Ron Scheffler - Photographer - Hamilton Ontario Canada

The Canon EOS-1D Mark IV has been out now for a couple months and received mine at the end of January. During that time there have been a number of online reviews that generally praise the camera, with the exception perhaps being Rob Galbraith’s opinion that the camera still falls short of where it should be.

I’ve added updates inline with my original review, and will continue to do so as I gain more experience with the camera. Here’s what I’ve found so far compared to the Mark III, which I’ve used since mid 2007: Review

And a few photos:

Hamilton Bulldogs vs. San Antonio Rampage AHL hockey. Shot from above with the 400 2.8 IS. I also tried the 400 at ice level and got some decent isolated action shots of various players, but the plexiglass definitely degraded image quality with such a long lens. The ice level images here are with the 135L and the 70-200 f/4L IS. Yeah, I wanted to see how viable it would be to use the f/4 lens, which I like a lot. I think it worked quite well. Had to bump ISO to 4000, but it held up well.

Elinchrom Ranger Quadra review: I posted some thoughts about the new Elinchrom portable strobe system after a few weeks of use. I originally had it posted here but decided to start up a separate reviews section.

One of my first shots with the very impressive Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L tilt-shift lens on July 31, 2009 as a storm rolled through the area before the Tiger-Cats game against the BC Lions. Game photos here, here and here.

I usually arrive for Ticats games a couple hours early and lately have been wandering around the stadium looking for creative angles. The south side pictured here with the pressbox is the older half of the stadium, or so it looks, and seems to have a bit more character.

For more photos of the stadium visit my Tiger-Cats/CFL photo archive.

My mini-review of the TS-E 17mm f/4L.

(Photo from the Canon USA site)

Please click here to read the complete review including an update (2010.02.17) at the bottom.