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Now that is quite a bit of a surprise: it's a Nikon Zfc - check that out - don't ask me what FC stands
for, but it is flipping cool, maybe that's what it is! Do you remember the old Nikon DF? Well this
is a far better looking camera; the DF if you remember that was a digital camera with old
school aesthetics done way before Fujifilm gave an "X". It was a fantastic idea but missing something to
make it a popular choice with the masses. This is how I imagined the DF should look - this is pretty much
a FM2 FM3 in a digital body; I mean if you're a bit of a sucker for the old Nikon FM, and if you've
got a pulse, and you definitely will be then this will certainly appeal because it looks exactly
the same. The only thing that's different is: oh my god, it's got a tilty-flippy vlogging screen!
There will be people that question why there's a vlogging screen on a camera that looks like
an FM because you never vlogged with an FM, right? But it's still very useful to have a tilty-flippy
screen - it lets you look at how pretty your camera and your face looks at the same time.
One of the great features of the DF was the manual exposure dials that decorated the top part of the
camera and that's what they've done with the Zfc. The dials are pretty nice, I mean they've
got a little kind of aluminium - I think it's aluminium surround - so they feel nice to the touch
kind of an all-right clicky sound; that is the ISO dial with the mode dial on the side
here, and on the other side we've got a shutter speed dial and exposure comp, and has a dedicated
movie to stills mode switch thing; and you see that tiny little screen - that's for your aperture
value right there - you can see it. Well, yeah I like it. So, yeah, dials like the DF, but because
this is mirrorless the size and proportions are closer to the FM in the hands. The Zfc has
the FM vibes nailed down to a tee even though the innards aren't anything drastically new
specs wise mostly as a z50 so yes you're gonna be buying carrot mainly for the looks
but what's wrong with that when it looks so damn good for sure it looks clean af and talking about
af it has the same hybrid af phase and contrast detect system of the z50 because it is essentially
a z50 is an aps-c 20-megapixel sensor with a z-mount and this lens right here is just the same
as the z50 kit lens 16-15 millimeter lens albeit painted silver lens i would definitely get however
and i don't have that here today is the new 28 millimeter sc lens f 2.8 which looks kind of retro
cool which matches the retro call of this body it has that ais lens look that would complete the
manual camera feel this is a must-have lens to get with the zfc and for what i was wondering about
the body the camera body that is not my own body it's a magnesium alloy chassis with some kind of
fancy plastic-ish covering but i say plastic-ish it doesn't feel plasticky these bits that should
be filling metally do feel quite nice i mean they're kind of cool to touch i don't know if it's
because the aircon here and the camera is cold but it feels cold to the touch making it feel metallic
there you go butt plastic we've got a flap here and the sd card slot is down there anyway moving
on to the tilty flippy screen it doesn't sit completely flush with the body right there
but it's all right you can also flip it to this side and it's got kind of a fake leverette so you
can almost pretend that you are in fact using a film carrier especially with these dials they feel
great they feel where they should be those dials are ergonomically fantastically positioned just as
you remember it with the fm but the only question is will they make more lenses lenses with aperture
rings because that would be all so awesome one thing is that it seems like the 28 millimeter lens
doesn't have the aperture ring seen on actual ais lenses which is a shame that would make it perfect
so the real reason i'm dressed like this is because i'm camouflaged ready for some nature
shooting well not really that's the weight rose car park along with iaf and subject tracking the
zfc also has animal eye af2 sadly no wildlife here the only animals are in the fridges of weight rows
and because it is zen mount you can mount any of the zen mount lenses on it obviously
such as this massive 51.2 i mean it is quite a small body this feels good in the hands
of course some people might miss a grip but that is exactly how they were made you've just got to
love cameras this size they're kind of possible if you take the lens off it especially this lens
one nice touch is the round viewfinder it's a modern take of the old-school rings it's made
of rubber which are blessing for the coating of my glasses well it's quite an interesting
move to put a tilty flippy screen like this on the zfc not just because this is a retro style
camera but also because this is gonna appeal to vloggers and this is me vlogging on the zfc
the shutter speed is probably a bit wrong this is me vlogging on the zfc with a 14 to 24 millimeter
f 2.8 lens i am stuck inside a nikon hq canteen doing this video about the zfc and i think the
video looks pretty all right unlike the full frame zs there's no in-body stabilization
there is electronic vr but i'd rather opt for the 1650 lens which has 4.5 stops of vr it's gonna be
good for vlogging with the full frame z lenses without vr your vlogs might end up a bit shaky
with a 1650 vr i thought the z50 could have been a good vlogging camera if it wasn't for the screen
that flipped down making and not so useful on vlogging sticks the zfc they've got that sorted
and well they've got some vlogging kits ready for it too now interestingly somebody has put this
on the table which i'm not sure where i'm supposed to photograph or do this
one interesting thing with the dials is that you can't choose auto mode you can't choose
auto wires so you've got a mode dial but a shutter speed if you just use the dials here it's all
manually controlled as long as you've got a manual mode here so when you put it to average priority
it doesn't matter what setting you've got on on that dial it chooses shutter speed for you
the shutter priority obviously you pick the shutter speed here
and you got p mode auto mode image quality should look pretty much the same z50 it's essentially
z50 inside but that's no bad thing right see that's why a tilty flippy screen is useful
you know what i feel like the back lever more that was the best subject to eat the
other thing which is not like an fm is that this has a 5 fps burst all extended to 11 fps
and that is pretty much all you need to know about it oh and it looks cool essentially this is going
for the ghoulies of the fujifilm x-series and why not because nikon has such a fantastic history
in making good-looking cameras and this is just another one for 899 pounds 1049 euros i
guess it's around that in usd there's not much to dislike about it i guess one thing is that there
aren't many dx only zed lenses to choose from four including the new 28 millimeter and i really think
they should make the retro style lenses with an aperture ring but the key question that hasn't
been answered is what does the c and zfc stand for compact cheap crop well perhaps if this is a
hit we might also convince nikon to take the c out and make a full frame zf how amazing would that be
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