New Retro Nikon Camera

[Still-One]

According to several sites Nikon will be following a recent trend and releasing a retro looking digital camera called the DF. The sites suggest this camera might look like a F3.

Here is a photo from Nikon Rumors.

[AudioNut]

Originally Posted by Still-One

According to several sites Nikon will be following a recent trend and releasing a retro looking digital camera called the DF. The sites suggest this camera might look like a F3.

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Jim,

If you took that picture, you either need to clean your lens or turn on your auto-focus!

Sure hope Puma Cat doesn't see your awful picture!

[Puma Cat]

That is an awful picture, but the rumors about the Nikon is that it may be based on a Nikon FM2.

[Still-One]

This is the original that someone blew up to try and better show what it might look like. Nikon hasn't released a photo yet, just teasers.

[AudioNut]

New teaser today .. . looks like it is going to be nice. . . .


[ame=http://youtu.be/7CfeddhQGHU]Nikon Pure Photography: Episode #5 (English) - YouTube[/ame]

[Still-One]

Here is the latest "mock-up" of the new camera.

[GaryProtein]

I think they should have made it more like the F3 with the motor drive attached so there would be the same super-sized battery that goes into the D3X. It would also be nice having the GP-1 built in so I wouldn't have to take notes where I was when I took a photo.

[Still-One]

Gry
Not for me. I had the D3 and sold it. Just too bulky for normal shooting.

[Puma Cat]

Originally Posted by GaryProtein

I think they should have made it more like the F3 with the motor drive attached so there would be the same super-sized battery that goes into the D3X. It would also be nice having the GP-1 built in so I wouldn't have to take notes where I was when I took a photo.

The point is that they didn't want to make the camera too large. This is a camera that is supposed to harken back to the manual film cameras like the Olympus OM-1 and Nikon FM2. It is not at all intended to be another D610, D7100, or D4 equivalent. It is designed to be retro in that that you have to put your hands on the camera to make aperture, shutter speed, and other adjustments to make an image, much like the new Fuji X's. A lot of photographers, including me, find this more "hands on" interaction very rewarding.

Also, the trend these days is for more compact cameras and lenses, not bigger, heavier ones. I can't tell you the number of pros that are moving to M4/3, APS-C (e.g. the Fujis and Sonys) these days because they are *really* tired of hauling heavy (pro) gear around. It's one thing for an amateur to take their "pro" SLR out for an afternoon out. It's another when you have to shlep a full pro kit, including big, heavy glass, over hill and dale at a racetrack for eight hours a day for three days straight. And with the image quality and performance of these new compact interchangeable lens cameras these days, there's no need to. The only reason i can see carrying a Canon 1D-series or Nikon D3/D4 series pro body around these days is for sports or photojournalism, where you need fast AF subject tracking. Other than that, I don't see any reason to be using a big heavy pro digital SLR body anymore, none whatever.

If you want a camera that is the size of what you're talking about, there's always the D4.

[McPlanar]

Here's hoping they fit a full size sensor like the new D600. I mean if it's going to be retro like a 35mm film camera then it should have a 35mm size sensor!