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Canon 1dmkIII $ 4,495.00 @ B&H

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Steve Saunders

New member
Congratulations Roy. You are the first 'real' person I know who actually got his MkIII. Still waiting for them to land on our island here.
 
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Steve Saunders

New member
Hi Asher. Ireland is an island and all the cameras have to come here through dealers in the UK so they can add their extra cut onto the price before sending the cameras to us. So you are partly right, except that it's The Pirates of the UK that rob us instead!
 
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Ray West

New member
Hi Steve,

Its a question of supply and demand, size of market, etc. If you really have a dealer buying from another dealer, then obviously there is a handling charge and extra delivery charges to take care of, and probably something has to be factored in to cover doa returns.

The beauty of the internet, is that _you_ can buy from Hong Kong easier than from the local shop. Your local dealer could probably get a better price for you, but not for him, so why should he?

Best wishes,

Ray
 
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John Maio

pro member
Haven't logged in here for awhile. I got my 1D Mark III from the store this morning (May 26). It was delivered there yesterday late afternoon.

Its one fine camera, to be sure. I did some experimenting today but plan to do more tomorrow.

Someone on another forum had asked about the "Highlight Tone Priority" custom setting, so I just made a simple test of the Highlight Tone Priority mode. These 6 images were shot from my rear deck looking into the western sky about 1 1/2 hours before sunset in New Mexico.

The first three are with the function enabled and for the last three, its disabled. It was saved to "Autoviewer" right out of Photo Mechanic - no tweaking of the RAW images of any kind, save the JPG conversion.

To me, it looks like there are more details in the high clouds in the first 3 (enabled). The back of the house looks darker. In the second set of three, the sky seems more washed out, and the white stucco of the house is brighter.

ISO 200, 35mm f/1.4L set at f/8. Av mode.

Check it out if you like.

http://johnmaiophotography.biz/1D3_Test/
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi John,

Wonderful to have you back and with a bang! Glad you like the 1DIII. What is the difference between the first 3 images?

Thanks for sharing. We're hungry for these images!

Asher
 
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John Maio

pro member
Hi Asher,

There is really no difference between the three images in each set. The first three have C.Fn II-3 enabled and the second three do not.

This "Highlight Tone Priority" setting is proably aimed at wedding photographers who shoot white gowns in sunlight. It seems to shift the DR of the camera to allow more "shades" in the bright areas. The downside (if you could call it that) is that minimum ISO setting is limitted to 200 when this function is enabled.

I thought the contrast between the yard and the high clouds would show it and it does. In images 4, 5, and 6, the cloud details are blown out.

I'll try to remember to put a RAW version of the "enabled" and "disabled" version tomorrow.

By the way, besides Canon's DPP program, Capture 1 Pro has preliminary support for the 1D3's RAW files in version 3.7.7 No word on when Adobe will get on board.
 
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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
John Maio said:
Hi Asher,

There is really no difference between the three images in each set. The first three have C.Fn II-3 enabled and the second three do not.

This "Highlight Tone Priority" setting is proably aimed at wedding photographers who shoot white gowns in sunlight. It seems to shift the DR of the camera to allow more "shades" in the bright areas. The downside (if you could call it that) is that minimum ISO setting is limitted to 200 when this function is enabled.
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To me, it looks like it is mostly an exposure shift correction. Perhaps there is also some non-linear in camera processing for JPEG output, but that remains to be seen.

Perhaps you could compare with a - 1EV (or -2.3EV whatever it is in Raw) shot. My expectation is that the 'Highlight Tone Priority' will look very much like the - EV corrected one.

Bart
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Bart_van_der_Wolf said:
To me, it looks like it is mostly an exposure shift correction. Perhaps there is also some non-linear in camera processing for JPEG output, but that remains to be seen.

Perhaps you could compare with a - 1EV (or -2.3EV whatever it is in Raw) shot. My expectation is that the 'Highlight Tone Priority' will look very much like the - EV corrected one.

Bart
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So these images are just jpg? This fn does not apply to RAW images?

Asher
 
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John Maio

pro member
More 1D3 Performance trials

I took the new 1D Mark III for a little spin this morning to evaluate some of the corners of its performance envelope.

  • All images originally shot in RAW
  • No post processing at all - they were converted to what you see by PhotoMechanic and only hint at what a properly processed image would look like
  • The hummers and bike riders were all shot at 10 FPS in an attempt to evaluate focus tracking. I wish I brought a longer lens for the hummers, and apologize if there are too many, but I've never been able to freeze them like this before (I don't usually do landscapes and wildlife - except the 2-legged kind)
  • The interiors of the church and restaurant are high ISO - 1600 to 3200. No post noise reduction of any kind applied
  • There is one of a white bench in sunlight. Since a wedding gown wasn't available, I used this to further evaluate the High Tone Priority mode.

Some of the images include comments to help you decipher what I was trying to evaluate. If someone has a particular need for the RAW image, please PM me and I'll try to get it up on YouSendIt.

My conclusion from this trial run is that I'll keep the camera ;-)

Here's the link - the JPGS in the show are large - a broadband connection is advised.

http://johnmaiophotography.biz/1D3Performance_test/
 
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John Maio

pro member
John Maio said:
Haven't logged in here for awhile. I got my 1D Mark III from the store this morning (May 26). It was delivered there yesterday late afternoon.

Its one fine camera, to be sure. I did some experimenting today but plan to do more tomorrow.

Someone on another forum had asked about the "Highlight Tone Priority" custom setting, so I just made a simple test of the Highlight Tone Priority mode. These 6 images were shot from my rear deck looking into the western sky about 1 1/2 hours before sunset in New Mexico.

The first three are with the function enabled and for the last three, its disabled. It was saved to "Autoviewer" right out of Photo Mechanic - no tweaking of the RAW images of any kind, save the JPG conversion.

To me, it looks like there are more details in the high clouds in the first 3 (enabled). The back of the house looks darker. In the second set of three, the sky seems more washed out, and the white stucco of the house is brighter.

ISO 200, 35mm f/1.4L set at f/8. Av mode.

Check it out if you like.

http://johnmaiophotography.biz/1D3_Test/
Click to expand...

RAW FILES BELOW:

This one has the High Tone Priority setting enabled:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJpNU1ORkVkMnMwTVE9PQ

This one is the standard (disabled) setting:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJpNU1DeFVoeVkwTVE9PQ

The RAW files are about 12 MB each
 
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Steve Saunders

New member
I forgot to say that the 1DIII manual that Nill links to isn't a DIY scan and upload, it seems to be the proper Canon one and very high quality as well.
 
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Mark Johnston

New member
Japan pricing for Mk III

The price advertised in Japan at Bic Camera, a very large retail outlet, has been JPY 498,000 since they first mentioned it. I pre-ordered mine in February at that price, and that is the price I paid when I picked mine up on Thursday.

That works out to about USD $4,095.

Regards to all,

Mark Johnston
 
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