What would you want from a full frame Canon or Nikon mirrorless camera?

I strictly voted for better image and video quality because action is not my thing and therefore most of these options are then useless. It is shame than micro four sensor systems are rivaling with full frame, if you record video.

And finally include accurate RAW histograms and overexposure warnings, so people don't have to use ugly tricks like UniWB to get that! Why pay lots of money from premium system when it lacks obvious feature like this!

I would like a digital Nikonos

If IBIS was in the survey when I took it, it would have picked it as my number one choice.

Mirrorless why? because people want to see what they get before pressing the button. Most 'photographers' these days are button pressers, sorry for saying it this way :-). They don't like surprises. The biggest advantage of the mirrorless is that you see real time what you get. 10 Years ago when the megazoom/ compact EVF camera's came, most of the photographers were saying, this is not what we want, we want to look straight through the lens, and now the world is the opossite. These days everyone is a photographer....yeah of course :-) ....as a Canon and Panasonic enthousiast i'm courios what Nikon will bring to the market.....They are not stupid and I think they will surprise us..... These days most people are busy with what the camera can do, but is it not what you can do :-) ?

E-mount compatible is all I want :) One single mirrorless lens system for all, let the best body and or lens win.

I'd want what Nikon deliver what the do in their pro-SLR's, which is pretty much everything above, with the exception of in-body stabilisation and the EVF of course.

In-body stabilisation is a nice-to-have and Nikon should look to move stabilisation from lenses to camera in the years to come, but I won't morn it not being present.

My biggest concern buying into Sony Mirrorless is if they are into Cameras forvthe long haul. I bought a Sony Vaio Laptop a few years back, a few years later, they closed their computer division.

I have a similar fear about buying into a new Nikon system.....That it might go the way of the Nikon 1 or 360.....introduced to great fanfair, only for the platform to be quietly killed off a few years down the line.

All the options pretty much describe the current Sony Mirrorless, so I don’t think just picking 3 is sufficient for Nik/Can...their mirrorless are going to need most of those features...therefore the vote is pretty pointless.

End of last year I got a Sony A7R3 to join my existing Canon kit. Excellent compatibility with my Canon lenses (via adapter) was a deciding factor for me. The A7R3 just offered more of what I was looking for in an upgrade to my aging 5d2’s (the 5d3 & 4 never felt like they did enough to justify the outlay to me, the A7R3 did).

I’m currently in limbo land - do I fully commit to Sony, or hedge my bets and keep a foot in both Sony and Canon camps. Question comes up when considering future lens purchases - eg if considering a Sigma lens do you go for the Sony or Canon mount version? If considering say a 400 2.8, do you go fo the Canon or Sony version? It hangs on what mirrorless FF Canon come out with.

Only advantage I can see Canon might have is Dual Pixel.

Both Canon and Nikon needs to consider Sony or they will loose.

When adapters are need based on new mounts, then it's a whole new ballgame where jumping ship is easy and only requires an adapter.

lol, Nikon have already decided and designed the camera, they aren't scouring DPR for clues.

1. IBIS
2. Good quality video
3. Fast primes

The top 4 vote results:
1. High resolution sensor -> D850 has one of the highest MP (Only behind Canon 5DSR)
2. Sports Ready AF System -> D5 & D500 have the best Sports AF system
3. Lifelike viewfinder -> Nth is more "lifelike" than an OVF
4. Fully Compatible with currently Nikon Lenses -> So you need a Z-mount

Oh, we need Nikon FF mirrorless cameras

Sony A7S Mk 3 features and performance with a good technical solution for legacy glass’, improved handling and next gen user interface and connectivity

To make me buy into mirrorless, I'd like to see features that are clear differentiators to DSLRs, like:
- simulation of fast lenses, exploiting depth map from dual pixel AF
- better face/eye detect AF
- HDR+

I want them to loose "mirrorless" adjective.

My horseless car is called a car for quite a long time now.

Android OS, RAW Developer Support in device, GPS & WiFi & Cellular Data

Basically, if I'm going to sacrifice the UI, and buy a full-frame sensor, I want to be able to write and buy apps for my camera to be able to do all the things I get promised. Sure, it means I might play video games on the camera screen... But it also means I might tether the camera to my phone and do Facebook Live video streaming or YouTube.

Just imagine you see a bird and don't know what it is... Wouldn't it be cool to take a shot, ask Google, and determine that it's a common bird you don't need many more pix of? I'm tired of my $2000+ camera not being as useful as my phone when it comes to pictures.

Similarly, you're a wedding photographer, and you have the bride log into their facebook account, and you upload your facebook-resolution pictures directly along with links to your website. Facebook tags all the people in photos with the bride's account and you get as much advertising as you can for enlargements.

I think the thing that the Sony versions lack is good ergonomics. I'm sure there is a way of making the controls easier to use despite the small form factor.

native support for sony E mount lens. :D

Impossible to only choose 3 things, because there's about 5 things equally important, such as battery life, dual cards, top plate LCD, responsive menus etc. A top 5 things would be more realistic. I couldn't split things like sensor res or EVF quality. I would have had an entry about overall ergonomics and size.

Having said that I did actually pick the same 3 of 4 things that are most popular. I didn't say high rs sensor because we know at a minimum it'll be 24MP at least from Nikon. Canon will announce 30.4MP mirrorless first, but not 5D4 sensor.

Wishlist for Canon:
720p video with dual pixel autofocus (best in the biz!)
2.5 stops of dynamic range
CF card only option

Wishlist for Nikon:
Camera that gets discontinued 4 months after release
Camera with greasy sensor
Closed lens ecosystem with 3 *killer* lenses for the first 2 years

Fast electronic and silent shutter should be an option.

Take out mirror box and put a EVF on a 6d mark ii can already create a light weight FF mirrorless. Why makes the body thinner, as long as there is a holding grip, the overall thickness is still thick. It can never put inside the pocket, like a thin smartphone did.
I do own a Sony A7iii, I can truly say that I get no real benefit on size and weight, but some advance feature such as eyeAF and IBIS.

There's only one killer feature and they'll never get it: Actually good software. I don't know how all the camera manufacturers seem to conspire to make terrible software, but they do.

I guess I'd accept the compromise of buttons for everything instead.

my list as a beginner who admires FF cameras. I take pictures of my family.
- usable eye auto-focus: easier to shoot pictures of my running children;
- weather sealing: for camping and hiking with the kids;
- dual card slot: to ensure I don't lose photos in a family trip;
- size & weight similar to an X-H1: a grip large enough for all my fingers, but not too big a body so I can still carry it with a 35mm lens everyday in my commute ruck sack.

Too late now for me. Having spent 30 years with Canon SLR cameras, I loved the mirrorless concept and have tried Olympus MFT and Sony A7R before setting with Fuji. For me, in the smaller mirrorless format, APSC is the sweet spot for sensor size for day to day use, and I will buy the GFX for large format printing. If Canon had released a FF mirrorless early on, I probably would have stuck with them, but if they do produce FF mirrorless, it will require a whole new set of lenses, so my large collection of Canon glass would do nothing to hold me to the brand anyway
The horse has bolted for me

I'm surprised by how few people require dual card slots... I guess not too many pro's are looking for a Nikon MILC

With that severe light leak around the mount, I would say I will probably skip for the next version

What I most want is not most people's desire and camera maker could easily provide.

Most people want legacy lens compatible so they could keep on using their heavy and obsolete lenses. I don't.
What's good to drive the car with the trailing horse-pulling-cart?

Mirrorless means small and lightweight NEW SYSTEM. We, human, do not need those
clumsy dinosaur to rule this Earth with us, right?

totally new design lens

The performance of Sony, but with better build quality and UX. The end.

I’m not interested in bigger cameras anymore but if I were then of course exceptional image quality, as with any camera, but also in-camera JPGs that truly allow for quality control for the times where I wouldn’t be interested in doing any further processing.

In other words truly no zero noise reduction and truly no sharpening, truly adjustable compression, and the ability to output said JPGs as natural looking images with greatly expanded dynamic range.

The later could in the best case scenario be accomplished through the use of more powerful processors that could allow for multi-exposure image averaging, which by the way would also apply to RAW so you would not have to use an external app to accomplish the same.

I would also want to see pixel shifting implemented for more Foeveon like images.

Finally, how about a much cheaper model that has no video at all for us photographers who don’t really care about video?!

I have been wanting and waiting for either company to make a high end quality camera like the Fuji XT2 that has all the retro manual dials on top plate, exposure compensation dial, shutter speed dial and iso. I also want it full frame, stabilised body, and a battery that won't die after only a few hours usage.

The very low % of votes for "fast primes" suggests Nikon has it's work cut of for it trying to sell the Z-mount system.

I find it hilarious that the top 4 answers (high resolution, sports AF, full compatibility, lifelike viewfinder) just scream "WELL BUY A D850 THEN!!!"

$1000 or under.

There’s no option so I’ll post here: sensor must be small enough that portable, high quality tele lenses can be made for the system, yet big enough to provide enough resolution and low light performance. This requires a sensor somewhere in the range of today’s micro four thirds and APS-C sensors. About 500-600mm equiv. should be achieved while allowing the lens to be well under 1000 grams. At the same time, the mount should allow for apertures down to f0.8-0.9 so that portrait primes can remain competitive with today’s 35mm DSLRs.

Nikon needs the results/answers ASAP!

What about beauty? As stated elsewhere, all cameras with pentaprisms (or pentaprism-like housings) are ugly. This feature is a passé relic of the late 20th century reflex film cameras because it was something made necessary by optical features that are no longer necessary to mirrorless camera operation thanks to EVFs. Yet the pentaprism hump (look at the hideous Canon G1X M3, ruining the G1X idea) hangs in there. Look at the Fuji X Pro-2 and do better, Canon and Nikon.

What about Big Hands Science? I wanted to choose this option, but cannot find it

A massive optical viewfinder. Zero battery life drain unless a photo is taken. Manual focus only. Basic exposure control.