> I'd love for them to get rid of the program presets, the pop-up
> flash, and the grip mount. (They got rid of the grip mount on the low-
> end DS/DL/K100 series bodies, notice? as a cost savings measure. ...
> I've never missed it.) Also all the effects, white balance
> controls ... I only capture in RAW and could live without the LCD and
> JPEG engine as well. The flash shoe would be important if they
> eliminated the popup flash, but if they kept the pop-up, they could
> eliminate it for many people.
>
> They could likely market a fixed lens DSLR with a 17-70mm lens too
> but who cares?
>
> Despite what some have asserted, the cost of manufacture for a
> mechanical lens coupling is much higher than most of the above and
> it's an unnecessary appendix for ancient lenses that do not pose any
> profitable return, so it was one of the first things to go starting
> with the *ist film body.
>
A pop-up flash? It's got a relatively high-power converter to
generate flash voltages, high-power timing-accurate switching for P-TTL, a
flash tube, a whole slew of precision mechanical linkages to retract, etc.
An LCD? That's probably the second-most expensive component of
the entire camera, second only to the sensor.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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