Do early adopters of MkIII feel let down?

[lightmagic]

Yes when you are ready to upgrade, selling an old 1DIII will be a big problem even it gets fixed. You will get hit hard at that time. As I said elsewhere, 1DIII is a damaged good.

Just a question ... Canon has a fix ... this is good, but ... why are
they selling "blue dot" camera's to the masses and we have to wait to
up to 4 months ... granted most won't have to wait that long ... but
shouldn't the early adopters take priority over the ones who waited
.. no offense to then ones who waited but ...
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[Christiaan Westgeest]

Well.. I do, in the end.

I've used a 5d and a 20d alongside eachother for quite a while. As most of what I do is concert/theater photography and photo-journalism, it is beneficial to be able to switch between tele and wide-angle quickly.

The new 1dIII seemed the ideal replacement for the 20d, and I figured it would complement the 5d nicely.

Unfortunately I was one of those who got a very early version of the 1dIII and I find myself using the 5d more, even for action shots, as the amount of poorly focussed shots from the 1dIII is, even in single shot mode, simply too great.

When I bought the camera I couldn't wait to test it. In my imagination I would pick those jumping rock-guitar players out of the sky in mid-air, with pin-point accuracy, but half the time I find myself glad with an in-focus shot of the stationary lead-singer.

It's not quite that bad, of course, but too often a crucial shot is simply unusable. I've contacted Canon Holland to have the thing fixed. They'll contact me about it somewhere this week, and hopefully things will improve.

But to make a long story short; yes, I feel let down. I had expected more of my first 1-series camera.

 

[blackhawk13]

--These threads are old. It's great camera.

TEACH us some tricks instead of boring us to death with the oh isn't this too bad... blah, blah soap opera style endless bs.

Even the defective ones AREN'T that BAD!!!!

-nothing beats a fast lense, except a fast girl-

 

[Numfar]

I feel quite let down.

When I decided to step out on my own, leaving the newspaper I worked at, and set up my own studio, I knew that I wanted to work with the 1 series. It was, however, quite long in the tooth, and new bodies were expected 'soon'. All the talk was of Canon's 70th anniversary, and the 20th anniversary of the EOS system meaning something very special was coming.

I chose to go with the 5D as my studio camera, and I picked up a 30D to hold me over when I needed the fps, and as a back up body. Those cameras served me well, and the 5D continues to do so.

When the 1DIII was announced, the arrival coincided well with a trip I was taking to Alaska. The body arrived the day before I left, and I used the camera for almost an entire month in Alaska. Many of my shots turned out well, but I quickly ran into the focus issue when shooting low-contrast wildlife against high contrast backgrounds (the wost case being shooting otters floating on mostly still water (lots of glare). Almost none of my 300+ images were in focus - many had no areas in focus at all, despite high shutter speeds. It's unlikely I'll have a similar opportunity in the near future, and I feel that in some ways, the camera cost me shots that I'd have been able to make with the 30D or 5D. I was mostly out of the loop about online discussions of the focus issue, and had very limited ability to review shots on a computer, and as such, wasn't aware of the severity of the problem until I returned.

Since then, I've learned to tollerate the problem, and have gotten some quality images out of the body. I hope to heck the fix works, and I am trusting Canon enough to get it right with the next camera that I have the 1DsIII coming in on Monday or Tuesday. If there are any issues with that body, however, I may revisit my commitment to the Canon system.
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[jekasko]

I agree - I think the fact that the camera won't take pictures anymore because of ERR99 and the focus did not work - even in single shot mode on my unit is not "that bad". Just carrying it and using my back-up was good enough.

 

[IanDTM]

Even the defective ones AREN'T that BAD!!!!

OMG I cannot believe people are still say crud like this.

Seriously - stop commenting on how bad other peoples cameras were - mine didn't even focus properly on single shot - so please knock it off.

I cannot wait for this debacle to be over so we can get back to talking about technique and looking at images.