On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:03:51AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 5 November 2013 14:21, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am I the only one thinking the Df is way too complicated for being the > >> camera it pretends to be? > >> Dario > >> > >Me too. The top looks beyond retro - the design brief of "put > >everything on clicky dials that you can" has been followed to the > >extreme and the back looks more like a DSLR than any DSLR that went > >before it. All those buttons! Neither one thing nor the other. > > > >Glad I don't have any legacy Nikon lenses. I've got a few. If I were smart I'd sell them off.
> > 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 I do applaud Nikon for trying something different. Particularly when they seem to be attempting to do what everyone is asking for. A D4 sensor in a body that costs half as much has a lot of appeal. How does the D4 DxOmark out compared with the K5? Frankly, I've come to love the two dial wheels rather than the old knobs etc. for controlling shutter speed and aperture. I have no intention of buying one, but I certainly understand the appeal. I'm very interested in seeing how the market reacts. As someone who started in photography at a time when pretty much all the pros used Nikon I've always had a soft spot in my gear lust glands for Nikon equipment. Over the past couple of years they've released a couple of cameras that I *really* wanted to like (the D7000 and D600), neither of which had any compelling performance advantage over the K-5, other than being able to use a couple of the lenses gathering dust in my gear closet. The past few months has been very interesting in terms of camera releases, and I suspect that the next year will be even more interesting. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
