Anyone daring the bet that we will *never* see a combined digi+analog camera?
I thought that is what Leica is doing with the "digital back" for the R8/R9? http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03062502leicadigitalr9.asp
By using another pellicle mirror system perhaps....shooting digi normally, shooting analog alternatively or simultaneously for that once in a lifetime shot....
You mean digital and film AT THE SAME TIME.... now that is an intriguing possibility...
Actually what I'd like to see is a digital "preview screen", perhaps with its own optics built-in... you tell the device what kind of film you are shooting with, and what exposure you want to use, and you see the result on an large LCD without shooting a frame. The device would suggest exposures depending on how you want shadow/highlights to be exposed, and you would instantly see the results on the screen. That would be better than a histogram, in that a level of abstraction in understanding the result is removed. That would be better than an exposure meter.
When I got my first digicam, a Sony Mavica MVC-FD91, that's kinda how I used the large LCD it had, once I had switched on the spot metering mode, and moving the spot around the scene I was going to photograph. I taught me a lot about metering in VERY intuitive way... at that point, I really did discover that cameras and the eye don't see the same way, especially with regards to dynamic range. If you moved the spot to a highlight, the screen would go dark, and if you moved the spot to a shadow, highlights would blow out. If this device could wirelessly communicate the exposure you'd figured out from the screen to the camera, that would be perfect...
Minolta ALMOST got it right with a custom function that shows you what the EV+/- value is for each segment of the matrix meter in the Maxxum 7... it just does not relate it back to the viewfinder in a meaningful way.
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