What if...

[ronocnikral]

Originally Posted by SCone

a camera manufacture were to design full-manual DSLR? No automatic anything, manual settings for WB, shutter, ISO, no video, no LCD, the works.....

If the processor, memory and controls were only there to capture & store the raw data, what would it be capable of doing?

same thing my dslr does today. you can cover up your lcd w/ gaffer's tape. and you can manually set your WB, ISO, shutter, aperture etc.

[toverman]

Photography doesn't have to be complicated. I started my photojournalism career with a 1977 Olympus OM-1 (the year was 1996), a completely mechanical and manual camera. My eyesight was much better than it is now, and the focus screen in the camera allowed for excellent manual focusing. Rolled my own film, developed and printed it, blah blah blah.

The digital world has made cameras more complex, because although very close, sensors have to compensate for different kinds of capture characteristics vs. film. I don't miss having Dektol stains all over my jeans (I refused to wear the goofy apron when working in the newsroom's dark room), but I strive to keep my setup simple in an increasingly complex maze of menus and custom settings. And I thought technology was supposed to make things simpler.

[brewercm]

My problem with MF on many of the DSLRs nowdays is that using it through the view finder is not near as simple or precise as it used to be. I owned a couple of strictly MF 35MM cameras years ago that was easy to get the focus spot on.