lordnumberzero
06-01-2006, 03:49 AM
Make the camera firmware downloadable and user installable. Let me plug Red One into my laptop and upgrade how it works.
We're going to have a nice color LCD on the side, so give the camera a decent GPU and make the menu graphics look really cool and videogame like. My $150 cellphone has better menu graphics than every camera on the market. Let me download menu themes, wallpapers and customize these things.
Give the camera a millions of colors, start-up animation of the Red logo flying around and detroying the Sony, Panasonic, Panavision, and Thompson Grass Valley logos like some kind of deadly, futuristic ninja weapon.
Let me play pong on the LCD while the director figures out the coverage he should have storyboarded earlier. Better yet, open up the firmware and let some dude in Denmark with too much time and programming ability do it and maybe while he's at it, create some new features as well.
Give us bug fixes in a timely manner. Correct all the confusing names for menu choices and email me a PDF of the updated manual. Make me want to keep up with what's going on in the camera community.
Make me get out bed at night and stare at the camera because I can't believe someone made the coolest fucking thing in the history of the universe (for camera geeks). I get new features on my ipod all the time and I love it.
But seriously, open source this camera firmware, give folks some user-programmable buttons, and people will CREATE features.
-Clayton Harper
Seriously though, put a software waveform and an rgb parade on a dedicated physical button. I am a professional and I know how to use them. If you can't do that, at least provide the opportunity for others to fix the mistake themselves with a little programming.
We're going to have a nice color LCD on the side, so give the camera a decent GPU and make the menu graphics look really cool and videogame like. My $150 cellphone has better menu graphics than every camera on the market. Let me download menu themes, wallpapers and customize these things.
Give the camera a millions of colors, start-up animation of the Red logo flying around and detroying the Sony, Panasonic, Panavision, and Thompson Grass Valley logos like some kind of deadly, futuristic ninja weapon.
Let me play pong on the LCD while the director figures out the coverage he should have storyboarded earlier. Better yet, open up the firmware and let some dude in Denmark with too much time and programming ability do it and maybe while he's at it, create some new features as well.
Give us bug fixes in a timely manner. Correct all the confusing names for menu choices and email me a PDF of the updated manual. Make me want to keep up with what's going on in the camera community.
Make me get out bed at night and stare at the camera because I can't believe someone made the coolest fucking thing in the history of the universe (for camera geeks). I get new features on my ipod all the time and I love it.
But seriously, open source this camera firmware, give folks some user-programmable buttons, and people will CREATE features.
-Clayton Harper
Seriously though, put a software waveform and an rgb parade on a dedicated physical button. I am a professional and I know how to use them. If you can't do that, at least provide the opportunity for others to fix the mistake themselves with a little programming.