James, is this crop mode set in the software (can't find it) or is it camera specific...i.e. specific to the mkIII, and therefore found in the menu on the camera itself?
Cheers,
Marc
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It's on the camera menu of the 1ds3 and has a complete range of crops, 4:3, 2:3, 4:5 etc, though you would have to make your own masks for the ground glass (I mean ground plastic).
The 1ds3 lcd tethered or portable will show a blue line as you shoot to give you the exact proportion of the crops.
Once you set the crop in the camera and are tethering, you will only see the cropped image in the eos utility.
In regards to the eos utlity, it's not a difficult software suite, just kind of pc and goofy in it's fucntions, though it only takes about 10 minutes to learn. Most of the settings are in the preferences as to where/what folder to place the images, the naming, etc.
Still, it is very stable and if you hit the little button for full size previews, the previews cover the complete screen and render fast, at 1.9 seconds for a 23" monitor.
It's somewhat goofy in that if you are also shooting to cards, when you open the camera door, you have to wait and do this semi restart of the software, though it's fast and then just continues on.
The only downside is if you are naming the images in the software, shot specific, i.e. 0001_bills_dress_cr2 the cooresponding images on the card will just have standard canon naming, i.e. 0006_cr2.
The reason to shoot to cards is to have a preview on the back of the camera and if you like an emergency backup.
Once again eos utility is not great but not bad software. The big difference between it and medium format tetherng software is when you buy a Canon the software comes with the camera ready to work in mac and pc, so you don't have to wait for quarter 3, whatever year to use it.
JR
