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Mr Galbraith says “No, it's not better”.
I stopped reading his reports about the 1D/1Ds autofocus issues after I couldn't replicate them. 300 2.8's, 500 f/4's, telelconverters… I couldn't make the camera AF as poor as he claims it does. I have no idea what to think really.
Here's his report anyway.
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-8740-9068-10086
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1D4!!
Patiently waiting :)
You can reproduce his poor focusing shots by focusing on contrastless white or black tshirts.
:)
It doesn’t suprise me that many photographers are unable to reproduce the issue, its limited to photos of fast moving objects with a fast lens wide open (Shallow depth of field where dead on focus is a requirement). At lower apertures, it may not be doing that well either, but the depth of field hides it.
Most photographers will still love it, and, as he says, it is still better than the Nikon D3 which is one of the reasons why he hasn’t switched.
word what ed said, but it’s not necessarily the shallow depth of field – the issues are/were severe enough to even go beyond the DOF of f4 or 5.6 of a 200mm (ok – this might still be “wide open” for some ;))
the thing is it’s an issue with the AF*tracking* – and there esp. with unevenly moving objects and/or multiple moving objects interfering each other. it’s something one hardly can simulate, but it’s what most sportshooters are confronted with every day. the most obvious and reproducible scenario was a runner directly approaching me and crossing the AF-field with his hand in front of his body.. this completely confused the mark3’s tracking and let the AF considerably jump behind the point it should be.
as my mark3 died a wet death, i’m now back using the mk2N, which doesn’t suffer from this bug, but i now realize how much better the mk3’s AF was in other areas.
If he sticks with Canon despite all his complaining, then how bad is the MkIII really?. I would have though he ran off to Nikon after all this trouble.
he’s just trying to grab people attention. ignore him if you only do sports once awhile.
I guess if one loves something very much (perhaps as much as his own son?), of course s/he would want the best out of the something/someone, and I guess for us the “spectators”, it takes a few of those like him to push the manufacturers so that we can get better products. (and I would say perhaps it takes tens of thousands of users like us to complain about an issue to get manufacturers’ attention, where it takes a couple of people like Rob to do the job, then why not? Let’s all rejoice! :) )
Yay
Rob very rarely speaks about the 1Ds, usually only to say that he didn’t test a 1Ds…
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I think a search on the keyword Nikon in his article, and nowhere did he mention any comparison to the D3. In his previous article, RG did mention he was most impressed with the 1D3 images and though the D3 had superior high ISO performance, the latter was not as good at lower ISO (in his opinion). That was it. He never compared the AF performance of the cameras. Or did I leave out something?
He’s just attention grabbing because Vincent LaForet has gotten all the Canon attention since the 5D2 came out.
There are actually two real questions:
Who IS Rob Galbraith ? (Honestly, he may be a “famous” photographer but… a famous unknown).
And more importantly:
Who CARES about Rob Galbraith opinion ? If he is such a good photographer and is not able to get the best of his camera…
“Tools are always too bad for bad worker” used to say my father.
And my two cents is that he did not even pay his canon camera(s)…
Agree or disagree there is nothing wrong with someone driving a company to produce a better tool for us to buy. There are way to many companies that put out crap that dosent work (microsoft) but are simply to big to care about the consumer problems. Canon has been great in how they have addressed these problems as well as the 5DII’s shortcomings.
“There are way to many companies that put out crap that dosent work”
I think it is too much talking about the Canon 1D and for a problem nobody else has been able to reproduce…
And if you think a company is not listening to you or selling good products, you can always go to its concurrent, and Nikon is here for that.
PS: Concerning Microsoft, I switched to Mac and as I am not the only one… they had to take it into account for Windows Seven. If people stop buying Canon, Canon will listen. However, at the moment, I see NO reason not to buy Canon products.
some many sycophants here…
At least on 30D the s*** happens at around 24mm. At 200mm I couldn’t fault it for accuracy.
Why the personal attacks?
It doesn’t matter who Rob Galbraith is or how good a photographer he is in the real world. What matters is if his tests/evidence to support his claims are logical and valid. Obviously there is a lot of debate about this, but that is where the debate should be focused. In any case, he’s not the only one who observed strange behaviour with the III shooting specific types of subjects under certain conditions and therefore he’s not the only one with evidence to support these claims.
At least he actually used the cameras, as opposed to many forum and blog commenters who don’t even own, let alone have even used one.
Well if you take people’s names out and look at how how Canon is/has handled the situation you see,
There is NO problem then, O yes there is a problem.
You get fix 1, 2, 3… and now its oil.
Next the 5D II issues (I won’t list).
Remember you paid for it to work the way they advertise and state in the specs.
I think quality is failing…
Rob Galbraith ? I thought he was a plumber ?
Did I see Nikon ads where Canon ads once where on RG’s site? Gee he’s becoming the Pop Photo of the internet world. Take money from Nikon and Nikon can do no wrong and Canon can do nothing right. This mantra has worked well for Pop Photo for years.
I think Rob’s analysis is solid, but 99% of users may not be anywhere near as disappointed with the results. If you are moving up from any Canon body except the 1D MKII N, the 1D MKIII will have better focus performance than your current equipment. If you are coming from an XTi or a 20D, you’ll think Rob is crazy, becuase the 1D MKIII will shoot circles around the older units.
I shoot sports professionally, and I somehow survive with the 1D MKII, the 5D MKII, and two Rebels.
I have sort of read the articles. What I miss is a complete overview of settings on the cameras used in the test.
I know that it is possible to vary sensitivity of the AF to a large degree.
I have no reason to doubt Rob Galbraith, but I would be more comfortable with the conclusion if there was a complete list of the settings on the camera.
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