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What makes this interesting is that Nikon didn't just jam some cheap guts into the thing. It's not merely a cynical money grab.
If they wanted to just soak the hipsters, they could have crammed the D3200's guts into an FE2 styled body, chopped out a bunch of features, and sold it for $3000 just as easily. Maybe peel the AA filter off the sensor or something, just to mix it up a bit. Write a little software to make the B&W modes fancier. The result would have been smaller and lighter and more like an actual retro camera, AND it would have had more megapixels, AND the margins would be way higher. AND it would totally play into the hipster market. Or they could have retro-ed a Nikon 1, or used some Coolpix guts, or whatever.
This seems to be a stripped down D4, which is a bunch of viciously expensive parts, crammed into a retro-styled DSLR body. It ain't gonna win any beauty contests, but it's got a lot of professional bits and pieces going on. I'm not sure WHO the hell is supposed to buy this thing, but it's pretty interesting.
The more I look at it and think about it, the more I think it's an experiment to see what Nikon might be in 10 years. I think it's an experiment that got cost-cut and committeed pretty thoroughly, so it's no longer clear what the point was. But there's somethin' going on here beyond a cynical money grab.
Derrel's definitely on to something with the 'compatible with all the lenses ever' they're already plugging that on the web site. But who has $3000 to drop on a camera, AND cares about being able to use AI lenses?
If they wanted to just soak the hipsters, they could have crammed the D3200's guts into an FE2 styled body, chopped out a bunch of features, and sold it for $3000 just as easily. Maybe peel the AA filter off the sensor or something, just to mix it up a bit. Write a little software to make the B&W modes fancier. The result would have been smaller and lighter and more like an actual retro camera, AND it would have had more megapixels, AND the margins would be way higher. AND it would totally play into the hipster market. Or they could have retro-ed a Nikon 1, or used some Coolpix guts, or whatever.
This seems to be a stripped down D4, which is a bunch of viciously expensive parts, crammed into a retro-styled DSLR body. It ain't gonna win any beauty contests, but it's got a lot of professional bits and pieces going on. I'm not sure WHO the hell is supposed to buy this thing, but it's pretty interesting.
The more I look at it and think about it, the more I think it's an experiment to see what Nikon might be in 10 years. I think it's an experiment that got cost-cut and committeed pretty thoroughly, so it's no longer clear what the point was. But there's somethin' going on here beyond a cynical money grab.
Derrel's definitely on to something with the 'compatible with all the lenses ever' they're already plugging that on the web site. But who has $3000 to drop on a camera, AND cares about being able to use AI lenses?