On 4/14/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2006, at 10:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1. Active, secure, live network connection > > (What I've directly asked of Pentax) > > Ability to establish a wireless link with a control or storage > device, or computer, in the field would be useful to some purposes. > Live network connection for general purpose communications is not > important for a camera.
Live network connectiion (wifi) is *the* most useful think one can add to a camera. -- as someone whose film has been confiscated by cops on a couple of occasions, i can imagine how useful can it be to journalists -- no more proprietory remotes! > > > 2. GPS data stored would be nice > > 3. Compass data stored (directi0n pointed, 3-d) > > Useful for scientific and military data collection. Unnecessary for > pictorial photography. not sure about this one > > > 4. Automatic watermark or other security measure in-camera. > > I'm not that paranoid. ditto > > 5. Multiple processors -- 1 for image grabbing, one for > > image storage. Requires a multi-threaded OS -- Time for LINUX! > > In essence, most of today's DSLRs have this already. They use several > real time processing logic units and an RTOS to run the exposure > system and shutter, read and process captured data, write it to > storage asynchronously without the heavy programming, power and other > requirements of a general purpose OS. > > > What would you like to see? i would take an open source or at least an open API over linux any day. to me, the model of a geek-friendly device is squeezebox. give me that in a camera and i'll be ready to shell out some serious $$$. > High resolution sensors with low noise, high quality lenses, fast and > accurate focusing systems, ergonomic controls, a high degree of > responsiveness, high quality viewfinders. In other words, a good > camera ... ;-) of course!!! -- but these things are kinda obvious :) and it looks like pentax is getting there (at last!) > Godfrey best, mishka
