It's down already, but Northlight's rumor page got it all. http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/Canon_1DS_MkIII.html
Saw it on Gizmodo. The stats on it are unbelievable. Wish I had a spare $8,000 sitting around. And a personal tutor to show me how to use the darn thing.
I was going to write a post poo pooing this, saying that I thought Canon was pushing the resolution limit a bit too hard, and that for that price you could probably get actual medium format equipment. But then I saw the brief report from someone who had tested a MKIII in a studio, and he said it beat the image quality from two digital medium format backs in terms of noise and dynamic range. I'm still suspicious.. I just don't believe they can cram a medium format quality image into a 35mm frame without some sort of compromise, but.. Who am I kidding? There's no way I'll be in the market to purchase one of these any time soon. It's priced highly enough that I don't even see it pushing the price of used 1Ds MKIIs down enough for them to be in my range. Fearsome specs though. I'm especially pleased to see them putting UDMA transfer capabilities into it.. I've been watching as the cards got faster and faster and cameras were basically unable to use more than a fraction of the high end cards' full speeds. I just hope that percolates into the other camera lines soon as well.
I'd say there's a pretty good chance the leak is dead on. The 40D leak from the Amazon has been bourne out (see Bobatkins and others). Odds are good a full formal announcement will be out this week on Canon's fall additions.
Well, there was a reason they've worked on the 16-35 and now the 14mm lens to make them version IIs. My bet is that all of the widely used lenses will be updated soon. And then they're the rumor that the 1D MkIV and 5Dn will have a slightly enhanced lens mount that will accept EF-S lenses with a "Crop mode" to use the smaller image presented to the sensor....to allow them to migrate the future 40Ds to be the same as the 5Dn MkII, and then the new 5D place would be the 3D. I for one am glad that Canon is responding to the "best of" Nikon features in the 40D: weatherproofing Auto ISO larger vf and then the Canon improvements The MkIII's new microlenses The doesn't stop writing when card door is open 14 bit sRAW ISO in vf new AF on button from the MkIII hey wait. AF in live view? Let's see. In one shot, they've answered: Nikon's weatherproofing Olympus's live view Sony's IS (with the new IS lenses for EF-S)
