Canon's flagship EOS-1D Mark III is the most advanced EOS Digital SLR ever produced. It has a new 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor (APS-H size) with Canon's EOS Integrated Cleaning System and a 3.0-inch LCD monitor with Canon's Live View technology. The 1D Mark III has a redesigned 100% viewfinder, a new 45-point AF system, and can shoot up to 10 fps continuously with a maximum burst of 110 shots. Dual DIGIC III Image Processors work in tandem to speed up every process while refining image quality; a new, lighter body has improved weather sealing and shutter durability. Every facet of the EOS experience has been enhanced with the 1D Mark III. It's the new standard.

• Entirely new 10.1 Megapixel Canon CMOS Sensor (APS-H size, 1.3x lens conversion factor), featuring the EOS Integrated Cleaning System
• World's fastest digital SLR: shooting up to 10 fps (frames per second), with a burst rate up to 110 full-resolution JPEG images or 30 RAW images
• All new high-precision AF system with 19 user-selectable AF points and 26 additional "assist points"; superior low-light performance and faster operation
• New lighter body with enhanced weather resistance and outstanding reliability: featuring a shutter that's durability-tested to 300,000 exposures
• Dual DIGIC III Image Processors working in parallel to provide up to 50% less shadow noise and superb image quality; new Highlight Tone Priority option adds control of bright highlights
• Large 3.0-inch LCD monitor, featuring Live View
• Fully compatible with over 50 EF lenses and a wide range of EOS System accessories

Professional photographers know what they want in a camera. Above all, the camera must be dependable—able to come through in shooting situations that are far less than ideal… even in harsh environmental and handling conditions. The camera must be responsive—reacting instantly to the photographer's input… able to capture, within a heartbeat, the image in the mind's eye. It must provide a sophisticated feature set that makes it versatile and adaptable and, yet, does not compromise operability. And, of course, it must deliver image quality beyond reproach—which, in the digital era, means not only noise-free detail, richness of color, and depth of tone, but also sufficient data density to satisfy the widest range of output applications. Today, there is one Digital Single-Lens- Reflex (DSLR) camera that meets these criteria as no other: the Canon EOS-1D Mark III. Redesigned and re-engineered from the ground up, Canon's newest flagship EOS is destined to become the next "must have" DSLR for professionals.

10.1-Megapixels
At a blazing 10 frames per second (fps), the 10.1-megapixel Canon EOS-1D Mark III is the world's fastest DSLR camera (as of February 2007). It is nearly 20% faster than the 8.5 fps EOS-1D Mark II N that it replaces, and it is crushingly faster than anything else with comparable resolution. While this speed will make great headlines, it is but a small part of the repertoire of a stunning machine that sets new benchmarks in virtually every category of professional DSLR performance and then creates new categories where pro DSLR cameras have never gone. The sum is a camera that is the epitome of professional excellence in every respect. It will go everywhere, do everything and appeal to (almost) everyone.

All New Image Sensor
The EOS-1D Mark III uses a new, 10.1-megapixel image sensor, designed and manufactured by Canon on semiconductor manufacturing equipment that is also designed, manufactured and maintained by Canon. The sensor uses Canon's proprietary CMOS technology with several significant advances. Canon has managed to increase the proportion of each pixel that is sensitive to light, called the fill factor. For any given pixel size, the greater the fill factor, the more light each pixel can capture, resulting in better color and less noise. Needless to say, this is not off-the-shelf technology.

Canon has also found a way to reconfigure the microlenses that distribute light to individual pixels. The spaces between them are smaller and the way light strikes the sensor is more intelligent. The result is that less light is lost, again improving image quality. Some of the benefit of this sophistication can be found in the new ISO range of the EOS-1D Mark III, 100 to 3200 with extensions to 50 and 6400, the last figure unimaginable in a DSLR until now. Photographers will be amazed when they discover the high quality and low noise of ISOs 3200 and 6400 on the 1D Mark III.

Dual DIGIC III Image Processors
The beautiful signal from the sensor is sent via a very fast 8-channel readout to two new DIGIC III imaging engines. In the past, one such device has always sufficed, but with the EOS-1D Mark III, there was to be no compromise of either speed or image quality. The Dual DIGIC III Image Processors perform parallel processing, common nowadays in serious computers but unique among cameras, to speed through information. Their workload is increased by the fact that the new sensor captures 14-bit depth color rather than 12. The result, particularly because the 1D Mark III has the horsepower to handle these files, is exquisite gradation, 16,384 levels per color rather than 4,096 at 12 bits. Even when JPEGs (at 8 bits) are created, they are made from a superior file and the difference can be seen. Prints made from 1D Mark III files are spectacular.

Attention Paparazzi
The dual processors make themselves known, too, in the burst performance of the EOS-1D Mark III. Large size JPEGs at compression level 8 (of 10) can be fired in barrages of 110 frames (at 10 frames per second with 10.1-megapixel files). RAW images can be shot in bursts of 30. Paparazzi of the world, your new camera has arrived.

Live View with Optional Wireless (and wired) Viewing
Have you ever put your camera in a spot where it was hard to look through the finder™ Too high™ Too low™ Edge of a precipice™ In the rafters at Madison Square Garden or on the inside railing at Churchill Downs™ Canon has the answer: a professional Live View system, usable with camera only (you can see what the lens sees on the new, large 3.0-inch LCD monitor), or by remote control, either with a wire from the camera to a computer (in a studio, perhaps) or wirelessly with the new WFT-E2A Dedicated Wireless File Transmitter. When a computer is involved, the newly updated EOS Utility 2.0 software (included with the camera) takes care of just about everything -- virtually real-time viewing, focusing, exposure, composition, firing—the lot.

Improved Feature List

• 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' 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
• 14-bit A/D conversion for fine gradation
• 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 Assist AF points
• New AF point selection methods
• AF micro-adjustment (fine adjustment of AF point of focus)
• Adjustable operation characteristics for AF point selection, shutter release priority and focus-tracking sensitivity with AI Servo AF
• New methods of AF point expansion during manual AF point selection
• New 10.1-megapixel CMOS sensor, APS-H size
• Improved microlens array and pixel fill factor plus optimized photodiode structure to increase light-reception efficiency
• Professional EOS Integrated Cleaning System with Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit,Dust Delete Data acquisition
• RAW, sRAW (new Small RAW), 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
• Five custom WB settings
• Selectable noise reduction for high ISO images, 50% less shadow noise for all images
• Selectable Highlight Tone Priority
• High-speed shutter with 1/8000 sec. maximum speed and high-speed X-sync at 1/300 sec. with EX Speedlites
• Startup time approx. 0.2 sec.
• Shutter release time lag approx. 55 ms. (approximately 40 ms. at maximum aperture with C. Fn IV -13-1) and viewfinder blackout time 80 ms. at 1/250 or higher
• Compatible with SDHC (SD High-Capacity) memory cards as well as high capacity CF cards
• Compatible with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed image transfer
• Faster writing to memory card
• High-magnification, wide-coverage viewfinder and improved focusing screen with 100% finder coverage
• 63-zone metering sensor for more stable exposure control with ambient light and flash
• High-capacity, lightweight and compact lithium-ion battery with estimated battery life display
• Enhanced recording options include automatic switching of recording media, separate recordings to media and identical recordings to multiple media
• Silent mode for single images
• Image copying and backup to external media enabled
• ISO speed safety shift
• ISO speed and metering pattern always displayed in viewfinder and on top LCD data panel
• New control layout with SET button, AF On button and Multi-Controller
• Displayable camera settings and better image information during playback
• Histogram display, jump display, error code display, and shooting settings display
• Chassis, mirror box, and exterior covers made of magnesium alloy
• Maintains water resistance with new 580EX II Speedlite
• Personal Functions consolidated with Custom Functions, resulting in 57 Custom Functions in 4 groups
• Custom Function settings can be registered and called up
• Camera settings can be saved and read
• Camera's basic settings can be registered and applied
• New "My Menu" function can be registered and displayed at startup
• Camera direct printing (PictBridge) improved and DPOF print ordering provided
• Direct printing of RAW and sRAW images
• Direct image transfer
• Wireless/wired LAN for image transfers via new WFT-E2A dedicated Wireless File Transmitter
• External USB recording media and GPS unit usable via the WFT-E2A
• Verification data can be generated, encrypted and appended to the image with new Original Data Security Kit OSK-E3
• Compatible with original image verification system
• Speedlite Custom Functions settable with the camera when the 580EX II Speedlite is attached
• New software package includes Digital Photo Professional 3.0 and EOS Utility 2.0
• New EF 16–35mm f/2.8L II USM lens features improved peripheral image quality