FTF : I don't see that we need more than 32 Megapixel. - i would really love to see a 24.5 MP Sensor that is capable of 3 things (read carefully):
Decent results at ISO 12800 like on K-30, K-5, K-5II
Endless RAW shooting
at least 10 fps when shooting RAW
And chances to see these very useful features, are going to NULL if we would have a 36MP sensor in the camera. My opinion stays: 24.5 MP and all those 3 features should be available in the upcoming FF body.
but lets get back to the text. this thread was about what could be different. so we wanted some new ideas. Here we go:
" L I V E D I R E C T I O N A L A F A D J U S T M E N T " ! (in your face)
Example:
You mount the DFA 100mm on your K-4, K-8, or whatever it will be called. You try to focus on ... lets say a green frog or toad sitting on your lawn. You lay down on the lawn and set your camera so it won't move forwards or backwards "itself" when you shoot. You halfway press the Shutter-Release button. The Focus is near but it misses(it hits some grass in front of the frog). Now you could try to finger around a bit with the quickshift OR...?
Yes! Or you hold that AF button and fine tune the Focus with the frontside wheel(the wheel on the grip) Move it to the right and focus layer moves towards you, or dial to the left to move the focus layer further away from you a bit.
-- so back on the lawn:
The focus hits some grass in front of the frog. You hold the AF-Button and push the dial wheel on the grip a bit to the left and voila, the focus is where it belongs. You still hold the AF-Button to prevent the DSLR from refocussing, press the shutter button and "CLICK" You catched "Mr. Green" without any hassle.
The Idea of the operablity itself in this suggestion could also be used if RICOH has balls like "Wow!" and would reimplement the powerzoom( this time with SILENT motors
yall know what i mean.)
And talking about focusing. I like the features Magic Lantern offers for enhancing Focus methods on Canon Bodies. (The "Follow Focus" on ML for instance lets you set several focus points that you can recall later when shooting AFAIK.)
On the K-?, one could set such focus points for instance by a quick double-click or better "double-press" of the AF button. For recalling those focus points you could have a double occupancy of the "EV Compensation button" and the "ISO button" as a "RWD Focus"(back one preset focus point) and "FWD Focus"(forward one preset focus point) buttons.
And yes, we all know, a professional will always focus manually...yadayada... but another one:
One should be able to set focus speed, that would be pretty cool especially if it comes to amateur video shootings. (Imagine you want to do a semi-professional video report of some event for youtube.)
Why should you buy follow focus constructions that integrate into some rig, than you have to buy another technical trickery... that costs you more and more and more... , when you have features like i mentioned them above and a pretty silent DC or SDM lens?
And still i would like to be able to lock my pictures with the AE-L Button when reviewing them.
(For gods sake...?? why do i have to press around like wild for locking my pix? and no.. we dont need an extra button for that. Pentax has to map that function to the "AE-L button" and we only have to RTFM)
And oh my god... again: I would really love to get a really silent "In-Body AF screw drive mechanism" it is possible, i know that. Other producers really have much more silent screw drive AFs. That is one thing that a professional body would need for sure: SILENCE. Because there are still enough "screw drivers" out there and not everybody who sold his house for the Pentax FF-Body, will still have enough money to buy lenses like the HD Pentax-D FA* 70-200mm F2.8 ED DC AW. So we will see many screwdrivers when the FF hits the market. And it should be possible to get that done till october.
sry for my bad english. I am no native speaker...
MORE: For some reason i think, that it would be good if the FF would have a CF-CARD SLOT also.
CFs are more durable and rugged than SDs, they more feel like a "format" than the SDs which flip around like chips from a childrens roulette game.
And whoever shot a lot of photos and shortly afterwards popped out his SD card of the DSLR will have realized that those little thingies get really warm if not to say hot sometimes. And i am not sure if this is a good thing to have...(a little heatsource in your camera.. OK even CF may get warm. but i think they dont heat up like an SD does sometimes)
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and NOW since nobdy said from what it should be different
this one is serious):
Since we have a "CF CARD SLOT" and an SD slot in our little monster now, i gotta wish for it here and now:
They all only dream about it. Even most Canon and Nikon owners are just dreaming about it. But we may have it implemented in the FF.
"ENDLESS RAW SHOOTING"
Give that idea some Kudos ... remember that this is one serious argument and everyone who wants to buy the FF would profit of it and you dont give the Kudos to me. You give 'em to the idea.
And again i gotta hype my opinion here(because it is right and logical): Every resolution from 18MP on upwards to 32MP would be OK for really good results and would deliver better results in Low-Light than any 36-40-50 MP Monster. One just doesnt need resolutions that high. And with resolutions around 40MP we won't see those 2 features:
(and be honest to yourself you may really want to have them)
1st) Break the 10fps barrier
2nd) Endless RAW shooting