Picked Up a Canon EOS-1 D's MKIII Today And Am Quite Impressed

[WCETECH]

I have been wanting to get may hands on a full frame camera again, well as my luck would be I found a nice clean used one on CL for $300, the owner had it stored in a plastic ammo can along with all of the factory accessories, over time he added 3 more batteries and a aftermarket charger with a wall power and cigar lighter connector.

He explained the only reason he is selling it is he is just not using it anymore as it's is getting a tad bit too heavy for him so he replaced it with a Canon P&S.

It is very clean condition the only problem I could find is the door for the remote shutter is in place but no longer hinged to the body, I problem I have seen before with those little rubber hinges.

The other problem I discovered after a number of test shots was the image size seemed to be low, digging through the settings I discovered he had the body set to lowest image size along with a number of other settings that seemed to be oddly picked.

The only thing I cannot figure out how to do is pull a shutter count.

But other than that I am quite impressed with the body and what is can do.

[Ron888]

Sounds like a good deal.I hope it works out great.
The image settings could be due to him getting sick of editing.Do the settings look similar to a point and shoot camera? That is- higher contrast,color and sharpness? Similar deal with the image sizes.No sense making the pictures bigger than a computer screen😅
I went through a similar phase years ago

[Waddizzle]

Sounds like a nice pick up. Congrats.  

It’s a best practice after buying a used camera to fully reset all settings to their factory defaults.  You want to begin using the camera with it in a known state.  Your experience with image size settings is a good example of why you should reset the camera.  

As for a shutter count, I would not worry about too much about it.  The camera is well over a decade old.  I don’t think the average life expectancy applies anymore.  Just enjoy using the camera.  

[WCETECH]

When I found some odd settings I defaulted the body and set it up as I want it to be, which is more or less all manual.

[p4pictures]

The camera doesn't display the shutter count in the menus. I too have an old EOS-1Ds Mark III, I haven't used it for quite a while. However I recall that it was possible in the past to read the shutter count with the Mac ShutterCount app from the Apple App Store.