I guess a "modern HCB", educated in the spirit of Internet fora, would need a camera with:
- an extraordinary fast start-up time, as you never know when a decisive moment opportunity arises
- an extraordinary fast IS/SR initialization, so it won't impede immediate shooting of the decisive moment.
- an extraordinary fast autofocus, with face recognition, subject tracking and so on. The decisive moment doesn't wait!
- extremely fast FPS and a huge buffer; you must make sure to capture the
right decisive moment!
- extremely fast to use camera interface, so you'd set it just in time to capture the decisive moment.
Of course, our "modern HCB" would never be able to take (make) images like the "original", no matter how fast the camera, because
he wouldn't be ready