My S2 got a big brother...

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Actually theys are 5 Nikons now (incl. three Nikkormats). As far as I can see the NIKON F is in fully working condition. Amazing that she came with a brown everready case. Maybe a reason why the black hold so good on it over the years. Obviously her previous owner wasn't a professional...

How do you like it??

Cheers, Frank
 
Nikon F Photomic T. Black. Averaging Meter, not center-weighted. Manual Indexing of lenses. NKT Logo on the body in white? Or Nikon Label?

I like mine!
 
Sonnar2 said:
Actually theys are 5 Nikons now (incl. three Nikkormats). As far as I can see the NIKON F is in fully working condition. Amazing that she came with a brown everready case. Maybe a reason why the black hold so good on it over the years. Obviously her previous owner wasn't a professional...

How do you like it??

Cheers, Frank
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I like it,I like it,I like it...there I said it 3 times!
I like it even more if that Black F has a red dot next to the serial number😀

Frank...with 5 Nikons and a Nikon page under construction, may be your user name should be Sonnar2Nikkor?

Kiu
 
Thanks guys... yes it has the Nippon Kogaku logo, but isn't a 64xx.xxx SN, no red dot, no tick mark lenses... way, that would have cost me a lot €'s more and I'm not going to be a Nikon collector! 😉

Probably it was sold as a set in 1965 (year of my birth) and used as such: 1 camera/prism - 1 lens. If I didn't know where it came from I would believe it was pre-owned by a German doctor!

I've searched for a while around with finders. Finding a good black unmetered prism will probably cost more than I paid for the whole set, and I'm even happy it has TTL metering at all. The Photomic FTn would be a better user prism and looks better, but otherwise somewhat historically uncorrect, so probably I leave it as it is.

Favorite to shoot with my small bunch of NonAI-lenses is the (center-weight metered, AE) Nikkormat EL anyway... (hell, are they cheap)

Of course, the S2 is the cutiest of all and used most!
 
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Nice!

Are mercury batteries (PX-13) still available in Germany?

Yes, the unmetered prisms are very expensive. The only affordable ones are the ones which are starrting to de-silver. They still cost around $100. Black ones are even harder to find.

-Paul

-Paul
 
So, if my eyes aren't deceiving me, the S2 is nearly an inch shorter (length-wise) than the 'F', or is it just the angle? Wow, if that's the case, then there's no doubt about it: i need to have an S2 stat.

Cale

ps: beautiful F, by the way!
 
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Much smaller than an F. Even a little bit smaller than an FM2.
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Ok, that's it - i'm officially on the hunt for one, starting nnnnnnow. Thanks Vince and Brian.. info very much appreciated (even though i'll be eating dust for a few months after said purchase)😀.

Cale
 
Okay, here's my S2's family portrait.
(I painted my S2's frontplate black about 15 years ago ... it was originally chrome).

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My kitchen scale, which is about the same age as the cameras, gives the following weights:

S2 with chrome 50/1.4 -- 700 grams
FM2 with 50/1.4 -- 850 grams
F (unmetered prism) and 50/1.4 -- 1025 grams
F2 (with DP1) and 50/1.4 -- 1200 grams

The accuracy of the scale seems to be +/- 25 grams.
 
VinceC-San
I just noticed that I do the same as you (apologise for the not-intentionally copywright violation), taped the name of my "working" cameras so they go less noticed in some places like Africa!
An this weekend I'll try a Full familly picture.... from S to d200!.. Now have to find a why for my wife go out for a couple of hours....
 
And it looks like it's broke and taped as a workaround... so less likely to be stolen.
I replaced all the (so nice....) Nikon straps with a good ones without any reference. That (so wounderfull...) yellow NIKON leters just scream "GET ME!".😛
 
Vince, what are you in the hunt for now? I'm lightening my closet a bit (I spent too much moving up to an F2) and might have what you are looking for. Perhaps a nice Apollo Nikon FTn, just CLAed.....

B2 (;->
 
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