1D X Firmware Update provides f/8 AF and AI Servo AF point illumination

[iND]

Should we expect this for the 5DIII also?

[neuroanatomist]

Should we expect this for the 5DIII also?

Lots of people are/will be clamoring for it. Tough to say. I didn't think Canon would put the 1D X AF into the 5DIII in the first place, and they did. So, why stop now? But historically, f/8 AF has been the province of 1-series bodies...will they break that tradition?

The AI Servo AF point illumination should definitely come to the 5DIII. For Canon to separate the f/8 from the Servo point illumination and deliver only the latter to the 5DIII would make Canon look stingy, petty, and feature-grubbing. Then again, historically they've had no problem looking stingy, petty, and feature-grubbing...

[Dr Croubie]

Lots of people are/will be clamoring for it. Tough to say. I didn't think Canon would put the 1D X AF into the 5DIII in the first place, and they did. So, why stop now? But historically, f/8 AF has been the province of 1-series bodies...will they break that tradition?

Well, given that Canon managed to figure out how to make it work just by using firmware and not a new AF sensor... then if Canon don't put it on the 5D3, Magic Lantern will.