On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:49:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Some of these are clearly fantasy, but would you still want any > of them?
Not unless they were free (in $ cost, camera size & power consumption) > 1. Active, secure, live network connection > (What I've directly asked of Pentax) Not at present - the infrastructure isn't there. > 2. GPS data stored Very rarely. Most of the time I know where I am, and I don't necessarily want anyone else able to find that out. If it is included, it should be in metadata that isn't copied to EXIF by default (and shouldn't be included in JPEG files). > 3. Compass data stored (directi0n pointed, 3-d) Not really useful enough. > 4. Automatic watermark or other security measure in-camera. In general I don't care - I don't need to prove anything legally. > 5. Multiple processors -- 1 for image grabbing, one for image > storage. Requires a multi-threaded OS -- Time for LINUX! Strictly speaking, a multi-threaded OS isn't needed for this. Most I/O (to the storage card, buffer, etc.) can be handled asynchronously, without processor involvement, if the chipset involves a DMA engine. In any case, Linux is a terrible choice - it's got far to much stuff that is totally unnecessary. (Yes, I know it's now showing up in cell phones. But that's because a cellphone now has to be a PDA, and a camera, and a music player, and who knows what else, not just a simple communicator). A nice, small, embedded O/S, just like the one Pentax use today, is fine.
