Claiming it as the world's fastest digital SLR, Canon's announced the forthcoming release of the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, which promises 10 frames per second at 10.1 megapixels, capturing up to 110 JPEGs or 30 RAW files in each burst.
Aimed at pro sports photographers and photojournalists, the Mark III accomplishes this with heavy-duty processing power: it has dual DIGIC III image processors. Two processors in a camera! What next, dual core? You could run MAME on this thing.
Not being much of a camera person (David Becker will doubtless have more to say on this baby tomorrow) I have no idea why its APS-H size CMOS sensor is worthy of several paragraphs of praise i nthe press release, but for a camera that'll cost many thousands of dollars, I'd want one too. It offers an ISO range of 100 to 3200 with "extensions" to ISO 50 and a "highly usable" ISO 6400.
It'll ship in the states this Spring, at the same price as its predecessor, the EOS-1D Mark II N Digital SLR, which goes for about $3.5k at Amazon, with a "retail" price of $6k.
One thing that appeals is the "complete dust management solution," a self-cleaning system that will appeal to my old photog pals at the local newspaper: the sand here in this arid corner of the Llano Estacado is murder on cameras, and they've gone through maybe a half-dozen expensive Nikons in the last five years. Viva New Mexico!
More angles after the jump.
CANON RELEASES THE EOS-1D MARK III DIGITAL SLR [Canon]
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