What do you guys see (or want) in therms of real evolution for photography? Not talking about gadgets like wifi and GPS, or faster processors allowing a gazillion Megapixels or hundreds FPS.
I'm talking about real photography driven gains.
I know a per-pixel ISO is wanted by many...
Here's what I would like to see in new DSLRs
(some of the info here is taken from a response I wrote to a similar post a couple years ago):
What I'd really like to see most is a whole new type of sensor technology, with each and every pixel having it's very own color filter array. If every pixel had a whole system behind it, determining exactly what color it should be (red value, green value, blue value), based on the scene being photographed, then noise and grain would be entirely eliminated.
If anything like this ever happens, it is probably 15 or 20 years away.
Autofocus reads your eye's vision thru the viewfinder - whatever you're looking at when the shutter opens is what it focuses on. No matter where it is in the frame.
I know that Canon used to have a similar AF system, but evidently it did not work well enough, for they abandoned it. I would want it to be ultra-precise. Do you know how incredibly shallow DOF is when shooting true macro, or when using extremely long focal lengths like 600mm or 800mm? Well, even at those extremes, I want an eye-detection AF that would focus exactly where my eye was looking - not 1/2 a centimeter in front or behind - exactly spot on, every time, no exceptions. Whether you wear corrective lenses or not.
Of course, the eye-detection AF would just be one of the AF settings available - if you wanted to you could choose to focus in more traditional ways.
Camera bodies that automatically send each image you take to your home computer (via satellite or other technology not yet discovered). You snap the shot, possibly thousands of miles from where you live - within milliseconds the image file is on you computer at home. Full RAW file. No need for memory cards, unless you want to use one anyway just for backup. You could also have duplicate files sent automatically to your smart phone (future versions that will be able to handle thousands of times the data that today's smart phones can handle), or to any device you like.
Camera bodies that use solar power as an alternative power source. If it's a fairly bright day, you could shoot thousands of frames without even having a battery in the camera! Internal "batteries" would be able to store energy for future use on dark days or when shooting indoors.
All bodies and lenses completely waterproof, able to be used underwater to depths of over 300', without any need for any extra housing whatsoever. Of course, it goes without saying that all bodies and lenses would also be completely dust proof.
Video mode: When shooting video, the camera would shoot at it's full fps rate using full resolution frames! This means that every single frame in a video would be the same quality as a still shot. We could shoot video all the time, then simply select the best looking frame from within the video and use that as our still image. Imagine the stills you could get from an NFL football game, or from a horse race, or a boxing match?!
Follow focus on video would be a must. In fact, it's hard to believe that they haven't already done this. I think they're intentionally holding this back just so that they can add it to later models (5Dmk4 / 1Dx2?) so that people will have to upgrade.
The sensors would be able to produce an extraordinary dynamic range (similar to today's HDR images) due to each pixel's ability to determine it's own sensitivity. This would be done automatically on a pixel-by-pixel basis, not just some system where groups of pixels worked together (that would be a form of interpolation, and interpolation always causes some degree of information loss).
I am sure that there is so much more that could be done with DSLRs - far, far more than I can even imagine at this point. But the above items would certainly help me make much better images right now . . . if only these features were currently available.
