweet spot"! And they've been monkeying with the microlenses too, maybe just like another company whose name escapes me for the moment  Probably won't seriously consider one for myself however, because Canon seems to put their best effort into really big lenses; the sort I probably couldn't carry everyday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share #18  Posted February 22, 2007 Very interesting, it makes me wonder if Canon feels that 1.3x and 10 megapixels is a particular "sweet spot"! And they've been monkeying with the microlenses too, maybe just like another company whose name escapes me for the moment  Probably won't seriously consider one for myself however, because Canon seems to put their best effort into really big lenses; the sort I probably couldn't carry everyday.   microlenses ? why not, where do you think they found LiveView Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted February 22, 2007 Share #19 Â Posted February 22, 2007 up and downs, pro and cons ... Â the 1D3 images are smoother than its predeccessor but, it has better DR and tonality ... 14-bit, Dual DIGIC III processors ... are you listening, Leica? Â I can't believe I bought a 8-bit camera ... buyer's remorse already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted February 22, 2007 Share #20 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I would expect how highly image quality is valued depends on the application the camera's being used for. For a newspaper photographer I'd have thought that the frame rate would have been of more importance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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