On 5/11/13, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >For once I find Thom Hogan's analysis on the money. He sums up the >plusses and minuses pretty well. He notes conflicts/ambiguities >between the retro-style controls and the electronic ones. > >Favorite quote: "The Df very well may be the first camera marketed and >sold to the AARP crowd." > >http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/digital-confusion-with-the.html
The only thing I would say is that I think Thom, in this para, has missed a salient point: >The problem I see is that Nikon made a big deal out of this launch, with >a highly visible teaser campaign leading up to it that almost went >viral. But now all Nikon users are scratching their heads like me: what >is Nikon trying to tell us? Four very different FX bodies. A missing DX >body. One large sensor compact. Underwater mirrorless. What camera do >they really want us to buy? I think Nikon want to give their customers a choice. Fuji certainly do - and a damned good set of choices. I choose the hardware based on my desires and needs. If that means selecting a mixture of different manufacturers for those needs, then no problem. If you can get more choice from just a single provider, so much the better. Clearly the Df is aimed at dreamy-eyed enthusiasts (like me) who want some quality with style thrown in. Professional snappers will be be hoisting D4s or 1DXs and ignore it. The only cameras professionals might take on vacation with them would possibly be either an iPhone, X100 or a Leica (for those with buckets of money - most working snappers do not have buckets of money). If Pentax offered a 36X24 DLX, I would be first in the line to buy. If it had all the dials and knobs like the Df, suits me fine. I think it has a perfectly good place in a manufacturers lineup - it commands desire. if you make things to sell, that's a perfect result. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
