Originally posted by Andrew Faires 1-A cold-weather grip. Basically the same as the grip that's here already, but instead of the battery being in the grip, a cord would run from the grip to a battery-pack that could be kept in your coat.
2-DA* 135=400mm f/4.0 lens that's fully sealed and uses SDM
3-Fully sealed flash unit with a GN of 60.
4-dual SD card slots
5-silent mode: Slow the FPS if need be, but make the sound of the mirror/shutter as close to in-audible as possible for photographing wildlife that might otherwise get spooked by camera noises.
6-ISO 25 & 50
7-make a limited series camera body to compliment the limited line of lenses, ie, not nessessarily perfomance driven, but rather a luxury class of camera.....compact, all metal body, S.A. & M modes only.
Andrew's is one of the best lists I've seen.
I especially like #2 (DA* 135-400 f/4 -- if they release it, I'll buy one so long as it's not too much more expensive than my DA* 50-135 f/2.8). #4 (dual SD card slots) would also be fantastic. I don't care much about very low ISO (#6) or the Rich Hobbyist edition (#7). But I would
really like #5 (silent mode). I don't care about scaring away wildlife, but whenever I shoot inside a church I really wish the camera were quieter. I know that it's hard to muffle the sound of the shutter/mirror, but apparently some other cameras (like the Canon 5D) are much quieter than the Pentax K10D.
In addition to the above, my wish list would also include:
-- either better P-TTL or conventional TTL
-- Better/faster auto-focus
-- Ability to shoot DNG compressed, or even better, have a choice between DNG compressed and DNG uncompressed. Right now I shoot PEF to get more images on a card, then I convert to DNG in Lightroom and the resulting DNGs are smaller than the original PEFs. Would like to skip the PEF middleman completely. Uncompressed images seem to allow you to shoot a teeny bit more quickly.
-- I'd like a black and white review mode, where I can see the images on the LCD in black and white by default without having to convert them individually. I don't actually want to have a camera that only captures black and white data -- I like that color channel info -- but I would like to have a quick idea about whether shots I am taking with b&w conversion in mind are actually going to look good that way. Saw this mentioned somewhere else recently and I rather like the idea.
-- Although I have often defended the K10D against the charge of being unusably noisy at higher ISOs, I still would like better high-ISO performance. I don't care about going to 3200 as much as I do about being able to take pretty good shots at 1600.
What I'd really like is perhaps not deliverable: I'd like Pentax to do something that makes me stop wanting a full-frame camera.
Will