Recall the Nikon DF, that camera was aimed at the slower adopters and helped Nikon maintain previous Nikon owners. It is time for the DF owners to upgrade and this is probably what Nikon marketing was thinking when they recommended this type of design to engineering.
That makes absolutely no sense at all. The Df is a full frame camera with the enticement that it is compatible with almost every past lens that Nikon made. If Nikon's plan was to migrate these users to the Z platform someone at Nikon didn't get the memo that there are almost no lenses in DX format for these users and that many of the lenses won't autofocus, or that the all the old AI manual lenses won't record aperture data.
I also hadn't heard that Df users were clamoring to be able to put pink and mint green covers on their cameras.
Nikon provides an adapter for F mount. The lack of AF was a marketing decision as Nikon tries to move people to new lenses. The multiple colors are to attract a different crowd. It's a catch all move. I agree that they are not getting that not supporting AF of lenses that used to AF is an influence in an owners evaluation of weather to look at other brands. Nikon used to keep customers because of there backwards compatibility and this even sold more of there higher end line as the lower end did not offer the backward compatibility. Nikon is too proud to look at themselves in the mirror and it's why they are facing a shrinking percentage of camera owners. When you look at the various systems, they have nothing interesting to offer other than the brand name. I feel the bigest tell for Nikon's future is that AP moved to Sony.
Morris
Sure. But all that aside, I was responding to a specific comment of yours.
"It is time for the DF owners to upgrade and this is probably what Nikon marketing was thinking when they recommended this type of design to engineering."
That simply is not why the Z fc was created.
