Camera manufacturers are packing more innovative features into their digital camera, such as video capture, voice annotation, and auto bracketing. What do these features do, and more importantly, do you need the digital camera with multifunction? I think the more important for the buyer is the price and the effective features rather than the useless multifunction. Because many people don’t use these particular function at all. Do you agree with me?

More features would be nice, ones that save time. Built in HDR and photo stitching would be nice, as would wifi connection so images are transferring to my camera as soon as I get home. If they can be on my Mac by the time I've got my shoes off and the kettle has boiled, so much the better :)

Oh, and recharging batteries is a pain. Hydrogen fuel cell would be nice.

I'd like to see a digital spirit level in the eye piece that auto sensors if your in landscape or portrait.
I'd also like RAW files to print straight from the camera with a picture bridge printer.
Oh one last thing, not so many nooks and crannies where dirt and dust get trapped. Like everything smooth with tight seals where 2 bits of plastic/metal joins so no more digging out crud with pins.

Oh, and recharging batteries is a pain. Hydrogen fuel cell would be nice.
Do you find your run out a lot ?
My old 300D did run out after about a week with normal use while the 30D i now have,they lasted 3 weeks on one charge = 470++ RAW shots and turned on up to 5hrs a day (most time on standby).
Both use genuine canon 1350mah batts x2 in a grip. I was incredibly shocked on how much power the 30D had in reserve over the old 300D.

The problems with features is everyone uses a different subset. So what may be essential for one person, will be pointless for someone else.

Grisson - think how even more quickly you'd drain batteries if you had wifi, plus you may also be downloading to next doors computer as well!!

Eric why print RAW files? They need developing first so are no good otherwise. You can always shoot RAW+Jpeg and print the Jpeg from camera.

Personaly i dont like alot of gimicks on a camera, and thats all these features boil down to, sales gimicks so we can show to our mates and say "look what my camera can do". what should be important to us all are A, S, P, quality of light metering and quality of glass along with all the other standard features.

Before i bought the Oly i went into a shop to have a look at a canon and nikon and this chap let me have a fumble around them and i was amazed when i looked through the viewfinder to see eleven focusing reticles, why the hell would i need eleven focusing reticles when i only ever use one at a time, all they achieved were to get in the way of what i was seeing. Silly marketing features like these get on my nerves. In my view, less is more or it may just be me getting old lol.

Cheers, H.

Before i bought the Oly i went into a shop to have a look at a canon and nikon and this chap let me have a fumble around them and i was amazed when i looked through the viewfinder to see eleven focusing reticles, why the hell would i need eleven focusing reticles when i only ever use one at a time, all they achieved were to get in the way of what i was seeing. Silly marketing features like these get on my nerves. In my view, less is more or it may just be me getting old lol.
11 what? :confused:
Are you sure you're using the right terminology? As a reticle is a grid or pattern placed in the eyepiece of an optical instrument, used to establish scale or position. And I've not seen any evidence of those on my cameras, or the D3 I was using t'other day either.

The correct term is focussing thingies! The Canon 5D has 9 but only the middle one works properly - hence my getting loads of pics of the vicar in focus and the bride and groom out of focus! :hihi: