Nikon DF

[Keith]

If you compare the 2 cameras in the picture, it is obvious here that they wanted to style it with a retro look, but that doesn't make it a digital FM2, rather an F3 HP on steroids.

A bit like the original Mini from the 1960s and its current incarnation marketed by BMW. If you put both cars side by side, the newer one towers over the other. "Just copy and enlarge to cram all the latest technology inside" is what BMW must have thought. Not very different from the route Nikon is taking with the DF.

And that BMW Mini has been one of few (auto) retro successes and has made a motza for BMW.

Nikon can only hope this camera does the same! 😀

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

Dear Jan,

A perfect analogy.

Cheers,

R.

Here is visual proof.

http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=...a=X&ei=ONZ4Uv36OK3b7AaY5YDwCA&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAA

This is more what I expected : no frills, just the basics :

http://preview.turbosquid.com/Previ...af3c70e-a340-4931-a4d6-dd1bedc61ea2Larger.jpg

 

[Ade-oh]

It looks surprisingly huge.

 

[Rodchenko]

This is what a top plate should look like:

http://www.thecamerasite.net/01_SLR_Cameras/Images/Olympus-OM-1t.jpg

 

[TennesseJones]

So the new camera is no easier to focus ai glass on than a D800, 700 or D600? Or am I missing something?

 

[Keith]

This is what a top plate should look like:

http://www.thecamerasite.net/01_SLR_Cameras/Images/Olympus-OM-1t.jpg

Can't argue with that! 😀

 

[jarski]

So the new camera is no easier to focus ai glass on than a D800, 700 or D600? Or am I missing something?

are those particularly hard to focus? or am I missing something? 😕

 

[TennesseJones]

Never had one, lets bundle those questions together as a combo!

are those particularly hard to focus? or am I missing something? 😕

 

[Highway 61]

Can't argue with that! 😀

Pffff Keith.... The top plate you can't argue with is way too cluttered ! 🙄

Now this is what a real camera top plate must look like.

😀

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

are those particularly hard to focus? or am I missing something? 😕

I'm not in a position to judge, but I think you need a focus screen with a split image for pinpoint manual focusing and this seems to lack on the Df. :bang:

 

[yanchep_mike]

"are those particularly hard to focus? or am I missing something?"

Can't speak for D800 but i have D3 and no problems with AI/AIs glass.
Focus is easy enough, maybe i am missing something.

 

[robert blu]

Now I'm very confused...to like or not to like? This is my dilemma ...
robert
PS: In the beginning I believed this could be the equivalent for my FM2 on which I use the 20/2,8 AFD and a 50/1,4 AIS. Hope to have soon or later one in my hands for a personal evaluation.

 

[Highway 61]

Size. Weight. Price. Ergonomics. Intended use. Versatility. Durability. Personal preference. Will that do for a start?

That does but nothing which regards how the camera sensor and the classic MF lenses you intend to mount on the camera will live together. Which was your original point. Now you're speaking of important considerations too, but which don't regard how the MF Nikon lenses you already own and want to continue to use will behave on your new digital camera.

 

[Archlich]

FM2 prism and F4 dials into a D600 body, with a FA grip. Then add 20mm height to that.

DPreview's preview had a point here: they can't decide what to include, so just put everything onto it.

They want "pure photography", so took the video out. Yet many "fancy" features like GPS left.

The fixed screen (while boasting the ability to use pre-AI lenses) is clearly another example showing the indecisiveness during the design progress. Typically Nikon today.

 

[TennesseJones]

That's my question really! Do you need the split screen?

I'm not in a position to judge, but I think you need a focus screen with a split image for pinpoint manual focusing and this seems to lack on the Df. :bang:

 

[Roger Hicks]

That does but nothing which regards how the camera sensor and the classic MF lenses you intend to mount on the camera will live together. Which was your original point. Now you're speaking of important considerations too, but which don't regard how the MF Nikon lenses you already own and want to continue to use will behave on your new digital camera.

Did you actually read what I wrote?

Right now I'm idly considering a new digital body to use the numerous Nikon MF lenses I've acquired over the last 40 years. There are quite a few choices: M typ 240, D800, A7R, DF. All very different cameras, all very different prices, all with advantages and disadvantages.


How do you extract what you mistakenly perceive as my "original point" from this?

Cheers,

R.

 

[Keith]

I actually find the split prism method of focusing a pita ... and I don't like the way it dominates the finder. My favourite sceen is currently in my OM1 and that just has a fresnel circle in the center and I even find that distracting!

 

[gilpen123]

Maybe a Katz Eye focusing screen will soon come out and will be a good accessory for manual focusing. I used to have that on my D200 and it's quite useful.

I'm not in a position to judge, but I think you need a focus screen with a split image for pinpoint manual focusing and this seems to lack on the Df. :bang:

 

[fireblade]

And that BMW Mini has been one of few (auto) retro successes and has made a motza for BMW.
Nikon can only hope this camera does the same! 😀

only women drive that new mini 🙂

 

[Keith]

only women drive that new mini 🙂

You're actually not that far off the mark. Apparently a high percentage of the cars that are sold are for the female partners of male BMW owners!