| "Next generation" or "...September 2008". What comes in September 2008 is of minimal interest as it probably will be iterative improvements; "next generation" is of great interest as it is open and unknown.
Next generation I would like to see a more "open source" camera with ability to user program any unique shooting feature sets possible and call up or cancel at button push. For example: shoot series with successively different ISO's or different metering modes. The example is not important, the ability to custom program is important. Really, really good software applications give you this ability by allowing access to data all the time; conversely, poor software locks you out of data often for unexplainable reasons. All cameras, that I'm aware of, follow this poor model; different models may have more or better features, none give it all up for you to completely program your own.
It is only through this more "open source" camera that I'll get my programmable, accurate, shot counter that I so desparately want, instead of the laughably always wrong best guess shot remaining thingy.
Also, in the "next generation" department, I foresee tighter interoperability with photo software applications. Example, ability to upload from Adobe / Capture# / Lightroom / Silky / Gimp / PSP etc. special features you prepare within those applications to enhance succeeding post processing tasks. Alternately, as portable devices use Windows lite, CE, Palm, Apple OS, so too will next generation cameras again allowing significant user programmability. |