"Pete D" wrote in message
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"sambarluc" wrote in message
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I have a silly idea: a
modular camera, that you can build on your needs like a PC. You don't
buy the 73rd autofocus point, if you don't need it. You don't buy
smile detection if you only use Av. You can keep it simple and
lightweight, or make it look like (Concise) Oxford dictionary, with as
many functions as MS Word. If cameras and electronics have to merge,
why not going all the way? A bit like Leica a la carte, but less
stupidly useless.

A PC can easily be assembled from major and add-on parts. A digital camera
cannot. A digital camera with plug-in boards would be tough to carry
around.

Now, why nobody came up with something like this? Why something like
this exists for medium format but not for more compact formats? Shall
I found a new company? ;-) Hey, anybody from Canon or Nikon listening?
I would really like to have a serious answer.
Andrea

Andrea, there is no reason why different software options could not be
offered for a given digital camera. You have something there. But, the
folks who build cameras rule here and they are currently selling new cameras
as fast as they can and changing models as fast as they can.