What the Nikon Df could have been...

[Rodchenko]

Great Design, Billie

People would be over the moon, had they followed your vision.

Now if we can loose the prism.......

How about true RF/ Bulit in EVF combo and short flange?

Digital SP typa thingy, eh?

*ahem*

What I really want to see, of course, is a full frame mirrorless camera based on an SP

But I realise I'm wrong. What I want is a Nikon One (that could get confusing), as it had a 24x32 frame size, which suits me much better.

I'll compromise: I'd love the looks of the SP with a 4x3 sensor size.

Ain't
Gonna
Happen. 🙁

 

[uhoh7]

SP is a good model cause it already has two finders. This time one's a EVF.

No-Brainer Nikon.

Get on it!

Five decades of prism persecution is enough 🙂

 

[Rodchenko]

Prisms are a historical curiosity.

Rangefinders are where it's at.

 

[morgan]

Bille's design, which I really like, made me realise that the thing that bugged me the most in the DF was the bulk and slimming it down made it hugely more attractive to me.
I'd still probably keep the ISO dial, just make it smaller, and merge the EV comp dial with the shutter speed dial a la Contax G1 (with apologies for my lame photoshop skills)

ANd of course no locking pins.
Finally, I'd keep the top LCD because I'd lose the rear one 😀
but thats a whole different discussion.

Nice! Although I'd lose the LCD and add the EC dial back.

 

[tunalegs]

Might as well play in photoshop too 😀

 

[lam]

^^ That is fantastic..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If there were a "Thank" function of RFF i'd of worn it out on this thread.. some great ones.

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

Might as well play in photoshop too 😀

Really nice, keep them coming !!

Camera made in Japan, lens made in Germany. 😀

 

[daveleo]

Might as well play in photoshop too 😀

The prism roof pops open to reveal a ground-glass, waist-level finder, correct ? 😀

We should get some RFF members to apply for a job at Nikon's engineering department and show them how it's done. Great design, Spyro.

My guess is that Nikon's engineers aren't the problem. I think what drove the design was a room full of marketing VP's.
🙁

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

My guess is that Nikon's engineers aren't the problem. I think what drove the design was a room full of marketing VP's.
🙁

These marketing VP's are probably all in their late twenties and grew up with smart phones and Play Stations. They should have given them all an F, three rolls of film, a handheld meter and sent them into the woods of Scotland, like that guy in the teaser videos, to find out for themselves what "pure photography" means.

 

[shadowfox]

Would this "declutered" version have a preview LCD in the back?

 

[user237428934]

Would this "declutered" version have a preview LCD in the back?

If you want to reduce your customer base to 100 people worldwide, just leave the LCD away.

 

[Rodchenko]

Might as well play in photoshop too 😀

That's impressive.

 

[Frontman]

The DF looks like the result of a one-night-stand between an FM3a and a Kodak Ektra.

The DF has quite a few dials and controls, but is actually cleaner looking than my current toy, an F2 with the DS1 EE control, MD2, and databack.

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

The DF looks like the result of a one-night-stand between an FM3a and a Kodak Ektra.

Then I hope they will have more offspring than just this one. They should do in vitro insemination with any combination of classic Nikons. 😀

 

[Spanik]

What is the point of an exposure compensation dial if you have and a shutter speed dial and an iso dial? And if you put on a manual lens you have even a diaphragm ring.

I'd leave the small lcd on top for battery and card space. Lcd on the back I'd remove and gain the 5-8mm depth.

 

[jsrockit]

What is the point of an exposure compensation dial if you have and a shutter speed dial and an iso dial?

In full manual exposure mode, there is no sense...in any other mode, it makes great sense.

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

In full manual exposure mode, there is no sense...in any other mode, it makes great sense.

Like snow scenes in bright sun light, you'd want to have exposure compensation set to +1,5 overexposure all the time over what the camera's in-built meter tells you to expose. Would work in manual mode as well, I suppose.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Might as well play in photoshop too 😀

Looks like a digital Exakta.

 

[Spanik]

Like snow scenes in bright sun light, you'd want to have exposure compensation set to +1,5 overexposure all the time over what the camera's in-built meter tells you to expose. Would work in manual mode as well, I suppose.

Measure incident light? When in difficult light situation a lightmeter is your friend. 😀

I have too much wrongly exposed slides with the RF645 because of that exp.comp. dial shifting when taking the thing out og the bag.

 

[jsrockit]

Like snow scenes in bright sun light, you'd want to have exposure compensation set to +1,5 overexposure all the time over what the camera's in-built meter tells you to expose. Would work in manual mode as well, I suppose.

In fully manual mode, you can use your shutter speed and apeture choices to over-expose by 1.5... that is why you don't need exposure compensation.