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Canon 1D Mark III- Full Review (Expanded and Updated)
Drew Strickland
Published by drew
06-16-2007
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Canon 1D Mark III- Full Review (Updated and Expanded)
drew strickland


See our Continuing Coverage of the Autofocus Problems.

Additional Note (June 23, 2007) : I may have access to the 1D MKIII again next week. If so, I will attempt to more directly replicate the problematic conditions being reported by some other websites. Hopefully, I will also be able to report on some additional features of the camera. If you have any specific requests please let me know in the forum thread.

Expanded Coverage (June 25, 2007)
3 New pages have been added. Please see the navigation menu to the right to jump straight to the new pages.


I only had about 24 hours to review this new camera from Canon. I made the most of the time available. However, you will see lots of shots of dogs and little league baseball as they turned out to be the most available subjects.

Special thanks to David Chapman at Professional Photo Resources in Atlanta for providing two of the camera bodies in this review. They now have this new Canon 1D Mark III available for rental.

By now most professionals have heard of this new camera from Canon. I will provide a general overview and then focus in-depth on some areas of interest popping up on other websites and in various other community forums.

Read on to find out if this camera lives up to the hype.

To navigate this review use the arrows at the bottom of each page and/or the content box at the top right of this article.


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By jeffcable on 06-19-2007, 09:07 PM
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This was a very useful review, Drew. In my opinion, this is how technical reviews ought to be carried out. It is worth far more to me to be able to read about real world usage rather than seeing the endless, and often sterile, identical test images that have been de rigeuer in the technical press for decades.

I think it is very worthwhile having access to the RAW images so t ...

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By TimRucci on 06-19-2007, 09:26 PM
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Thanks for all the effort you put into this review, Drew. I had just read Rob's review this afternoon, and I think I learned a lot from both of them.

I wasn't planning to purchase the camera at this time anyway but I'm keeping my up with this in case I decide to purchase one later on, after some of the focus questions that some have experienced are getting answered.

I ...

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By JoeSesto on 06-20-2007, 05:22 AM
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I've read both your AF review and the AF review by RG. He is not the only one reporting AF problems with the 1DIII. I've been jumping around on a lot of forums over the last month and the AF issue is far from consistent...I'd call it random at best. However, it has been reported often enough to cause me to postpone my current 1DIII order until the issue is resolved satisfactorily. It is entirel ...

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By mbanstendig on 06-20-2007, 08:16 AM
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Sorry, but there is no camera movement in the one out of focus shot. That is clear from the background fence, which is tack-sharp and without blur at all.

The shot is back-focused.

I suppose one out of so many is no big deal. In my day (the 60s) most shots were unsharp and one had to pick and choose and then, for commercial shots, retouch the whole photo to get anythi ...

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By mbanstendig on 06-20-2007, 08:40 AM
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What seems to have happened is that the boy was next to the junction of the pipes holding up the fence, which had blue and green things behind it to the right. The blue and green things were similar to the boy's colors and the pipes of the fence were large enough to be seen by the sensors as important. So the sensors averaged the distances between those three things, settling in between, which was ...

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By Noel_Carboni on 06-20-2007, 10:33 AM
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Great job, Drew. You'e done my kind of real-world review: Actually use it, and show the results.

Heh, one OOF shot, with rest nice and sharp. It's pretty clear what happened there... The bit of fence showing through between the boy's appendages tricked the camera into focusing on that. Nothing wrong there with the camera at all. Just keep the focus point on the boy's body and ...

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