Personally, I really wish that I could get myself a specially designed camera so that it could have just the features that I would need. Otherwise I have to pay for all of that other stuff, or technology. So, what kind of a camera would I want? I'd go for one that can do video in VERY HIGH RES, so that I can make a photo out of each frame. Camera makers are currently in a race as to who can produce cameras with the best features, as well as the best photo and video quality. Yet, in this modern age, photo and video quality are likely to eventually become the same. And with a camera being used for video, you won't get perfect video quality until you match it with the photo quality. You might not even notice it, because there's no practical way of showing how this is. In other words, in video mode, you're just not getting the full benefit of the sensor itself. For example, SLR cameras have some large sensors. Yet, most, probably at least 75 percent of the sensor, won't go towards producing the best videos you could otherwise produce. That's because you can't possibly get the full spatial resolution of the large sensor, because you're not recording the full 18 or so mp in video mode. If we want the HD video to take full advantage of the large sensor, then we might need to make the sensor only capable of producing HD images in the first place. Those 18 mp that are packed into that sensor, because they reduce spatial resolution, effectively reduce the DR and lowlight performance. Unless you make the sensor have 1280*1080 pixels, then the video will not "regain" the spatial resolution it could have otherwise. And this is what we need to keep in mind when we think about choosing a camera for ourselves that can make the highest quality video footage. So increasing the mp on a camera isn't going to benefit the video quality. That's why we in the future, we may need to balance out photo and video resolution. It's good that we are trying to increase video resolution past HD right now. However, we are also increasing the cameras overall resolution. We need to keep trying to up the ante on videos, going ever higher res, and eventually reach a point which image res=video res. Then we might not even need to use photo mode, as the video footage itself will be perfect to what the camera's capable of. And we should get rid of those AA filters, which I consider practically useless.
What camera would I like to have? I'd like one that has an IR filter built into it, so I can get into some more creative photography. They should make a camera in which the IR blocking filter flips out of the way with the press of a button, or have a built in IR filter that would take it's place. Replacing with a clear filter would be great, because we could then also use a UV filter. We could take multi spectral images, to reveal things that are otherwise invisible to our eyes. Then we could combine the IR, UV, and/or normal photos together to come up with even more possibilities. Of course, IR or UV cannot focus the same way through the lens as does visible light. Yet I'm sure that there can be a way to make this work. We've been innovative before. So we should be innovative in helping solve this dilemma. Maybe what we could also do is make the camera be able to map out different part of the light spectrum, and color code them in various ways. For example, the camera might be able to take a photo in an extremely thin section of the spectrum, allowing us to see things that we might not even notice in our visible spectrum! This is something that can be applied in science and astronomy. Also, this would help us in achieving even greater resolutions, because we would not be capturing such a large expanse of light spectra at once. And I've been thinking before, whether such a technology could be key to helping us see in better detail, allowing camera tech to go beyond its current limitations. Of course, we probably wouldn't find this too useful in everyday photography. It would come in handy however when using a scientific approach to some things, such as studying something microscopic, or astronomical. This is very akin to what satellites do as they image the Earth. And the technology that's being used in these satellites has greatly inspired me to think about how we can integrate such tech into our own devices. So I would really like to expand my photo capabilities. And at the same time I could try to become a better scientist! Because it's not just the act of studying that can make us smarter. It's our ideas, innovation, imagination, and also just the fact that we are observing something with curiosity. And TBH, I really do get lots of imaginary power as I just sit there, thinking about something like science.
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