Well, there’s not a whole lot new to report tonight.  I took a couple of shots out the back today and really like the RGB histogram.  Have you ever had a shot that didn’t look like it was clipped but ended up clipped in one of the channels?  Well, now you’ll know and can do something about it while you still have a chance.

I also played around some with exposure bracketing.  In addition to planning on doing HDR I also plan to try out Uwe Steinmueller’s High Speed HDR technique.  That’s where you do HDR hand held.  At 5 frames per second it’s a good bet the 1Ds Mark III will be fast enough to do hand held HDR (although it’s only half as fast as it’s little brother the 1D Mark III which Uwe shoots).  Well, it turns out that to do High Speed HDR you need to turn off High ISO Speed Noise Reduction.  It turns out it cuts the buffer to about 1/4 its size.

No photographs uploaded to the computer yet but we’re making some progress.  So,…

Stay tuned.

It arrived yesterday, my new Canon 1Ds Mark III.  Graduating up from a 10D is like graduating from a slide rule to a computer (does anyone still remember slide rules or have I limited the people who will understand that analogy to pre-baby boomers?)  I spent about two and a half hours last night going through the instruction manual.  Yes, there are people who still read the manual, at least in some situations and this was one.

There are so many things that amaze me just from first impressions.  The first thing I noticed was that it was actually much lighter than I expected.  But my first impressions were made before the battery was installed.    But even with the battery installed it was lighter than I expected.  Then I put my 24-70 f/2.8L on it and it got heavy.

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