<p>There's another way to write the time-worn expression "old school": old's cool.</p><p>I know this because I own a T-shirt from a second-hand record store with the alternate version printed on the front. It's a rather optimistic sentiment in my case no amount of ageing has or will ever make me cool but I'm sure I must have some friends who could wear it, and people encountering them would think, Right on man! Old is cool!</p><p>It's the precise sentiment Nikon has tried to evoke with its new Df camera, a very modern digital SLR wrapped in the body of an old-school film SLR. In the Df, old-school is cool again.</p><p>Unfortunately, it's not just cool but also a good deal bigger and a little heavier than it could be; slow and ornery at times and a little hard to handle. Come to think of it, my old, cool friends are all of those things too. But for the most part, Nikon has totally nailed the concept.</p><p><a href="http://www.afr.com/f/free/technology/digitallife/nikon_nails_retro_chic_with_df_slr_uyIbnqRFMSSL4jQQAZ3jGM">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.photographyblog.com/news/nikon_df_firmware_update_c_1.01/">Nikon Df Firmware Update C 1.01</a> (PhotographyBLOG (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dgrVeonPvgWUuHMepCpF5Xbbj0o4M&authuser=0&ned=us">3 additional articles.</a></p>