The Nikon D200 will be available very very soon, I am keeping my fingers crossed that Canon will put out something better than the D200 as their 20D follow-on. I believe I have put my 20D to pretty damn good use. I use it extensively in my studio with my Alien Bees setup, before I got my studio equipments I did a lot of location shoots with it. I brought it to Europe for vacation pictures, and I use it for casual snapshots (it’s my only camera now, well, my Treo650 isn’t really a real camera). About thirteen-thousand frames and forteen months later, I can think of the following features wishlist for the 20D follow-on, I’ll add to this list when I come up with more. (and please feel free to post comments!)

• Much larger image buffer, preferably large enough so I will be able to shoot RAW at maximum fps rate until CF card gets full
• Larger and brighter LCD screen
• Bigger and brighter viewfinder, also want more frame coverage in VF
• ISO display in viewfinder
• Effective aperture display, I might get a Nikon setup just for this feature, it would help A LOT in macro works
• Built-in wireless flash capability like in the Nikon D200 (and while they’re at it, why not make it compatible with Pocket Wizard?)
• Spot meter
• Quieter shutter
• Even better noise control
• Custom NR curve
• RGB histograms
• More MP will always be good, but having followed Canon’s cameras this is sorta a given
• Weather-sealing would be nice, but since the 5D doesn’t have it, I highly doubt they would do it in a prosumer body.
• I am pretty sure they won’t do this, but I would really love for it to be full-frame (and I know there is the 5D). FF will make the 85/1.2L and the 135/2L very useful, it would also make my 24-70/2.8L more wide-angle, and my 70-200/2.8L would become a lot more useful for portraits

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