Nikon DF

[kshapero]

 

[kshapero]

Looks like it is just a D600 in a retro skin, big deal? Or am I missing something?

 

[sevo]

If I look at the top-view and back-view and count the "physical controls" how they call it, than this is the most complicated control layout I've ever seen on an camera.

It has less controls on top than a F4 - and less overall if the F4 is fit with the more complex of its databacks...

 

[FA Limited]

the panda version top plate looks so much like one of my favorite cameras the Pentax MZ-3 or MZ-5n
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/film_MZ-ZX/mzzx3.html

 

[FrozenInTime]

Now we know why the kept the body in the shadows on the videos:

It looks like some kid took a classic FM3 and just kept sticking dials and knobs on it and no one was there to tell him when to stop.

 

[jsrockit]

Funny FIT. ^

 

[user237428934]

It has less controls on top than a F4 - and less overall if the F4 is fit with the more complex of its databacks...

I'm not a Nikon guy. If this is Nikon-standard then it may be OK for you. I'm just accustomed to the clean Canon control layout.

 

[JuJu]

I think the design is nice, more independent from using menus on LCD screen.

 

[steveclem]

This appeals to me.








So far.............🙂

 

[jarski]

black version looks better to my eye. any of the gazillion rumor links "know" about the price yet?

 

[NazgulKing]

It has more or less what everyone would want on a top plate without having to go to the quick menu. So I'm not sure what more or less do people want.

 

[Timmyjoe]

It has less controls on top than a F4 - and less overall if the F4 is fit with the more complex of its databacks...

I beg to differ. The F4 top is much less complicated and much more straighforwardly laid out.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Rodchenko]

If I look at the top-view and back-view and count the "physical controls" how they call it, than this is the most complicated control layout I've ever seen on an camera.

I looked across at my Pen (original), and then back to the photo, and was astonished at the contrasting heaps of useless or unergonomic tat Nikon have shovelled on the DF. Ftr, there isn't a single control on the top plate of the Pen.

As for the looks, well, whoever said it looked like it had swallowed an FM2 wasn't far off. The top plate looks OK size-wise, but the camera bulges out all over the place, like a bloke in a suit that's a couple of sizes too small.

and kshapero I think has it on the nail, when they suggest it's a D600 in a retro (and poorly retro - think O-Product) skin.

 

[Rodchenko]

I beg to differ. The F4 top is much less complicated and much more straighforwardly laid out.

Best,
-Tim

And I note the F4 (elegant beast, ain't it?) has 1/8000s. How technology advances! 😀

 

[NazgulKing]

I beg to differ. The F4 top is much less complicated and much more straighforwardly laid out.

Best,
-Tim

I count 4 dials on both cameras?

 

[Timmyjoe]

F4
ISO dial
Shutter Speed Dial
Power On/Off w/shooting speed
Exposure Compensation Dial
Shooting mode lever

DF
ISO dial
Exposure Compensation Dial
Shutter Speed Dial
Power On/Off
Shooting Speed Lever
Shooting Mode Dial
Some kind of front knurled dial in front of the Power On/Off that I don't know the function of

Best,
-Tim

 

[Fraser]

So thats what pure photography looks like, I quite like it but its pretty bulky it started of rumoured to be an FM then a F3 looks even chunkier than an F4. The picture above of the F4 has the Mb21 attached which makes it even bulkier looking.

 

[David_Manning]

Interestingly, the top plate is smaller than the dimensions of the camera body. It makes the camera top view look thinner than it is, but also crowds the top plate pretty badly.

 

[David_Manning]

I think I expected more simplicity. It appears they simply put a retro pentaprism on top, and gave every menu item a switch or dial. Unless it functions in some special, unannounced way, on ergonomics alone, I think I pass.

I'll stick with the M9 for Digital Fusion 😀

 

[shadowfox]

It has more or less what everyone would want on a top plate without having to go to the quick menu. So I'm not sure what more or less do people want.

Agree, too much complaining, I think.

1. The top dial has the controls that will allow anyone to skip the menus. I like it.

2. A for it being "fat," think about what is there that is not in the "thin" film bodies? Preview LCD and its controls. Most of you guys can't do without it, so it's your demands that makes the camera "fat."

Don't blame Nikon for catering to what you want.

Overall, I would buy this camera than any other Nikon full-frames out there. It reminds me of Nikon FG or FA for some reason.