Thank you Canon-I love the new firmware

I ve been taking some shots the last couple of days and Today I think it proved to be the "FIX", On a crappy drizzle-cold-oh and windy day in Joliet- I shot womens softball The first shot I wanted her facce in focus and I was using somewhat of a slow shutter speed and shooting thru a fence(much better than last week with old firmware







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glad to hear this, and the first lady has great teeth, I do a lot of teeth at weddings & she has the best I have seen recently.

But honestly, her face is a bit soft (to my eyes...).

The plane of focus appears to be on the number '7' on her jersey.

I've shot many heartbreakers like this 'near-miss'.

They may fly for a quickie newspaper shot, but for sales I would most likely delete it.

Glad I still have my Mk1...

Take care...

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Just think, if every key-stroke was a shutter-press we would all be pros by now...

I am NOT even believing what you are saying. You would DELETE those pictures. That is insane. Those are very fine images...and I agree with the HighOctaneSports that this is INDEED the fix (when I shoot my next event...I hope to say unequivocally)...and be done with it.

The bottom line is that the image is a VERY GOOD IMAGE. I really don't understand the slam against the images. Maybe you are just WAAAY too good for the rest of us.

HOS...very nice. My PRELIMINARY shooting experiences mimic yours and I very happy with the limited shooting I have done since loading the firmware.

Geesh...I am still shaking my head!!
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Hey Maybe I need to do microadjustment on my eyes- Its not tack sharp like shooting a Model with one shot but considering its shooting thru a fence and I can see her teeth are white-Im not deleting it-Probably cause her dad loved the shot and bought an 8x10 Hey but thanks
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I dont know anymore-You try and show people that the equipment is better than before and anytime you post a picture here- theres always someone with a negative comment-Oh well Hope yours works the same mine has-But serious you and me need to do microadjustments on our eyes(HAHAHA)
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Dude All those pictures are soft! Sorry just the facts.

Are you people blind?????? What color is the sun in your world??? Go back to your Star Trek conventions and leave photography to the pros! Sorry I tried to enlighten some and if any of you have ever even heard of Photoshop, you would know that you lose sharpness when you rez-down an image. perhaps I should have ran unsharp mask after since I didn't realize I was getting graded on it. Although, you may not like the photo, I sold a 16x20 for $65 to the girls father since as he put it "That is un-Freaking-believable".

Any of you so-called experts care to put up or shut up??? I know I am confident with my work as are my employers and I haven't choked at an event and missed a shot but, while I am shooting those events some of you are on your computer reading about what I get paid to do. Maybe you should leave the photo sites and go back to your Asian porn sites.

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Hey I did not want to upset you, all Im saying is those photo's in my opinion do not have good Resolution & Acutance! now with that said I still think it's a canon Mark III issues NOT YOU.....! Im the unlucky owner of two Mark III body both have been sent in for A I servo focus issues one 3 times the other is still there for the forth time!!!! I don't think any firmware can resolved this issue it goes way deeper then that!!!!! All The Best Mike

You have a right to loose it on this! I think your image of the girl is just great. The image has feeling and sings with the emotion of the moment. This so called expert would have missed the moment because of the lighting conditions or some other excuse. Total sharpness is, in most cases static and unappealing when shooting sports. This image is in focus, but the action is blurring ever so slightly, that in no way takes away from the image. For every one person that likes your images there will always be detractors, thats the way it is. Thanks for posting this and for your comments!
Dennis

for sure all the images are soft, i think it's becoming a Canon trademark and then they give us c#@p to sharpen the Images in our software, wadda a piece of c@#p

Mongrel said:

The plane of focus appears to be on the number '7' on her jersey.

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That's just the selection of the AF pt on the jersery instead of her face/eyes, and the DOF is too shallow to include both the jersey and face in focus.

No, neither blind or porn lovers. You posted the images because you think the images are great and sharp. And actaully making pictures smaller tends to sharpen them. My guess is at full size these are unusable and the 'fix' may be an illusion
Tony

I never said it was a bad image...

It was a very objective (do you seriously think I have a dog in this race?) comment regarding the focus on the face, followed by a personal opinion on the value of a shot like that to me. Nothing more and nothing less.

But if you or anyone else is suggesting that the face in the shot is in focus in that shot, you are simply wrong.

I will not get into a shouting match over it. I don't have the time to play can you top this on an internet forum. Take my word or not-I have DELETED shots like that, BECAUSE I have others where the face is in focus or the depth of field is sufficiently deep to have the face and jersey in focus.

To the OP, if you choose to take it as a 'knock' on your pic, I apologize. For what it 's worth the other two shots are in focus as far as my eyes can tell.

My intent was only to say that if indeed you had focused on the face, then your focus IS OFF. And Canon has not done right by you or anyone else who invested over $4000 on a MkIII.

Sincerely,

Mongrel
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Just think, if every key-stroke was a shutter-press we would all be pros by now...

Here is a sample from my Mark III after I got it back from Canon a second time, but with the 1.2.3 firmware...unedited, but sized...



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Mate if you do the geometry you will find that the front of a juersey and eyes are in general the same plane.
IE go have a look in your mirror..

As to say the face is OOF i think a quick visit to the optometrist may be in order mate.

Only softness of which there is a very very small amount is generated from movement and not from focus issues.
Great shots by the way..

There is no need to flame people who give their honnest opinion.

I own a 1mkIII, I bought mine in march 08 and I have absolutely no focusing issues in one shot or AI servo focus.

The fact is your first shot is OOF. Like it or not. And it does not require an expert to see that but it does to take good shots. That you took the shot through a grid may explain that, in which case you made a poor choice to use this pic to demonstrate improvement from the latest firmware on 2007 MKIII models.

Your shooting skills might be good but if you think this is in focus you are actually damaging this firmware update by under representing the progress if there is one.

But remember, the first pic is OOF. fact.

HighOctaneSportsPhotos said:

Sorry I tried to enlighten some and if any of you have ever even
heard of Photoshop, you would know that you lose sharpness when you
rez-down an image.

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Total b..s

HighOctaneSportsPhotos said:

perhaps I should have ran unsharp mask after since
I didn't realize I was getting graded on it. Although, you may not
like the photo, I sold a 16x20 for $65 to the girls father since as
he put it "That is un-Freaking-believable".

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Yes you can sell to a father a picture of his child taken by a cellphone and make him happy. I do not buy your argument, a father is not an unbiased judge. I will not comment on your pictures as you seem to be oversensitive to critique and posted them here to brag not to learn.

Crop the face will verify who is right or wrong?

Johnny

I shoot for a living and cover about 4-5 baseball/softball games a week this time of year and of course every single game I get a few pitcher shots.

Theres simply no reason to have anything less than a tack sharp pitcher shot though.

You get a semi soft shot of a play at the play ? Thats one thing and it doesn't happen all the time. A great shot is a great shot and is does not have to be tack sharp to still be a nice photo if its of a really big play. Its nice to have it tack sharp as well of course, but its not a deal breaker in many cases.

A pitcher though ? Unless that girl came in with 2 outs at the bottom of the 7th and only threw one pitch, theres just no reason why you can't get a better shot that than.

I'll usually shoot a pitcher for 2 or 3 batters and and get a couple of angles on the delivery. If you motor drive the sequence you'll have a number of nice points in the deliver such as the top of the windup, the follow thru etc. You of course shoot a few times because the pitching motion can throw off the af, the chain link fence can throw off the AF etc.

Then you come home with an image like the one posted and sorry, no matter how much the OP wants to argue to the contrary, its not a quality image.

Bottom line is this, that if your turning in or selling a dime a dozen shot, it had darn well be technically perfect because theres no excuses why it shouldn't be.