Hear the Canon 1D MK III 10fps Shutter Sound

ShaolinTiger posted this at 7:26 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2007 —

CHAKKA CHAKKA

This is a real machine gun! 10fps - Dual Digic processors enable this insane frame rate.

You can see a quite demo of the liveview feature too.

Not that I think anyone would need 10fps for any kind of sport unless they are a really bad photographer.

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Canon EOS 1-D Mark III Announced - 10.2 Megapixels

ShaolinTiger posted this at 1:43 pm on Monday, February 26, 2007 —

Finally a new king in the 1-D series from Canon and what a monster it is with 10fps and dual Digic processors.

Canon EOS 1-D Mark III

What a beast!

It makes me really wonder what Nikon is going to come out with this year…D3x, D300? D3h?

Specifications

• World’s fastest AF DSLR with approximately 10 fps continuous shooting in One-Shot AF or AI Servo AF
• Maximum burst (JPEG Large, compression level 8) approximately 110 shots; RAW, approximately 30 shots (based on Canon’s testing standards)
• Dual DIGIC III Image Processors for fine detail, natural color reproduction and high-speed performance
• ISO 100-3200 with ISO speed extension, L= 50, H = 6400
• Live View in camera and remote, wired and wireless
• New 45-point Area AF sensor with 19 high-precision, cross-type points (f/2.8 compatible), 26 standard-precision AssistAF points
• New AF point selection methods
• AF micro-adjustment (fine adjustment of AF point of focus)
• New methods of AF point expansion during manual AF point selection

• New 10.1-megapixel CMOSsensor, APS-H size
• Professional EOS Integrated Cleaning System with Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit, Dust Delete Data acquisition
• RAW, sRAW (new SmallRAW), RAW+JPEG, sRAW+JPEG, JPEG+JPEG simultaneous recording
• Increased shutter durability of approximately 300,000 cycles
• Large and bright 3.0-inch LCD monitor with 230,000 pixels and wide viewing angle
• Selectable noise reduction for high ISO images, 50% less shadow noise for all images
• Ships this spring for $3999 (body only)

So price here should be around RM14,000.

Related Reading

  1. Canon Press Release
  2. Full res sample images from Canon
  3. High iso sample images from Canon
  4. More info from Canon USA
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