Analysis: What SonyAlphaRumors wants from the future FF cameras!
Over 4.000 unique voters decided which features are the most important for the future Sony Fullframe cameras. You can see the voting results here: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/poll-vote-your-future-sony-ff-must-have-features/. First I want to thank you all for participating the voting. I will send the results to Sony and see what they think about it. And now, what did we learn from your voting?
1) Real photography: People wants Sony to stop the Megapixel race and focus on higher dynamic range, low noise, manual controls, and top quality 16bit RAW. I couldn’t agree more with the SAR readers! Well done! Let’s go back to real photographer needs!
2) What are the surprises? Many are waiting for a new Mirrorless Fullframe camera (34% of all voters). And 30% of you want that camera to have in body IS!
3) There is still a big need for optical viewfinders! 26% of you want the “old” DSLR design back in Sony’s roadmap. The question is, will EVF become as good as OVF? If Sony can manage to archive that goal than I am sure that big amount of OVF voters will become less and less in time.
One of our readers made an extremely accurate analysis of the results. He created the graphs you can when clicking on these links:
part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight.
There are a couple of things to consider here:
1) The poll will have no influence on the products released next year as the development of those products has almost terminated.
2) I want to quote Henry Ford’s famous phrase: “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have said “a faster horse“. Good companies should go beyond the current “believes” of the mass. So Sony, feel free to surprise use! 
And now let me know what are your “evaluation” of the poll!!!
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C
8 months ago |Well, I think Sony knows this site exists and even if it is made up of very zealous fans of the Sony DSLR/SLT system, they’ll take a grain of salt from the options that got a massive portion of the vote.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |Of course, these results contradict the fact that these same site participants are going to buy a NEX-7 over a NEX 5N. ;~) The market is sending a different signal (so far) to Sony than this poll will.
admin
8 months ago |But are they going to buy the NEX-7 because it has more Megapixels or because of the much more advanced body and control layout?
lorenzino
8 months ago |Many here said they would love a Nex-7 with the sensor of the Nex5n.
They say it. But I think they are, like we all are, impatiently waiting for real world results from the Nex-7 sensor. In the end they, same body, same price, they would chose that 24 mp sensor…
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |If the Nex7 had IBIS, I’d buy it in a heartbeat! Everything on Nex7 looks sooooo sweet (even more with the new Nex to Alpha mount adapter), except lack if IBIS. For me, IBIS is one of the most important features that make me stay with Sony.
C’mon, Sony! You’ve already ditched the new Nex “hotshoe” in favor of the standard Minolta one. So why not making a Nex with IBIS? We all know you can do it
Lofote
8 months ago |Uhm, come one, you are not seriously asking this question? The answer is really too obvious, isn’t it? If not: IBIS takes a lot of space. The NEX-7 is far too small for IBIS!
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |What’s the problem of making the Nex a little bit bigger?
People said that it’d be impossible for Sony to make a FF with IBIS, and Sony proved everyone wrong.
Last, but not least, Oly Pen series cameras are small AND have IBIS.
Sony already diferentiate Nex 7 against the other Nex cameras when they used the traditional flash hotshoe. So, why not putting IBIS as well?
acolyte
8 months ago |Oly pen has bigger sensor. First win the race for smalleat mirrorless (c3). Next megapixels (a77, nex7). Sss after.
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |@acolyte I think you meant that Oly has SMALLER sensor. Ok, that makes sense. Those few millimitres may make a difference while adding IBIS.
Still, I’ll be hoping for Sony to give a good thought about that
calxn
8 months ago |You would buy it, but the downside would drive most people away, so… no thanks! Downside being overheating when doing video. You can always buy an A77 for IBIS.
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |admin,
i want fhd 120fps or above slomo
hanugro
8 months ago |Many buy NEX-7 because more advance feature/control, standard alpha (minolta) hotshoe, and built in EVF. If Sony ship NEX-6 with only a difference in sensor (lower MP and much better noise) then I guess it could outsell NEX-7. Feature wise NEX-7 is more appealing to a-mount user as second body than NEX-3 up to NEX-5n.
Steve
8 months ago |It all depends on Sony interprets NEX-7 sales.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |Perhaps. There are ways to ferret that out with good surveying techniques. But, in general, I don’t see a lot of posts of “wow, the NEX-7 finally has the UI I want,” I see a lot of posts that say “wow, the NEX-7 has 24mp” and others that say “wow, finally a built-in EVF.”
The NEX-5 has long had quite excellent sensor performance (resolution, DR, high ISO, etc.). That leaves UI, pixel count, and EVF as suspects for the NEX-7 “hotness.” The NEX-5N can have essentially the same EVF. That leaves pixels and UI as suspects. Personally, I never found the NEX-5 UI to be all that bad (at least after the updates). While I’d welcome the two extra dials and built-in EVF, that’s not exactly a reason to pay all that extra money. No, I’m betting that most people are fixated on the pixels.
But the question isn’t how the consumer reacts to the 3 versus 5 versus 7 and the new generation versus the old, it’s how Sony INTERPRETS the disparity in sales to expectations.
Mike
8 months ago |The built in viewfinder and better controls are my reasons for going with the nex-7. The 24mp sensor is disappointing compared to Sony’s newest 16mp sensor. People are already complaining about it and the dxomark ratings show that Sony bumped up the megapixels at the expense of noise performance.
The real question to ask is, “who is going to buy this camera?”. The 24mp number will only look good to those who know nothing about camera technology. Enthusiast and gear heads are already scoffing at the number.
frosti7
8 months ago |Thom, you right about one thing,
most of the threads i’ve read really do not talk about NEX-7 UI or controls,
but the reason why is because everyone is busy complaining about the 24mpx sensor
J
8 months ago |You are reading the wrong forums and/or threads. I have seen way more skepticism regarding the pixel count than I have seen wows.
nopt
8 months ago |I don’t think you could be more wrong Thom. The hyperbolic “wow 24MP” comments are found in very mainstream sites like engadget etc. I don’t think the enthusiasts that are looking at buying this camera are swayed by more megapixels.
“While I’d welcome the two extra dials and built-in EVF, that’s not exactly a reason to pay all that extra money.”
What?? That is THE reason to pay all that extra money.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |>> “While I’d welcome the two extra dials and built-in EVF, that’s not exactly a reason to pay all that extra money.”
> What?? That is THE reason to pay all that extra money.
Let’s quantify, shall we?
5N body: US$599
7 body: US$1199
5N EVF: US$349
Difference for two dials and an EVF = $US600
Difference for two dials = US$251
Are you truly saying you’d pay all that extra purely for the change in ergonomics?
nopt
8 months ago |@Thom
For some reason not all posts have the reply button, so I am replying here.
Built-in EVF and the extra dials are a big deal for me personally. Also lets not leave out the extra lever for AEL & AF/MF. I shoot manual roughly 80% of the time. I think having aperture/shutter-speed/ISO at the ready under my thumb would make the shooting-experience much more enjoyable (again, for me personally). I’d also appreciate the bigger, more comfortable body (the grip is a bit taller & deeper on the 7 as opposed to the 5/5N), and you left out a couple of things like the Minolta hot-shoe, and the fact that it has a nice little pop-up flash versus the fiddly dingus you have to attach to the other NEX models.
I just have a feeling the whole user experience will be much nicer on the 7, which you don’t seem to place much importance on. We can just agree to disagree, and apologies for all the parentheses.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |@nopt It’s not that I don’t place an importance on UI–anyone that has read my writing for long knows that I actually want better UI–it’s simply that Sony is pricing it fairly high. My point was that if it isn’t about 24mp, it can’t really be about EVF (built-in versus optional), thus the price differential is mostly about UI. I’m simply asking are people really willing to pay that much for a UI difference?
Carl
8 months ago |It doesn’t sound like you’re giving the people here much credit, Thom.
There will always be some everywhere who are impressed by specmanship and gimmickry (which is why companies get involved in it in the first place), but it hasn’t been my experience that the majority, or even an especially large minority, of posters here are so inclined.
The single biggest gripe I see here is with higher ISOs, which while hardly the be all and end all of photography, is at least something that can said to be of genuine photographic use.
This talk of “hotness” just sounds to me like you’re concocting a strawman to beat around, rather judging the interests the of users here on their merits. Perhaps if you dig a little deeper you might find the people who are interested in the NEX-7 that you so decry actually have a valid reason for their interest beyond more megapixels to show off with.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |I didn’t know we were restricting ourselves to “the people here.” Certainly my comments referred to what I was seeing outside the poll.
A lot of you are counting on your ability to correctly assess anecdotal data on the fly, but I’ll bet you’re biased to the result you want to see and the actual numbers (overall posts about one thing or another) don’t add up the way most of you think. I’ve actually been counting responses to me in email and on three forums (I’ve now stopped, as I don’t have the bandwidth to keep going). I’ll stick by what I wrote: UI is the least talked about, megapixels the most.
Carl
8 months ago |All humans have cognitive bias and imperfect heuristics, myself and yourself included, but that doesn’t mean that people are sheep.
I’d dispute the suggestion that UI is the most important aspect of a camera, too. Plenty of wonderful photos have been taken with horribly unergonomic large-format view cameras.
Don Cox
8 months ago |Both for the body design and the resolution, but I would like more Megapixels. I don’t think 2000 red pixels in the height of the image is enough. The green resolution at about 3000 pixels is better, but still low.
frosti7
8 months ago |If there would be NEX-6 (a nex-7 with 16mp sensor)
hardly anyone would buy the NEX-7
Baba Ganoush
8 months ago |I agree. As a Nikon D7000 owner, I’m in that category myself. In fact, while awaiting the arrival of the NEX-7, I’m giving a serious look at the Panasonic G3, which has “only” a 16MP sensor. What I need is a lightweight, moderately priced travel camera with a large focal range. Since I’m not a professional photographer, I can’t afford to lug around my heavy, expensive Nikon equipment on a long trip, where it could get stolen. The set of Panasonic lenses that’s available now fills my needs quite well, from moderately fast wide angle pancakes to extreme telephoto. Reviews of the G3 appear favorable in terms of very good IQ and low noise even at high ISO. Plus, the G3 offers enough manual shooting controls that I can be satisfied. For the same reason, it’s the manual controls of the NEX-7 that appeal to me, not the size of its sensor, which is likely to hurt rather than help the S/N performance. When the reviews of the NEX-7 production models finally come in, I’ll weigh those results carefully along with the opinions I read on this forum, compare against the G3, and ultimately decide which one to purchase.
Sahaja
8 months ago |Is the pixel density of 16 mp on a m4/3 sensor that much different from 24mp on an APS-C sensor that it matters?
I get .07 mp per mm² for a 16mp m4/3 sensor and .066 mp per mm²
for a 24.3mp APS-C sensor – so, all else being equal, wouldn’t Olympus & Panasonic’s 16mp m4/3 sensor actually be fractionally noisier at a pixel level than Sony’s 24mp APS-C sensor?
If the sensors are equal noisewise at a pixel level then the one with more mp should have some advantage for any given print size.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |So what you’re saying is that people will overpay for a weaker sensor?
SonyA77
8 months ago |Is there an option for having a camera that doesn’t fail within three days of purchase?
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |That’s a marketing strategy! You see, Canon for many times has released ‘broken’ cameras and then released a firmware fixing them within few days/weeks.
Then, Canon crowd starts praising Canon for quickly addressing to the malfunctions, bugs and stuff like that.
Sony usually releases cameras that (apart from JPEG tweaks) simply WORK, without needing firmware fixes. But Sony crowd sees Canon always releasing firmwares for their cameras, and then the Sonynites feel left out by Sony
Now Sony is trying to imitate Canon to see if it pleases its customers.
SonyA77
8 months ago |Ah! A cunning ploy indeed! Well done Sony!
Don
8 months ago |So far, Sony has impressed me by releasing firmware that has done drastic improvements that went beyond the hardware each time (NEX-5, looking at you)
acolyte
8 months ago |Oh life..
Maximus
8 months ago |remember the issues with the D7000 and K-5, ideed they were not as heavy as some of the alpha 77 malfunctions reported at the forum of dpreview, but they were severe
SonyA77
8 months ago |I can cope with odd firmware issues, but not with it completely killing the camera and having to be returned!
Sahaja
8 months ago |Well apparently quite a lot of K5′s and D7000′s had to be returned because of sensor stain (K5) and oil spattering on sensor (D7000). Those weren’t firmware issues.
I think quality control of several camera manufacturers is just not good enough – and they probably don’t do enough thorough beta testing either.
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |i dun like to buy something needs patch, even pc games.
Sahaja
8 months ago |@SonyA77
Wait nine months after a new camera has been released before purchasing one.
But then you wouldn’t need to read a rumors site but could rely on thoroughly done reviews and real user feedback.
Sky_walker
8 months ago |Nice, nice, I guess Sony will be very happy of support for the SLT tech it gained. Also the EVF vs OVF race seem to go nearly equal with each other, and that’s also a good news for Sony.
“will EVF become as good as OVF” – it never will become as good as OVF. Simply because it’s EVF. It’s different. You might compare theoretical things like resolution or dynamic range or whatever but IMO: The point of EVF shouldn’t be to create a picture like the OVF but rather to display what sensor sees – especially in matter of dynamic rage (cause showing exactly the same resolution is kinda pointless).
Erational
8 months ago |Sometimes I think Sony lives in a bubble. They try to make everything proprietary, like flash mount, memory sticks and raw format (to name but a few). Sony never considered that instead of locking-in a revenue source, consumers would avoid a brand with such restrictions. Reports from a month ago show Sony was unaware that people were clamoring for a E-Mount pancake lens. Sony still hasn’t put the resources into revamping/expanding it’s A-mount lens line- a concern expressed for YEARS. A trickle of lenses does not cut it in 35mm land.
SonyA77
8 months ago |The flash mount is only proprietary in the sense that it is different (and better). Put a Nikon flash on a Canon, it will not fully function so the mount is irrelevant. Just buy a $5 adaptor if you want. I FAR prefer the Minolta quick release flash shoe.
There is no “standard” media card, so I have no idea why you have a problem with Memory Stick. You could say the same of Compact Flash, XD Cards, SD Cards etc.
There are HUNDREDS of raw types, so what’s your point?
Maximus
8 months ago |all Sony cameras accept either sd or cf cards, you cannot use a canon falsh on a nikon camera despite the same hotshoe and every manufacturer hast its own raw-format. (Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Canon CR2)
Steve
8 months ago |Sony’s corporate desire to control has hurt both them and the customer. One example from the past was the Betamax VCR a generation back.
Sony tried to control the video tape recorder market they basically created through strict licensing. VHS then because the “standard” technology even though most professionals understood that beta was a superior design.
alpha often continues this product marketing practice
Clifton
8 months ago |AFAIK all camera manufacturers have a proprietary RAW format, all Sony cameras have supported a standard memory format in some way (either SD or CF) and the flash mount was inherited from Minolta, which many people argue is superior to the decades old ‘standard’ mount.
Having said that, I do agree that Sony does live in a bubble to some extent. ever since they took over from Minolta, they have always been seen as under achievers in the high ISO field and its obvious that people are buying Nikon for its advantages in high ISO, yet they still fail to make a camera that competes. I just wonder how long they are going to keep pushing higher resolution sensors that few people actually seem to want.
Carl
8 months ago |The high ISO limitations when shooting RAW are primarily the result of Sony using a stronger colour filter array than Nikon and Canon do.
Sony’s poor JPG engine compounds the problem for those who shoot that way, though.
Sahaja
8 months ago |If Japanese camera manufacturers supported open standards they would all get together and have a single open standard lens mount for all DSLR cameras and one for all mirrorless cameras.
Proprietary lens mounts lock us in to a manufacturers product far more than a propitiatory RAW format. Actually if there was a really good open RAW format it would be as much to their advantage to use it as it was to their users.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |All the Japanese camera makers would go proprietary with everything if they truly thought they could get away with it. They all remember what happened when “open” met “proprietary” in the Japanese computer market. Open won, and gave NEC a whupping. They’re all afraid that if they migrate to open systems that others will simply come in and beat them. The SE Asian markets will beat them on hardware pricing. The US will beat them on software. And so on. This whole proprietary thing is actually a sign of just how scared they are that they’ll lose the advantage they’ve got right now. The camera market is dominated by Japanese companies. The funny thing is that underneath, they’re doing a lot of licensing and subcontracting. They subcontract a lot of the hardware now into SE Asia and China. And they license tech. You can buy scan-a-pano, HDR, and a host of other routines off the shelf these days. What makes it proprietary is that you encase it in your own imaging ASIC (Bionz, EXPEED, DIGIC, etc.) with your own Firmware and raw files, etc.
Carl
8 months ago |Windows isn’t any more open than the PC9800′s OS was.
Sahaja
8 months ago |Maybe not but – an awful lot more computers use MS Windows (and a lot of software is written for it) so it has become a “de-facto” standard.
Thom Hogan
8 months ago |It isn’t just about the OS itself or “open” in the open source sense, but the fact that Wintel was available to any manufacturer and there became financial advantages to go that route over a proprietary hardware, proprietary software route. Once you picked the Wintel choice, however, you ended up finding that every penny counted and your margins tended downwards even as your unit volume went up.
hanugro
8 months ago |My prediction is in 5 years a-mount camera will feature a PDAF directly on sensor anyway. And that is the camera that I want to buy, good bye dSLR and dSLT.
Erational
8 months ago |I think your right that PDAF on the chip is the future. Although the new Nikon 1 is a non-starter, it shows the promise of this AF technology.
To other posters; there is an open RAW format, Sony had many cameras early-on that were Memory-stick-only, I like the Sony flash mount (but it does limits non-Sony makes).
Steve is right about the Betamax. It was the classic example of this “Sony-only” mindset. One can read in textbooks how this lack of an open standard actually killed a better product.
Another way to stymie breadth of products within a certain category is to jack-up licensing fees so that no other companies can make an affordable product with your specifications. This may be what’s happening with the E-mount and why we are not seeing other companies like Sigma and Tamron trying to make new E-mount lenses. This is pure conjecture about why only a couple of non-Sony E mount lenses are floating around out there.
SonyA77
8 months ago |An open RAW format that isn’t used! I fail to see why you pick on Sony when all the manufacturers do their own RAW!
I have a camera that is xD card only, so what? I buy an xD card for it and job done. Don’t see why Sony should be criticised for MS only cameras. Either way, I end up buying different cards for different cameras regardless of who manufacturers the camera. There is NO standard!
Seeky
8 months ago |I hope PDAF on sensor is the future indeed. If Nikon is smart, they increase the v1/j1 sensor size and put it in mirrorless dslr type body and nex-7 type body. It is a pity that they start of wrongly with their new system/mount considering larger sensor formats. If this happens, I will switch to nikon, unless sony follows quickly. But i am afraid sony will love their translucent mirror technology too much to replace when tech race accellerates
Sahaja
8 months ago |What do you mean by “open RAW?? DNG perhaps? – there are almost as many flavors of that as there are of Linux
beware
8 months ago |part of firmware should be open source so people can write there own apps for it.
on both nex and alpha systems offcourse.
Sahaja
8 months ago |Well someone could crate a version of Linux for cameras like they have done for mobile phones. I suspect a lot of cameras are still running an operating system based on DOS.
EcoR1
8 months ago |Interesting way to put in: ” There is still a big need for optical viewfinders! ” You could also rephrase that: 74% prefer mirrorless or slt over traditional mirror. I think this was a clear message to Sony that majority don’t want flip-flap mirror. Goodbye, i won’t’ miss moving mirrors.
Alfonso Cuitiño
8 months ago |Cameras with customizable software would be the ultimate geek camera
Erational
8 months ago |Did not specify what the raw format was- it’s DNG. It’s an open standard used by the likes of Hasselblad, Ricoh, Pentax and Leica. I think that these manufacturers know a thing or two about photography. Anyway, ya’ll can read about it here at Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Negative_%28file_format%29
zstan
8 months ago |Oh yeah, Sony COULD improve the IBIS performance to match those in IS/VR. And IBIS in future NEX bodies are a big welcome.
wehrsmaff
8 months ago |NEX FF with IBIS, yes please! I want IS with vintage RF lenses.
www.MilosJanata.com
8 months ago |Looks like Sony should make 16mpx A99 “SAR edition”!
Bill
8 months ago |If Sony was to take the pixel density up on a future FF to the same as the Alpha 55 or NEX 5N it would be about 37.7 MP, if they went to the density of the Alpha 77 or NEX 7 it would be about 56.4 MP. 56 MP is about what I get when doing moderate resolution scans of 120 film, this is not too big. At 300 DPI it is only a 20 x 30 inch print. Will many amateurs need that many pixels, probably seldom, but pros can make use of it. Sports and action photographers would probably rather have more ISO range than resolution and that may mean Sony needs two full frame cameras, a 24 MP ultimate ISO version and the 50+ MP ultimate resolution version. Can Sony afford to develop both of these I do not know. Canon and Nikon have made the split in their pro lines, Sony could too. The only issue I see now on a mirrorless NEX 9 camera would be the lens mount, the NEX mount is too small for FF and the alpha mount would make a much thicker larger camera body.
I really expect Sony to go to 36 MP, have a weather resistant 77 type body and a less expensive 65 type body. It is possible they could go with a NEX 7 style body but with an Alpha mount. 36 MP will be too many to make the ISO crowd happy and too few for the resolution lovers. With dual CPUs, bigger buffers they should be able to handle 20 fps at full resolution for at least a couple of seconds.
Another feature of interest for sports photographers would be pre-buffering. Start recording images as soon as the shutter is half depressed then record the 10 frames before the shutter was pushed and the 10 after.
Don Cox
8 months ago |“56 MP is about what I get when doing moderate resolution scans of 120 film, this is not too big. At 300 DPI it is only a 20 x 30 inch print. ”
Exactly. I think around 60 or 80 Mpix, we shall be starting to equal 6×7 film.
I disagree that the E mount is too small for full frame. Look at the Exakta/Topcon mount for 35mm cameras – it has an inner diameter of only 34mm.
Doug
8 months ago |It’s highly doubtful that any lens in Sony’s lineup, including the Zeiss glass, could resolve detail well enough to take advantage of a sensor larger than 36MP. Even at 36MP it’ll be pushing the upper limits of the very best 35mm format lenses. The Zeiss lenses might handle 36MP, but I doubt that the G lenses could. If you need to be shooting more than 36MP you need to be shooting medium format with something like a Phase One back.
Bill
8 months ago |The sensor resolution question is really one of how much and what type of oversampling you want to do. A good lens can resolve around 90 line pairs per mm. If you turn that into two horizontal and vertical pixels per line pair you end up with 28 MP. But to guaranty you sample that correctly you need to increase the pixels. The Gigapixel project assumes 3X is good enough, not the 4X you would need for 2X in each direction. So now we are at 84 MP. But this is using the standard Bayer array, if you want to sample RBG for each of those pixels you are going to need 3X as many or 252 MP. Of course by the time you hit 252 MP on a FF sensor your noise is going to get pretty bad with todays technology. So the designers need to trade noise with resolution as well as the cost of all those extra cells in the array.
56 MP is doable with the a77 sensor technology, if you can live with a little more noise than a traditional FF, and if the cost of the extra pixels does not drive the sensor price too high.
Don Cox
8 months ago |The sensor should be better than the best lens at its best aperture.
Kurtis Walton
8 months ago |I agree better ISO, a more professional level camera. Just id they are going to stick with translucent mirror hopefully it will have a lockout mode.
David
8 months ago |I think Sony is doing well really. If you want high ISO all the time, look elsewhere. But the dynamic range is excellent with even mid range camera beating rival full frames. The a850 and 900 are still outstanding cameras.. the new full frames should be the same but modernised with new sensors. That’s enough.
JS
8 months ago |+1
and live view…..that’s all I’m after and preferably before mid 2012.
Sahaja
8 months ago |A more rugged (longer life) shutter and more reliable hot shoe than the A900 as well. Some users have had issues with both of those.
passer-by
8 months ago |Do it however you want to do it Sony, I’ll buy it if it’s cheap enough.. oh, just don’t make 12mp FF camera. Leave that to Nikon.
Clyde
8 months ago |God I hope this forum isn’t responsible for me not getting a 40+mp Alpha body next year.
All the talk about noise is a bunch of noise.
Togs that make huge prints don’t shoot high ISO… We need MEGAPIXELS! And we want vibration free mirrorless systems.
1 – A new flash system… preferably with interchangeable heads including bare bulb, telephoto, and a proper ring light which also has enough modeling light capacity for video. One controller system with interchangeable heads… You could even make some of those heads be video lights or combo flash/video light.
Get rid of the TTL preflash system that causes blinks and delays in shooting. Base the Auto Exposure purely upon the distance encoded by the D lens. Remove reflectivity from the calculation entirely.
Offer a Spot Meter lock for flash exposure… Like the Leica R8/9 and Contax RTSIII.
Offer Multiple Spot reading averages for ambient exposure… Like the Olympus OM-4.
Create a camera with ONE GRIP and ONE SET OF CONTROLS for horizontal and vertical shooting. Allow camera to rotate on one grip controller.
Two WIRED REMOTES… A simple one for Stills, and an advanced one for Stills and Video.
Tethering Support.
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SONY! Please don’t listen to polls that include everyone from casual shooters to newbies, to enthusiasts and amateurs to semi-pro’s and veteran pros. We have very different needs and opinions about the cameras we want from you. I hope your full frame pursuits are leaning more towards professional use. Some of us have been shooting Alpha for over two decades. We have a few ideas that don’t necessarily make sense to casual shooters.
http://www.ctphotographx.com/