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Does the Canon EOS-1D Mark III now offer reliable AI-SERVO autofocus?

Rob Galbraith has updated his endless odyssey on the Canon EOS 1D Mark III autofocus issues.  While this may be his final installment, the questions remain the same:

This entry in our ongoing analysis of EOS-1D Mark III autofocus recaps and updates our experience with the camera and firmware v1.1.3 loaded, compares that to the camera’s autofocus performance with firmware v1.2.3 installed and answers some of the most commonly-asked questions we’ve received in the past few months, including this one: after more than a year, three firmware updates and a hardware fix, does the Canon EOS-1D Mark III now offer reliable autofocus?

Click here to continue reading Rob Galbraith’s August update.

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Rob Galbraith is reporting that Canon USA has started to inform key photographers of a new autofocus fix for the Canon EOS 1D Mark III (available at Amazon and B & H Photo). There are few details, but he reports that there will be a hardware and / or firmware update. Supposedly, Canon engineers in Japan are confident that they have identified the root cause of the problem. Hopefully, this would be the final hardware fix from Canon. If not, they will really begin losing market share to Nikon.

You can read Rob Galbraith’s 1D Mark III AF update here.

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