The Canon EOS-1D X Mark III is the company's 20-megapixel full-frame

DSLR A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...

flagship camera, announced on January 6, 2020, by

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. It is the successor to the

Canon EOS-1D X Mark II The Canon EOS-1D X Mark II is a 20-megapixel full-frame DSLR flagship camera, announced on February 1, 2016, by Canon with an MSRP of US$5,999.00. It is the successor to the Canon EOS-1D X, which was released in 2012. On January 6, 2020, Canon i ...

, which was released on February 1, 2016. The EOS-1D X Mark III is Canon's final full-frame DSLR camera, with the company shifting entirely to

mirrorless camera A mirrorless camera (sometimes referred to as a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC) or digital single-lens mirrorless (DSLM)) is a digital camera which, in contrast to DSLRs, does not use a mirror in order to ensure that the image ...

Features

New features over the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II are: * 5.5k (5472 × 2886) video up to 60 fps (59.94 fps) * Continuous shooting rate of up to 16 frames per second with full

autofocus An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system h ...

; 20 fps in live view. * 191 AF points support * Dual

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card slots (as opposed to one Compact Flash and one CFast slot in EOS-1D X Mark II) * ISO range up to 102400 (Extended H3 up to 819200) * Support for HDR PQ still photo shooting in

High Efficiency Image File Format High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a digital container format for storing individual digital images and image sequences. The standard covers multimedia files that can also include other media streams, such as timed text, audio and vid ...

(HEIF) compliant with Rec. 2100 color space ( PQ

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, Rec. 2020 color primaries, 10 bit depth, 4:2:2

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subsampling)

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* {{Full-frame DSLR cameras 1D X Mk III Cameras introduced in 2020 Full-frame DSLR cameras