Originally posted by Winder The E-P3 CDAF is faster than any camera Pentax makes. Tracking moving subjects is still not up to PDAF ability, but CDAF is making progress faster than I would have expected.
Take out the mirror and the mechanical parts and you can speed thing up and quiet them down. Sony A77 is hitting 12FPS. To develop a traditional DSLR that can handle that speed and not have the mirror fly off after a couple thousand frames or sound like an M60 firing off costs a lot of money. The EVF still needs to improve, but for Sony's second generation technology they are doing pretty good. The 2.4 million dot OLED EVF in the NEX-7 is not bad by all accounts.
Look at the solution Nikon is using for their 1 serrie cameras, they weren't the first though but it's easier to find things about them.
The sacrifice a few pixels and made them so that the can do Phase focus, so you have PDAF on the sensor. =]
I have already wrote it down but i would love to see cameras with morpihc mirrors that can turn translucant and LCD shutters.
Almost all mechanical parts would be gone, sadly they are still a bit slow but for 645D it would have more advantages than disadvantages and you can still use the camera like you have always done.
I only have no isea about the price of thoe materials... LCD shutters are cheap but the mirror...