So, along with the 40D, Canon also announced the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III digital SLR camera today. This has a ridiculous 21.1 megapixel resolution, generating images that are 5616 x 3744 pixels. That’s a crazy number of pixels.

The camera itself is very similar to the Canon 1D Mark III, with the biggest difference being the full frame sensor that you know and love from the rest of the 1Ds line. The burst shooting speed of the 1DsMkIII is only 5 fps, significantly slower than the 1DMkIII, but that’s to be expected given the gigantic files the camera has to process. It is a bump up from the 1DsMkII, which did 4 fps.

What else do we have that’s interesting in here? Two DIGIC III processors, Live View, 14-bit color RAW files, and UDMA Compact Flash support which gives it card speeds up to 45 megabytes a second. It also gets a 3″ LCD screen, much like the 40D’s.

Ok, never mind my request for a 40D for my birthday, I’ll settle for a 1Ds Mark III. Thanks in advance!