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Totally primitive designs, clumsy and huge!

Every designer should have to spend a day holding and using an Apple iPhone. Once you have done this you understand just how really awful almost all current electronic design is. How really primitive it is.

There is simply no excuse for this kind of size and weight, and clumsy display and controls on anything that costs $5000 when it can be totally eclipsed by a $500 device.

Shame on Nikon... The Nikon F was a far better camera, worthy of being called a great design.

No Kiu,

I have always hated these huge clunky cameras, no matter who makes them (canon-nikon-take your pick), and now they are not just huge and clunky, there is not longer an excuse for them. They are the SUVs of the technology industry.

I am waiting for something decently small with a really fast display. Like I say look at an iPhone and get back to me, no more of those stupid menus with external button controllers for software.

As for the full frame, nikon does not seem to be able to make up their mind... does it work or not, one moment they say it doesn't work well with older lenses, now they think it does. My guess it is is fair, but mostly a marketing ploy. But no matter, I guess, I am never going to own one.

But knock yourselves out... I am sure lots of them will be sold, heck my neighborhood is full of Hummers. I am just not interested in a continual rehash of the F3 forever. I know some guys are. Ok -- all done.

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I was thinking about this some more today, while I was working on my computer, and it occurred to me that the problem with Nikon's approach (and Canon) is, that in Digital there is no such thing as full frame, it is just an artificial construct.

They keep hanging on to motion picture film from Edison's original Kinescope, from 1889! Basing technology in 2007 on a design from 1889 is ridiculous! It is time for some company to be brave enough to design a completely new system, with new lenses, that don't weigh a ton.

The only other common use item that has not changed in 100 years is the automobile, and more importantly the format we use for it. We are still driving straight at each other, at high speeds, in machines totally alien to human flesh (glass and steel) with minor safety equipment (bags rather than proper seats, belts, and helmets). And to top it off gas mileage has dropped since the 1920's and the death/serious injury toll, per individual owner, has remained outrageously high. Admittedly a harder format to change (highways), but still a totally failing system which will only get worse.

The use of film camera standards to design digital cameras is in the same mess, until they let go digital cameras will continue to be rather awful.

Nikon rangefinders are elegant machines, at the top of technology in 1950~60, but what is really sad is that in practical terms (size vs quality) Nikon has not been able to improve on them much in 50 years!

You have to understand Kiu, I am not very mainstream.
1) I have not owned a car in 20 years, and only driven or ridden in one a few times. I have two bicycles.
2) I use Apple computers, and long ago disconnected my "stereo."
3) I do not own an interchangeable lens SLR or any SLR lenses.
3) I have only eaten at MacDonalds once, on the way to a camera show in New Jersey, and I threw it out the window (littering).
4) I drink Diet Coke... maybe someday I will stop.
5) I like Armani suits but I buy everything else on-line at the Gap. I avoid malls, I do go to Ikea.
6) I do shop at Target, and like it.