Canon coughs up new EOS, IXUSes and PowerShotsA total of six cameras were announced today prior to the annual PMA photo imaging show on March 8. The new EOS 1D Mark III stole the limelight with Canon coining the shooter as the culmination of 20 years of the EOS system.
Other features include the dust management solution Canon dubs the EOS Integrated Cleaning System, a new autofocus system with 45 autofocus points and 19 of them being cross-type configurations, and a micro-adjustment feature that allows for fine changes to the AF point. There's also a Live View function (Fujifilm's FinePix S5 Pro has a 30-second Live View feature, too) that lets the user focus and compose a frame on the 3.0-inch LCD. Along with the new EOS, Canon also introduced the EF 16-35mm F2.8L II USM lens, a Speedlite 580EX II external flash unit, a wireless file transmitter WFT-E2A and the Original Data Security Kit OSK-E3. The EOS 1D Mark III is expected to be available in Japan from late May with initial production capped at 5,000 units per month.
Like the PowerShots, the IXUS 75 and IXUS 70 also run on the Digic III image processor so you can expect similar performance and features. Both shooters sport 7.1-megapixel CCD sensors and 3x optical zoom, with the size of the LCD screens (3.0 inches on the IXUS 75 and 2.5 inches on the IXUS 70) being the most discernable difference.
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