Fantasizing about photography systems

Whenever they come out with a camera like this, make sure I know.


It has to have at least 200 megapixels.

It needs dual lenses (for 3D).

It saves HDR CRW files to two separate 1 TB (or more) SATA (or USB 3.0) hard disks, one for each lens.

It needs to be solar powered, with a solar-charged battery backup. Not to help the environment or anything frilly like that. Just because I'm tired of dead batteries and of tripping over cables.

It needs low-noise ISO settings, from 60 to 3200, as well as manually-adjustable exposure times.

Interchangeable lenses and built-in high-powered flash, too, of course.

Ooh. Infrared night vision would be nice too.

Oh, yeah. It needs to shoot 1080p (or more) video at at LEAST 100 fps. Also 3D, with files from each lens on the separate hard drives. Don't forget the 7.1 professional-grade audio track with that! (Of course, I'll still need 7x 3.5mm audio jacks. Come to think of it, an HDMI output and built-in BD-R 3D LightScribe burner would be nice too.)

Add in a high-powered LED video light, too, for me, please.

So, let's see. Were looking at $50K+, and about 20 pounds of bulk. Yeah. I can live with that. Just wait a few more years for the technology. Or decades. Just make sure I know about it.

Oh, yeah. Happy new year.

Why would you ever need 200 megapixels? 10 megapixels is probably more than you'll ever need, and the serious high end professional cameras are around 25.

The rest of that is definitely available, aside from the 3D issue, but you can of course do that using an available 3D mount.

Storage is a bit harder, but many digital video camera systems (still cameras don't usually need extra storage than big memory cards) do have direct to hard drive capabilities. However, the industry is moving toward high capacity memory cards (solid state, external), rather than hard drives.

Look into the RED camera. It's very high resolution (much over 1080p), and does a lot of what you're looking for. It's for video, though, not stills, but obviously the stills from it would be good. It's fairly inexpensive as well-- something like $5,000, but hard to get one because there is a waiting list (or at least there used to be).

1. I already have 14.7 megapixels, and that certainly isn't enough for me.
2. I need them to shoot perfectly synchronized, like a dual-lens camera.
3. Yes, but they still can't get up anywhere near HDD capacity.
4. Video quality is good, but stills would still be quite small.
Also, it needs to operate in sub-zero temperatures, if possible, and be waterproof. And it needs to FIT THE SPECIFICATIONS POSTED.

Then I suggest a visit to Radioshack. Haha.