How good is the Nikon 35AF ?

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Hi,

I stumbled upon this forum today... I have a couple of p&s cameras that I think take pretty great pictures... Some of the best shots I have are taken with my Rollei Prego 70.

I recently was given a Nikon 35AF and have just run a test roll through it... Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to drop it off for developing. Many of the shots were taken indoors or at night with the flash, so I'm not sure what to expect.

What are people's opinions about this camera?

Also, I found some auxillary lenses going cheap on *bay and would also like to hear whether anyone has any experience with them... Do they make much of a difference to the focal length? I'm guessing they are probably around +/- 0.5X, but there is no magnification marked on them? I would also like to hear if anyone has noticed any distortion or image degradation when using them.

Sorry, this is turning into 20 questions... I guess that's what we are all here for?

Peter
 
I bought several and gave them as gifts to family a good 15 years ago. They have nice 4-element F2.8 lenses on them. I have seen one die from the flash capacitor leak, took out the electronics. One was lost overseas, one still going strong.
 
I used one a lot last year until it was stolen in Mexico. It is a very good camera.

The lens is very sharp and contrasty.

Here is a link to a little review of the camera Nikon L35AF

Use the camera, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Chad
 
Peter, I owned a Nikon L35AF for about a year until I sold it. I also had some aftermarket accessory lenses. They brought the WA down to about 28mm and the telephoto up to about 70 mm. I rarely used them. When I did, the prints showed no negative effects. The framing goggles that attached to the camera were too cumbersome to use; I guesstimated my framing. The lenses themselves screwed directly into the filter threads.

Overall, I liked the camera. It focussed correctly almost every time and it was easy to get good fill-flash from the on-board unit. My complaints are few. The battery doors often become detached or loose on these cameras. Electrical tape solves the problem. Even though there's a backlight compensation switch I noticed my camera did not handle backlit scenes very well. Also, the VF windw scratches very easily. The motor wind was also very noisy (though not as noisy as my Canon AF35ML).

I regret selling my L35AF because it was a reliable take-along camera. However, I only paid $15 for the camera and $9 for the aux lenses. I ended up selling the whole package for (I'm not making this up) $83 on *bay. 😉
 
I'm resurrecting this old thread to save starting a new one. As I have just got myself an L35af I notice the ISO dial reads ....400, 500, 640 and then 1000. I want to put a roll of Fuji 800 colour film through it. What would users suggest I set the dial to for the best results? Anyone got sample shots fro me to view?
 
kuvvy said:
I'm resurrecting this old thread to save starting a new one. As I have just got myself an L35af I notice the ISO dial reads ....400, 500, 640 and then 1000. I want to put a roll of Fuji 800 colour film through it. What would users suggest I set the dial to for the best results? Anyone got sample shots fro me to view?
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Strange, I have mine right in front of me and it's marked 400 - dot - dot - 1000. I always assumed the dots were 640 and 800 but don't know for sure.

Agree that 640 should be better for you.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
I bought several and gave them as gifts to family a good 15 years ago. They have nice 4-element F2.8 lenses on them. I have seen one die from the flash capacitor leak, took out the electronics. One was lost overseas, one still going strong.
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The original L35AF has a five-element lens. They switched to the four-element lens with the L35AF2 (One Touch). The original L35AF is a fine camera, but it is prone to vignetting. The later version doesn't seem to have this issue, I wonder if that is why they made the change?
 
This reminds me, I dug up the manual for mine in the meantime. Dated October '84. So, for posterity: The non-labeled speeds (marked with dots only) on this version are 50, 80, 125, 160, 250, 320, 500 and 640.
 
i got L35AD2 (L35AF2 with data back, which goes only to 2009, it's useless now) and i love it, the only thing that bugs me is the winding motor sound, it's very loud it scared the cat i was photographing..
 
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