Nikon's latest camera isn't "retro," I'm told. It's "classic." Whatever the proper description, the new Nikon Df is an incredibly beautiful DSLR, a full-frame camera in a 1.6-pound body much smaller than your average professional shooter. Leather and chrome, and absolutely covered in dials and switches, it's a nod to Nikon's F decades-old series of film cameras. And the design is very much the point: "we have a camera," Nikon's Mark Soares says, "that's going to make you go 'holy moly, that's a film camera.'"
F stands for Fusion: old look, new technology
At the same time, Soares tells me, "the engineers held nothing back." That led Nikon to build a slightly larger camera — 5.6 x 4.3 x 2.6 inches — than something like Sony's Alpha 7,...
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