weatherproofed body based on a Canon 7D design
22mp full frame sensor with 8-channel sensor readout enables continuous shooting at 6 fps
supports radio remote TTL flash (need the new Canon 600EX-RT flash and the WT-E3-RT wireless transmitter) which now allows up to 15 flashes in 5 groups
no built-in flash
a major disappontment is the reduction of flash sync to only 1/200th sec
ISO 100-25600 standard, 50-102,800 expanded and autoISO can be given an upper and lower range as well as setting a minimum shutter speed (1/250th - 1 sec only, bad luck if you are a sports photographer who wants 1/500th sec and wants to avoid Shutter Priority metering)
Shutter rated to 150,000 frames and has range of 30sec -1/8000th sec
1D X's “silent” shutter mode, allowing it to shoot in both single images and continuously (at 3fps) with greatly reduced shutter and mirror noise
100% viewfinder coverage
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Dual card slots for CF and SD supporting SDHC/SDXC and Eye-Fi wireless cards
61 point AF system (41 of them are cross-type points and, uniquely to this sensor, 5 of them are diagonally sensitive) and new menu system as in the
Canon 1D X sports dSLR but doesn't have the 1D X's 100,000 pixel metering sensor to gain tracking information from, nor a dedicated DIGIC 4 processor to make sense of it all.
disappointingly, like the
Canon 1D X sports dSLR, the cross-type points can only be used with lenses that are F4 or brighter (and the double-crosses with F2.8 and brighter lenses) and worse, you cannot AF at all using f/8 (ie. when using a 2x converter with an f/4 lens which will disappoint many wildlife photographers)
63 zone iFCL metering system
DIGIC 5+ processor
in-camera HDR shooting mode and HDR bracketing up to 7 frames covering a +/- 8 EV range
exposure compensation +/- 5EV
multiple exposures
electronic levels display in viewfinder and LCD
AF Microadjustment now allows programming BOTH ends of a zoom lens range
automatic vignetting and chromatic aberration correction in jpegs, based on lens profiles which are stored in-camera but obviously only works on Canon lenses and most Canon users would not bother using in-camera jpegs anyway (this in not an Olympus jpeg engine) and would prefer to process RAW files
USB 2.0
mini HDMI out but no live video out?
optional BG-E11 vertical grip with extra battery
optional GP-E2 unit for GPS
optional WFT-E7 wireless transmitter unit
N3 type remote control cable outlet which allows timelapse recording via PC or cabled remote device
950g
152 x 116 x 76 mm (5.98 x 4.57 x 2.99“)