It's a slippery slope...

[Phil_F_NM]

I found a 40.5 metal pin Nikkor lens cap today.
Logically, I need a Nikon S2 with 50mm f/2 lens to put the cap on, right?

This is how I'm rationalizing the purchase of an S2...

Phil Forrest

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I won a Nikon S2 case on Ebay and then bought the camera with lens from the same dealer to go with it.

 

[sepiareverb]

I found a 40.5 metal pin Nikkor lens cap today.
Logically, I need a Nikon S2 with 50mm f/2 lens to put the cap on, right?

Not necessarily- those caps fit many of the Nikon enlarging lenses too. You need a darkroom.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Not necessarily- those caps fit many of the Nikon enlarging lenses too. You need a darkroom.

I had thought of that too but my current housing arrangement precludes a darkroom. Summer of last year I "gave" away my darkroom which included a Beseler 45MX-II, all of the negative carriers made for that enlarger from half-frame up to 4x5, a bunch of nice enlarging lenses including an S Componon, Zone VI timer, color analyzer, spare bulbs, safelights, and a slough of trays from 8x10 to 16x20. Don't even ask the price it all went for, I'm still sad. I just had no storage space when I moved in. :bang:

...but this lens cap COULD possibly serve to inspire me to begin collecting some darkroom supplies again...

Phil Forrest

 

[Mister E]

I could use that cap!?

 

[Livesteamer]

Long ago a friend gave me a gearshift knob for a Triumph GT6. I asked what I was supposed to do with it and he said get a car to put under it. Several years later I did get a 1968 Triumph GT6... in three truckloads. Funny how things get started. Joe

 

[JonR]

Good luck buying a S2..... and then a S3 ...... and then maybe a few extra lenses......
🙂
Jon R

 

[Jack Conrad]

Maybe that S2 that the cap belongs on is hiding near where you found it. Poor thing is probably just shy without a cap on.

 

[ferider]

Hmm. You could just buy a Jupiter 8.

But then again, the right approach to use the cap is to buy a Nikkor 50/2 LTM 🙂

 

[Ezzie]

I found a 40.5 metal pin Nikkor lens cap today.
Logically, I need a Nikon S2 with 50mm f/2 lens to put the cap on, right?

This is how I'm rationalizing the purchase of an S2...

Phil Forrest

Rather like using the new towels trick. Buy new towels for the bathroom. They don´t match the decor. Redo the bathroom.

 

[BillBingham2]

Exposed glass!!! I can just imagine.

Yes it is a slippppppppery slope but it is one of the best rides I've ever been on. An S2 or an S3 (have not owned an SP....yet (;-> ) blends into your right hand like butter. It is one of two cameras you can use with one hand, focus, adjust shutter speed, fire and wind.

You will not find a better ride. Might I suggest an S2 with a CV 28/3.5 and a 50/1.4 or 50/2. It's a great setup, you use the full frame of the S2 as your finder for the 28 and the frame lines for the 50.

Go for it!

B2

 

[nikon_sam]

I found a 40.5 metal pin Nikkor lens cap today.
Logically, I need a Nikon S2 with 50mm f/2 lens to put the cap on, right?

This is how I'm rationalizing the purchase of an S2...

Phil Forrest

With that kind of logic...what would happen if you bought a roll of 120...???

 

[Tom A]

I fully support that kind of rational. A couple of years ago I went to a friends store in Wetzlar (Lars Netopils Classic Cameras) as I needed a back cap to a M-lens. I have known Lars for a long time and we discussed the state of collectible cameras ( and played with them) and in the end I walked out with a M2. Kind of a back-cap to a Leica lens isen't it!

 

[Phil_F_NM]

An M2 is one of the BEST back lens caps you can get! Far more functional than a 14269 cap!
What color was your new lens cap, Tom? Black paint or chrome?

Phil Forrest

 

[Tom A]

OH,it was a plain jane chrome M2 - one previous owner.

 

[barnwulf]

Slippery slope indeed. I have been photographing for a long time and have had quite a few different cameras. Not nearly as many as some people here, but I am not a collector, I use my cameras on a fairly regular basis. For several years I have been lusting over some kind of Nikon RF. I have had numerous Nikon RFs on my ebay watch list only to let them go by with out bidding. I thought I had gotten over all that and then I joined RRF. The slippery slippery sliding began. I bought a very nice S3 from RFbob. It was so nice that I didn't think I should use it everyday. So, I bought another that was nearly as nice but it had a shinny strip in the back of the upper plate but it worked beautifully. I thought I was set but I made the mistake of still searching for Nikon RFs. A 2000 Ltd Ed, S3 came up that had had a few rolls run through it but was still like new. I had to get it. Next I put what I thought was a low bid on an SP and won it. Damn, this has to stop. RRF is a very expensive forum to join unless you have a tremendous amount of will power to ward off the demons that make you do things like draining your bank account buying another camera or lens. Is their a 12 step program here for buying cameras addiction? -jim

 

[SteveM_NJ]

An old Warner Brothers short ("Daffy Duck" cartoon from way back) had a line in it with similar effect that reminds me of this.

"Hey Mac, You need a house to go with this doorknob !"

Camera Collecting "Rational" - made me smile.

 

[barnwulf]

PS I forgot, then the lens buying began. 3 of the cameras came with 5 cm 1.4 Nikon lenses and then I bought a 3.5cm 2.5 lens on ebay and then took Stephen Gandy up on his VC Nikon rangefinder lens sale and added a 25mm, 35mm, 50/1.5, 50/2.5 and the 85/3.5. I think I have finally reached the bottom and have slid to a stop. Isn't there a saying about the moth and the flame?

Sorry, I think this has been all covered elsewhere on RRF. Forgive my rambling on and on. - jim

 

[Ducky]

Maybe that S2 that the cap belongs on is hiding near where you found it. Poor thing is probably just shy without a cap on.

There's a saying in the Navy, "If you re going to steal my cap, you may as well steal my pants. I'm as much out of uniform bare headed as I am bare a**ed."

 

[HuubL]

watch out! My first M4 I got for free. It needed a lens and so I bought one, two,.... three. Next, I needed another body for the extra lenses, so....
Now I own 9 Ms 4 Barnacks and lenses that need more bodies....
The slope is not slippery, it's a black hole!