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Late last year, Canon announced the EOS-1D X, an interesting model that merged the company's earlier 1D and 1Ds-series model lines into a single product. As well as its fairly-impressive still imaging capabilities, the EOS-1D X courted professional videographers, with a movie capture feature-set that was significantly uprated from those of earlier models. Just a couple of weeks later, it went a step further, revealing that it was working on an EOS-series model capable of recording Motion JPEG 4K video at a rate of 24 frames per second.
The Canon EOS-1D C is the fruit of that development work, and as promised, brings 4K video capture to the table for the first time in an EOS-series camera. It also features reworked internals designed to combat the heat generated during lengthy video capture sessions, and offers a stereo headphone jack for audio monitoring, in place of the EOS-1D X's flash sync terminal. In other respects, the EOS-1D C is quite similar to its still image-oriented sibling.

If you've read our EOS-1D X preview, a lot of the following will seem very familiar. That's testament to how closely-related these cameras are. Physically, the Canon 1D C doesn't veer much from earlier Canon DSLRs, but with a few notable differences. Like the 1D X, it sports a new infrared port on the front of the grip, a feature first seen in the company's Rebel cameras.