I find it irritating that the lens must be connected to the camera body and there is also the issue of dust. Thus, I want a wireless lens. The camera can go in my pocket (please make it small) and the I can carry the lens and point it at the subject looking through it like a telescope.
The addition of a small battery pack that keeps the Camera and lens warm in the cold of winter! I really get tired of running the extension cord from my house to the local park and using heat tape.
I want a camera the size of a micro four-thirds, with a full-frame sensor. It should, of course, have as a tack-sharp 14-400mm f/1.0 kit lens that's light and easilly pocketable. Like that new "light field" technology that's been shown around, you could change the focus of the picture after you've taken it.
Its sensor should have practically no noise and such an amazing dynamic range that you could just change your iso in post production. Shooting RAW, you'd just take your picture, and it would have details in the darkest of shadows and the brightest of highlights. You would decide later what iso the picture should be at (much like you can choose your white balance after the fact).
1. Built-in Hipstamatic and/or Instagram filters to the 5D and 1D lines
2. An iPhone attachment that allows you to take pictures on your iPhone through your camera lens.
a DSLR where you can buy a new and better sensor some year's after release and replace the old. You also have to be able to chance the AF system when a new one is available
I don't envy you for having to read all these most certainly wonderful ideas. It would be nice to see a top 10 at the end!
As for what I would like to see, in DSLRs in general, is a DBP (or a Dust-bunny Preventer). Forget shaking the sensor, it simply doesn't work.
What I propose is a hardware based solution: a simple sliding curtain with a sliding knob that one slides in place before taking the lens off, and slides it back off when the new lens is attached. A very crude schema is attached.
Make the articulated screen extend a little further out (maybe even be detachable) so that it can face forward for your subjects to see. Then, you could display a boring 3,2,1 countdown or have downloadable "funny faces" that can be displayed to make the subjects smile. It might also be usable as a small teleprompter.
Here's one for all the photographers who appreciate the true art of spot coloring
Add an eye recognition feature so that when you look through the viewfinder, the camera detects what you're looking at when the photo is taken and will retain the color of that portion of the image while desaturating everything else.
To make it even cooler, there could be a custom function to select what color to make that part of the image where the photographer want to keep in color.
Perfect for all those times you're at a press conference, concert or breaking-news event but you're a chronic late-sleeper, have dubious press credentials you bought in the alley, or otherwise always find yourself at the back of the crowd of real photographers and can't see beans let alone be able to get a good shot.
Collapsible rotors hidden inside the pentaprism pop up* on demand and fly your camera to the front of the crowd, hovering there to get you the best view. (*remember to detach your Speedlite before setting Hv mode)
The included iPhone app lets you remotely fly the hover cam, see a live-view image on the iPhone screen, control exposure and take photos from the comfort of your back row seat.
Not recommended for use during lightning storms or hurricane-force winds.
Firmware that accepts plug-ins. Open a Canon Apps store where for $1 you can download a plug-in which, for example:
- enables AEB in 7 or 9 exposures,
-or sets different limits on auto ISO
-or perhaps give new video capabilities,
-or perhaps Noise Ninja or Neat Image or Topaz noise reduction plug-ins
-or in camera HDR
-or ISO expansion to ISO 25 or 200,000,
Make the source code available to developers, (or open source)
then find out what new capabilities third party developers can dream up...