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I can't think of a single feature that could be added to a new film camera that doesn't already exist...
in camera film development. just need to make sure the tap fitting on the side of the camera is designed nicely.
I can't think of a single feature that could be added to a new film camera that doesn't already exist...
Leica R8? The film camera bodies are getting seriously cheap and the digital backs are approaching he wish list parameters...I'd definitely be interested in a new type of film camera that offered a digital option, then I wont have to always worry which one to take, and I run out of film, I could just switch to digital. The old model with the digital back is too tired. A small integrated model that takes 35mm film and could deliver 12 MP digital would be awsome. Am I just dreaming?
btw, I see a similarity between the topic we're discussing here to the way phones manufacturer design and produce their phones.
When the last time did we see a breakthrough (or any advertisment) in land-line "serious phone" unit? What we are seeing now is that phone manufacturers putting their R&D effort on cell phones technology, instead of pumping up yesteryear cord-locked phone units.
-David
Ray, have you tried installing a different focus screen in your F6?
I installed an L screen, and it made a world of difference for me. I had trouble manual focusing with the standard screen, but with the new screen I find it just as easy as focusing an F2 or F3. The image really snaps into focus.
Anyway, wouldn't it be nice if we could use film and put a little card in the camera and get the time, date aperture and shutter speed recorded? Like the EXIF in digital?
Of course we haven't! What's up with you guys' confidence in innovation? Where is you memory of history? There is sure to be another Edwin Land in the future somewhere, a George Eastman, Oscar Barnack, Yoshihisa Maitani, and so on. One of them will come up with a film that looks like videotape, which you take out and "develop" in a reader, transferring 2 gigapixel pictures to your iPad IV and which never wears out. Another will make a new Kodachrome with variable ISO, gigamicron sized grain which will develop in daylight by adding salt and a dash of vinegar. The possibilities are endless. Others will make the mechanical cameras to use these films. They will be wonderfully svelte Leica IVf's, or old Nikon F2's, Minox 35z's, Olympus XB's, and Rolleiflex 3005's. Oh -- and you'll be able to get accessory backs with wafer-thin displays just for preview. For us old farts digital 36x24 sensors will come in DIY kits for those of us who will be nostalgic for old 50 megapixel cameras. The whole kit will fit right into the space taken up by the pressure plate and we'll be drooling over that "KODAK CMOS look" of the noisy pictures. "Noise? It's suppose to be there!"Have We Seen The Last Release of a Serious Film Camera?
When is the last time we saw a breakthrough in cell phone technology that improved the phone part?
There are certain technologies that are mature and don't require year-by-year incremental improvement. A "cord-locked" phone works when there is no power. There is a federal mandate that guarantees that functionality. It isn't subject to electromagnetic interference from microwave ovens, hair dryers, etc.
And apparently you haven't been in a modern office lately, where every desk still has a "cord-locked" phone.
Cell phones are a convenience, but as much as cell phone makers and cariers would love to have you believe they are superior to "cord-locked" designs, they are inferior in every way in the phone part.
It's funny how people are so quick to forget reality when faced with non-stop marketing.