levinton

Indeed Fujifilm has had a retro look with very practical adjustments with physical knobs for years. Nikon is catching up.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Zfc/16-50mm zoom kits are avaialable refurbished from Nikon for the next 4 days for $799.95 for those who feel the need for one. Don't know what colors are available.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

As Henry Ford used to say (sort of), "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black or silver." I have the silver (top) and black (bottom).

BebuLamar

Henry Ford didn't offer silver.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

The point was that choices are limited sometimes.

BebuLamar

Henry idea was you need no choice.

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

He didn't have much competition at the time.

Urnst Loc: Brownsville, Texas

Bill_de Loc: US

"... they can't concentrate on what they are shooting."

Great comment E. L.

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AnotherBob

My first non-Kodak-box camera was also an Agfa Silette; probably bought about 1963 from my local dealer. That was replaced by a pair of Minolta SRT-101s, one for me, one for my wife, the first one bought from Bromfield Camera, the second from Underground Camera, both Boston stores. I still sometimes use the Rokkor lenses on my Z6. Great fun.

I don't dislike the new retro-Nikons, but the looks alone would not convince me to buy one.

For those of us who are not professional photographers......don't forget that this is all about having fun. Whatever makes you happy.....

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

The Agfa was my father's camera, but he 'loaned' it to me in 1965 when I was a senior in high school, until I got something better, which was the Minolta SR-1 that I didn't get until almost three years later in 1968. It was a year or so after that that my brother sent me the SRT-101, with which I took over 4,600 photos before I upgraded to my Minolta XG-M in 1982. My last 35mm camera was a Minolta X-700, that I bought used in 2002 from a factory repair rep when the XG-M jammed, after taking over 5,400 photos, most using the add-on motor drive. After only about 550 photos, I retired the X-700 as I was starting to move to digital in a big way.

My first digital camera was a Canon PowerShot S10 that I bought in 2000. About a year later I bought a Canon IXUS V and gave the S10 to my wife. I liked the IXUS as it was small and I was traveling a lot, so it was very convenient (took over 2,300 images with it), but I was still shooting film for my serious stuff. However, in 2006 I finally retired that X-700 when I bought my first DLSR, a Sony A100.

I stuck with the Sony A100 until 2012, after 4,200+ images, when a co-worker sold me his nearly new Sony A65 body (he decided to go full-frame). I only used it as my mainline camera for about three years and only shot a bit over 2,000 images with it. What happened was that I bought a Sony NEX-3N in 2013, one of their first mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras, ostensibly for my wife, but I really liked the small size and started to use it when I was traveling. I finally decided to go mirrorless full-time, but I didn't want to downgrade my image size. The A65 used a 24.3Mp sensor while the NEX was only 16.1Mp. However, by then Sony was selling the a6000, which had basically the same sensor, 24.3Mp, as the A65, so that's what I switched to in 2016.

The Sony a6000 was my mainline camera until 2020 when I bought my current Sony a6500.

Note that while I've fully retired all of my film-based gear, as well as the Sony A100 (the Sony NEX-3N died on me after 2,100 images), I've occasionally had a need for the Sony A65 (like in 2017 when I wanted to set-up two high-end cameras to shot the total eclipse in August of that year, and which I plan to do again in October and next April for those eclipses). Also, the Sony a6000 is now part of my macro-kit. That leaves my Sony a6500 and the occasional shot taken with my Apple iPhone 11 Pro (which takes pretty good pictures and of course, is always with me). Note that my wife has stopped using any sort of 'camera' since we got our first iPhones (she uses a iPhone 13 Pro Max) despite the fact that I bought her a Sony DSC-HX400V in 2018 (its taken less than 100 images).

All in all, my photo archive, consisting of virtually every photo (or at least the ones that we've kept) taken by my wife and I (from at least the early 60's), currently numbers 55,507 images. This includes both film (scanned images) and digital, with the breakdown being 17,421 scanned images, and 38,086 digital images. And note that the archive is managed by a scheme I developed using the FileMaker Pro database application, which is fully searchable and includes thumbnail images. The photos themselves are stored on multiple hard-drives as well as solid-state media (at least three sets, stored in two different physical locations in fire-resistant containers).

Sorry for the long response, but I got started and just forgot to stop ;-)

worldcycle Loc: Stateline, Nevada

Yea, but go to any car show and 57 Chevy's are a dime a dozen. I think the kids that had them when I was a kid still have the same car as an adult.

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

That was just my .20 opinion.... Can I get 24 of them ? Ha Ha... I think we all wish for things we always wished for when we were young...

wapiti Loc: round rock, texas