Well, it’s Here: The Canon 5D Mark III

I have my hands on a Canon 5D Mark III, thanks to B&H, and will be run­ning it through its paces over the next few weeks. I am shoot­ing  a wed­ding next Sat­ur­day and am hop­ing, in par­tic­u­lar, to have famil­iar­ized myself with the many dif­fer­ences by then.

In the ini­tial run-through, first impres­sions are pos­i­tive. What strikes me is how this is the first Canon DSLR I have held that han­dles more like a Nikon–the way it’s sculpted and the qual­ity of the grip mate­r­ial remind me very much of the D300 I used to have, and that’s no bad thing.

Feel free to leave com­ments if there are par­tic­u­lar things you’d like to to say about the cam­era, and I’ll do my best. I won’t be com­ment­ing too much on the video por­tion, though, since I have to get accli­mated to all the new stills fea­tures, first.