Nikio

I'm having this camera for almost two moths now. It brought me a lot of joy when working in extremely low light conditions, but it also drives me mad everywhere else. Sometimes my spoiled self wants to slam it onto the ground. Most of my anger is adressed at disastrously slow and inacurate autofocus. It's really a crap even with the best of Canon's L lenses.

So, after some consideration, here is a list of what I miss about this model (beside a decent autofocus). I believe most of these features are already supported by the existing hardware, it would just take a minute or two to write a better firmware... (any voluntears???). Here it goes:

- 720p HD video
It has VGA (640x480) and full 1080p HD. Why not something inbetween, like 720p???

- Timed shooting
How great would it be to have automated shooting for timelapses (Nikon has it!)? With Canon it is possible only with ultra expensive remote controler.

- In-camera RAW-to-JPG conversion
Let's say you're on a long trip and you need to save some space on your card, so you convert less important shots from raw to jpg, possibly with some minor editing... It is still an amateur camera and this is more or less an amateurish request, right?

- In-camera flagging, rating, etc...
Again, you are on a long trip. You made several thousand photos (probably Over 9000!!1!). It is painful enough to think how much time would it take to make a selection of all the material you did, not to mention how painful it is actually to do it. Why not flag a few photos on a train??? I think pros would also apreciate this function...

- Sound recording
Why not record sound only? It has the mic, right? It could serve for taking notes (works well on pro cameras) or just to record some ambient sound to go along with the slides.


So, anyone there to write a couple of lines of code for that?