I’ve been thinking about this a tiny bit.

Let’s start with what’s not revolutionary:

• Larger sensor
• More buffer
• More battery
• New mount
• Auto-crop mode
• Less Noise
• Faster speed
• Built-in wireless flash communicator
• Built-in WIFI, etc
• Hard-drive
• Multiple card holder

This is all too bad because the only thing left over from the list of rumors is the ‘modular’ concept. Nothing else on that list is anything I’d call ‘revolutionary’. Something that would actually be kind of cool and near revo. is the use of a larger sensor to create interpolated pixels to help make much less noise at high ISO’s. For example I don’t need 24mp, I’d be happy to cut that in half if I could get nearly double the light sensitivity (pump ISO’s to 6xxx?) or half the noise (800ISO noise at 1600 speed, make 100 look like 50?)

[ed: I've been reminded that this concept is called 'pixel binning' and the D1 used it. I don't think you could turn it off though, I'm wondering if it would be possible to shift on the fly or via software after the fact. If there's anything out there that does this, let me know.]

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