i'd like to see nikon bundle better raw processing software with their cameras - possibly even just a full version of capture, instead of a 30-day trial...
edit: the 'something for nothing' counter-argument doesn't work here. e.g., canon bundles a much more comprehensive suite of software with their cameras, and doesn't have to.
I wouldn't mind more available previous generation bodies worth using, plenty of canon shooters still shoot mkII's day in and and day out, not so many with d2x/h users can say that
Mainly that the NX software sucks while also being necessary to bring the best out of files due to crazy proprietary encoding! Why bother? Nikon is not a software company. You think they would be working as hard as they can to make LR/Aperture plugins that work wonders. Funny since their cameras and lenses are pretty much acknowledged to be better.
If you think Nikon glass is expensive wait until the new Canon IS-II lenses are released, the projected price for the new IS-II is more expensive than the current Nikon counterparts.
As a (largely) ex Nikon manual focus customer it bothers me that modern Nikkors don't have aperture rings. It sort of made my 3 FM2 bodies obsolete overnight.
Now I understand that progress has casualties, and that film users are on the way out, but it bothers me that people say Nikon hasn't changed their mount for 60 years or whatever. It may be pedantically true, but isn't much consolation if you want a Nikkor 24mm f1.4 for your FM2, because you won't be able to set an aperture. That's no kind of compatibility.
On the plus side Nikon have brought out some wonderful new lenses in the last few years, and film is nearly dead, so I'm just bleating.
I really like my Nikons. Of the few things I really don't like:
1. The additional multi-selector you get with the MB-D10 vertical grip is a godsend. The main one is too far for my thumb to reach when vertical. I wish the integrated bodies would get a second multi-selector.
2. NEF codec should be open, or use DNG. I'd like the freedom to use NX or LR at my discretion with the ability to get equally-good results from either one. Doing otherwise limits the flexibility and power of my Nikon imaging systems.
3. Capture NX sucks in many ways, but it also has some beautiful features. Independently of #2 above, I'd like NX to improve.
4. "L" button on top left is useless to me, I'd rather have something else there.
5. Menu structure is a royal PITA. Needs rework and streamlining.
6. The menu banks should allow the option to revert to saved settings when the camera is turned off, like easy exposure compensation can do. Now, any change made to the settings as I use the camera gets immediately stored to the menu bank, which makes the whole idea of "saving" settings useless.
7. I'd like to see cross-type AF sensors at least on all the outer "corner" points of the AF array, and on all the AF points that are selectable in 11-point selection mode.
8. I'd like to see that AF points cover a bit more of the frame than they currently do on an FX body. The AF coverage on a DX body is superb.
David Baldwin wrote:
As a (largely) ex Nikon manual focus customer it bothers me that modern Nikkors don't have aperture rings. It sort of made my 3 FM2 bodies obsolete overnight.
Now I understand that progress has casualties, and that film users are on the way out, but it bothers me that people say Nikon hasn't changed their mount for 60 years or whatever. It may be pedantically true, but isn't much consolation if you want a Nikkor 24mm f1.4 for your FM2, because you won't be able to set an aperture. That's no kind of compatibility.
It's great compatibility in the sense that you can continue to use older lenses on new bodies. But it's now two-way compatibility because you're right: you can't easily use new G lenses on older bodies which can't electronically set aperture on those bodies. Is there no film body that can use G lenses?
There are many film bodies you can use G lenses on. It's more accurate to say that you can't use G lenses on manual focus film bodies.
All G lenses work normally on my F100. Where you can run into trouble is with something like my N90s, which requires an aperture ring to use the lens in M or A mode (same for the F4, I should note).
I'll have to agree with the previous poster. My only gripe is the focus servo switch (Single / Manual / Continuous) gets bumped around too easily. Sometimes you take it out of your bag and it's enough to knock it into a different position. Even sometimes when you're walking around with it. They really need to design a more secure switch.
coresare wrote:
I'll have to agree with the previous poster. My only gripe is the focus servo switch (Single / Manual / Continuous) gets bumped around too easily. Sometimes you take it out of your bag and it's enough to knock it into a different position. Even sometimes when you're walking around with it. They really need to design a more secure switch.
I'm not sure what body you are using but I've never had this happen with my D90 or D300.
But the Canon 800/5.6 can be handheld by someone who's comfortable with handholding a 500/4, and the diet on which Canon put their new 400 shows that it is now possible (maybe always was possible) to make these lenses weigh a whole lot less. If Nikon gave any of my long lenses that kind of weight loss, I'd be first in line for the new versions.
The fact you have to pay extra for their raw processing software to get the most out of the NEF file. Either that or allow third party access to all the NEF secrets.
In Australia we pay through the nose for their retail stuff by approx. 15 to 20% more than the US even though our dollar has been worth the same now for almost three months. (Maybe we pay this much to get stock here)
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