Thursday, July 28, 2011

First Outting with the 1D Mark III

Butterfly -- 1D III & EF 100mm f2.8L Macro. Click for larger

Took out the 1D III for the first time since I bought it few weeks ago. Other than a few dozen test shots, I didn't really use the camera at all for real shooting. Took along the 100mm f2.8L macro lens. Very happy to say that the focus has been very good, though I still have not done too much testing with Servo (tracking) AF. Hopefully it will be as good as one-shot.

One thing I have noticed is that the exposure is not as accurate as the EVIL cameras or when the pictures are shot in live-view on the 1D III. They tend to over-expose. I guess this has been an issue before, just never thought about it since I have pretty much shot with the NEX exclusively for the last eight months.

On the Sony EVIL note, just read the Sonyalpha rumor that the NEX-7 has a 3-million pixel OLED viewfinder! Unfortunately, the sensor pixel count has increased to 24MP, which means the RAW files will be around 30-35MB or more. Just imagine, my first hard drive was 20MB RLL drive. It would not even hold one RAW NEX-5 file today. How technology has advanced.  But, I am looking forward to the NEX-7 to replace my much loved NEX-5.

2 comments:

  1. >Just imagine, my first hard drive was 20MB RLL drive. It would not even hold one RAW NEX-5 file today. How technology has advanced

    or has it advanced? I still have many potential gig of images as slides or negatives. Most have been seen projected and stored. Some printed. I have them arranged in some order so I can get at them easily. Not sure if I really need to have instant access to them all all the time.

    Offline storage?

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  2. In terms of storage density, it's been beyond my imagination. But, we seem to produce more contents (which useful or not) to fill up the space we have available, just the same as we did when we had 20MB hard drives.

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