Steve
Is it true that feature is to be coming to us in the future though?
If you mean the ability to have the SD card deletion mimic the action of deleting a file from the XQD card, unknown. There are changes coming to the SD card functionality, where it will now optionally be able to shoot as the primary (or only) storage media. But the option to change the behavior of deleted files from the primary card and have it also mimc that behavior on the backup is I don't think yet in sight, if that is what you mean. And further down the road - Brad and I talked through this - it is not a simple on or off, it is a behavior, but a behavior that could be linked to numerous choices (delete image, rate image, apply style to image, etc. so I can see the challenge of creating a simple and not cumbersome set of options for in camera behavior. I guess we'll see.
What is interesting is that as Phase one has added more capability and functionality into their digital backs with the IQ4 series, there is much more required consideration over what sort of default behaviors to have in play, what sort of options to have to choose from as alternatives to the default, etc. Many of these do not have right or wrong behaviors that will be obvious to everyone. So optional behavior then becomes more critical, but this does add some complexity to a user interface, and it's a fine line between user friendly and user un-friendly, as we've seen with many digital capture devices.
Steve Hendrix/CI
