Originally posted by Pentax Syntax I voted no because I already have 5 great film bodies....and I do shoot film in 2018....happily with my PZ-1p. I must admit though it would be fun to see what a ‘pull out all the stops’ film camera 📷 would look like in 2018! Flip down digital camera with preview. 12 frames/sec! Peltier improved film sensitivity! 130% viewfinder. Who knows?
I think the closest you'll get to an ultimate high tech film camera is a Nikon F6, or maybe a Canon EOS 1V. They both are/were high end film cameras that were still made and sold during much of the digital era.
If you want to do crazy, replace the focusing screen with a sensor and the viewfinder with an EVF. Then you could get all sorts of modern digital goodies on a film camera like histogram, live view, focus peaking, contrast detect auto focus, and it would double as a digital camera taking a low res digital shot an instant before flipping the mirror to expose the film. It could save that on a card and build "contact sheets" before you even develop the film.
I wouldn't want it, and there wouldn't be very many people that would want to spend what it would cost to make, but it could be cool as a technology showcase.