Reading you response, I couldn't help but think, why not add the totally automatic shot that the camera makes at the same time as the original exposure. The camera is smart enough to do raw plus jpeg, why not make it so that you also have one the camera picks? If anything like HDR, some part of the image could be used to enhance the picture more. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I'm also thinking out loud to see if it goes any place useful.

When I was younger, you could read interesting things in comics and read fantastic stories in graphic novels, or sci-fi books from the library. Vehicles that hovered, robotic helpmates and so many other things.

As it relates to photography, what kind of things are possible that don't really exist in our cameras, because of some reason or another? I always thought 35 mm was the standard and that it would be again when digital matured enough. By now, full frame should have been common in point and shoot, and much better systems available for those willing to spend a bit more.

I wonder why things like accurate white balance is left to someone who will use a grey card, or take the time to do a custom white balance.

I wonder why focus is still a major problem for many photographers.

I wonder why exposure is still a long way off from being consistently accurate.

The I turn my eye toward the future, and wonder, just what we would create to make what we consider expensive delicate equipment that we love to use and tinker with, seem like children's toys. Cameras still don't compare to our own eyes. If we could go beyond the common, into an amazing future, just what and how would we build it?

What capabilities can we make our cameras able to achieve? Our sciences may still be too immature to answer that, but should our desires and imaginations fall short too? Yes, I'm thinking out loud again. I shouldn't otta do that do, should I?

Yeah, Who knows what the future of cameras will bring. There are many frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrun, one of which is light that registers in our film or digital photos.

Canon made an especial infrared sensitive DSLR camera for those of us who would take astonomical photos that was great. Since discontinued, we can still take asto-photos with our film and digial cameras.

Cameras will evolve until we can capture most everything of the electromatic spectrum. Heck, NASA and others are doing this with their telescopic cameras on orbiting satillites.

Our consumer cameras will continut to evolve and I donno what the next generation of cameras will be capable of, but hold on for whatever comes out next!

Gary