What a towering icon! The problem was less with the camera, but lay mainly with most of Canon's L series lenses. They simply didn't resolve detail or tone adequately to optimise the capability of the sensor. Some of their best lenses would artifact at 100% but when hooked up to decent German glass, Zeiss & Schneider, the same subject at similar magnification resolved 200% more.
The other advantage is we've got better RAW processors now, and it's surprising how much more one can squeeze out of an image now that was previously lost from view.
I'm only interested in the primacy of the still image. That's my thing.
For certain jobs, filling the frame under big lights at 100 ISO with decent German glass, its shots approximated MF, and actually befuddled some leading art directors in a couple top agencies.
Still does it too.
Yes the ISO over 200 was rubbish, and while I loved my Blads and love my Phase, I'm never relinquishing my Mk3's.