5D Mark III available for preorder in Australia !!!!!

[btaylor]

So - my initial impressions:

22MP isn't astounding, I thought they'd have bumped it up a bit with Nikon's release of the D800 @ 36MP. But we all know MP isn't everything and 22MP is reasonable.

The new 61 pt autofocus will be VERY interesting, and 41 cross type points too! Hopefully the AF gets some major improvements to the 5D2, looks promising thus far. In fact it almost looks like it's the same AF system in the 1Dx (however it doesn't appear to have inherited its metering system)

Price - looks like $4200 RRP (AUS) so it's certainly not cheap, but it's generally more expensive over here. Will be a hard one to justify upgrading right now either way.

100% viewfinder is great. Not sure what's "intelligent" about it yet.

Digic! 5 + dual CF/SD slots is really nice too. I like the idea of peace of mind being able to back up to a second card.

HDR mode also peaked my interest. Sounds like an in-camera bracketed shot/ multi exposure blending. I wonder if it will output to jpeg only or to a raw file?

Looking forward to more info coming out. Very excited. The 5D2 and 24-70mm f/2.8L might be on the market soonish...