NEW! CANON EOS 1Ds MARK III
You were planning on selling your car to buy a camera right? That's about what it will take to buy the newly announced Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III when it becomes available.
It's been a long wait. It's predecessor, the EOS 1Ds Mark II was announced nearly 3 years ago.
What's new? This camera has a 21.1 megapixel sensor, up from 16.7 megapixels in the Mark II. It also has the Digic III image processor and the built in dust prevention and cleaning system.
What does this mean? Even bigger images than the huge images the Mark II could produce. For those with the money to spend and the desire to create huge prints from a digital camera with a 35mm sized sensor, this should be pretty close to photographic heaven.
This should be a great camera but that isn't a guarantee (see the next paragraph). I will let you know when full reviews with complete tests are available.
As always, I advise you not to buy a camera until a few months after its release. That allows time for bugs to show up, and hopefully, be corrected. That way you won't be burned like the photographers that bought the Canon 1D Mark III which has serious auto-focus problems that have NOT been resolved by the recent firmware update.
More details on the 1Ds Mark III are in the preview article here.
