Nikon’s new ZF is a retro-styled full-frame camera aimed right at our nostalgic hearts
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto from The Verge - All Posts on (#6EXB6)
The Nikon ZF is the company's latest camera. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge After nine years of occasionally chasing the retro-camera-with-modern-features unicorn, Nikon may have finally gotten the formula right.
The Japanese camera maker is announcing the Nikon ZF, a modern mirrorless camera packed with fairly high specs - like a 24.5-megapixel full-frame sensor, 299-point tracking autofocus with subject detection, in-body image stabilization, and dual card slots (of a sort) - in a body that looks just like one of the camera's analog forebears. Nikon may have done this dance before with its trifling ZFC and long-forgotten Df DSLR, but it's correcting its main mistakes with those cameras by giving the ZF a full-frame sensor and competitive price of $1,999.95 when it launches mid-October.
While the Df may look a...