The 1Ds Mark III can capture beautiful, amazingly detailed images. colours are extremely accurate and, as mentioned above, the automatic white balance system does a great job of keeping colour neutral across a wide range of lighting. As usual for a higher end camera, the auto white balance keeps a slight warmth to incandescent-lit shots, though the tungsten preset can eliminate that if you prefer, or you can set a manual white balance if you have the inclination.

One of the nicest things about the 1Ds Mark III is its low noise. You can make pleasing prints across the entire sensitivity range of this SLR, which is a liberating feeling when you're out shooting. Too often I find myself setting limits on sensitivity when shooting with some SLRs. This isn't to say that there is no noise present in the 1Ds Mark III's images. Mostly, it remains a very fine multicoloured grain, and that doesn't even manifest itself in a noticeable way until ISO 800. Even then, the 1Ds Mark III maintains very vibrant colours, ample shadow detail, and plenty of fine detail. If you want extremely clean images you should probably stick to ISO 400 and below, but I was happy to shoot with not-very-reckless abandon even with the sensitivity range widened.