What do I need to know now that I bought a Nikon Df

[ChrisLivsey]

I've wanted one since they came out. alas, nowadays even used in AUS they cost too much. Not many come on the used market, obviously their owners know what they have and hold on to them.


Don't want to stray too much but Son No1 is in Australia on a student visa and is following in my film footsteps, his recent Pentax 67 purchase locally is half the price of the UK examples, some strange things in your market. (probably be excess baggage bringing it home 😎 )

On topic: in the UK the largest used site shows 2xDfs against 50 x D810 unsurprisingly the mint D810s are several hundred less than a Df.

 

[phojsu]

There are folks out there who ascribe mythic properties to the sensor in the D700. I don't see it personally and I find my D810 superior in every way. But yeah, the Df would be a Purrrfect addition to the family, wouldn't it? 😉

D700 shared the same sensor as the D3 not dissimilar to the Df sharing the same sensor as the D4.

I am a photographer, not a videographer, I prefer cameras that don't do video. I'm well comfortable with the Leica M-9 as well as the Nikon Df.

Obviously the vid function can be ignored as I have with the Canon 5D3 which I use for my Oly OM lenses, but I find the vid options a nuisance clutter within the menus.

**Edit: Now that the Df is pretty long out of production, I don't see them going down in price. For me their actual value is how I relate to them in my hand when brought to my eye and the images that result. Knowing that, I added a third Df about a year ago mainly to sit on the gear shelf. The Vello battery grip for the Df has become unobtanium.

 

[Alpsman]

When the Df came onto the market, my F was occasionally confused with it 🙂

 

[wlewisiii]

Whenever I see the Df, my mind wanders to the French photographer Theo Gosselin, who became famous online through his road trip photos of his young, attractive and often naked friends. Theo shoots with Nikon and three primes, 24, 35 and 50. When he's not shooting a F2, he uses a D850.

THEO GOSSELIN - Théo Gosselin

Théo Gosselin, photographe représenté par LGA Management Paris / London.

www.theogosselin.fr

Really, it's all most of us need. If I was to get into the Nikon DSLR system (NickTrop's controversial thread is a strangely compelling argument), I'd go with either a Df, a D700, a D750 or D810. I'd buy a 24/2.8, a 35/1.4 and 50/1.4. That would set me up for a long, long time. On a tangent, if I were to get a Zf, I'd get the Nikon 40/2 and/or the Voigtlander 35/2 APO

28/50/105 for me when I'm in Nikon land but yeah, I get exactly what you mean 🙂