24K Gold Nikon Df, over $40,000

[Andrew Garrard]

<p>Luke: But surely you can just shoot everything with a 14-24 and then use digital zoom? :-)<br />

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But yes, you're right. Although I'm now going to be unable to use my 14-24 without thinking of the integrated hood as a foreskin. And unlike most lenses, I'll have the strange urge to zoom in when the weather's cold. The blog posts about removing the hood from DX fish-eye lenses to make them FX-friendly suddenly make me want to cross my legs.<br />

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Well, that lowered the tone. Although not necessarily more than this camera did in the first place.<br />

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I'm planning on being resolutely out this evening, since I find few things more horrifying than small children at the best of times.</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>I was trying to figure who might be the typical buyer of these cameras, and the only profile I can come up with is that guy filling up his Ferrari at the gas station and nobody appears to be looking but the driver knows full well what everyone's thinking, and he'd be wrong. </p>

[Wouter Willemse]

<p>Darn, such a pity I have no $40k to spend at the moment.... not sure what I'd do with the money if I had it, but I'd surely give this beautiful camera with very well matching lens a thought.<br>

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For about 1 nanosecond.</p>

[Andrew Garrard]

<p>Michael: I like the imagery, although since I'm based very near the main UK Ferrari repair centre, I'm obliged to point out that at least some Ferraris actually have merits. Perhaps a classic Ferrari owner might be more comparable to someone currently suggesting that a D2h is a currently viable sports camera. Not that anyone would do that, of course. (Rolls eyes.)<br />

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Now, a friend of mine who always cycled to work but who (as I found out when seeing him at a car park) had a rare Marcos - which he contrived to allow to rot, and managed to crash on a roundabout - <i>he</i> might be tempted. If he wasn't wedded to his E1 when I last saw him. (He's actually very reasonable, but the car was particularly preposterous, and what happened to it is karma for him reading wreckedexotics.com.)</p>

[dan_brown4]

<p>Whenever I run across a Ferrari at the local gas station, everybody is looking. If you showed up at an even, say a wedding, everybody would notice your golden Df. Especially hot young women.</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>Andrew, we all know the D2Hs is substantially improved over the D2H thus making it a more currently viable sports camera. :-) </p>

<p>Come to think of it, this gold camera might be right at home used on the runway at the Academy Awards. </p>

[mike_halliwell]

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<p>wedding, everybody would notice your golden Df. Especially hot young women.</p>

 

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<p>Make sure your shots are up to date....if they're looking at your camera before you, a wide berth seems appropriate.</p>

[eric_arnold]

<p>the problem is that there's only one prospective buyer: the man with the golden gun!</p>

[mike_halliwell]

<p>...for that little Nick Nack?</p>

<p>Surely not! It must be a D4S.....S for Scaramanga of course...:-)</p>

[bebu_lamar]

<p>I care a lot for how my camera looks and I am willing to pay for it. But... The golden Df just looks down right ugly. If someone uses it, it simply proves that the person has very bad taste. </p>

[ArthurRichardson]

<p>If they do the 400 2,8 too, I'll take a couple of them......</p>

[mike_halliwell]

<p>Some people want camera stuff gilded, some want to wrap it in camo neoprene.</p>

<p>I know I'm in the later group.:-)</p>