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Canon EOS 1Ds Mark 3 Review
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 This
camera has it all… if you’re willing to spend the
money,
you’ll have every available feature for a dSLR.
Let’s take a look at some of the prominent
features… the
1Ds has a 21.1 megapixel, full-frame CMOS image sensor, it’s
super fast at 5 fps at shutter speeds of 1/500th or faster for bursts
of up to 45 JPEGS or 15 RAW images.
It also has the sRAW feature, shooting RAW files at 5.2 megapixels; to
make things more exciting, you can adjust the JPEG compression (in 10
steps), too.
The 1Ds has a large 3-inch LCD display, which is just amazing when you
enter Live View mode (just remember that AutoFocus is disabled in Live
View) and when you press the Depth of Field preview, you’ll
get a
simulated exposure – kind of like taking a Polaroid ahead of
time
to check for density.
The 1Ds Mark III has dispensed with all the novice exposure modes, like
the flower icon and the running man (what’s he running from
and
where’s he running to?). Your choices are Metered Manual,
Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority and Program AutoExposure.
There are two AutoFocus modes: One Shot (when your subject is
stationary) and AI Servo (when your subject is on the move). The 1Ds
Mark III boasts 45 AutoFocus sensors and the camera works extremely
well in finding and locking focus in low-light situations, down to EV
-1 (at ISO 100). And you if you use an external flash, the camera will
use the red AF-assist to find and set focus.
But if you can take your eyes away from the Live View mode, the
1Ds’ viewfinder is no slouch, it displays 100% of the image
and
the in-viewfinder display has more information that you can shake a
stick at – ranging from metering, shutter speed, f-stop, AE
Lock,
ISO, battery level, white balance, remaining storage capacity (in
memory and in the burst buffer) ISO and focus confirmation (how about
that?).
It has White Balance Compensation and Bracketing as well as several
White Balance modes, Auto, 6 presets and 5 custom settings. You can
manually adjust the color temperature (2500k to 10,000k in 100k
increments) and 5 settings that you create on your computer and then
upload to the camera!! There will never be a color temperature
situation that this camera can’t master.
The 1Ds has Canon’s Picture Styles feature, which enables you
to
tweak your JPEGs and RAW files in-camera, there are six presets
(Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Monochrome, and Faithful);
these presets are attempts to mimic various “film
stocks”
from the old days. You can also just the Sharpening, Contrast, Color
Saturation and Color Tone.
The 1Ds Mark III has the Mirror Lock-Up feature, where you can swing up
the mirror just before the camera opens the shutter so you can achieve
maximum sharpness (as there’s basically no camera vibration).
The 1Ds Mark III has two memory card slots – one for
CompactFlash
and the other for an SD card. Photojournalists will love this, because
they can turn in the JPEG card and keep the RAW card for their personal
archives.
You can also add a 30-second audio tag to each file, just hold down the
microphone button and speak.
Canon also put the WFT-E2A “wireless file
transmitter” into
the 1Ds, so you can send files from the camera to your computer via the
WiFi network in your studio (works on the 802.11b and 802.11g
protocols).
With the full-frame, 21.1 megapixel resolution, you can produce
startling 20 x 30” prints with the 1Ds… and even
go up to
30 x 40” and still be satisfied with the output. That alone
puts
the 1Ds in a class by itself, you add that to all the other features on
the 1Ds (and I didn’t even mention half of them), and you
have a
camera that defeats pretty much all other cameras in its class.
Nikon has chosen not to compete against the 1Ds; its closest attempt is
the full-frame Nikon D3, but that’s a 10-megapixel camera,
half
what the 1Ds has. It could be argued that the 1Ds Mark III rivals a
medium format system, too, because you can use the 1Ds Mark III outside
of the studio… If you have the $8000 necessary to take
advantage
of Canon’s esteemed engineering to acquire unsurpassed image
quality the world over, then be all means get this camera.
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