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Journal Journal: Amazon.com leaks the new 1Ds MarkIII

Amazon.com has (mistakenly??) released the much awaited 1Ds Mark III (which is not supposed to be available until November), the 40D and a new 14mm lens. Standing at 21.1 megapixels and selling for the same price as it's predecessor (7,999$), as expected much of the technology used to build the 1D Mark III has been incorporated into the new body. "The Canon 1Ds Mark III is a 21.1 megapixel full-frame digital SLR camera

Comment Re:Competition, competition, competition (Score 1) 608

I would really not go and say that China, as one of the stated examples in the article, is "kicking America's ass"...

I live in shanghai and pay for what my provider says is a 250 kbps ADSL connection. If I surf chinese websites based in China speed does, indeed, kick ass... but download speeds drop alarmingly as soon as I visit websites hosted outside of China. My regular surfing download speed is more akin to a 28.8 kbps modem than anything else where I average 5 kbps for downloading from US or Canadian websites. Certainly not what I would call broadband!

Then again.... that's because of the great firewall of China, not the net providers (eventhough they go hand-in-hand and are one and the same).

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