11-04-2013, 09:39 PM
The FM3a is not ancient, it was produced 7 years ago.
This Df does have a bit of a retro look, but you certainly see the resemblance of the current DSLRs. Overall I find it quite ugly. It is interesting, however, that the font of the "Nikon" on the prism housing is from the FE2 (and before) era and not from the most recent FM3a. This strengthens the impression that they are soley going for the retro looks and not primarily for usability.
That special 50/1.8G would have made sense with an aperture ring, but what the is use of a shutter speed dial without an aperture ring? I can already feel (just by looking at the controls) the weird redundancy of the PASM-dial together with the shutter speed dial. What will happen if the dial is at a fixed shutter speed, but you set aperture priority?
This Df does have a bit of a retro look, but you certainly see the resemblance of the current DSLRs. Overall I find it quite ugly. It is interesting, however, that the font of the "Nikon" on the prism housing is from the FE2 (and before) era and not from the most recent FM3a. This strengthens the impression that they are soley going for the retro looks and not primarily for usability.
That special 50/1.8G would have made sense with an aperture ring, but what the is use of a shutter speed dial without an aperture ring? I can already feel (just by looking at the controls) the weird redundancy of the PASM-dial together with the shutter speed dial. What will happen if the dial is at a fixed shutter speed, but you set aperture priority?