Bizarre Rumors-
Let’s recap some of the more unlikely or boring rumors:
Internal HDD: PhotographyWebsite.co.uk reported the possibility of a “40-80gb internal hard-drive (HDD)” (as quoted in a previous post).”
This just seems dumb to me. HDD’s eat up a lot of power, they’re not horribly durable, they’re surprisingly large (well, a 40gig won’t be smaller than an SD card…), they’re susceptible to having their data fried by magnetics and electricity, no-doubt, to keep the power usage low, the speed would be terrible so transferring from the camera would be slow (slower or as slow as with CF cards in the camera…), and I’m sure there’re other things I’m missing.
I just don’t see why this would be a win. I’d much, much rather have another CF slot so that we could get a RAID1 (mirror/duplicate of the data on both cards) going on so that if 1 card was screwed, the other would (probably) be fine.
Built-in WiFi: This is essentially a no-brainer. It’ll suck up some power, yes, but these things are small and cheap, and it’s be lovely to have a backup of the shot on a card and transmit it to my server at the same time, or automatically when I get into range at the local coffee shop, etc. I’d love to be across the world and not have to worry about my image tank dying before I got back. In fact- even the stinking P&S crowd now get it built-in!
Modular Everything!
This is my personal favorite- how sweet it’d be to be able to swap backs (how about a Fuji sensor for a day?) or take out that silly HDD and put in another CF slot! But changing the mirror box? What would that even mean? Having a storage module and a communications (WiFi or 1gb Ethernet- your choice!) would make my day.
Nothing But Yawns?
I’m also calling the yawn-inducing rumors bizarre- items like keeping the same sensor and increasing the FPS (Frames per second)- joy! Now I can get even more shots of people with stupid expressions on their faces!
Who’s smoking what here? Does anyone buy that the Foveon sensor is so radical-super-amazing-A#1 that the only company that’s using it in their cameras (iirc) is Sigma?
[ed: Nikon does make their own sensors, does not use them in the latest designs. I've mod'd the following paragraph to make that clear.]
Canon makes and uses their own sensors, Sony makes and uses their own sensors, Nikon uses their LBCAST sensor (4mp) in several older models (D2hs, etc) and uses Sony’s sensors in their D2x models- if they thought the Foveon was better, I’m betting they’d have adopted it much earlier- it certainly can’t be very expensive if Sigma can sell their Foveon-based SLR for about $1200 so it’s not likely a cost issue (does anyone buy what the Foveon guys are selling?).
I know others will disagree with me, but I’ve got 2 lenses that are suitable only for door-stoppage and they’ve both got the Sigma logo on them (no, I didn’t write “Sigma” onto them with Crayon– I prefer pen…).
hate to burst your bubble…don’t know who you’re talking to, but a frat brother of mine is an engineer for Nikon and said the D3 will have a fovean sensor and use relabeled DIGIC IV processors.
Err- not being a huge Canon guy (I’ve got a video and a PowerShot) I may be ignorant here, but isn’t the digic chip a Canon-only trademark for their image processing chips? Why would Honda sell engines to Toyota?