Robert Gonzalez wrote: > > 5. Full frame sensor? Nope, don't think that is important to me. > > Cm'on don't you want to use your 15mm rectilinear in all its glory!! :)
That one's reasonably important to me, because I do have a 15mm. For the time being I'd be happy to keep my trusty old K2 for the ultrawide stuff. > Ok, my apologies, I'm an Electrical Engineer who writes software, so my > perspective is heavily biased towards this little window on the world. ;) Good to see another EE on the list ;) I am more of a hardware guy who writes software on the side. > 1. I'd like to see alot of wireless stuff, like making the camera a > wireless TCP/IP node that I could download the images off of. How about making it a node which automatically uploads images into a settable location on a fileserver while you shoot? Just think - keep a server in the studio or even a laptop in the car if you're outdoors (parked in the shade!). How about letting it interface direct to a wireless-enabled ipod in your pocket? These are all very exciting possibilities. You could shoot RAW all day and never need to worry about storage. > 9. Some type of physical or electrical means of attaching a separate unit > to cool the CCD. This sucks up alot of power, so it would have to be > something external. Ideally they could stick a peltier chip behind the CCD > with an external power connector. this would allow much lower noise > pictures for special applications, like astrophotograpy or long exposures. Not such a bad idea, assuming that most of the noise is thermally generated. The problem with peltier chips is that they require a reasonable amount of power to operate so battery life would be quite short. > 10. Use the LCD for more useful stuff, like turning it into a PDA with the > little stylus on the side. Just kidding. ;) I just bought a digital camera with a built-in PDA. Oops - I mean a PDA with built-in camera. Quite handy little things despite the camera being only 640x480. I like the concept of the new Treo 600 but I guess you'd really want a handsfree kit or you wouldn't be able to take notes while talking. I seem to recall that someone ported Doom to a commonly-used digital camera operating system. But if I get a DSLR I'd be more interested in taking photos with it :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
