I was asked by Canon to design a camera for them. OK. I wasn't asked, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Take one of their "A" series cameras, say the A620 and make the following modifications.
1) It already has a flip out revolving LCD with a 2 inch screen. Please make that a 2.5 inch screen.
2) Remove the "optical viewfinder." It is more than useless. Anyone that takes pictures while looking down that tunnel should have the camera removed from them.
3) Give it IS (image stabilization). But don't pump up the zoom lens. The zoom should be in the 35mm equiv. of 28mm to 90mm.
4) RAW. It doesn't have to be the quickest thing between shots, but it should have RAW capability.
5) In the software - have a way of disabling menu choices that are never used. Take out idiotic stuff like the ability for the camera to "swap" colors.
6) Remove all the stuff about printing directly from the camera.
7) Make the body black.
8) Let me shoot in the Adobe RGB color space rather than sRGB if I want to.
9) And that's about it Canon. You have the technology. These features exist separately in several of your cameras. You've already got IS in the new Point and Shoots. But they don't have the flip screen, or they've got ultra long lenses. And none of the PS cameras in current production have RAW. So just put them all together and what will you have - a great street camera. Oh - how many pixels - just keep increasing them as you've been doing. That's fine with me.
