After playing with the Canon 5D Mark III for the last few weeks , we’ve safely conclude that this is easily one of the best cameras to come out in eld . Still , we ’re always down to learn more . Our friends at Lensrentals.comare giving us our first looking at at the tv camera ’s guts , revealing it ’s intelligent compact construction , and the herculean Digic 5 + icon processor .
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The well bad thing fall out today : a closely new 5D III come back from rental with a unaffixed screw rattling around inside . We had to decide if it went back to Canon or if we should go looking for the screw ourselves . That ’s a tough conclusion . So we thought about it for a while . Until Tyler and Drew went to lunch . Then we decided it had to be palm in - house . Since we had to open it up to retrieve the screw ( there really was a loose screw , we avow ) it seemed a ripe idea to take a few image along the means . In case we require documentation to facilitate with the refabrication . Yeah , that ’s it . We were being extra deliberate to ensure we could get it back together . We were n’t doing this just to take a smell inside at all .
But not being total retard , we did n’t completely take it apart like we did with theNEXorD7000 camera . So this is only a strip - vamp , not a strip down . But it ’s still fun ( and educational too ! ! ! ) . One thing that is promptly apparent : I made the gossip when the television camera first came out that this could well have been named the 6D , it was really dissimilar than the 5DII . Nobody else seems to suppose so , but looking inside confirms what I thought : inside this camera is largely redesign and it ’s one of those where I want to compliment the engine driver . This photographic camera is beautiful inside , logically laid out and well built .
First things first : if your camera is in one art object , then leave it alone . We ’re semi - trained , semitrailer - professionals with another 80 of these on the shelf . If we screw it up , we ’ll only have 79 go forth , which is likely less critical than if you have it off up the only one you have and then demand to ‘ splain to your married woman why you have to buy a new television camera . ( And for those of you wondering if we got in problem for doing this – no , we had it totally reassemble before Tyler and Drew capture back from tiffin . They ’ll never know about it . )
Aaron get the dismantlement while I went looking for a macro lens , so by the prison term I got back he ’d already peel off off the grips , remove 20 odd screws , and opened the case ( Aaron just likes to show off sometimes ) . conflict from the 5D II are immediately apparent : there is only a undivided flex attaching the back meeting place to the main board , and one flex and a wire harness from the top fabrication . The circuit boards and flexes for both the camera body and back are cover with dark rubberized sticky credit card , protecting things inside ( and possibly adding some electric shielding ) . I have n’t discover this on other cameras , it ’s a very reassuring affair ( and may explain why the easy screw propeller did n’t short anything out ) .
Looking more intimately at the back , several other changes are evident . All of the flex take short , direct routes to where they are going . No long wind flexes stuck down hither on yon . There are also a hatful more of the racy ‘ wad - in ’ case connectors and fewer of the ‘ swoop - and - lever - lock ’ which ( I eff from inauspicious experience ) are rather ticklish . There are also several places where wiring harnesses ( look at the upper leftover corner of the chief circuit display panel ) are used rather than flex . They ’re certainly sturdier and ( I assume ) render good electric insulation .
Looking at the front of the camera , it ’s again far-famed how fresh and mastermind everything is . No tenacious wires run here and there . Wire duet are nicely braided and there are groove and hook in the credit card to keep them in office . That ’s a nice pinch that you do n’t often see .
Another minor , but very nice touch that shows how cautiously this intention was thought out : the barrage fire latch is right at the front of the compartment as an easily replaced chicane in fabrication . On other camera ( include the 5D II ) it require major disassembly to supervene upon a wiped out battery door latch , which is a unwashed repair . This one can be done in minutes .
Looking at the top , there ’s nothing noteworthy except more of the same : everything is neatly position out in it ’s place with minimum wiring and connexion .
run back to the back of the photographic camera , the viscid plastic protective sheet pulls up easily . As an apart it already has shown it ’s deserving : the loose piece of tail was in the plication along the bound of the plastic sheeting – the sheeting observe it from shorting out anything on the lap board .
With the sheeting remove you get a really good look at just how well this camera ’s electronics are pose out : every flex rill is short and direct , insulated wiring harnesses are used in several piazza , and heavy - obligation plug - in connectors are used more often than I ’ve realise on any other camera .
The dispute in connections is obvious in this snug up . Slide - in flexes ( hold up by the forceps ) are used in almost every connection in most television camera . The heavy - duty plug in type on the left and densely insulated wiring harness ( deeper and between the two connectors ) I ’ve rarely check except in this photographic camera and Pro ( 1D xxx or D xxx ) bodies .
you may see another decent touch modality if you look at the two large flex connector between the main control panel on the left hand , and the small board on the right field ( in the image of the entire back , above ) . The right board contains the SD menu ( lifte up , on top ) and CF card slot ( underneath ) as show in the range of a function below . CF pins break out frequently and if they ca n’t be resoldered can require a main circuit board replacing in a 5D II . On the III only the wit fabrication would require replacement . A very prissy touch from an applied scientist who is thinking about next maintenance as well as the current camera .
A last close - up of the racing circuit board before we put this matter back together . The Digic 5 + scrap is really rather huge . The cow chip above it is , I think , DRAM , but I ’ve no idea on the other two .
There is believably more good to see down late in this camera . But Tyler and Drew were heading back from dejeuner , we ’d found the missing jailer and put it back where it belonged ( it was one of 4 holding the posting readers in place – the card proofreader ’s were still hard in office and would n’t have missed it but the rattling would have freaked someone out ) so we thought it best to get things put back together before anyone noticed we ’d pack it aside . It ’ll be just our closed book .
Ooops , I almost write an clause without a lame pun . But I know what you ’re thinking : we must have a few screws loose to be spread a 5D III like this .
Dr. Roger Cicala is the beginner ofLensrentals.com . Since the ship’s company has long since outgrow his ability to wield it , he is now the Director of Research and Quality Assurance for Lensrentals , meaning he spend all daylight taking picture taking thing aside and figuring out how they work .
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