[Octane (Humayun)]

The only Canon guys that aren't happy, are the gearheads over on DPR. They are old men with lots of money and no talent. Never mind the 5D Mark III not being good enough for them, their talents wouldn't even outdo a 350D. They are armchair sensor designers. Morons. I read the forum every day just for the arguments. It's a riot.

I am absolutely ecstatic with my camera. Absolutely floored at what it can do. I'm really looking forward to buggering back off to New Zealand in July to really give it a workout.

DxO Mark never was and never will be the final authority on /anything/.

There were two cameras that DxO Mark "tested" (one a Nikon, I can't remember which, and, no idea what the other was) that had the exact same sensors in them. One was given a higher ranking than the other. Of course, it was the Nikon that got the better rating.

They gave the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM a lower ranking than the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM. You only have to look at the MTF charts to see that the II blows the original out of the park. Furthermore, they scored a Sony NEX camera higher than a Phase One MFDB. Right.

As the famous LL article once mentioned -- use your eyes, not the numbers. David saw the high ISO performance prevalent in my simple obligatory high ISO snapshot of my cat. Going by the DxO Mark scores, you'd think that the camera wasn't capable of doing anything because it didn't score a 96.

I'm still not sure why the 5D Mark III is being compared to the D800. They are completely different cameras. The /only/ thing that ties them together is that they're in a similar price bracket. Compare a 1D X and a D4, and, that's more than a fair comparison. But, comparing a 36 megapixel monster to a 22 megapixel camera doesn't work. Everyone knows that the higher megapixel camera is going to have a greater dynamic range and awesome noise characteristics. It's just the way sensors work -- just like a full frame camera having more depth-of-field than a cropped sensor.

Paul, can you define "way ahead"?

H