The new Canon 1Ds Mark III

In true camera nerd style, I thought I would jot down my first impressions of our new Canon.

It was with great anticipation that our new Canon 1ds finally arrived this week. After working with the 1ds mark II (a fantastic camera), we were eager to see just what the upgrade to Canon's flagship could bring.

The main and obvious advantage for this camera was the 

upgrade from the 16.7mp sensor to a whopping 

22mp, which in layman's terms 

means you can blow stuff up really, really big. 

The camera feels a little different in your hand, but still maintains that familiar well balanced 1Ds feel that one becomes accustomed to after shooting with 1's for some time. Now a little lighter with the addition of the Lithium Ion battery, nice to see canon finally doing away with the older battery technology. The button layout has changed around a bit with the new 3" screen squishing the buttons off left hand side, but to be honest it actually seems more logical and better laid out then the original. 

I took the new camera out for a test run while I was visiting canberra this weekend, using our new 85mm 1.2L lens I snapped a couple of my kids in the freezing winter fun by the shores of lake Burly Griffin.

The Camera is remarkable, with the the noise (grain) at high iso very low, and colour representation (even in auto) superb. These pictures shown,  are straight out of the camera with no processing. Although it's not the fastest camera that Canon make, the 1D mark III holds that title, I had no problems capturing my fast and erratically moving children. This camera is best suited to studio work.

The only down side (if you can call it that) is that I am going to have to invest in a bigger hard drive with a raw file being anywhere between 22 and 30 MB per picture!