A former Nikon user's thoughts on his first 24 hours with the 5D Mark III

[brattymesler]

If anyone queries the noise on the pole dancer's legs, just tell them it's cellulite.

Heh! ;D No, it's noise. One of the reasons I had originally gone with nikon was that at higher ISO's, the noise looked like grain where as on canon, the noise looked like color. Now, the noise on canon looks like grain too and so I was okay switching.

 

[EvilTed]

I switched after 7 years with D200, D300 and finally D7000.
The D7000 with a 50mm is harder to get shots in focus than the 5D MK3 with 50mm F/1.2

Love the camera.
Love the lens selection.
Love being able to actually buy my lens of choice when I want, sometimes at a discount, compared with Nikon = cannot find the lens anywhere and when you do, you get raped for it.

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[wickidwombat]

I use spot metering and this is how i get around it

I shoot in manual
I use back button focus so a half press of the shutter meters only not focuses
when i go to take a shot i point the center at the part of the scene i want to control the exposure
adjust shutter speed just use the exposure bar in the VF i usually have it set so the meter shows it a little over exposed
frame it focus with the back button and shoot

I can see it causing issues if you shoot av or tv but in these uses you are better off using evaluative metering
especially if you are using zone AF too