I liked the accelerometer idea. Feels like idiot proofing, but it's nice. But automation is so hard here.

For instance, the idea of photo management software scanning over the photos, and find ones that are blurry... Some of our best shots ever are wide-aperture images with no focal depth - most of the shot is out of focus, and that's the point.

Worse yet, the idea of suggesting shots to delete based on poor optical properties is not going to be loved if it suggests the one and only last shot of your .

I think most of these problems need an aesthetic mind, and the cameras are not up to that task.

Here's one idea:
1. Camera space is cheap - The camera could also take and store bracket shots, deleting them if it runs low on space for new shots. Brackets could include exposure and auto focus modes. If power consumption was low enough and light high enough, it could store maybe 20 images - compressing them as diffs.

Then in iPhoto or whatever, when you don't like a main shot, the software can show you a cloud of bracket shots, perhaps offering to stitch them or use them to rescue over and under exposed regions into one good shot. And if you do like the shot, you can explore pro options for post-hoc varying the aperture, exposure etc.

Marketing could say “Take those ‘pro’ manual shots with the new GE auto!”