I don't know how many of you know of this, but in the old interface (before the beta clients), pressing F10 while in the first 3rd-person mode would lock the camera in place, but you could still control your ship. The camera would turn to follow the ship, so you could get some really great screenshots from that. I don't know if this was removed on purpose or not, but I'd really like it back.

So...uh...I guess this isn't coming back. It's called Toggle Camera in the controls btw.