Oh, and as for the frame rate, Postcardcv, I was surprised how little I missed the 5 FPS of the 20D. Yes, I did miss it, but I could live with 3 FPS long-term if I had to. A lot of the time you just get 60-odd percent more shots of the same thing anyway.
But there are times when it's one of those two "missing" shots that was going to be the keeper. Example: you have a bird in frame from an angle early in the morning when it's half in light, half in shadow - i.e., you are side-on to the sun just after sunrise. This can make a fantastic shot, but only if the bird has its head at exactly the right angle. With thornbills and small honeyeaters and the like, they move so fast that you haven't got a hope in hell of timing your shutter press by eye, you just have to squeeze the shutter when it starts to move, hold it down, and hope you will hit the magic moment.
This is the sort of thing that the 1D III will excel at, of course. And the sort of thing that makes my storage media suppliers rub their hands together in glee .... all those extra flash cards and backup drives.
Oh, and you won't need two of them in a hide to sound like a war zone. Have you heard any of the MP3s floating around the web? At 10 FPS and a design life of 300,000 actuations, if we shoot small JPGs to prevent the buffer getting full and ignore stopping to change flash cards and batteries, you could wear the thing out 8 hours and 20 minutes after opening the box for the first time.
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