Remember when all those rumour sites suggested the DF would be a really cool manual camera with a real focusing screen and a digital sensor? And then it ended up being a fatter D600 with D4 sensor and plastic dials?
I wouldn't pay much attention to them until Nikon gives us the actual thing.
I agree completely Nikon management has no credibility. Except in areas where DSLRs provide unique advantages, management had made a habit of making one suicidal decision after another. This is very sad because management is woefully completely wasting their greatest assets - the company's engineering and manufacturing excellence.
To be complete, the Df is revolutionary (in the Nikon world) because it is atypically light. However, it is awkward to hold and handle.
Are you sure those twist-and-click dials are plastic?
The D4 has a digital sensor... and it's a very fine one.
The Df can natively mount AI lenses. There is even a finder mode that makes pre-AI lens use more convenient.
Nikon's lack of interest in implementing an improved manual focusing system remains a major dissatisfaction. For me, the Df was the last nail in the coffin. I was tired of being disappointed. Nikon's ideas (or more accurately lack of ideas) for manual focusing was a significant factor in my abandonment of the brand.
From 2008 -2010 I bought four Nikon DSLR bodies, three ultra-wide zoom lenses and two primes ... all new.
From 2010 until now I bought five Fujifilm bodies and nine XF lenses (8 primes and one zoom)... all new as well.
My disappointment when the Df appeared cost Nikon at least one customer.
