Scott Loveless wrote:
Howdy gang!
After spending about four lifetimes following the recent spew about
non-A lens support, I started to think about what I would really WANT
in a digital camera.
I seem to be in the PDML mood today, so why not. List follows. Some of
the items are just wild ideas and/or stuff I've mentioned before:
* Metal body
* Removable LCD screen (for increased robustness and power saving.)
* No popup-flash
* Old-style dials, or at least direct controls instead of shifts,
modes, menus, ifs, ands, buts...
* No "custom functions"/configuration options (this is my list, so
the camera will be perfect for me out of the box, and I don't need
to configure it.)
* Interchangable sensor module, where I could swap between RGB and
monochrome, from APS-C to full-frame, and so on and so forth.
* Full-frame option in particular for the above.
* Square and 4/3 ratio sensor support for the above.
* Interchangable viewfinders.
* Spot metering, exposure lock, DOF preview (maybe those are given.)
* No picture modes.
* Genuine KAF2 mount.
* Better file format support, possibly. 16-bit TIFF? JPEG-2000 as a
replacement for normal JPEG?
* Exposure time display that's more readable than the MZ-5n LCD in
bright light. Yeah, maybe a needle would do the trick...
* "Native" storage media with a cost-per-picture in uncompressed
mode no higher than the one of film, and with at least the same
life-time. (So that I don't have to transfer pictures to a
different media to get a cost saving, or worry so much about backups.)
If you want a list of features that is realistic in a camera released
tomorrow, I guess you have to remove some things. I'll leave that as an
exercise...
- Toralf
