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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $7,999.00
Buy New: $6,549.88
You Save: $1449.12 (18%)
New (20) Used (1) from $5,400.00
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 11300
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Display Size: 3
Maximum Resolution: 21
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8.1 x 7.5
MPN: 1Ds Mark III
Model: 1Ds Mark III
UPC: 013803079265
EAN: 0013803079265
ASIN: B000V5LX00
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Too Expensive Here - Dell's Cheaper April 28, 2008
11 out of 107 found this review helpful
When Dell sells this on occasion for $6,700, why spend $1,000 more here? Which goes to say that if Dell can sell it for $1,000 cheaper and still make money, why is this camera so expensive here and elsewhere? There's no doubt the camera is the best camera ever made but the price is too high. Shop around and save money.
 Amazing camera. March 29, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the best 35mm digital SLR I have ever used. The portability of a DSLR with the image quality of P22 maybe even P32 back and with out the hassle. Highly recommended for the Canon user that can afford to make the jump. Kudos on shipping as well, got it a day early, was one of the first - thanks.
Canon EOS 1Ds MarkIII March 8, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Excellent tool for the professional photographer. As a pro with years of experience using 1D series cameras, moving up to the 1Ds was effortless but extremely rewarding. Was making money off of prints from the camera within 72 hours. Build quality and image quality is exceptional. Responsiveness for action sports is accurate, fast and very reliable. Even in low light situations where I am using it at ISO 3200 and f2.8 and wider so that I can use shutter speeds at 1/500 and 1/1000 in high school gymnasiums and pools. So far, studio shots have been blowing me away with the image clarity, contrast and color - especially with L series lenses. Just wish I didn't have to pay the price of a used small car for it and it's impact on increasing my equipment insurance.
 Camera design has serious flaws for the price February 20, 2008
86 out of 158 found this review helpful
One would reasonably have expected an $8,000+ camera to be well designed and well engineered. Sure, it is "Ok" but "ok" for a much lower price.
Specifically:
1. It has an unacceptably high incidence on "Err99" error codes which disable the camera altogether until it is sent back to Canon for repair.
2. It has an unacceptably high rate of viewfinder misalignment incidences where the viewfinder shows the horizon to be horizontal but the horizon in the image taken isn't.
3. It fails to operate the programming of Canon's own 580 EX flash (the non-version-II).
4. Resolution may well be 21 megapixels, but that is only 25% more in each the two linear dimensions compared to the 5D that costs a fraction of the cost. (square root of 21/13).
5. The image "noise" at high ISO settings is much higher than that of the much lower priced 5D. This is inevitable since the imaging array of the 1Ds has more pixes within the same area, so each pixel is smaller. For high ISO settings I have to revert to the 5D. This limits the camera's usefuleness to bright light situations only.
6. The artificially inflated price (by limiting supply, in the classical supply and demand argument) is outrageous. Canon needs to be taught some humility and customer-relations as soon as other brands offer similar full frame resolutions.
 More detail than a 20x24" Polaroid January 27, 2008
19 out of 25 found this review helpful
A friend has been doing portraits with a special 20x24" Polaroid camera for many years. Polaroid has announced that they are stopping production of the film, so we decided to see if an image from the 1Ds Mark III could be used as a substitute. We created some images with the 1Ds Mark III in the same studio as the Polaroid, using some basic Canon lenses, such as the 50/1.4. We sent the RAW files off to Pictopia to have 20x30" prints made. The resulting images didn't have the interesting artistic variation of the Polaroids, but they were more detailed.
The image quality of the camera is undeniably great. The user interface is more complex than the Nikon D3, for example, with deeper menus. Canon gives you dozens of options for what to do with the two memory cards, for example. The camera sorely needs a "help" button.
What else could this machine use? A built-in GPS and built-in WiFi.
Do you need it? Not unless you are going to make some truly huge prints and you are intending to be disciplined about tripod and lens. Pictopia made us some 20x30" prints from the EOS 5D (13 MP; one quarter the price) that looked great.
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