> > Hi! > > JF> You missed the most important part: "... complete with LCD". > > JF> I know I can trigger the shutter release - I don't even need a Palm > JF> Pilot (or other PDA) for that. I want to be able to look at the > JF> resulting image, histogram display, etc. I don't think we'll see > JF> that on the *ist-D, but I'd like to see it on a future camera model. > > Indeed I did miss that. That is I rather misunderstood you. You see, > the highest modern PDA can go is either 320x240 (soon to be 640x480 or > thereabouts) or 480x320... I don't know about you, but none of the > above looks any reasonable to me for the purpose in discussion. So it > kind of never occurred to me that you meant *that* <g>. > > I think that if I were rich enough to buy *istD or similar, I'd also > buy big enough a card and shoot like crazy. Then I would review my > stuff on the screen of my PC. At least, it is 17" and can do 1600x1200 > if I ask nicely <g>. It is 1152x864 by default...
That's not a lot of good when I'm 400 miles from home, and my camera is about 20' away from me on a bracket (and somewhere where I'm not allowed to stand). I'm just looking for a remote equivalent of the LCD screen on the back of the camera, which is perfectly good enough for checking exposure with the histogram, and something I don't want to give up if I don't have to. That's the purpose under discussion, and I think even a 320x240 PDA would be good enough for that. The instant exposure check with the histogram (and even focus check by zooming in to part of the resultant image) is a valuable part of the benefits from a digital camera, and not something to discard lightly.
