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How's the 50mm F/1.2 focussing with the 5D MK3?Lets put it this way, i will use my 50 1.2 as much as humanly possible now because the 5d3 is killer with it. The focus locks nicely even at F1.2.
I was wondering if it tames some of it's bad focusing behavior?
I really want to get one of these next, but I'm not sure if the 5D MK3 will make things worse or better?
Cheers
ET
Very briefly, since this isn't necessarily objective nor scientific... but I feel that the Mark III is orders of magnitude better than the Mark II.Congrats on the discovery process!
I bought a Mark II at the beginning of the month wanting to save money and/or spend the difference in price on better glass. It's the same dilemma I see posted about time and time again.
Autofocus: I'm a portrait photographer (children and newborns, primarily) who is getting back into weddings, and I have to say that the new autofocus makes a WORLD of difference in the ratio of usable photos. In editing after a simple demo session with my own son, I only eliminated a handful of photos due to focus misfire, as opposed to the 1/3 I usually do with the Mark II. This will make a huge difference in saleable prints. The same goes for the noise level in higher ISOs. ISO 3200 looks like ISO 200 on my old 30D (likely much better).
Metering, Sensor, & IQ: I don't know what it is, but even though I shoot manual, the contrast and color quality of my shots came out so perfect that I could get away with no post processing in Lightroom if I was feeling lazy. That's a huge time savings in workflow. This makes a big difference when sorting through 3-400 images per shoot.
Mind you, I just upgraded from a 30D to a 5D Mark II just this month, and that upgrade didn't make me as giddy as the move from the Mark II to the III. And this is after only 20 minutes of shooting. I'm sure I'll have more opinions in the next few days.
Test it out, i was curious last night in a drak room and without flash i had to use like 56,000 iso but with flash it dropped down to 400 iso in auto iso setting.I have purchased the new 5d mk iii. which arrived today and have been testing it performance, especially the manual mode as thats what I shoot with the most. I hoped there would be an auto ISO setting for manual, which there is BUTWhen i put my 1DM3 in manual the meter in the window on top doesnt even show up because yea its manual if you swing your aperture way high or way low it will drop to over or under expose based on the range of your iso selection. The bigger the range of auto iso the more you will see the meter dead center. It actually works like a charm. Still it would be nioce like on your cam you can set the flash to always expose a third over. Of course i'd love that option even for manual. Maybe they could make the iso higher when you want a third over...hmmm
why cannot I set an exposure compensation while in Manual mode with auto ISO?
I always use manual mode to control shutter and aperture. I meter my exposures from my client's faces that are usually set at +1EV to accommodate light skin. Auto ISO would allow me to keep up with rapidly moving children as ISO speed is not so critical as shutter and aperture setting for me. I appreciate the new advantage of auto ISO that the mark ii did not have, but now my exposures will be a full stop under-exposed using the advantages of auto ISO with the mark iii
Flash and auto iso is not a good mix
and if you were really such a get out and shoot guy you might realize how 3 stops dynamic range can make a huge difference, maybe it doesn't for what you shoot, but then maybe that just shows that some of the pixel peeping geeks actually get out and shoot a lot more things than you huh?
In your attempt to be a smart@ss, you just posted the funniest line I've ever read by a pixel-peeping geek. Yes, I do dabble in photography that requires lots of dynamic range from time to time.
Somehow I manage even with $hitty Canon sensors. Now do you care to share some of your images that illustrate how effectively the DR of Sony's Exmor sensor can enhance your photographyQuotei guess the Ferrari test team has no lab huh?
Do you really want to use a car analogy with me? Of course Ferrari has a test lab. The big dog F1 teams like Ferrari and McLaren spend $300-plus million a year on R&D. Wind tunnels, automated dynos that simulate upshifts and downshifts of an entire race, etc. You name it, they test it. During a race, the two-way telemetry on an F1 car wirelessly streams gigabytes of data back to the lab every second so engineers can analyze it in real time.
That said, all that lab work doesn't mean $hit without real-world track testing. Furthermore, the only reason why teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lab testing is to they can more effectively develop parts for real-world testing. As it stands, the main reason why F1 teams are spending so much money on testing in the lab is because the FIA banned off-season and in-season testing a few years ago. Teams would much rather spend that money testing their cars on track in real-world racing conditions, but they can't, so they resort to lab testing instead. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in the lab just so they can make the most of the precious few days of real-world track testing that they're allowed.
On the other hand, pixel-peeping tech geeks seem more interested in lab tests than actually using their cameras.
I have purchased the new 5d mk iii. which arrived today and have been testing it performance, especially the manual mode as thats what I shoot with the most. I hoped there would be an auto ISO setting for manual, which there is BUTWhen i put my 1DM3 in manual the meter in the window on top doesnt even show up because yea its manual if you swing your aperture way high or way low it will drop to over or under expose based on the range of your iso selection. The bigger the range of auto iso the more you will see the meter dead center. It actually works like a charm. Still it would be nioce like on your cam you can set the flash to always expose a third over. Of course i'd love that option even for manual. Maybe they could make the iso higher when you want a third over...hmmm
why cannot I set an exposure compensation while in Manual mode with auto ISO?
I always use manual mode to control shutter and aperture. I meter my exposures from my client's faces that are usually set at +1EV to accommodate light skin. Auto ISO would allow me to keep up with rapidly moving children as ISO speed is not so critical as shutter and aperture setting for me. I appreciate the new advantage of auto ISO that the mark ii did not have, but now my exposures will be a full stop under-exposed using the advantages of auto ISO with the mark iii
I have a friend that bought a 24-70 after renting mine to use to shoot a film for a car. Id say that says something.Haha, ok, been using the 24-70 2.8l for 5 yrs and its is an incredible lens most all Canon Explorers have this lens, Most wedding photogs have this lens. We never needed IS. Especially when isos are sick these days...The lens of the last 2yrs has been flogged thousands of times in my sports photog company too and it just is friggen fast! It prob focusses faster than my 70-200 2.8l II, no kidding. bad copies are prob out there but many times its a bad sensor alignment in which case many probs exist. Ideally you send your gear to canon and get both calibrated to each other. I had a photog friend have a prob with the lens on his 40 d and after trying a couple sent it in and it was the sensor alignment that was the prob. It goes both ways though im sure some lenses are out of their spec when bought new.whatever suits your needs may not suit another photog's needs. I know that the 24-70 2.8 lens is generally used as a portrait/wedding lens (or a walk about lens) however there are those, like me, who would like to shoot handheld video with it. All about perferences.
I had a similar dilemma, but since the 24-70 version 2 is still not out, I picked up a like new version one from craig's list for $1,100. Worst case scenario: if I don't like it and want to buy version 2, I could easily sell it for close to what I bought it for and buy the new one.HAHAAHHAHA! Send me some cash and have a new obsessions of helping people financially!
On a side note, I am not a professional photographer and can't justify my obsession with high-end gear. I just tell myself that I am worth it - and that is why UPS is bringing me my 5D3 tomorrow (like i really need it)
Glad I switched to Nikon, 3500 for an updated AF system is not right.
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Publications/DxOMark-Reviews/Nikon-D800-Review/Sensor-performance
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7008631235_7faa6f5330_o.png
Haha, you say that yet there isnt even a comparison for the 5d Mark III yet. Talk about not having all the data! The images i posted say enough to me and thats real live data.
http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php/topic,4728.0.html
lol, downsized jpegs? Look at all the D800 full size samples.
Those RAW to JPEG conversions really make me want this camera. Maybe if I mortgage the husband, my grandma and, quite possibly, the cat, I might be able to afford it....I know right!
Glad I switched to Nikon, 3500 for an updated AF system is not right.
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Publications/DxOMark-Reviews/Nikon-D800-Review/Sensor-performance
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7008631235_7faa6f5330_o.png
