Kinda wish you could have on the 10D, don't get me wrong...

Hi!
I was wondering what you would like to see on the next generation 10D (possibly called the 3D). I'd like to be able to shoot RAW in any mode: portrait, landscape, macro, high speed, etc. You can sorta cheat this by using the reading from that setting them go to manual setting and shoot away. I'd also like to see a much better way to choose where the focus is in the 7 boxes for those of us that wear glasses like myself. I have found it really doesn't track my eye movement at all. I may try this idea with contacts in. I know that you can't please all the people all the time, and DO NOT get me wrong, I love the 10D; these are mere ideas/suggestions for the next one. I would really like to try the D1S out for a day and see that one. Speaking of which, the 10D could stand for a true spotmeter, and better system like the 45 point bit that the D1/D1S have.
Again this may come in the next one. Who knows, other than Canon people?

I wonder what your ideas are.

Cheers from England,
Canuck

What camera are you referring to? Canon 10D does not do this.

---Bob Gross---

It doesn't? You mean I've been doing all this eye-twitching for nothing?

That's the 10DE that's he referring to. The one Canon never designed or built. I want one too.

We ought to start a petition.

Good thought, Jim. Suggest you do it door-to-door and not on this forum, however. You WILL get hate mail from 300D owners who are frustrated with their petitions efforts.

But, seriously some things I'd like to see in the next generation 10D would be a bigger buffer, faster shutter and focus (now I'm probably leaning to a 1D replacement eh?), but anyway...

What else...8-9mp, 25-6400 ISO, even better low-light focusing, integrated BigEd, larger viewfinder, adjustable quality RAW (9mp, 6mp, 3mp) the option to shut off the JPEG attachment to the RAW file.

Mmmmmm....that's a good start.

How about interchangeable focusing screens?
Would also like an oversized viewfinder.

Ooo yes, yes! What you said!

And as a sidebar: A company that manufactures all this stuff that has an EXCELLENT customer service department that only take one time to repair items, not 2-3-4-5 times.

I'd like to see a better/brighter viewfinder. One that is more condusive to manual focusing. I'd also like to see the ISO setting in the view finder with shutter and aperature. It's become nearly as frequent a variable.

I'd like the next Canon DSLR to be free - a goodwill gesture to the masses. Ahhh... feel the love.

Now you're talking.

---Bob Gross---

I would be happy with a hybrid TTL / auto-thyristor based flash system that actually works.

That's just very subtle humor right? Right?!?

I don't see why you'd want to use all those silly modes.
Portrait = large aperture.
Landscape = small aperture.
High speed = fast shutter.

Might as well just use the aperture priority and shutter priority modes. It's almost just as easy, especially for a photographer that's at the 10D level.