jaomul
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The look and the form factor has been a HUGE draw on many cameras over the decades. The "look" of a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex for example, the "look" of the Speed Graphic, the "look" of the Leica M3, the "look" of the original Nikon F with the meterless prism, and then later the quintessential Nikon F "look" with the huge Photomic F-series metering prism, the decades of the Hasselblad 500 C and C/M and its unique "look"...those cameras ALL became hugely, iconic in movies, on TV, and in still photos. The way those cameras looked was a huge part of their appeal.
I find it amusing that so many people cannot seem to understand either how, or even why, the design, appearance, build, and "look" of a camera is a HUGE, integral part of the camera-use experience. But then again, we have the majority of people on the web reviewing cameras as 30-something young men who have never even held a Graphic, a Rolleiflex, a Leica M-series, or a Nikon F, F2,F3, FM,DE,FE-2, or FA, and have never shot a Hasselblad, and so on.
The telling part of most of the reviews is that the reviewers tend to describe it as ,"what is it NOT," as opposed to what it is. They really have a very skewed understanding of what a camera with a distinctive "look" is all about. They never owned a Rollei, a Hassy, a Leica, or an F-series camera...they grew up on point and shoots and modern digital cameras, and really, they almost all ***** and moan that, "I cannot f&&k around with my ISO while looking through the viewfinder!!! Wahhh! Wahh!" and ,"I don't like this...it's not what I know..it's different, it's not like every other Nikon or Canon d-slr..it's...it's..it's...something NEW. And different! I hate different! Nikon should have made this camera operate JUST LIKE what I am used to." " I never learned about analog controls in junior high school...analog controls--those are as stupid as those old-timey hands-and-face clocks," and so on."
It's amusing because most younger reviewers on today's "tech sites" are so flummoxed by with products that are designed with anything even remotely different than all-digital controls and readouts. It's like they're crippled mentally. "This isn't what I want! I want my Mt. Dew! I want my iPhone! I want my Facebook!" Instead, they get whole milk, a good book, and conversation...and they reject wholesome beverage, great literature, and real person-to-person "contact", and crave instead the unhealthy crap that they are addicted to 24/7 in this, the high-tech modern era.
Again...spend an evening and read a handful of Df reviews written by young tech-geeks in their 30's...they all describe this new camera as, "What it is NOT". And they cannot seem to get past, "what is different," and focus on what it actually is, and does.
It reminds me of little kids whining about , "Eating these yucky vegetables...I want some nachos and Mt. Dew for dinner!" "Let's cook some dinner...I think I have a box of frozen burritos!"
The look and the form factor has been a HUGE draw on many cameras over the decades. The "look" of a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex for example, the "look" of the Speed Graphic, the "look" of the Leica M3, the "look" of the original Nikon F with the meterless prism, and then later the quintessential Nikon F "look" with the huge Photomic F-series metering prism, the decades of the Hasselblad 500 C and C/M and its unique "look"...those cameras ALL became hugely, iconic in movies, on TV, and in still photos. The way those cameras looked was a huge part of their appeal.
I find it amusing that so many people cannot seem to understand either how, or even why, the design, appearance, build, and "look" of a camera is a HUGE, integral part of the camera-use experience. But then again, we have the majority of people on the web reviewing cameras as 30-something young men who have never even held a Graphic, a Rolleiflex, a Leica M-series, or a Nikon F, F2,F3, FM,DE,FE-2, or FA, and have never shot a Hasselblad, and so on.
The telling part of most of the reviews is that the reviewers tend to describe it as ,"what is it NOT," as opposed to what it is. They really have a very skewed understanding of what a camera with a distinctive "look" is all about. They never owned a Rollei, a Hassy, a Leica, or an F-series camera...they grew up on point and shoots and modern digital cameras, and really, they almost all ***** and moan that, "I cannot f&&k around with my ISO while looking through the viewfinder!!! Wahhh! Wahh!" and ,"I don't like this...it's not what I know..it's different, it's not like every other Nikon or Canon d-slr..it's...it's..it's...something NEW. And different! I hate different! Nikon should have made this camera operate JUST LIKE what I am used to." " I never learned about analog controls in junior high school...analog controls--those are as stupid as those old-timey hands-and-face clocks," and so on."
It's amusing because most younger reviewers on today's "tech sites" are so flummoxed by with products that are designed with anything even remotely different than all-digital controls and readouts. It's like they're crippled mentally. "This isn't what I want! I want my Mt. Dew! I want my iPhone! I want my Facebook!" Instead, they get whole milk, a good book, and conversation...and they reject wholesome beverage, great literature, and real person-to-person "contact", and crave instead the unhealthy crap that they are addicted to 24/7 in this, the high-tech modern era.
Again...spend an evening and read a handful of Df reviews written by young tech-geeks in their 30's...they all describe this new camera as, "What it is NOT". And they cannot seem to get past, "what is different," and focus on what it actually is, and does.
It reminds me of little kids whining about , "Eating these yucky vegetables...I want some nachos and Mt. Dew for dinner!" "Let's cook some dinner...I think I have a box of frozen burritos!"