----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:35 PM Subject: Re:EOS 1ds
> I gave the test camera back yesterday although I really didn't want to. I > shot at the track for about half a day and was completely happy that the AF > operation is as good as the 1v - other than some hunting with the long lens > which no doubt comes back to CF & PF's that are set in my 1v but were not > set on the 1Ds. I managed to get a crash sequence to test the frame advance BIG SNIP Tim, Thanks for posting your comments. A few days ago I bought the UK magazine "Digital Photographer" issue 3, simply because it was reviewing 3 cameras including the 1Ds (Minolta 7Hi & Sigma SD9) and putting some of their test images on the included CD. As an EOS3 owner and hoping one decade(!) to get a 1Ds or whatever (3D?), I was totally amazed by the poor quality of the 1Ds images when viewed on my monitor. Nowhere near as good as what I get from my CP4500. What was wrong? Reading the text carefully, it turned out that they'd only included images at the end of the camera's range so to speak. So several were shot at 1250 ISO bringing up bags of noise. Out of 10 sample images for the 1Ds, 6 were shot at 1000 or higher, 1 at 640, 2 at 320 and 1 at 200 ISO. So no chance to savour a really smooth image except that the shot at 200 ISO was fine but not an easy subject for comparisons (stained glass window from inside a cathedral). Thank goodness for www.dpreview.com which does at least give me a chance to see some nice stuff as well as what's just about good enough for poor quality newsprint. Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
