06-30-2021, 06:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2021, 06:09 PM by Brightcolours.)
The Df had the sensor of the D4, which had low dynamic range compared to the Sony sensors (worse than the D600/610/D750 for instance), the thing Canon sensors got bashed for at the time.... With similar high ISO noise as a D610 or 6D. Not sure what was renowned of that sensor, maybe its low resolution (4mp lower than my 6D)? For the price of a D800 (almost), but with the processor and AF system of a D610.
The camera looked like a classic MF SLR like my Nikkormat FTn, the look of pre-Ai lenses. But it was less compatible with pre-Ai and even Ai lenses than using those lenses on my 6D.
If that is not enough silliness for you, then look at the weird interface. On top a "classic" SLR, but with really badly designed control elements, and on the back a D600 with a disregard of the control ideas that the top appears to have. You have a dial to set exposure time top right. But it only does full stop time settings. The D610 part of the UI does 1/2 and 1/3rd of a sec steps. And how to use that dial? You have to press a button to unlock it every time you want to change the exposure time. How do you do that while looking through the lens to see the metering and subject, while holding the camera with your right hand and your left hand controlling/holding the lens? Same with the ISO dial (not that big a deal) and the exposure compensation (as big a deal as with the exposure time).
In short, it was not designed with a photographer in mind.
The camera looked like a classic MF SLR like my Nikkormat FTn, the look of pre-Ai lenses. But it was less compatible with pre-Ai and even Ai lenses than using those lenses on my 6D.
If that is not enough silliness for you, then look at the weird interface. On top a "classic" SLR, but with really badly designed control elements, and on the back a D600 with a disregard of the control ideas that the top appears to have. You have a dial to set exposure time top right. But it only does full stop time settings. The D610 part of the UI does 1/2 and 1/3rd of a sec steps. And how to use that dial? You have to press a button to unlock it every time you want to change the exposure time. How do you do that while looking through the lens to see the metering and subject, while holding the camera with your right hand and your left hand controlling/holding the lens? Same with the ISO dial (not that big a deal) and the exposure compensation (as big a deal as with the exposure time).
In short, it was not designed with a photographer in mind.