Test drived the new toy this evening

Wow, a submarine made from bricks !!! 😀

RN’s new Tower Class, cool – they have Stone class sub’s now.:D

Why worry about what all functions are? Unless you are a professional photographer chances are you’ll never use 80% of them. I’ve got a Canon T80 which I’ve owned for 20 odd years and still haven’t found reason to use 50% of its functions.

I guess that full feature SLRs are designed to suite photographers with many varied needs and types of work.

I recall years ago that SLRs went through a silly patch where you could either have a camera with and Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority, plus Manual on any one camera type but not both. I never used one of these and am going by the reviews I habitually read in AP at that time, early 1970s. Remember Victor Blackman.:D

I find many features useful, both quick access to flash compensation adjustments and exposure compensation. Also the ability to quickly change from aperture priority to shutter priority or manual exposure settings and rapid change from auto to manual focus are appreciated. As for user defined and stored setting, program modes, my photography is so varied I find little use for these.

The Minolta Dynax 7D had superimposed flash and exposure comp’ dials on the left and the exposure and drive mode dials to the right thus many essential controls are quick to hand. This followed on exactly from the film based Dynax 7 which had some functions that made using film a delight, I have a little device that plugs into the lens mount and all the shot data for the previous seven rolls of film can be saved as CSV files onto a SmartMedia card. The Dynax 7 also had a neat ability to remember the selected push or pull ISO setting of a particular film type between rolls. The ISO selector was initiated by one of a row of small buttons behind a slim magnetically latched cover that closed with a satisfying click.

The Sony Alpha is less friendly when it comes to flash and exposure compensation but grows on one with a little use.

Love the seascape, Ian. 🙂

You’re not the first person I’ve heard compare the MkIII to the grand old EOS3, by the way.

Up at 4.45, this AM, to get out an out before the light got too harsh.

Stopped off at the airport to take these two historic beasts as they came in. The sun wasn’t quite awake, so as an experiment I turned the ISO up to its maximum 3600, with mixed returns.

This was taken in the north east of the island, just after sun up.

These are from a bay on the south coast a little later, this time with a 50mm Macro.

And this around lunch time.

All in all I’m impressed with the Mk3, my only criticism, and it may be something I’m doing, is that the shots appear very dark in the screen, but OK when I load them onto the iMac. Transition from the 10D to the Mk3 hasn’t been hard. In fact the Mk3 feels very much like my old EOS3.

This was taken on the way home. Au naturale

No, no no no no!

Nude photography refers to the subject, not the photographer :rolleyes:

Moggy

Why worry about what all functions are? Unless you are a professional photographer chances are you’ll never use 80% of them. I’ve got a Canon T80 which I’ve owned for 20 odd years and still haven’t found reason to use 50% of its functions.

Wow, a submarine made from bricks !!! 😀

It must be german,it ill never catch on though.

Wow, a submarine made from bricks !!! 😀