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saaketham wrote:
What awards?
I am just wondering why the OP hasn't returned to comment or reply to anyone and ...
account was created in Feb 2022 At the height of the Great Troll Wars !!!
What does account creation date have to do with anything?
Spectro wrote:
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akul wrote:
Well, I will be brutally honest. I actually like the visual design aspect of Sony more than ZFC. I like the design, the muted silver finish. Viewfinder looks like an afterthought unresolved design but other than that, it looks sexy. it can be few steps simpler to be at the level of Minolta CLE. Or may need. A drastic step, a la Apple level simplicity. However, clearly, it is a piece of industrial design I respect more than a reference to the past in an easy way out manner I see in Zf. Zf is not a horrible design, it is not ugly, but I don’t see any rigor in the design itself. . Nikon, in my little world, has never won ‘ good design’ award from me. They have won ‘amazing camera’ award, not the design award. I love Nikon for what they do with the camera, and that is why I wanted to use Nikon D70. Aesthetically , they are ‘meh’, usually a B to A- at best for the aesthetics. Sony is usually A- to some As. Like this one, to me, is a solid A. Zf is a B+ .
All of this, of course, is subjective and has nothing to do with whether I will buy the Sony. That requires Form to meet functions at minimum, and if I were looking to change platform or not, which I am not.
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I personally love the Giugiaro industrial design Nikon has used since the F5. It's still there in the Z cameras but probably not the ZF. I have not seen or held a ZF so will reserve judgement!
Anyway, just wanted to close the topic - I sold my Sony and bought Zf - it is best camera I ever had. Period.
EDIT:
I thought I would leave few more comments on my new Zf.
EVF - wow, just wow, comapred to Sony a7c - I knew that Zf will have evf size of Sony big cameras, but once I tried it, it felt a lot bigger than I expected. I thought I won't notice huge difference, but I did - size of evf, resolution also makes difference, especially for manual focusing in magnification.
back screen is also a bit bigger and I think resolution is higher, it looks like 20% better
Menu - I did not like Sony's menu on a7c. Zf has different one, I need to get used to it, but feels a bit better in use already
shutter release button tactility and sound - it feels like old style SLR camera shutter release, which is nice and pronounced a lot more than Sony's. That soft travel is something I need to get used to it, you dont feel that half press as much as you feel it on Sony cameras, but when you pass the stage of release and hear that click... mmmm... nice
