Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 40D dSLRs: 21 not out

By Rich Trenholm on 21 August 2007, 12:37pm

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Canon has launched a raft of new products in time for, er, autumn. It showed off 30 photography, video and printing products at a white-draped warehouse on London's Brick Lane, complete with catwalk show. The stars of the show, however, were undoubtedly the two new dSLR cameras: the consumer EOS 40D and the 21-megapixel EOS-1Ds Mark III.

Yes, you read that right: 21 megapixels. My word, that's a lot of little coloured dots. File sizes are correspondingly corpulent -- Canon mentions 100MB uncompressed 16-bit TIFFs, so lord knows how big the raw files will be. And there'll be a lot of them, as dual DIGIC III processors can chew up 5 frames per second (fps) of continuous shooting and spit out 56 large JPEGs, or 12 RAW files.

The full frame CMOS sensor is protected from dust by the EOS Integrated Cleaning System. The Mark III also includes a 76mm (3-inch) LCD screen with live view, as well as an extra LCD screen for settings. Along with a new dedicated ISO button, ISO is permanently displayed on the top LCD panel. The customisable My Menu option allows users to store favourite settings on a separate menu for easy access.

We're sold. How much? The EOS-1Ds Mark III will be available from October, priced at £6,000. Maybe not, then. Keep clicking to see more of Canon's new dSLR-related goodness.

Update: Read our full Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III review.