Besides the much improved AF, I think the biggest impact of the 5D3 for me is that because of the usability of the high ISO shots, slow lenses can now be used indoors in reasonably dim lighting conditions WITHOUT FLASH. Alternatively, you can now stop down fast lenses indoors when you need to shoot, say, group shots, again without flash. You can now also have the flexibility to ramp up the shutter speed when you want to, because you can now use a higher ISO that you normally would not have used with another camera.
This camera can probably work wonders in dim locations where the use of flash is not allowed. Imagine what the 85L can ably capture at F1.2 with this camera...haven't got time to test this combo yet...;p
Of course, this stuff may not be anything new to the Nikon camp, since they had the D3 series for a while now, but for a Canon-user like me, the 5D3 opens up a whole new world of possibilities in tougher shooting conditions.
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Agreed fully, that's what 5D3 meant to me too. Clean high ISO means slow lens of mine like 70-300L could be put into better and more use. Options like Auto ISO in Manual Mode (select shutter speed and aperture, leaving AI to worry about ISO) means I can focus more on shooting than any changing light or not.
It is definitely not a cam that can give you something new like moving from crop to FF, but I would say it is something that can assist you better/give you a better shooting experience in shooting whatever you used to shoot in 5D2/5DC.