following on from
this rumour thread ....
Nikon Df
Personal thoughts:
+ Good idea.
- A bit late.
- Seemingly overpriced
- (for me) too small (or + depending on point of view)
++ D4 sensor
+ non Ai lens compatibility .. but this also extends to fully manually operated lenses too of which I have a few.
At closer to $2K, I'd have seriously considered it as an option for low light stuff and just general mucking about/fun.
Just read a quick hands on from Bjorn up there in the arctic ... he says that focusing is better than D800, even tho the screen is technically the same as that of the D800.
Another bonus in my book, as I'm a fan of many older manual lenses.
I don't really find that manual focusing lenses on the D800 is a major issue .. well compared to the same effort on either a D300 or D70 at least.
I had to eventually get a focusing screen for the D300 to help in that regard, but haven't really felt that the same was a necessity on the D800.
D800 appears about the same to me as the D300 is now with the KatzEye screen(obviously excepting for the split prism centre)
have though of getting an alternative screen for the D800 too .. but it's not imperative.
My hit rate for very shallow DOF images and the D800 is in the order of a bit of 50% spot on, and about 25% in the acceptable range.
Of course for fast action MF is pretty much useless, so time needs to be plentiful for manual focusing to get it right in shot.
So if it transpires that MF is indeed a bit better with the Df(than the D800), I may look at getting one in the long term future.
The ability to set aperture on non Ai lenses is a major selling point for me too. And I'm assuming this would also work for non native/adapted lenses too.
As the camera has no aperture prong to control the non Ai lens, the aperture is set on the lens and then entered into the camera for accurate metering.
I have a small selection of non coupled lenses that would benefit from this feature.
For me the major downsides are simply price and size(actually, size of grip).
Curious as to anyone else either considering it(or not).