Rob Galbraith 1DMKII latest .

Diego Garcia said:
Furthermore, this is more about your pictures of which the motor car and the last bird are not sharp !!!!

The issue was not caused by a dropped shipment, it was caused by a mirror box assembly machine being calibrated to the wrong spec by a Japanese Engineer, hence approx. half of all Mark III's being ropey - but it could be many more which is a shame as it is lovely when it works. Cracking PQ is moot if it cant focus I suppose.
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All the images I have posted are crops on or near the 100% mark. Also, they where all taken hand holding the heavy 500mm (the car with a 2x convertor). I am satisfied with hem.
 
As an amateur, seeing comments like:
the other we don't know (though it appeared to be focusing correctly).
when talking about the lenses, would make me think that this person is an idiot, and hasn't bothered to take a proper baseline. It would suggest to me that the report would be biased, as the person performing the report was too lazy to do tests properly
 
A few weeks back I was at an Owl/BoP centre and had a go at shooting some of the birds in flight. The camera focused perfectly on whatever the active point was over, if I'd managed to get it over the bird I'm sure the shots would have been great :lol:
 
I had a 1D3 for a while up until earlier this year. On a couple of occasions when I wanted to use it in AI Servo at 10fps I wasn't satisfied as more than 50% of images were wildly out of focus for no apparent reason. Luckily I wasn't relying on it as I'm not a pro, but I've moved it on and now use a D700 which just works. I know some people have decent copies, or at least, they are satisfied with their copies. However, inability to track properly (even with the multitude of cfs set up correctly for the shoot in question) is not good.

RG has, in general, been working with Canon since the problems were discovered. In fact, I believe he was instrumental in getting them to acknowledge an issue in the first place. If he continues to suspect that the camera is not fixed, I'd be inclined to believe him.
 
IGADIZ said:
Were the bodies provided by the shame shop?.. If so, the shipment could have been dropped at any stage during transport hence your bad experience.

Also, the MKIII is a departure of how the MKIIN operated. The AF system was redesigned and it took me awhile to find my feet with the MKIII's. But once I did, I never looked back.
Alternately, you could have been incredibly unlucky...:shrug:
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No the bodies came from Canon direct, Yes I know the focus system was interesting to say the least to set up correctly.

They were a total waste of time for me, I'm not prepared to push several thousands of £ into numerous cameras of a flawed release of a camera that may or not be working, and canon using their customers as testers.
 
This forum is a good source of entertainment sometimes :popcorn: You have someone fighting there corner saying 1D MkIII is great and has no problems and then quiet a few people saying first hand that it was rubbish and didn't work.

I did like the bit about the box being dropped and for me this really made me laugh (got to love a guy for trying) :lol:

And as for using a 500mm without a mono pod that is just :cuckoo:



P.S get a D3 they just work.

:nikon:
 
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