Just read this over at Crunchgear.com.. but someone had posted this image of a “Canon 1D Mark IIIN” showing up in their inventory system at work.. with PMA around the corner, I wouldn’t doubt it.. Canon needs to do something to the 1D quick to compete with Nikon’s latest offerings..

Commenters over at Crunchgear.com questioned the “4,240 Euro” price tag associated to the Canon 1D Mark IIIN in the pictured screen.. however, if I recall correctly, Canon doesnt seem to give Europeans the benefit of the Euro:USD exchange rate and quite often will suggest a selling price (MSRP) in Euros that is equal to the USD MSRP.. as evidenced here at DPReview.. the Canon 50D’s USD MSRP is $1,299 while the Euro MSRP is also 1,299.

So if we figure an approximate $4,299 USD MSRP for the Canon 1D Mark IIIN.. thats about right, considering the Canon 1D Mark III’s MSRP is/was $3,999 USD.

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At the time of this writing, this program should work on all DIGIC III and IV cameras EXCEPT for the 1D and 1Ds. The author, Astrojargon, believes it should work on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, but until someone actually receives one or tests this program, we wont know for sure.

Reading his FAQ #7, he says that most people believe this number to be correct. Well, you can add me to that list as well. My last image (a picture of Rhys Millen standing on the podium aftering winning $25,000 from his 1st place victory at the Red Bull Drifting World Championship) was numbered 9612. Astrojargon’s “40D Shutter Count Version 2″ reported 9613. Its off by one, but he mentions that if you actuate the shutter without a CF card, then the IMG_XXXX would not incremement, obviously. This, I can confirm, is my case (I left the house once without a CF card and tried to take a picture before realizing I didn’t have a CF card in the camera).

So.. at last, a real way to obtain a shutter count on a Canon EOS 40D (or 50D or 450D or 1000D).

Anyway, enough BS.. you can find his program here:

40D Shutter Count

Thanks, Astrojargon!

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Well, after months of speculation and (IMHO) a successful web campaign, the cat is out of the bag.. the long awaited successor to the 3-year old Canon EOS 5D is the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

http://www.canon.com/moon/en/index.html

$2,699 MSRP!!
21 Megapixel Full-Frame 36x24mm Sensor
Integrated Cleaning System
DIGIC IV Image Processor
14 bit A/D Conversion
New sRAW1 AND sRAW2
9-point AF with 6 assist
All focus points cross-type for lenses f5.6 or faster!
AF MICRO ADJUSTMENT!!! WOO HOO!
ISO 50-25,600 Expanded
150,000 shot shutter life expectancy
1/200 flash sync (?!?!)
3″ LCD 920,000 pixels (finally!)
1920×1080 full 1080P H.264 38.6Mbit/s video capture up to 12 minutes!!
3.9 frames per second continuous (I could live with that)

Thats about it, folks.. I think this seals the deal.. this will be my next camera..

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