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I remember when Canon released this model. It caused a sensation. I bought one, eventually. I've sold it now, regrettably. I'm now using M43 gear. Full frame gear had become too difficult for my ageing body. Despite all that, I had my 1DsIII for 5 years. Its AF, beautiful files and intuitive controls made for a near perfect camera. I used it for 3 years after the 1DX became Canon's new flagship, but I never felt that I was missing something. If you buy one of these beauties you will not regret it.
 
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I remember when Canon released this model. It caused a sensation. I bought one, eventually. I've sold it now, regrettably. I'm now using M43 gear. Full frame gear had become too difficult for my ageing body. Despite all that, I had my 1DsIII for 5 years. Its AF, beautiful files and intuitive controls made for a near perfect camera. I used it for 3 years after the 1DX became Canon's new flagship, but I never felt that I was missing something. If you buy one of these beauties you will not regret it.
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keithinmelbourne said:
I remember when Canon released this model. It caused a sensation. I bought one, eventually. I've sold it now, regrettably. I'm now using M43 gear. Full frame gear had become too difficult for my ageing body. Despite all that, I had my 1DsIII for 5 years. Its AF, beautiful files and intuitive controls made for a near perfect camera. I used it for 3 years after the 1DX became Canon's new flagship, but I never felt that I was missing something. If you buy one of these beauties you will not regret it.
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Good point on the EM1 II spitting out too many pictures at its max possible FPS setting. That's why I've come to realise my comfort level is probably at 9-11 FPS for action shots, and for my kids, I sit at 7 FPS. I find myself increasingly unable to sift through so many shots!
 
keithinmelbourne said:
I remember when Canon released this model. It caused a sensation. I bought one, eventually. I've sold it now, regrettably. I'm now using M43 gear. Full frame gear had become too difficult for my ageing body. Despite all that, I had my 1DsIII for 5 years. Its AF, beautiful files and intuitive controls made for a near perfect camera. I used it for 3 years after the 1DX became Canon's new flagship, but I never felt that I was missing something. If you buy one of these beauties you will not regret it.
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That can be said to a lot of cameras, just think about the first generation 5D, they even called it "classic", LOL, and now everyone is all jumping up and down about 5D IV, you can only sure when the 5D V or whatever come out same thing will happen again and again.

By the way I still have a 1Ds MK III myself too and sure it's a pretty nice camera and does very fine job for some ( or say for whatever it was designed to do back then) application but it's not a camera I would prefer to use for things like sports and Airshow and such even on the I received it.

Believe or not, I still have and regularly used my dinosaur 1DS II, a camera for portrait, i also called it "masterpiece of camera" for its time, I like it so much and tried really hard to looked around and finally found a place to replaced my shutter the second time so it's still going, while I already have some much newer model cameras already. So I personally consider that older model a " masterpiece of camera" more than my 1Ds III. it sounds almost like a crime using a 12 year old camera in forums with people changing camera like underwear, LOL.
 
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I had the 1Ds III also and I used it for 5 years. Later I got the 5D III and now the 5Dsr. For what I shoot the 5Dsr is the best DSLR out there despite some shortcoming in DR, but with Lightroom exposure blending there is no limits. But the 1Ds III was the best camera I had except the 5Dsr.
 
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