Nikon Df. Review from the reader Radozhiva

Review of the Nikon Df camera and examples of photos from it, especially for Radozhiva, prepared Sergey Koveshnikov.

Nikon Df

Nikon Df. General view photo

Nikon Df - it is very unusual and ambiguous full frame digital SLR camerain the classic Nikon DSLR design. The ambiguity manifests itself both in the control features (more on that later) and in the positioning of the camera on the market. You can often find mentions that the camera belongs to the professional segment (including on the official website). However, certain technical restrictions, obviously made deliberately, strongly hinder the use of the camera precisely as a professional tool. On the other hand, the complete absence; green 'automatic modes and a considerable price, sometimes surpassing some professional FF cameras, tells us that ordinary amateurs, and even more so beginners, will bypass this device. Thus, the audience to which this camera is addressed is, first of all, advanced enthusiasts who are well versed in photographic equipment, who will not be confused by the control only in manual and semi-automatic modes, but who have absolutely no need for purely professional gadgets and functionality. Well, hipsters too, of course.

Thus, it turns out that Df is the most professional amateur and the most amateur professional Nikon camera :)

Despite the fact that the prototype of the camera was ready back in 2009, the camera was presented only in the fall of 2013. This is due to the catastrophic earthquake in Japan in the spring of 2011.

Df - the lightest and most compact in the world FX format at the time of release, it remains the same for the current day. Together with the battery, it weighs only 765 grams. For comparison, the youngest of Nikon FF D610 weighs 850 g D750 - 840 g., Canon 6D - 770 g. Even crop D7000 weighs more - as much as 780 g. Approximately the same picture is observed when comparing dimensions.

Comparison of camera sizes

Comparison of camera sizes

However, according to the manufacturer, the camera has a weatherproof housing made of magnesium alloy. In the hands of the camera feels soundly and efficiently made, expensive thing. Although all the same, a feeling of super reliability, "bulletproof" like D700, for example - no trace of it.

Nikon Df

Nikon Df

The camera body is made in the style of classic Nikon film cameras such as the F3 and FM, two body colors are available - black with silver and completely black. Beauty is a subjective concept, but for me personally this classic appearance simply admires; and speaking objectively, Df stands out sharply against the background of identical, to the point of being completely indistinguishable, modern digital SLR cameras, regardless of the manufacturer. Good or bad - everyone decides for himself.

As usual, the whole point is in the details.

As usual, the whole point is in the details.

The heart of any digital camera is its matrix. Nikon Df has a 16,1MP full-frame matrix, exactly the same as on the flagship  D4 and D4s. It's a sensor NC81366W and unlike the vast majority of new products from Nikon, this part production of Nikon, not Sony. Anyway, the camera is not without pride made in Japan, which is twice explicitly mentioned on the case :)

Nikon DF - made in Japan

Nikon DF - made in Japan

Of course, the relatively small number of pixels by modern standards over a large area of ​​the matrix could not but affect the sensitivity parameters in the most positive way. Moreover, the matrix works in poor lighting conditions even better than D4 (as confirmed by tests on DXOMark). Perhaps this is due precisely to the lack of the ability to shoot video.

The standard ISO values ​​are from 100 to 12800; all of them can be considered workers, with certain reservations. The camera works just fine in low light conditions, which seriously pushes the boundaries of creativity. AutoISO works flawlessly, and you probably won't ever want to turn it off. It is possible to give the camera the value of the minimum allowable excerptswhich it will install on its own depending on the attached lens in accordance with the golden rule of photography.

Sample photo at ISO 12800

Sample photo at ISO 12800

Data can be written in traditional JPG, TIFF, 12-bit and 14-bit RAW, and unlike, for example, D750 - RAW may be uncompressed. Maximum burst speed reaches 5,5 fps. When shooting in RAW (14 bits, lossless compression, image correction options are included), the Nikon Df buffer accommodates 16 frames, i.e. a series, depending on the speed of the memory card, can be approximately 20-25 frames.

The shutter life declared by the manufacturer is 150'000 operations. The maximum shutter speed is 1/4000, nothing outstanding here.

Autofocus module - Multi-CAM 4800FX 39-point, similar to that used in D600 и D610. As usual, there’s not much sense from 39 points - all of them are piled in a heap in the center of the frame and occupy an area that does not cover even a quarter of the frame area. However, a similar problem in one way or another is inherent in all full-frame Nikon DSLRs.

Nikon Df Optical Viewfinder

Nikon Df Optical Viewfinder

But it is possible to focus with lenses, the maximum relative aperture of which is up to f / 8, although only at 7 central points.

The viewfinder is large and bright, not least due to the use of a pentaprism rather than a pentamirror. JVI has an increase of 0,7x and, most importantly, 100% frame coverage.
The main screen is large enough, 3,2 inches; bright, although it still doesn’t save you from exposure to the sun, and it’s pretty accurate in color reproduction, as far as I can tell. Many are sure that the screen, like the matrix, is borrowed from the model D4.

The camera also has a small information display in the usual place for DSLRs, where only the most important is displayed - the exposure bar, battery charge and the number of remaining frames. Although the screen is tiny, it has its own backlight, beautiful cold white color. The indication of the current AutoISO value is somewhat lacking, but, in general, it is better than nothing.

Built-in flash, like the main "donor" D4 - it’s absent, which means, on the one hand, that you need to spend a little more money to build the CLS system, and on the other, you get battery saving, a more aesthetic appearance and the notorious low weight.

Perhaps the main feature of Nikon Df is that its mount has a unique function - a folding foot rheostat rheostat. Thus, This camera is compatible with almost all F-mount lenses.issued since 1959, including pre-AI and without any filings.

There are a few things to note about compatibility: the bad news is that not every lens fits. The good news is that, in general, lenses that don't fit do not deserve the attention of a camera owner at this level. First of all, these are the lenses of the IX-NIKKOR series from cropped film cameras of the late 90s, which do not shine at all with their characteristics: everything is entirely dark zooms. Also a pair of autofocus lenses made especially for the F3AF camera. Well, and a little more exoticism, which you cannot find in every museum.

Management

How unusual is this camera in control, in other words - how much does the content match the appearance? Well, here we must admit that under the stylish beautiful case hides a completely ordinary Nikon mirror. There is nothing here that would force not only to fundamentally change the habits of a modern photographer, but do not even have to remember new buttons / items in the menu. Everything is logical, understandable and familiar to everyone who used any of the Nikon Central Controllers released in the last 10 years.

Back panel

Back panel

Customized wheels for ISO input, shutter speeds and exposure compensation certainly add their own film-era charm. This is not to say that they somehow speed up or, on the contrary, slow down the reading and entering of parameters, delight or annoy, no. It's just a little different. In addition, for everything "non-standard" (except for exposure compensation - it can be set only through your wheel), you can, one way or another, use a more familiar way of control - through the main dial or through the menu. In general, the camera allows you to customize yourself very, very quickly and flexibly, an innumerable number of menu items are dedicated to customizing controls for a specific user and for specific tasks. In general, the menu structure is practically the same as that of modern high-end Nikon cameras.

The ISO value set using its drum with the AutoISO function turned on sets its lower threshold, which is extremely convenient in operation.

View from above

View from above

The control wheels have individual locks made in the form of buttons. Control wheel shutter speed it is locked in positions 1/3 STEP, X, T and B, to move to another position, press the unlock button in the center of the wheel. This is quite convenient to do by pressing the button with the index finger and at the same time rotating the wheel with the thumb and middle finger. The same is true for the correction wheel exposure, all positions of which are also automatically locked. Wheel positions for time excerpts from 4 to 1/4000 are clicked with one finger, without the need for unlocking, which is quite convenient and logical.

What is NOT convenient and NOT logical is the control of the ISO sensitivity selection wheel, as well as the correction wheel exposure all positions on it are automatically locked, but the unlock button is not located on the wheel axis, but somewhat on the side and behind on the camera body. Switching ISO with one hand while holding the camera near your eyes is almost impossible. At the very least, you need to lower the camera lower so as not to unnaturally twist the brush, or even intercept the camera. This is terribly annoying. Therefore, I deliberately, on my copy, carefully disabled the locking mechanism and now the wheel flips between its positions with the movement of one finger. It is a pleasure to work with this mechanism in this mode. For all the time, there has not been a single case when the ISO settings got lost spontaneously as a result of, for example, the wheel hitting the cover or clothes, so we can safely say that at this moment the Nikon engineers were frankly "too clever".

Another note regarding control mechanisms is the front control dial. The fact that it is installed vertically has almost no effect on the convenience of work, but it affects the low height and its overly tight course. So tight that one would think that this is a factory marriage, if not for numerous complaints on the Web about a similar problem. Confidently you can rotate the disc with only two fingers, and then, provided that the hands are not wet.

Although, both two claims are multiplied by zero, if you remember exactly how the developers imagined (and told in press releases) the use of this camera - leisurely artistic shooting for your own pleasure, when you can spend as much time on each frame as necessary, you can slowly spin the wheels, push the buttons; no one should be in a hurry, obviously, according to the intention of the developers, the owners of such a camera have long been everywhere :)

Top right photo

Top right photo

Shooting modes, unlike typical amateur devices, there are exactly four - M, A, S and P. In order to change the mode exposure you must first pull the selector up, and only then turn it to the desired position.

There are two programmable buttons on the front panel, as well as in its rightful place a very convenient button, usually present only on models of the professional line –AF-ON.

Example photo on Nikon Df

Example photo on Nikon Df

The release button is threaded for a mechanical release cable. Nowadays, this thing is not so much for the benefit as for maintaining a nostalgic image. Although, if you still have a cable from the old "Zenith", then you can save on buying an electronic one. the built-in intervalometer with extremely wide possibilities completely replaces it. The cheapest version of the remote control, with an infrared remote control ML-L3, not a ride - there is no infrared receiver.

Automatic white balance It works quite adequately, but in natural light the camera tends to sometimes slightly move the white point towards the magenta. Automatic modes BB there are even two: the first works similarly to most other cameras - in all conditions it tries to keep the colors neutral, the second differs from the first in that when the color temperature is lowered (incandescent, flame, sunset) it keeps warm colors. A very interesting feature for those who are used to shooting immediately in JPEG.

The burst speed at 5,5 frames per second should be enough for the eyes for any unprofessional photography. On the selector of the drive mode, you can select both the maximum burst speed and the slow speed, the low speed is set through the menu.

One of the artificial limitations that was mentioned at the beginning of the review is a memory card. It is only one (which is almost unacceptable for professional work, since the possibility of duplication of images is not provided) and in addition the SD / SDHC / SDXC format. From an amateur point of view, this is a definite plus: these cards are cheaper, more common, and card readers of this particular format are more common. Supported cards up to 64 GB.

Another limitation is the relatively small 1230 mAh battery. On a commercial shoot, you can plant a handful of these in a day, especially in the cold; for an amateur one - enough with a head and one, since not in extreme conditions it keeps at least 1000 (or even 2000) frames.

Image quality

As you would expect, the flagship sensor allows you to get just the same uncompromising image quality. Color reproduction is excellent, even at the default settings. Due to the use of incredibly huge pixels by today's standards in the matrix, getting pixel-by-pixel sharpness is no problem; and the bonus to this is that even in conditions of very insufficient lighting quite tolerable pictures will come out.

Sources can be downloaded at this link.

Personal impressions

Due to the fact that Nikon Df, as already mentioned, is the lightest full-frame on the market, it is very easy to operate with it, especially with the almost weightless standard fix - "fifty kopecks". However, if you plan to take this camera with you, say, on vacation, keep in mind that it is still quite a weighty "brick", unable to compete with mirrorless cameras in this regard.

A rather unexpected nuance that surfaced during operation is compatibility with lenses. No, on the technical side, everything is absolutely flawless, it's aesthetic: harmoniously, from the point of view of appearance, only native Nikkor lenses of the film era “sit” on this camera, and even then - not all. In addition, the small size and weight of the carcass predetermine varying degrees of inconvenience when using heavy professional zooms.

The level of the camera is quite high, so that you can scold anything in it only from a subjective point of view; The quality of the output image is amazing. Having taken a few shots, you understand that it’s not 50, not 90, and not even 99, but 100% - what happens at the output depends only and only on the radius of curvature of the photographer’s hands. Within reasonable limits, naturally, Df practically does not limit the user to anything. This again plays into the hands of the image invented by marketers for this product - this is a camera in which nothing distracts from the creative process of photography, including the camera itself.

Postscript

There is a paradoxical and very funny pattern in the world of photography: often here and there you can see how people choose photographic equipment with an eye on the pros. It is universally and categorically considered the standard and measure of quality, while amateurs should strive entirely towards the pros. At the same time, if you look, for example, at the car market, you can easily see the absolute absurdity of this approach: a professional (it does not matter if he is a taxi driver or carries goods) will never buy a Porsche for work, a car enthusiast will never dream of what he bought for his hard-earned trunkline a tractor, or a bus, or a wedding limousine to drive to work or dacha. With all this, it would never occur to anyone to say that Porsche is worse than Scania, or vice versa. They have an extremely different set of qualities that satisfy completely different needs.

The same is true for professional photographers - they have a clearly defined and very specific range of tasks that they successfully solve using appropriate, no less specific tools.

What should an enthusiast photographer who wants to get (and do not ask 'why should he, if he is not talking about' - after all, Ferrari is not produced for Formula 1 pilots) the highest possible image quality to do? Saving up a lot of money for equipment with functions that they will never need in real life, and then, having saved up, carry around a large, heavy and ugly (yes, this can also be important!) Camera?

Actually, that was before.

Before the release of Df.

Nikon Df

Nikon Df

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Comments: 245, on the topic: Nikon Df. Review from the reader Radozhiva

  • Alex

    I was considering this option for buying ... It's not worth its money, there is no “uncompromising quality and excellent color reproduction”. Look at the pictures on Photo ru, to put it mildly it is not impressive in any way. An absolute pointless purchase. Color reproduction is Fuji S5 (S3), Sony A-850 (A-900), Canon 5D, Canon 1Ds MarkII from the old and affordable (reasonable) cost. The new one is Canon 1Dx, which is not necessary for a simple amateur, and the pros themselves know what they need.

    • anonym

      He said, as he chopped it off. I forgot only to add it at the end, this is my subjective opinion. I was amused that the photo was sent to look at Photo ru.)

    • Sergei

      Whether or not it is worth its money is generally an incorrect question in relation to this camera.
      I expressed my attitude to him in the last photo to the review.

    • Igor

      I was also tempted to write about examples on the photo, but I stopped short. Most of the examples there are really creepy, some kind of acid colors, or everything is green or yellow. However, the author of the review correctly wrote “that here is not 50, not 90, and not even 99, but 100% - what will be the result depends only and only on the radius of curvature of the photographer's hands.” because I saw photos from this camera with really excellent color (and they are on the photo, but very few). I saw the pictures shown in the photo, so by default everything is decent. It is unclear why to buy an expensive device that has great potential, and as a result, twist the saturation until the eyes hurt and lay it out as an example of the camera color.

  • Alex

    Oh yeah, I forgot - it's MLM! In the photo ru, "sent to watch", so there are at least less processing of images, at least something can be seen in terms of color, but on other resources they will photoshoot and you will not understand what was shot and how much tinting, etc.

  • Valery Demyanov

    I'll give half of the kingdom for a horse! I want such a device, in exchange I will give fujifilm X-E2 for another warranty with a set of glasses fujinon X: 35 1,4; 60 2,4; 18 2,0 - in perfect condition + grip handle and different stages ...

  • UPI

    the color is terrible, especially on the skin and at sunset.

    • anonym

      I support a typical characteristic Nikon green.
      This Nikon was no exception.
      How can you even look at these green faces and not want to throw the camera out the window?

      • zengarden

        First, color perception is too subjective; what one likes - dislike the other.
        Secondly, there is color correction in the camera, you can configure the desired profile, select the shooting conditions, and, in the end, process the received materials. If your hands grow from the right place, of course.
        90% of the “wrong color” is the fault of the photographer. This is especially true of Nikon, where there is a wide DD and more or less the correct colors without “skinton enhancements”.

        • Alex

          1). If you like potatoes instead of leather, for God's sake! 2). NO color correction, especially in the camera, you will not set up a modern Nikon, well, except that the profiles in the editor are like IVX profiles on the same photo (but he seems to have only d600). This has long been passed and your opinion does not solve anything here. 3). “90% of the wrong color is the fault of the photographer” - I agree, for the landscape and so on that does not concern people shooting, but this does not fit a sninton. PS. Why am I explaining to you here, “He who has ears, let him hear, he who has eyes, let him see”! Nikon dynamic range -YES, color is a subjective concept and is very suitable for landscapes. Everything related to people ended with 700! A thousand times it has already been sucked and compared on foto.ru! Conclusion: modern Nikon in shooting people is inferior to the same Canon. IMHO. those. absolutely no good!

          • zengarden

            “If you do not get a photo, then the camera is to blame. Especially if it's Nikon ":)

            • Alex

              Yes, and here I can’t do it! With modern Nikon, practically no one has a beautiful natural skinton, except what I already wrote! Give an example, only without tinting, the natural color of the skin.

              • Alexey

                Nikon, in my observation, more accurately conveys color shades. People’s skin color is different, both by light type, and depending on lighting, and the effect of reflexes from surrounding objects. Hence the problems with the skinton, it just shows how it is, and not the glamorous identical tan for everyone from Kenon. For sales, it is certainly Kenon.

    • Sergei

      And when you evaluated the colors, were you guided by the previews from the article, or did you download and play the RAWs from the archive?
      Because I don’t know what happened there, but I open this site and RAW in Capture NX-2 on the same monitor and see that the colors vary greatly, especially in portraits.
      Not to mention that everyone's monitors are different. And even if they are calibrated, different models still show a little differently. Even ambient viewing lighting affects color perception, if you didn't know.
      So what “terrible” color are you talking about?

      • Yarkiya

        Don’t worry, Sergey, or you don’t know that the "network" skin toners are former Nikon professional color correctors who were fired for wanting to reveal to the whole world the truth about the "disgusting Nikon skin tone".
        Due to their “unique” professionalism, they always see what an ordinary person cannot see.
        Butting with them is pointless, "the dog barks, the caravan is moving."

        • Debra

          One or two to reemebmr, that is.

  • Alex

    By the way, I have no complaints about Nikon! Nikon D200, Fuji S5, Canon 1Ds Mark II. And I'm not going to sell anything. There was D700 - this is the T-34 in terms of reliability, like the d200 and Fuji. I have no religion, give me a skin tone like Fujika S5, only FF, I'll take any brand of camera.

    • Onotole

      Again, the scammers are all shameful.
      I thought at least on joy they are not present ……….

      • Basil

        I support. Skintonschiki really went awry.

        • Alex

          I do not support

          • Nikita

            and I support, but still buy something on the ssd matrix to see what and how

  • anonym

    Camera for fans of "retro" ...
    To work, you need a device more comfortable than a “brick”, and dirt will stick to it in all corners ... For those who like to clean the cameras with toothpicks and cotton swabs - as in the good old days ...
    Personally, I would take it, but only for the soul and days off - more for show-off….
    Once upon a time, I myself had an idea to insert a digital megazon camera into an old case .... Well, somebody did ...
    ;)))))

    • Alik

      I bought it for my soul ...
      And so there was such a pinhole camera. You can not clean.
      You read the comments (many) and it turns out that there are no normal cameras at all! Everyone will be criticized. But they were filming in simple Shifts - by Amateurs once ... etc.

    • Sergei

      "For work, you need an apparatus more comfortable than a" brick ""
      "Dirt will stick to him in all corners"

      What other “job”? What is the "dirt"?
      I feel my postscript has not gone ...

  • UPI

    probably people do not compare pictures from different devices.
    Nikonovskaya - she is so, not bad, but how to say - "dead", quite a bit.
    if there was no choice - then of course, and so the canon and the "livelier" exhaust is obtained,
    not to mention devices with ANY SSD matrix ... ...

    but most importantly, if only the owner liked it, maybe it's my IMHO.

  • Alik

    People, stop discussing this apparatus. Don't like it, don't eat it! If you like it - tell us. I like it - I bought it. Who doesn’t like don’t take and all, what are the problems? Why so much nastiness, and not about Df anymore? but just like that, about ANY camera. Exhale ...

    • Vic

      in statements - we can help people choosing a camera, right?

      • Alik

        I would like to…

    • Alexey

      How about the departed? Or good or nothing?

      • Yarkiya

        To me, erudites, the real saying sounds like this - "About the dead, or good, or nothing but the truth."
        And then they took the fashion out of context to pull it out.

  • Charles

    Pleased with:
    "In the hands of the camera, it feels solidly and well-made, expensive thing."
    I have the opposite feeling - Df is in my hands like a cheap Ketai rattle.

    • Oleg

      The problem is that 99% of such commentators held the camera in their hands in absentia ...

      • Alex

        They say, hold the camera in your hands, which one will lie down, take that one! The first time I came to a photographic store when buying a camera, I held it, played with different ones. The Nikon D90 fell into my hands, I took pictures with it for a year, being not enlightened in photo editors, and I realized that I was somehow deceived. But thanks to Radozhiva and personally to Arkady, I learned that there are still devices that, in addition to functionality, also give excellent color. PS. The point is that with today's marketing attitude of manufacturers, holding the camera in your hands, twirling it, twirling it, throwing it up is simply not enough for an ordinary layman who still wants to have a good color by default! But a good color in the current industry is becoming more and more difficult to draw! Hence the dissatisfaction of amateur photographers, not on bare soil. And my choice, as an amateur for photographs with a BEAUTIFUL color, is mostly a camera with a CCD sensor! And with regard to DF, it is enough to look at the posted pictures of the author of the article to draw a little bit of a conclusion about this wonderful camera.

        • Jury

          any medal has two sides - and the discussed issue of correct color. Cameras of the hedgehog type, give good color by default - but this is all true at low ISO. Many discussants did not like the photo of the man in the bar. In this photo we are dealing with a “dirty light” in which it is very difficult for the camera to set the correct WB. Ideally, it should be set up in advance on a gray card and get the correct BB right away, or do it during processing, but also on a gray card. In my version of processing, the BB is exposed on the ceiling. And, finally, the second side of the coin, cameras Nikon D200, Fuji S5, Canon 1Ds Mark II, at ISO 12800 will not be able to produce any color :)

          • Igor

            Guys about color are better off not speaking at all. First, pass an examination on the correctness of color perception, and this is not the same when confusing red and green. It's just that in individuals of the male sex (30%), this very perception is not entirely correct. So what about carrots and greenness is a relative matter. Not "ndravitsa" nikon-stomping on the canon, etc. But claiming color distortions ... It's like admitting your own bias or a "malfunction" in your personal color perception.

        • anonym

          Agree to all 100!

      • Charles

        If you are hinting at me, you held it. And filmed.

  • Alik

    Yes, yes!

  • Valery Demyanov

    Skinton, then another boke, they’re mostly just talking about them, and the artistic sense, fullness is the last thing! Well, are they sitting in front of each other or a model with a horse's face, nothing is empty, but boke-blah.

  • Alexey

    Discussing external model data is dishonorable. But articles on the composition are clearly not enough on this wonderful site.

  • Vic

    but in principle - not bad with the skin, etc., but the price….
    here from my Olympus for 100ue

    • Denis

      the topic is not about Olympus

  • Vic

    2

  • Vic

    3

    • Pooh

      the only thing to like is the design is ugly, like the first ones - they were tormented with this brick,
      can remember.

  • Alik

    Trite. Do not scold the device without holding it in your hands.

  • anonym

    The camera is very beautiful.

    • anonym

      I have a D600 + 85 1.8D
      Dreaming of D3000 + 35 1.8G DX)

  • anonym

    I have a D600 + 85 1,8D
    Dreaming of D3000 + 35 1,8G DX)

  • anonym

    I have a D600 + 85 1.8D
    Dreaming of D3000 + 35 1.8G DX)

    • Alexey

      Take it and buy it.

    • Denis

      near the D600 left the D3000

    • Yarkiya

      What kind of perversion, no need to have a camera, she needs to take pictures.

  • Alik

    What kind of dream is this?

    • Alexey

      Trolling.

  • Pooh

    so simple

  • Andrei

    offtop

    skin tone skin tone ... funny, like fsh and LR nobody uses? o_O
    like the third nickel doesn’t give the greenback? (it leads away very well) such smart words like skinton and blah blah, and the Tint slider is not destined to twist and BB?
    I’ve been shooting for several years in parallel with that of Kenon and that of Nikon (second nickel and third, 60D, D300 and D7200)

    in any case - camera settings will save, period.

    by the way - what is the correct skin tone?

    on the topic - the camera looks like a retro, it looks stylish

    • zengarden

      > by the way - what is the correct skin tone?

      Well, obviously :)

      • Alexey

        Churikova is good.

    • Onotole

      But I'll tell you - it's not CMOS the wrong color is given, it's your monitor shit.
      I have no idea what monitor you have or how much it costs, but it's shit. Because LCD.
      I don't care what kind of IPS technology there is, or something else, it makes no difference.
      He does not have a normal color, especially human facial skin, even though calibrate.
      The only technology standard in terms of natural color is CRT. But you go find one with an unfinished pipe. In principle, plasmas are also not bad, but I have not seen such.
      I'm looking at pictures on prof. CRT 24 inches and I will say that the most correct colors are with CMOS, and with CCD, all faces are not the same as oversaturated or something. Takshta change your monique and you will be happy.

      • Alexey

        I will add, as well as give to all clients along with a photo disc, a CRT monitor with a handset that has not sat down.

        • Onotole

          And at clients one figs is not calibrated, and in general to them these skintones to a bulb.
          They, clients, unlike “photographers”, see into the very essence of photography, namely, first of all, they pay attention to what and how it is depicted, and what colors are there - in twenty-eighth place.
          And the most demanding let them watch on the plasma, the result will also be buzzing.

          • Alexey

            That's why, and do not holivit about skinton and color rendition.

          • Alik

            Exactly what! Not even the 28th, but some thirty apparently!

    • Andrei

      My young friend! You read a lot of crap on the forums and became the same “theoretical teacher”, like many “skintons”. In fact, apart from D90, you had nothing, and at best you held and twisted the D7000. From the experience of owning and using Nikon, I can tell you and others like that: either do not try about what you do not know about, or pay attention to the settings: an underexposed frame gives yellow-green in the shadows. Overexposed - magenta in highlights. With the correct exposure, “even” D600, D7000 and all other Ds produce normal color. Of course, if lighting permits, because in low light, color noise kills color irrevocably. Canon has more liberties with exposure, but fewer options in low light. And if you want to press a button - and a masterpiece - you have all the way to automatic mode on the superzoom.

    • Ali

      Well said! My friend is a real professional photographer, from the old galaxy of film-makers. Teaches photography to students. Member of the Union of Photographers of Russia. An experienced cannonist. At work, he uses cameras from different manufacturers (there is such an opportunity). When asked about skin tones, he always answers: crooked fools are looking for the right skin tone. By the way, now he walks with the D810. And when asked which camera he likes and what he likes about it, he answered like this - Nikon d4, the best auto BB and autofocus, otherwise it tells me without a difference that Nikon, that Pentax, that Sony, that Canon. Regularly shoots with medium format cameras.

  • Basil

    Very nice review. Afftar walk ischo !!

    • anonym

      Eh ... Vasya, Vasya ...

  • Alik

    I'm already kidding. What about the device? Maybe I bought something wrong?
    People, return to the topic.
    All such pros, damn it. With Smena-8M is not suitable, What should I do?

  • Alik

    How is Df something? Write, PHOTOGRAPHY. T Get professionals. Write about the case already.

    • Alexey

      Df is a good camera with a stylish appearance, with a little strange ergonomics, and a very high price. This is if on the topic. It is very clear and boring to discuss.

      • Alik

        Like a regular film camera. With lenses B there is also a diaphragm on it (the lens). I really like. I do not work. I rent for myself. This is about leisurely shooting with this camera. I don’t know where to rush so.

        • Alexey

          You should always hurry, you will understand it - vita brevis.

          • Alik

            So many teachers ...

            • Alexey

              Alik, you bought a good camera. This is your choice and your money. And as for the teachers, I personally am grateful to all the people who taught me something. In particular, to Arcadia.

              • Alik

                Special thanks to Arkady! He is not included in the category of these “teachers”. I hope you understood correctly.
                There's still a slip of the tongue. Must be with “D” lenses. I have a keyboard switcher. I did not notice.

              • Bert

                Your story was really inaiemftovr, thanks!

      • Alik

        The price is yes, it bites. If not, I would have bought it earlier :)

        • Alexey

          No, I didn't understand. For you, the word teacher is a curse?

          • Alik

            No, no swearing. This is short. But rushing is not always necessary.

    • Alexander

      Well, isn't it handsome?

      • B. R. P.

        Yes, yum-yum!

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