My digital camera design is...

[Juan Valdenebro]

Here's mine:


M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor


One main switch only: hard light / soft light (first position for less contrast/saturation, second for more)


Small, light and cheap, $1000

 

[axiom]

My digital camera design is...

Leica M3 + Full frame silicon film

 

[former member]

Digital MP and Digital M3.

My camera design would be a Monochrome M9 without an IR cut filter on it.

 

[andreios]

M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor


One main switch only: hard light / soft light (first position for less contrast/saturation, second for more)


Small, light and cheap, $1000

You speak from my heart, or head.. I`m just going through picking up "something digital" and its hopeless. I would take your desing whtout a milisecond of hesitation. Just.. perhaps one more switch - between color and BW - a RAW file in B&W straight out of the camera would be nice... 🙂

 

[antiquark]

Something pocketable with a large-ish sensor and good lens. Like a digital Yashica T4 or Stylus Epic. Maybe the Leica X1 is what I'm thinking of, but I don't know if it's pocketable.

 

[former member]

Raw Monochrome/Infrared straight out of the camera.

The hard part was using a Red-Green-Blue filter wheel for 3 exposures to get color.

 

[Uwe_Nds]

Something pocketable with a large-ish sensor and good lens. Like a digital Yashica T4 or Stylus Epic. Maybe the Leica X1 is what I'm thinking of, but I don't know if it's pocketable.

Sounds a lot like a Sigma dp2.

Myself, I am content with the M8.

Cheers,
Uwe

 

[user237428934]

perhaps one more switch - between color and BW - a RAW file in B&W straight out of the camera would be nice... 🙂

Think about it a few seconds. What you want is not a RAW file. If you omit colour from a colour-sensor then the output is not a RAW file anymore.

 

[jbrianfoto]

Same Here...

Same Here...

Here's mine:


M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor


One main switch only: hard light / soft light (first position for less contrast/saturation, second for more)


Small, light and cheap, $1000

No need for a big battery. Full size sensor. The shutter would be manually wound, there would be no screen, no auto modes. The battery would only energize the sensor and enable the file to transfer to the CF card. On the outside, the camera would pretty much look just like an M4/M6 camera (use the B shutter setting to shut off everything, just like one an M6). A tiny LED in the viewfinder could tell you when the card is full / frames left, if it is on, ect. It would only capture in one mode, RAW, TIFF, JPEG, whatever - (you select via a laptop connection before you go out shooting). What would be really cool is if Leica (or somebody else) would offer a retrofit. They take your M body, remove what isn't needed (film transport parts) and install the digital parts, battery, card slot, usb connector) and ship it back to you. Am I sniffing glue here? I think this is something all of us would like to see.

 

[Roberto]

Here's mine:


M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor


One main switch only: hard light / soft light (first position for less contrast/saturation, second for more)


Small, light and cheap, $1000

Same for me, apart the switch, remove it and shot only RAW, then it's perfect

 

[aizan]

this, with an aps-c sensor and an image stabilized 35mm-e f/2 lens.

 

[Ezzie]

An R-D2. Equals R-D1+ FF 18Mpix sensor. + Better RF stability + lens coding.

 

[Archlich]

GRD3 with a large sensor.

 

[mike-s]

Isn't it pushing it to get a full-frame sensor behind an M mount register for< $1000?

 

[Bart-K]

Okay, I'll give it a try, although I think my point of view is somewhat different from yours.

• M mount, but with added electronic interface so I get lens-ID and f-settings in my EXIF (of course this could only be added to new generation lenses, it's not something you could retrofit to existing lenses)
• No AF, but focus confirmation would be nice.
• Full frame sensor, with priority to image quality, not megapixels
• A screen (yes, please, I do want to be able to review my images and have access to lesser used settings via a menu).
• Built-in reflective AND incident light meter (why does not a single camera have this? There must be room somewhere on the topplate to add a little wite dome)
• Dial (not a menu) to set ISO, in full stops only.
• Traditional shutterspeed dial and aperture-ring.
• Shutterspeed, aperture, ISO and lightmeter value (not two arrows but a proper scale) shown in viewfinder
• Excellent JPG straight from of the camera.
• And finally: use Linux as internal operating system and give access to all the tools and documentation so the RF community can develop their own custom firmware, add features, improve handling, etc. Writing firmware is not the core business of camera manufacturers anyway, so why not let the user fiddle with it?

Bart

 

[bmasonoh]

Here's mine:


M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor


One main switch only: hard light / soft light (first position for less contrast/saturation, second for more)


Small, light and cheap, $1000

I'd buy this. Perfection.

 

[dmr]

I would like to see some kind of a RF with a full-frame digital sensor and a film transport. Screen not important. If it has tons of those teeny buttons, the deal is off!

Yeah, dream on!

 

[user237428934]

[*]M mount, but with added electronic interface so I get lens-ID and f-settings in my EXIF

[*]Dial (not a menu) to set ISO, in full stops only.

[*]And finally: use Linux as internal operating system and give access to all the tools and documentation so the RF community can develop their own custom firmware, add features, improve handling, etc. Writing firmware is not the core business of camera manufacturers anyway, so why not let the user fiddle with it?[/LIST]Bart

1.) so you want a new lens design. I can't think of a way to read out the f-settings from a m-mount-lens.

2.) full iso stops is one of the idiotic limitations of the m8

3.) of course it's the core business. do you want the manufacturer of that camera to ship it without firmware so that it's not usable out of the box?

 

[rxmd]

Here's mine:
M mount
No screen
Manual focus
Manual aperture
Manual shutter speed
Meter, full frame sensor

Small, light and cheap, $1000

Sounds like a used M6 and a roll of film. Why digital at all?

(Otherwise, good luck with the price requirement. How much does the cheapest full frame camera cost new?)

 

[Bart-K]

1.) so you want a new lens design. I can't think of a way to read out the f-settings from a m-mount-lens.

Yes, I do realize that. Just edited my post to incude that point, but your reply was quicker 🙂

2.) full iso stops is one of the idiotic limitations of the m8

But if you want half/third-stops I'm afraid you would end up with too many setting to fit on a dial and I absolutely hate setting ISO via the menu/screen.

3.) of course it's the core business. do you want the manufacturer of that camera to ship it without firmware so that it's not usable out of the box?

No, it's not core business. It's a necessity. Let the camera manufaturer develop a standard firmware, but make it possible (maybe even encourage?) users to build their own.