What New Product would You Buy , . . .That is NOT made Yet?

[Brian Sims]

For backpackers: a combo changing bag & darkcloth. Ripstop nylon, white on the outside to reflect heat. Not for film changes in bright daylight, but just light-tight enough for changing film in the tent at night. With velcro attachments to stay on in normal wind but will release in a strong wind that might otherwise topple the camera.

[Bob Salomon]

I agree on a rangefinder camera, with some sort of standardized helical or something to use a variety of lenses on. I know the 3-cam system has been done on the Linhof but aren't they not producing custom cams anymore? Isn't there a more elegant solution than cams for every lens?

The Wanderlust (which I have on order!) is technically not a rangefinder.

On a 45 or 57 Technika the cams are individual. On a 69 Technika the am was Tri lobed

[polyglot]

* Off-the-film metering kit for flash and continuous-light exposures.
* Large-diameter (100mm+) LCD shutter for barrel lenses
* Pan-F and Delta 400 in sheets.
* programmable ND mask filter using LCD panel, for use in front of film-plane and/or in enlarger

[Jody_S]

Some means of carrying an 8x10 + tripod + a couple of lenses + film holders in a cart/wheeled camera case that is light and flexible enough to hook to my belt and walk away with, without worrying about whatever rough terrain I'm crossing. A reversed baby carriage with a single wheel, built around a Pelican case?

My shoulders hurt for a couple of days whenever I carry all of this into the woods.

[Ari]

An auto-focus, multi-format (6x6, 6x7, 6x8, 6x9 and 6x12cm), lightweight SLR using a fixed, high quality, f2.8 lens that can zoom from 45mm to 180mm also capable of 1:1 macro.

Cost? Under a thou.

[Nathan Potter]

Ready load envelopes that I could reload..........

Absolutely desirable.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Tin Can]

+1

This seems the best idea and might happen...

Absolutely desirable.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Nathan Potter]

Something that can instantly jam every cell phone camera in the world.

Well if it was powerful enough to reach to the corners of the earth then it would fry the jammer. But a local jammer is fairly reasonable to implement at phone transmission frequencies. Of course highly illegal if unlicensed. You don't have to fry the front end of the phones - it should be adequate to just overpower the signal with white noise over a sufficiently wide bandwidth to capture all of the multiplexed subsignals in a local area. One would need something like a frequency scanning output.

More elegant would be to automatically lock on to local cell frequencies in use then transmit static at those frequencies - say within a quarter mile radius or less (thus difficult for the FCC to detect).

Tons of neat military technology to do this sort of thing.

I like your thinking Drew.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Sal Santamaura]

Something that can instantly jam every cell phone camera in the world.

Why limit it to the camera function?

...a local jammer is fairly reasonable to implement at phone transmission frequencies...Tons of neat military technology to do this sort of thing...

Too complex and too much distributed equipment needed. I say go for a simple EMP. That would shut everything down.

[Tin Can]

Not me I live in a Faraday cage.

My dream, http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...hat%20is%20emp

Why limit it to the camera function?

Too complex and too much distributed equipment needed. I say go for a simple EMP. That would shut everything down.