Just wanted to share this dream with my friends. It's been few days since I saw this dream and it has never gone of my thoughts. So thought I must write it down, but I may have missed certain bits and pieces.
The scene is that I am heading to a well known electronic service shop near my home town. This place is called "New India Electronics", it has been in existence since my childhood and also the people who run this place are very good family friends. Their main line of business is servicing electronic device/appliance and specially TVs, VCRs & DVDs. In my family when we are ready to purchase a new electronic device/appliance, we consult with Mr. Sahib (who runs this place) and in most cases he would accompany us to the retailer/seller to find us the right stuff.
Now my dream:
I reach the place and go meet Mr. Sahib asking him about a used Nikon D700 that is available for sale. Since I am a Nikon D700 user, he called me to come in to check the camera. He brings me a camera bag, asked me to check the stuff out and walks away to carry on his work. So I open the bag, see that there is one DSLR body inside and get the camera out. I find it be a little strange and notice that it does not look anything like the D700 by shape or color.
I reach the place and go meet Mr. Sahib asking him about a used Nikon D700 that is available for sale. Since I am a Nikon D700 user, he called me to come in to check the camera. He brings me a camera bag, asked me to check the stuff out and walks away to carry on his work. So I open the bag, see that there is one DSLR body inside and get the camera out. I find it be a little strange and notice that it does not look anything like the D700 by shape or color.
It a large DSLR by size - more like the Nikon DX3 or Canon 1DMkII, but then it looks very different in shape and color. The camera has a vertical & horizontal grip, the grip has a inflated/blown-out shape, which makes it more solid, bulkier and larger than any grip I have seen. A new feature I am seeing is a 2nd LCD display (like the one of top of DSLRs) located on the vertical grip, display is oriented vertically to read your FStop, Shutter speed, frame number, ISO, Bracketing, AEL, AFL, etc. The grips have 2 dials, one for use by the thumb & another for trigger finger. The grips have buttons to check DoF, set AEL, AEF and a couple more I can not remember. One thing I remember is that all buttons were embedded into the grip or body, large enough to easily activate with your finger, but helped avoid accidental activation. The grips and some body surface has a very coarse (rough) rubber skin and this rubber skin was in Indigo Blue color. A color I have not seen on a DSLR.
I switch it on and now I am looking through the view finder (no lens attached) . Very different viewfinder and I am having star-trek feeling (visual & audio). Then I see that the viewfinder is not a prism based one, but then a color LCD display. I could use a dial with your left thumb to switch between multiple displays in the viewfinder. But can not remember what were the displays I could choose from. The dial I was turning was in the front, on the lens mount. The lens mount was projected a bit from the front body surface. The same dial also helped you select different screens on the LCD display too on the back of the camera body.
I turn it around and see the front of the camera, I read Fp3 written on the body at the front top right area. Now I am wondering what brand is this. I try flipping the body around and see the bottom label to read "Sony Electronics Ltd". So Fp3 is probably a model name.
Now Mr. Sahib is back with another DSLR body, that is a Fp3, but has a gray colored grip instead of the indigo blue and telling me that these cameras were brought to him by someone working at Sony and were test items. At this moment, a new person enters the scene and is talking to me more detail about the camera - technical, release details, expected price, etc. but I can not remember this part.
Now Mr. Sahib is back with another DSLR body, that is a Fp3, but has a gray colored grip instead of the indigo blue and telling me that these cameras were brought to him by someone working at Sony and were test items. At this moment, a new person enters the scene and is talking to me more detail about the camera - technical, release details, expected price, etc. but I can not remember this part.
At this point I can feel someone poking me to get my attention. I wake up from my sleep, my dream shattered to see my 2 year old son trying to wake me up to get a sip of water in the night. I looked at the clock to see that it was 3:00AM and could not get back to sleep.
The interesting part is, I have never worked for Sony, never worked at a photographic equipment manufacturer, have never owned a Sony camera and have not thought of buying a new DSLR. Since this dream, I have been trying to figure out what does Fp3 stand for. In the dream it made me feel like a out of world DSLR, with every bells & whistles any photographer would want. Sony's DSLRs camera models start with an A, for Alpha. Don't know if Sony is launching a new product line of cameras, in fact a high end, more expensive, ultra-pro version.
Yeah, you are right it was a dream I had. My friends reading this might want to say, have my wife take care of the new born and I should get some rest. Anyway, the dream was a fun filled one and I enjoyed it.
Yeah, you are right it was a dream I had. My friends reading this might want to say, have my wife take care of the new born and I should get some rest. Anyway, the dream was a fun filled one and I enjoyed it.
