Originally posted by nomadkng I posted this in another thread basically asking the same thing:
"I'd PAY for a firmware upgrade that would allow me to Calibrate lenses LIVE in Live View without all the hassles of take a picture, view it on your computer, adjust, repeat.
I'd like 50+ AF points that cover the whole frame because you can never have enough AF points.
I'd like the USER MODES to be push button, instead of on the dial. I can see many many times where'd I'd like to be able to transition between Spot AF and 9 or even 25 Point and/or center weighted/matrix metering.
I'd like to see LOCKS put on the e-dials, my big hands seem to turn them a lot, especially those on the grip as I rotate portrait and landscape orientation. I've gone from 1/2500 @ f8 to 1/250 @ f5 without even knowing. Sometimes it has cost me shots @300mm and fast moving objects.
I miss the dial for AF-S to AF-C, though if they gave me programmable user modes for buttons I wouldn't care so much about this
and I'd like 11FPS..."
The Samsung NX-1 has 205 phase detect and 209 contrast detect AF points, covering 90% of the frame. Also it does 15 fps.
I'd like to see a K-3 with:
Things that should be possible with a firmware update:
* Mechanical SR that can be activated in video mode.
* Different options of SR, including combining mechanical and electronic SR (but please based on what the gyroscope is detecting!), the ability to lock position, to tell the camera I'm going to pan now.
* Option of (in no SR or mechanical SR mode) having no crop during video recording.
* AE-L, but for white balance. In video of course.
* The option of 80 Mbps MJPEG video, rather than h264. And higher quality h264.
* The video mode should be aimed at people who know what they are doing. Don't dumb it down, give options, even if they may confuse a beginner. A DSLR is a semi-pro/pro tool, not for beginners.
* A mode that basically does exposure bracketing, but with the sensor in different positions. i.e. top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right.
* The above, but combined with exposure bracketing.
Things a 2014/2015 flagship APS-C DSLR should have:
* OLED screen.
* 4K video and 1080p video with full sensor readout and pixel binning, at least at 30 fps.
* Choice over pixel binning or line skipping, depending on needs (default, especially for low light or little movement: pixel binning. When there is fast motion, shaky cam etc. line skipping is better (less wobbling, though you get much more moire and aliasing, as well as less sharpness).
* h265 support, ProRes support, MJPEG support, ...
* GPS for geotagging, as well as astrotracking (?).* WiFi and USB 3.0, with support for control over the camera over either. I'm not talking about what the K-3 already has, I'm talking about an open API that gives full control over the camera. Sensor position, access to the gyroscope, if it's in the camera it should be given access to. That does not mean that Pentax needs to give away any secrets or code... just a way to write "mirror lock up, focus to 50 cm, aperture f8, move sensor to the top left corner, take a photo at + 4EV, 0EV and -4EV, move sensor to top right corner, ... , focus to 2m, move sensor to top left... .", and the camera does exactly that.
* Focus peaking in video mode.
* All sorts of displays that are useful for videographers, for example overlays for different aspect ratios (the posibility to shoot in them could be neat too), and the video equivalent of a histogram.
* A properly fast CPU. Samsung is putting their high end smartphone CPU in a camera optimized version into their latest camera, while what we get from Fujitsu is probably a bit more antiquated. And it shows.
* USB OTG support. It would be nice to save photos or videos directly to an external hard drive (think time lapses, or long shoots), or to copy them to one at the end of the day, as a backup.
* Maybe a more modern OS, like Android? With the ability to write programs for it, though not like with the Samsung Galaxy cameras. First and foremost it would feel and look like a Pentax DSLR, just with a touchscreen to go through your photos and zoom in as you wish, and with the ability to extend it's capabilities (i.e. making use of the API mentioned before, just in camera, without a phone, tablet or computer). A curated app store by Pentax would let you acquire these extensions (with Pentax making some profit). The apps should be more targetted at professional users, and can include for example apps by news agencies for their in house photographers, which upload thumbnails of the photos directly to the news agencies' servers, letting them pick photos they want and download the raw straight from the camera, all while the photographer is still shooting the event.