>>4199187You'd think, since modern cameras are half computer and have been since the invention of goddamn auto-exposure, that the camera makers would sell the body as a computer with the intention of the user installing third party software on it.
software that, like, could do stuff that that camera maker was too lazy to think to include.
As far as I'm aware only Canon has ever been hacked to allow that sort of thing unofficially, and even that can't be done anymore on mirrorless.
If the camera companies had any sense they'd have opened it up it officially long ago.
I don't know any technical reason why you couldn't build an complete full frame DLSR or mirrorless that literally runs Android as its OS and can install any photo related software that's available for Android. The reasons for it are all non-technical, all "business".
In my alternate timeline headcanon where the former solviet bloc didn't turn pseudo-capitalist, but instead went full 90's cypherpunk crypto-anarchist, they'd be selling us a D800 equivalent with Linux and a USB port to attach a keyboard and log into it as root.
