Hi Shoppers,
I have been using Canon EOS 5D Mark III for past few days and here is my detailed review of this product.
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is the world’s best digital SLR because it easily lets us create smooth, clean, beautiful and colorful images in any sort of light. It handles much better my cheaper Nikon D800 and D800E; my 5D Mark III handles and sounds smoother, quieter, feels better and makes better-looking images than my Nikon D800E. The Canon 5DS and 5DS R are newer and have more pixels, but cost more and run more slowly, so it’s a toss-up between them.
The 5D Mark III also has the best LCD ever put in a DSLR, while the LCD on my Nikon D800E is smaller in actual use, and most importantly, the Nikon’s LCD isn’t color-accurate. My 5D Mark III LCD is big, bold, bright, sharp, clear, colorful and accurate, and automatically varies its brightness brilliantly for use in any light. ( My D800E also has auto LCD brightness control, but doesn’t work well enough to want to use it.)
My 5D Mark III’s superb performance at stupid-high ISOs like ISO 25, 600 let me shoot easily in any light, hand-held, with my cheap-old slow f/4 zooms, like my favorite Canon EF 28-105mm USM II from the 1990s.
To existing Canon shooters, the 5D Mark III offers many small improvements over the 5D Mark II, all of which add up to a greatly improved camera for those of us who shoot daily.
To shooters upgrading from the Nikon D800 and D800E, the Mark III is greatly improved over the Mark II, while the Nikon D800 and D800E are a step backwards in ergonomics and LCD quality from the D700. Therefore the status quo has reversed; I used to prefer Nikon, while today with the 5D Mark III, I greatly prefer it to my D800E. Pixels impress amateurs, while guys like me who shoot every day for a living are more impressed at how my 5D Mark III lets me get more of the right pixels faster, not just more of the wrong ones.
The 5D Mark III is Canon’s first full-frame camera to correct lens color fringes. That’s the biggest reason I replaced my old 5D Mark II with the new 5D Mark III; because my new Mark III automatically can correct many lens flaws, especially lateral color fringes, so my old lightweight plastic lenses on my new Mark III now often outperform my best L lenses on my old Mark II! If those big old L lenses, like the 16-35mm f/2.8 L II, had any lateral color fringes, the older cameras were powerless to correct it. Unlike most of the fluff reviewers spew out, lateral color fringes are very visible in real prints. My Mark III makes them go away, so long as I have an appropriate lens profile loaded.
Cleaning my heavy L lenses from my bag and replacing them with lightweight plastic wonders is making my 5D Mark III quickly pay for itself, and saves me from having to carry too much weight.
Other huge improvements are that the 5D Mark III is the first full-frame digital Canon with a power switch that doesn’t turn itself off by accident, and the first with a depth-of-field and a ( programmable option to put a) play button where you can hit them with your shooting hand. Call me crazy, but I’ve never liked how my Canon 5D Mark II and original Canon 5D were always turning themselves off by accident, and how I needed two hands to press PLAY or to tap the depth-of-field preview. Bravo, Canon!
The 5D Mark III takes the same battery and charger as my old 5D Mark II, and that’s a great thing. I get 1, 200 shots per charge with my my 2-year old spare battery from my 5D Mark II, which reads only 2 out of three green health boxes in Battery Info.
The 5D Mark III has many improvements over the 5D Mark II, any one of which makes the upgrade worthwhile for the serious user