> Here's a newsflash: people typically don't take pictures when it's super-cold.
Here's a newsflash: most of these people don't care for "real cameras" and are buying phones instead. The no-dial fully-automatic cameras are pretty much extinct because people find phones good enough for their needs.
I don't follow the camera news that closely, but I'm pretty sure at least Olympus and Panasonic have some models with few buttons. I don't know if they have integrated GPS (probably not), but apart from that, they sound like what you want. Those are smaller sensor cameras (but still big enough to be in a totally different league than phones). I think Panasonic recently came out with a "full-frame" compact with close to no dials. Sony has a compact full-frame, but it does have dials and buttons.
Either way, if you're willing to put up with lugging around a big-ass camera and a heavy lens, it's not clear to me what's the issue of there being 2-3 more buttons and dials. Just don't use them. Aside from the on-off button on my camera which is a braindead design, I never unintentionally bump dials or switches and there are a bunch of them on a tiny camera.
No, I don't. I haven't touched most of controls on my camera, and I don't have a desire to do that.
> But also: if you're "out shooting", this may happen when it's freezing outside.
Yeah, so every feature must be designed to work under water, at night, at -60C, on Jupiter.
Here's a newsflash: people typically don't take pictures when it's super-cold.