Originally posted by stevebrot I see you understand the vision.
Steve
I spend copious amount of time in the backcountry. A few years ago, I had a high-end Fuji digicam that came with me on a 9 day trip. Between the temperture cycling and usage, I got about 3 or 4 days out of it.
Last time I backpacked for 2-3 days with a K-X, it barely lasted me the trip.
On longer vacations and trips, charging batteries is a pain... I'd rather have to not worry about battery changes so often.
This was actually one of the driving forces of me going full time film.
Monochrome LCD on the top, like a ZX-5 or K100d! Simple histogram displayed from your last shot. Make it so you configure your user settings from a PC, and just have AV, TV, M, B, HyP, and user settings, so no going through menus-- Just program your 3 favorite processing modes as well as RAW, and have those on a knob. 3 metering modes, CW, S, and MS, and have either exposure comp on the ISO dial, or auto bracketing.
No BS with a built in flash, FluCard, tethering, or anything of the sort.
I would buy that in a heartbeat. Until they came out with a digital version of the Fuji GA645zi...