I didn’t think the Dƒ was going to be reasonably afforadble for me -and it’s not c’est le guerre.
However I did not expect it to be so down spec’d.
I assume as DPR apparently does, that Nikon is jumping on the retro bandwagon to try and generate some actual turnover. That’s great.
But I think they missed the fundamental point which is the the EM-5 especially and the XPro-1 actually bought something to the party other than a lick of silver paint and a vague resemblance to the cameras of old.
There was a discussion about this in the M43 forum.
As far as I can tell, this is a basically a D600 in a retro package.
Oh and they removed the video – which I don’t really get – yeah not every one wants it, but since there almost certainly using the guts from other cameras that have it, why not keep it?
$800 for a lick of silver paint – that’s not a very compelling sell.
If I could afford it, I’d probably buy a D800 or as Andy says a D610 and a decent lens.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.