I love everything but the price. Come on, what's up with these camera manufacturers these days!
Development cycle costs I'd guess...
Did you notice that it comes with a threaded cable release?
Well it's a D4 sensor, so that didn't cost extra.
That's pretty arcane about the cable release...but cool.
And what's with all the lock buttons...those suck. I saw one camera manufacturer do those right...I think Olympus...you push down to release them and it stays released until another push, then it pops out.
If this were priced between $1700 and $2000, I'd probably buy one. Might steal my next purchase away from another manufacturer's compact camera, like the R7 (Great price) or Oly EM-1(which is way too expensive too).
Naaah, hipsters aren't the target market. The target market is male baby boomers who had a camera that actually looked like that. They're the ones who have the money for what's essentially a D600 in pretty packaging.
Actually it looks pretty sweet. Everything but the price.
For me, the beauty of it is the top-mounted, manual dials to control basic functions. Click-click-click! Just like I used to do it! I miss all that. Plus the manual shutter release, that's awesome. Feedback! Screw-in, mechanical cable release? Probably no advantage, but schweeeet!
Naaah, hipsters aren't the target market. The target market is male baby boomers who had a camera that actually looked like that. They're the ones who have the money for what's essentially a D600 in pretty packaging.
Actually it looks pretty sweet. Everything but the price.
Actually, the target market must be the D600 buyers...we struck oil!
What a great camera - at a truly shocking price point..... Nice to see these things along with the Fuji line happening..... Might have to pull out the old Yashica and burn some film to avoid looking at this thing :-)
This is far more interesting than their BS 1 series. As I was already leaning towards a D4 in the future, this complicates things a bit, especially since I was liking the prospect of other similar cameras from Fuji/Oly.
I personally think this is just genius. The big benefit is that it will accept non-AI lenses, stuff from 50+ years ago. Nice. Like Robert, I love the manual setting dials. The look is beautiful, really well executed. This is not window dressing, they really *thought* about combining the best things about those F-Series cameras and the best of DSLR technology. Kudos to Nikon on this one.
FWIW, I don't think the price point is outrageous, for what it is. It bears a premium price in part because of the mechanical features, which are expensive, and in part because it is not "mass-market" and needs more margin to recoup engineering costs.
It's got a terribly short VF eyepoint so will present a challenge of manually focusing legacy lenses for wearers of eyeglasses (probably a large segment of its target market). And use of the electronic rangefinder can be confusing and its accuracy questionable because you won't be able to tell exactly what you're manually focusing on unless using live view with a magnified focus assist screen. (Available on the rear LCD but not in the viewfinder.)
Also, Mike Johnston, of The Online Photographer, quotes an author of an article on the "mediocre" performance of wide angle legacy glass of FF sensors due to their stigmatic design and the difference in the refractive index that modern sensors possess. The Online Photographer Use of legacy glass may perform better with sensors that crop the projected image circle and use the "sweet-spot" of the lens. Plus, the lens coatings will be far inferior to those used in more modern lenses.
