One more try.... With several days of 1DmkIII behind me now, I have comments.
1) the configurability is amazing 2) the index in the manual is useless 3) highlight priority mode is great, though not as great as I had hoped There are far more configuration options that I can even hope to comprehend. The camera is baffling. It definately focuses differently than my 5D and 20D. I'm getting a lot of front focus because me and the camera seem to have differing ideas of what the subject is. I'm compensating by just using the center focus point for now. It still has the usual problem of being unsure if the subject is very small, and swapping between it and the background. I don't think that problem is solveable without wiring the focus directly into my brain. One of the most annoying problems I had was when I was initially playing with it (having only read the battery care section of the camera) it got stuck between ISO 2oo and 32oo and I couldn't get to 100, L, or H. I looked up ISO in the manual and looked at the troubleshooting section, and had no luck. I reset all my custom settings and it went away. Later, after I had finished playing with the camera and took time to read the manual I found the 2oo ISO thing documented. It isn't in the index though, so I hadn't found it when I had looked. Highlight Priority mode only works between 2oo and 32oo ISO. Until reading that I hadn't even noticed that it was 2oo ISO and not 200 ISO. Highlight Priority mode amazingly seems to help in scenes that are basically unphotographable. My first attempts to use it were in the Vietnam 2000. I had a darkened restaurant with huge windows that opened out on the sunlit outdoors. Without the mode, I had blowout; with the mode I could see through the windows and still make out stuff inside. There is a lot of stops between the two, so neither was great, but I was still impressed. Having read about the 10fps I was pretty excited about it. Lots of things I like to photograph move fast enough that 3fps really hinders me. I had read that the 1D was settable to 10fps or 3fps, and I had thought that it was a poor choice. 5fps seems like a good middle spot as well. I hadn't realized that the 1D has a max burst setting, nor had I realized how unusable 10fps is. In the fast mode I can't take a single shot no matter how careful I am, but 3fps is quite manageable. With the burst limiter, I could easily make fast mode into 5-mode. So I'm happy. -- -- Schlake This is my gmail account, I can also be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED], if the TCC is working. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
