The official announcement of the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III camera will happen on early next week before the CES 2020 event. According to recent rumors, the US price for Canon EOS-1D X Mark III body will be $6,499.00 which will be $500 more expensive than EOS-1D X Mark II launch price.
Full specifications of the upcoming flagship Canon EOS-1D X Mark III camera have also been leaked. The Canon EOS-1D X Mark III will be capable of recording 5.4K RAW internal video. The high-speed sports camera to Feature 20.2MP full frame image sensor with 4K 60p Video with 4:2:2 10-Bit.
Full Canon EOS-1D X Mark III Specifications can be seen below and the flagship DSLR camera listed at B&H and Adorama.
Canon EOS-1D X Mark III Key Features:
- 20.1mp
- 16fps/20fps
- ISO 100-102,400 (extends up to 819,200)
- 4K at 60p (No DPAF in 4K 60p or 4K RAW)
- Dual CFexpress card slots
- 191 AF points (155 cross-type)
- 5.4K RAW internal video recording
- Weight: 1,440 g (including battery pack and card), 1,250 g (body)
- $6,499 USD launch price
Main specs:
- Digital single-lens reflex AF / AE camera
- Memory Card: Dual CFexpress
- Image sensor size: 35.9 x 23.9 mm
- Lens mount: Canon EF Lens Family
* Except for EF-S lens and EF-M lens (effective field of view is almost the same as the effective field of view of the lens focal length) - Image Sensor Type: CMOS
- Image Sensors Resolution: 20 million pixels
* Rounded to 100,000 units - Aspect ratio: 3: 2
- Dust removal function
- Auto / Manual, Dust Delete Data Attached
- Record format: DCF 2.0
- Image format
JPEG (8bit), HEIF (10bit), RAW (14bit Canon original)
RAW + JPEG simultaneous recording is possible
RAW + HEIF simultaneous recording possible
* 12-bit A / D conversion processing is applied to RAW images taken with the electronic shutter - Record Pixels
JPEG
L Approx. 20 million pixels (5472 × 3648)
M1 Approx.12.7 million pixels (4368 × 2912)
M2 Approx.8.9 million pixels (3648 × 2432)
S approximately 5 million pixels (2736 × 1824)
HEIF L Approx. 20 million pixels (5472 × 3648)
RAW RAW / C-RAW Approx. 20 million pixels (5472 × 3648) - Storage function: Still photo / video split, Still photo save option, Movie save option, Still photo save / playback, Save / play video
- Create and select folder possible
- Filename: Default setting, user setting 1, user setting 2
- File number: Continuous, auto reset, manual reset
- Image processing during shooting
- Picture style
Auto, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Fine Detail, Neutral, Faithful, Monochrome, User Def. 1–3 - White balance
Auto (Atmosphere Priority), Auto (White Priority), Preset (Sunlight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, White, Fluorescent light, flash), - User setting, color temperature setting (approximately 2500-10000 K)
White balance correction and white balance bracketing
Flash color temperature information can be sent - White balance correction
Blue / amber correction: ± 9 levels
Magenta / Green Correction: ± 9 Levels - White Balance Bracketing
± 3 stops in 1-stop increments - Automatic Image Brightness Correction
- Auto brightness optimization
- Noise reduction
Applicable for high ISO speed shots and long exposures - Highlight tone priority
- Lens aberration correction
- Peripheral Illumination Correction, Distortion Correction, Digital Lens Optimization, Chromatic Aberration Correction, Diffraction Correction
- Viewfinder: Eye Level Pentaprism
- Field of view (range): Approximately 100% of width / length (eye point approximately 20mm)
- Magnification: 0.76x (-1m–1 with 50 mm lens at infinity)
- Diopter: 20 mm (at eyepiece end / -1 m-1)
- Diopter adjustment range: -3.0 – +1.0 m-1 (dpt)
- Depth-of-field previewsupport
- Auto focus [Viewfinder Shooting]
- Focus method:TTL secondary imaging phase difference detection method (using dedicated AF sensor)
- AF point: Up to 191 points (cross-type AF point: up to 155 points)
- Number of available AF points, number of dual cross-type AF points and cross type AF
- The number of points depends on the lens used.
- Dual cross-type focusing at F2.8 with center AF point
- Focus brightness range: EV -4 – 21 (F2.8 compatible center AF point, One-Shot AF, Room temperature, ISO 100)
- Focus action: One-Shot AF, AI Servo AF, Manual Focus (MF)
- AF area selection mode: Manual selection: Spot AF, Manual selection: 1 point AF, AF area extension: Landscape / Portrait, AF area extension: Surround,
Manual selection: Zone AF, Manual selection: Large zone AF, Auto selection AF
Subject Recognition AF - EOS iTR AF settings (color information, face and head can be identified)
iTR: Intelligent Tracking and Recognition - AF configuration tool Case 1 – 4, Case A
- AI Servo AF Characteristics
- Tracking Sensitivity, Acceleration / Deceleration Tracking
- AF fine adjustment
- AF Microadjustment (All lenses by same amount, Adjust by lens)
- AF assist light
- Flash from external flash for EOS camera
[Live View Shooting / Movie Recording]
Focus method - Dual Pixel CMOS AF
* AF is not available when recording RAW or 4K 59.94 p / 50.00 p (NTSC / PAL) movies. - AF method: Face + Tracking, Spot AF, 1 Point AF, AF Area Expansion (Horizontal / Vertical), AF Area Expansion: Ambient, Zone AF,
Large Zone AF: Vertical, Large Zone AF: Horizontal
Available AF Frame Position Up to 3,869 locations
* When selected with multi-controller - AF areas available for auto selection
- Up to 525 points
- Eye detection AF support
- Magnified view: 5 times / 10 times
- AF area
Horizontal: Approx. 90%, Vertical: Approx. 100%
Horizontal: Approx. 80%, Vertical: Approx. 80%
* Depends on the lens used. - Manual focus (MF)
- MF peaking, focus guide
[Live View Shooting] - AF operation
- One-Shot AF, Servo AF, Continuous AF possible
- Focus brightness range: EV -6 – 18
(F1.2, center AF point, room temperature, ISO 100, One-Shot AF) - AF configuration tool: Case 1–4, Case A
- Servo AF Characteristics
- Tracking Sensitivity, Acceleration / Deceleration Tracking
[Record video] - Focus brightness range: EV -4 – 18
(f/1.2, center AF point, room temperature, ISO 100, One-Shot AF, 29.97 fps) - Video Servo AF support
- Video Servo AF Characteristics
- Tracking Sensitivity, AF Speed
- Exposure control
- Metering mode
- Viewfinder shooting: 216-division (18×12) TTL using approximately 400,000-pixel RGB + IR metering sensor
Open metering - Live View shooting / Movie recording: 384 split (24×16) metering using signals from the image sensor
Metering mode - Viewfinder shooting:
- Evaluative metering
- Partial metering (approximately 6.2% of screen)
- Spot metering (approximately 1.5% of screen)
* AF point-linked spot metering and multi-spot metering options included. - Center-weighted average metering
- Live View shooting: Evaluative metering, partial metering (approximately 5.8% of the screen), spot metering (approximately 2.9% of the screen)
- Video recording: center-weighted average metering, evaluative metering
* Automatically set according to shooting conditions. - Focus brightness range
- Viewfinder shooting: EV 0 – 20 (room temperature, ISO 100)
- Live View shooting / Movie recording: EV -3 – 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)
Shooting mode - Taking still photos:
- Program AE, Shutter-Priority AE, Aperture-Priority AE, Manual Exposure, Bulb
- Exposure, Custom Shooting Mode
(C1 / C2 / C3) - Video recording:
- Program AE, Shutter-Priority AE, Aperture-Priority AE, Manual Exposure,
- Custom Shooting Mode (C1 / C2 / C3)
- ISO sensitivity (recommended exposure index)
- Taking still photos:
- ISO Auto (automatic setting in the range of ISO 100 – 102400),
- Manual setting in ISO 100 – 102400 range (in 1 / 3- or 1-stop increments), L (equivalent to ISO 50),
- Sensitivity extended to H1 (equivalent to ISO 204800), H2 (equivalent to ISO 409600), and H3 (equivalent to ISO 819200)
possible
* When highlight tone priority setting: ISO 200 – 102400 - Video recording:
- Program AE / Av / Tv: ISO Auto (automatically set within the range of ISO 100 – 25600), H1 (ISO 204800 equivalent)
M: ISO Auto (automatically set within the range of ISO 100 – 25600),
Manual setting in ISO 100 – 25600 (in 1 / 3- or 1-stop increments), H1 (ISO 204800 - Sensitivity can be extended
* When highlight tone priority setting: ISO 200 – 25600 - ISO sensitivity settings
- Taking still photos:
SO speed setting range, auto range, minimum shutter speed - Video recording:
- ISO sensitivity setting range, automatic maximum value
- Exposure compensation
- Manual: ± 5 stops in 1 / 3- or 1 / 2-stop increments (viewfinder shooting),
± 3 stops in 1 / 3- or 1 / 2-stop increments (Live View shooting, movie recording) - AEB: ± 3 stops in 1 / 3- or 1 / 2-stop increments (can be combined with manual exposure compensation)
- AE lock
- Still photo shooting:
- Auto: AE lock with Custom Function when focus is achieved in each metering mode can be set on / off
- Manual: using the AE lock button
- Movie recording: using the AE lock button
- Flicker Reduction
- Available (when viewfinder shooting)
- Multiple exposure
- Function / operation priority, continuous shooting priority
- Multiple exposures: 2 – 9 times
- Multiple exposure control
- Increase, average, brighten, darken
- HDR shooting (still picture HDR PQ)
- Record format
- HEIF
- Bit depth
- 10bit
- Color sampling
- YCbCr 4: 2: 2
- HDR specification
- ITU-R BT.2100 (PQ)
- Electronically controlled focal plane shutter
- Shutter method
- Viewfinder shooting: mechanical
- Live View shooting: mechanical, electronic curtain, electronic
- Mechanical / electronic curtains: 1/8000 sec – 30 sec, bulb
Electronic setting: 1/8000 sec – 0.5 sec
Maximum shutter speed during flash synchronization: 1/250 sec.
* The setting range is different for movie recording. - Drive modes: Single shot, high speed continuous shooting, medium speed continuous shooting, low speed continuous shooting, one soft shooting, soft continuous shooting
- Shooting, soft low-speed continuous, self-timer: 10 seconds, self-timer: 2 seconds
- Continuous shooting speed: One-Shot AF up to approx. 16 shots / sec
(Setting range: 3-16 sheets / sec) - Up to approx. 20 shots / sec
- AI Servo AF / Servo AF
- Medium speed continuous shooting: One-Shot AF Approx. 10 shots / sec
(Setting range: 2-15 sheets / sec) - Approx. 10 shots / sec. * 3
- AI Servo AF / Servo AF
- Time lapse
- One-Shot AF Approx.3.0 shots / sec
(Setting range: 1-14 sheets / second) - Approx.3.0 sheets / sec
- AI Servo AF / Servo AF
- Soft continuous shooting
- 8.0 shots / sec
(Setting range: 2-8 sheets / second) - Approx. 10 shots / sec. * 3
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Weight about 1,440g (including battery pack and card) / About 1,250g (body)
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