Nikon RF prototypes

richardHaw said:
not sure if it's related. it is an event prepared by my bartender 😱😱😱

i meet him from time to time through common friends. great guy. he is partly instrumental in the Nikon F3's development, the best manual SLR for me. always wanted one, only afforded it as I approach my midlife:bang:
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Sounds like it'll be a great event. Have fun, Ric 🙂
 
Highway 61 said:
What thousands of faithful Nikonians were expecting some years ago was a small and refined full metal DSLR, with very simple ergonomics, few buttons, streamlines design, sporting the large and truly HP Nikon F6 viewfinder to accomodate genuine Nikon interchangeable screens so that it could work perfect with both the AF and MF legacy Nikkor lenses.

Instead we got the Df, a huge and ugly plastic camera with tons of buttons and useless dials, the same crappy small tunnel-like viewfinder as any other DSLR of the darn "prosumer" marketing segment, and, cherry on the cake, non interchangeable focusing screens, making using legacy f/1.4 or f/1.8 lenses a nightmare for accurate focusing especially in portrait. The money invested in the teasing marketing campaign designed to make people believe that the camera was sincerely aimed at MF Nikkor owners while it was absolutely not was a total waste and the camera sold so badly that there is no successor on the working bench so far.

So, dreaming about what Nikon could make now has become more than useless. Sad, but obvious.
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The old Df bashing🙂
I like my Df and yes its not perfect, but I don't agree with you I have no problem using manual lenses and its not huge. I bought mine secondhand with only a few thousand on the shutter and cost less than a second hand 35mm Summicron.
 
Fraser said:
The old Df bashing🙂
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Sometimes a bit of bashing is good. 😉

The Df isn't a bad camera but it has nothing to do with what Nikon told they were about to release... now a D750 (same size, exact same finder with same fixed focusing screen and same magnification, more versatile sensor, shell made of the same materials, way better AF, lower price) makes the Df look like what it is actually : another of those Japanese regular DSLRs - clothed in a funky retrodesigned body, but with nothing really different.
 
Highway 61 said:
Sometimes a bit of bashing is good. 😉

The Df isn't a bad camera but it has nothing to do with what Nikon told they were about to release... now a D750 (same size, exact same finder with same fixed focusing screen and same magnification, more versatile sensor, shell made of the same materials, way better AF, lower price) makes the Df look like what it is actually : another of those Japanese regular DSLRs in a retrodesigned body, but with nothing really different.
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No but for some of us a beautiful camera is a joy to use. The DF? A camera only it's mother could love.
 
richardHaw said:
can't go unfortunately. I have heel pain/gout now 😱😱😱
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Ouch... time to lay off the beer for a while!!!

Peter Jennings said:
I know how you feel. The pain was horrible, but it passed in a few days. When I got gout, I knew I had reached middle age.
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I had my first gout attack when I was 21, no doubt caused by the dodgy home brew beer I made when I was a poor university student :bang:
 
OK, it wasn't gout this time but heel pain. an old sports injury keeps coming back. it's a torn tendon. I can now walk but yesterday I was bed-ridden so I used that chance to make something productive so I wrote 2 articles that I will publish within this month on my blog about 2 types of F-mount 105mm and I will begin writing on the RF 10.5cm because I have a few people who ask me to.

my RF demographic is the least but the reception was very positive. after that, I will write about the 5cm Sonnar. Really wished Nikon made a Tessar for the Nikon S system:bang:

as for the Df, I hated that but I now see that it is a great camera. you really have to customise it to your needs 😱😱😱
 
richardHaw said:
my RF demographic is the least but the reception was very positive. after that, I will write about the 5cm Sonnar. Really wished Nikon made a Tessar for the Nikon S system:bang:
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Nikon did actually make a "Tessar" for the Nikon S system! The Nikkor-Q 5cm F3.5! Its not called a "Tessar", but it has the exact same optical formula as a Tessar/Elmar lens.

Both the Nikkor-S 5cm F1.4 and Nikkor-H 5cm F2 are Sonnar designs.

Nikon finally switched to a Gaussian optical design with the "Olympic" Nikkor-S 50mm (mm is engraved on the lens, not cm) F1.4 lens released in about 1962. The Millennium Nikkor-S 50mm F1.4 is a multi-coated version of this lens.
 
More expensive than an old F-mount 50mm lens I suppose, but prices have dropped lately and the Nikkor-Q 50/3.5 isn't as expensive as it used to be. Last time I dropped by Alps-do in Shinjuku, they had a clean Leica L-mount version for about 40,000 yen.
 
richardHaw said:
that is still expensive for me 😱😱😱

but these do not come in S-mount versions:bang:
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They do! But the S-mount version is rarer and more expensive. Quite hard to find.

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