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3. A camera that can render through walls easily with just a click and a what you see is what you get preview of same.  A bit like hither and yon but for rendering too.

Now THAT would be a nifty feature!

 

WOW - I'd vote for that as well.

I'm all for Esthers request, but given the enthousiastic reactions to it - you do know that this functionality (accept for preview) is already somewhat available for render? Turn off the visible in camera option for the object and it won't block the camera (and still be visible in reflection and for IDL calculation).

Esthers proposal is much better, but in the mean time turning off the visible in camera option is a bypass