[pure-silver] Re: Nikon users?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:59:09 -0800
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From: "BertS" <aasainz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Nikon users?
Don McClure wrote:
Just as a point of interest, I just bought a well-used F4
at Service Photo in Baltimore for 200 bucks, and a nice
F(ftn) w/flakey meter for 65. This is the time to grab
these fabulous cameras. How long will they stay this
cheap?
Don McClure
Bel Air, MD
The meter on the F can be repaired and recalibrated to use
available batteries other than the original mercury
batteries.
The F is built like a battle tank. As long as it was not
used by a war zone journalist they will last a lifetime.
And then there is that nice 105/2.5 lens...
Bert
If this is the Nikon F I agree. I'm on my second (the
first one took a header and it was cheaper to get another
body than repair it). The exposure meter seems quite
accurate and the camera is easy to use. Probably a bit heavy
by current standards. The lenses are good but Canon lenses
are better. The advantage of the Nikon is that its a system
and most later lenses will fit earlier cameras, not the case
with Canon.
Its still possible to obtain diopter correctors for the
FTN finder. I have two, one for my uncorrected eye (quite
near sighted) one for my eye when wearing contact lenses.
The bare finder is adjusted for a virtual image at about 1
meter, which will be OK for most "normal" eyes but if one no
longer has much range of accomodation the corrective diopter
lenses become necessary.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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