The ultimate camera...

[Dallas D]

....will have the following capabilities:

1. Ability to "hot swap" between full frame digital still, miniDV and 35mm
film backs.
2. Offers a wide range of fixed focal length and zoom lenses with USM or
Silent Wave motors and image stabilisers.
3. Has 100% infallible eye-control autofocus and spot metering at any point
of its 100% viewfinder.
4. Has remote control features that extend beyond simply tripping the
shutter - in other words, a remote that you can control every camera feature
with using a handheld PC (including seeing what is in the viewfinder,
zooming, panning, etc.).
5. Can be operated manually as a 35mm film camera without batteries (meter
operates with solar energy like a calculator).
6. Weighs about 700g.

Am I asking too much?

Wake me up when it costs less than $1000...

:-)

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[Martin Francis]

"Dallas D" <dallas@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bekgiv$fs0$2@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...

> Am I asking too much?

Yes. The Mini DV part? if you think DSLR users have a problem with
wideangles, the mini DV back would have EFLs beginning around the 100mm
mark...

But other than that, yeah sure. I'd be shocked and appalled if Cosina didn't
have one out by Christmas...

--
Martin
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people
two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is
widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods
can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is
easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have
to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells
you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'.

-- Terry Pratchett

[Peter Chant]

In article <vgrksggoq5sfc0@corp.supernews.com>,
"StillMan" <stillman@nospam.com> writes:

> 12. Jet pack for short flights.
>
>
> I would be willing to pay at least $1100 for it though.
>
>

Hmm, does it make a nice cup of tea?

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[William D. Tallman]

Dallas D wrote:

> ...will have the following capabilities:
>
> 1. Ability to "hot swap" between full frame digital still, miniDV and 35mm
> film backs.
> 2. Offers a wide range of fixed focal length and zoom lenses with USM or
> Silent Wave motors and image stabilisers.
> 3. Has 100% infallible eye-control autofocus and spot metering at any
> point of its 100% viewfinder.
> 4. Has remote control features that extend beyond simply tripping the
> shutter - in other words, a remote that you can control every camera
> feature with using a handheld PC (including seeing what is in the
> viewfinder, zooming, panning, etc.).
> 5. Can be operated manually as a 35mm film camera without batteries (meter
> operates with solar energy like a calculator).
> 6. Weighs about 700g.
>
> Am I asking too much?
>
> Wake me up when it costs less than $1000...

Nahh... next year! LOL!!!

How about a subcutaneous attachment that will record images seen by the
human eye in sufficient resolution that would allow exterior mural size
enlargement where one cannot put their nose on the image and detect either
grain or blurred detail.

Oh, and issued gratis to each of us (in the future, at birth)

No, I don't have too much time on my hands: was at the beach all afternoon
chasing bird shots and doing closeups of driftwood texture!!! And now it's
time to order more film from B&H...... <grin>

Bill Tallman

[Dallas D]

While you're at B&H ask Henry when the DallasCam will be available...

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"William D. Tallman" <wtallman@olypen.com> wrote in message
news:vgsbiv4bl6bec8@corp.supernews.com...

> Dallas D wrote:
>

> > ...will have the following capabilities:
> >
> > 1. Ability to "hot swap" between full frame digital still, miniDV and

35mm

> > film backs.
> > 2. Offers a wide range of fixed focal length and zoom lenses with USM or
> > Silent Wave motors and image stabilisers.
> > 3. Has 100% infallible eye-control autofocus and spot metering at any
> > point of its 100% viewfinder.
> > 4. Has remote control features that extend beyond simply tripping the
> > shutter - in other words, a remote that you can control every camera
> > feature with using a handheld PC (including seeing what is in the
> > viewfinder, zooming, panning, etc.).
> > 5. Can be operated manually as a 35mm film camera without batteries

(meter

> > operates with solar energy like a calculator).
> > 6. Weighs about 700g.
> >
> > Am I asking too much?
> >
> > Wake me up when it costs less than $1000...

>
> Nahh... next year! LOL!!!
>
> How about a subcutaneous attachment that will record images seen by the
> human eye in sufficient resolution that would allow exterior mural size
> enlargement where one cannot put their nose on the image and detect either
> grain or blurred detail.
>
> Oh, and issued gratis to each of us (in the future, at birth)
>
> No, I don't have too much time on my hands: was at the beach all

afternoon

> chasing bird shots and doing closeups of driftwood texture!!! And now

it's

> time to order more film from B&H...... <grin>
>
> Bill Tallman
>

[Alan]

"Dallas D" <dallas@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<bekgiv$fs0$2@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>...

> ...will have the following capabilities:
>
> 1. Ability to "hot swap" between full frame digital still, miniDV and 35mm
> film backs.
> 2. Offers a wide range of fixed focal length and zoom lenses with USM or
> Silent Wave motors and image stabilisers.
> 3. Has 100% infallible eye-control autofocus and spot metering at any point
> of its 100% viewfinder.
> 4. Has remote control features that extend beyond simply tripping the
> shutter - in other words, a remote that you can control every camera feature
> with using a handheld PC (including seeing what is in the viewfinder,
> zooming, panning, etc.).
> 5. Can be operated manually as a 35mm film camera without batteries (meter
> operates with solar energy like a calculator).
> 6. Weighs about 700g.
>
> Am I asking too much?
>
> Wake me up when it costs less than $1000...
>
> :-)

All lenses would have an aperature of at least f1.0, including
constant aperature zoom lenses, at least one of which is a compact
3-6,000mm with no distorion.
It would take film formats from APS to 8x10 sheet film.