Canon EOS-1D Mark III

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We examined a demo EOS-1D Mark III at PMA, with the understanding that the camera's firmware is not final. Manufacturers always say that, and we're sure they tell the truth. Still, Canon thought the firmware was close enough to let us shoot with the Mark III and let us save the images on our own memory cards. It's not our policy to publish images from prerelease cameras or draw any firm conclusions on overall image quality, but we looked them over as a means of evaluating some of Canon's claims for the Mark III.

 

The EOS-1D Mark III has two of Canon's latest DIGIC III image processors running in parallel. Just as dual processors speed up a PC, they speed up image processing on the Mark III. Canon further claims that the arrangement decreases image noise overall, particularly in shadows. In the odd and changing light of the Canon PMA booth, we shot the Mark III from ISO 100 to 3200, plus the extended Low and High settings, which correspond to ISO 50 and 6400 respectively. The EOS-1D Mark III's image noise increases with ISO, but our completely impressionistic trial suggests that the noise doesn't get clumpy or show raster lines, which are problems seen with some other cameras at high ISO. We look forward to completing reliable tests on the Mark III, ones that allow us to publish specific, quantified results. From what we saw, though, the ISO 6400 equivalent is not a waste of time.

 

The EOS-1D Mark III is remarkably fast, seemingly meeting the claim that it shoots at 10 frames per second, for bursts of more than 100 shots in JPEG or 30 in RAW mode. Again, we didn't test this performance in a controlled setting, and we will have numerical results when we do a full review of the Mark III in our lab.