In article 2013111212432453930-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
says...

On 2013-11-12 19:17:01 +0000, John A. said:

On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 23:39:41 -0500, Michael
wrote:

On 2013-11-05 10:03:12 +0000, Me said:

On 5/11/2013 9:49 p.m., David Taylor wrote:
On 05/11/2013 04:47, RichA wrote:
I'd sooner pay $3000 for this than $1800 for a lame D610 body.


Strange, really. I suppose it will appeal to some folk, but what a
price! Too many dials!


It's large, pointless, and overpriced.
D610 is a much better camera, or for the same retail price as the DF, a
D800 kills it in every way.

Unlike many Nikon D's, this one specifically works with all the old (I
mean OLD) lenses- the pre-AI manual lenses with the coupling forks. One
reason I bought my (DX format) D5000 was that it could do that also,
but when I found it too tedious to use those lenses fully manually, and
I wasn't taking 35mm film anymore (I still take 120), I sold my entire
Nikon F system to KEH when they came up to my city on one of their
traveling buying trips. I got decent money for it. But now those lenses
would be useful on the DF, if I could figure out a good reason to drop
nearly $3000 on yet another camera. All that said, for those of us who
grew up loving the Nikon F, this camera looks like a camera again.

If only this were real... http://re35.net/

Yup! That was an April fool's day prank from a year or two back.

There was a siilar idea which flew for a few months and the proved to
not be viable.

Back before I bought my first DSLR I did in fact look around to see if
something like that was available.

Maybe this will come to fruition some day...
http://nikonrumors.com/2012/12/17/ni...-cameras.aspx/

I

seriously doubt that that is much more than wishful thinking.

I suspect it will be invalidated on the basis of prior art--Leica
actually sold such a product, the "Digital Modul R" for the R9.