Canon EOS 5D Mark III | First Thoughts

[shizam1]

Don't know if the rest of you 5D III early adopters noticed that your camera wasn't automatically detecting and correcting all of your lenses chromatic aberration and peripheral lighting. I actually had to connect my camera and load up the EOS utility to tell it to load up the lenses in my collection. It had a number of them already selected, but I had to register the 85 1.8, 28 1.8, and 50 1.8.

Strangely, didn't have a problem with any of the L lenses I have.... hmmm, Canon.... Hmmmm

That only applies to in-camera JPEG conversions right?

[neuroanatomist]

Don't know if the rest of you 5D III early adopters noticed that your camera wasn't automatically detecting and correcting all of your lenses chromatic aberration and peripheral lighting. I actually had to connect my camera and load up the EOS utility to tell it to load up the lenses in my collection. It had a number of them already selected, but I had to register the 85 1.8, 28 1.8, and 50 1.8.

That's been the case with the peripheral illumination correction in previous bodies as well. Also, note that lens + teleconverter combinations need to be added separately from the bare lens.

That only applies to in-camera JPEG conversions right?

Right, although DPP can apply the same corrections to the RAW files when converting them in post.

[jrw]

That was the first thing I did after the initial play session. Every body I have used has needed to be uploaded with the lenses I use for correcting the vignetting so I just went ahead and did it after installing the updated software from disk.

Edit: I see others type faster.