March 2017 Nikon RF Month

[WJJ3]

Great thread with many wonderful photos! With so many photos shot on film with 50mm and 35mm lenses all in one thread, I can see the Nikon rangefinder crowd is keeping it legit!

I was lucky enough to acquire my first Nikon rangefinder this month, an S2+5cm f1.4, and with some kind advice from jonmanjiro, was able to get the rangefinder patch cleaned up, and get the lens' aperture freed up and get shooting. Here's some shots from my first roll: the upper shots are at about f5.6, and the last 3 were shot wide open.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

Nice images Will.

Another light leak victim, about 50% crop S2 3.5cm f2.5 HC110 ORWO N74

 

[css9450]

My S2 is a very early one, so it was made in either early 1955 or maybe very late in 1954. But this car, which I think is a '54, is older. Nikon S2, W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm/f2.5, Ilford XP2:

 

[ChrisLivsey]

My S2 is a very early one, so it was made in either early 1955 or maybe very late in 1954. But this car, which I think is a '54, is older. Nikon S2, W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm/f2.5, Ilford XP2:

The camera seems to be functioning better than the car, those extra 12 months have taken a toll.

 

[Peter Jennings]

Great thread with many wonderful photos! With so many photos shot on film with 50mm and 35mm lenses all in one thread, I can see the Nikon rangefinder crowd is keeping it legit!

I was lucky enough to acquire my first Nikon rangefinder this month, an S2+5cm f1.4, and with some kind advice from jonmanjiro, was able to get the rangefinder patch cleaned up, and get the lens' aperture freed up and get shooting. Here's some shots from my first roll: the upper shots are at about f5.6, and the last 3 were shot wide open.

Very nice shots! Too bad about the scratches. Did you find what was causing them? I had a similar issue once with a bur on one of the film rails on one of my cameras. Smoothed with a nail file and then all was good.

 

[css9450]

The camera seems to be functioning better than the car, those extra 12 months have taken a toll.

Indeed! 🙂 That poor car has seen a lot of winter salt!

 

[filmtwit]

From the S3 & 35mm f2.5 w-nikkor

 

[WJJ3]

Very nice shots! Too bad about the scratches. Did you find what was causing them? I had a similar issue once with a bur on one of the film rails on one of my cameras. Smoothed with a nail file and then all was good.

Thanks Peter,

The scratches came either from the cassette I reloaded, my Pakon, or the camera. I felt around the surfaces the film could contact in the camera and didn't find any suspects, so i'm guessing the cassette made them. There is an active volcano here in town (literally in the city limits!) that is constantly emitting some noxious ash and other crap which gets blow around all over town, so I am realizing that I have to keep my film cassettes in a cleaner place than a little cardboard box sitting on the floor 😱

 

[css9450]

Illinois' Rock River. Nikon S2, W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm/f2.5, Ilford XP2:

 

[css9450]

And in very different weather, a rainy Sunday morning shot: Nikon S2, Jupiter-12 35mm/f2.8, Ilford XP2.

 

[Corran]

Inside an old building - all with my Nikon SP 2005, first with Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 and other two with Voigtlander 25mm f/4, and on T-Max 100 dev'd in FX-39:

 

[ChrisLivsey]

Tidying up some frames perhaps worth posting taken over the month and posted on the last day. Currently test shooting my new toy a Hasselblad XPan, great fun, so many great rangefinders out there, celebrate them all, in memory of TomA who loved them all with a passion he shared so willingly and always with such good humour, greatly missed from this thread.
Many thanks to all those who contributed so magnificently and with such great quality and variety showing off so well the qualities of the Nikon rangefinder System.

FWB 1927

Wood/Timber 8.5cm

Happ-illy

50p Shop

Crocus

 

[jonmanjiro]

Last day of the month and I finally have some photos to add to this thread, taken with an SP 2005 and W-Nikkor 3.5cm F1.8 "classic".

This is a soba and udon restaurant underneath the stairs on the platform at Fujisawa train station. Taken at f2 from memory.

The cherry blossoms are late this year. Normally they're in full bloom by now.

Grandpa and grand-daughter feeding the pigeons by the river.

 

[jonmanjiro]

And a few more. This time taken with a Leica IIIf and a screw mount Nikkor-H 5cm F2 lens.

I'm so used to shooting a 35mm lens that I had trouble framing a 50mm. Need to take it out more often!

50mm definitely feels like a short telephoto lens to me now.

And a cherry blossoms almost in bloom shot. Obligatory for this time of year.

 

[Highway 61]

Shot on March, 18th 2010 in London, Ontario (Western university campus - Middlesex college plant) around 6:30PM :

Nikon S3 (classic) - Nikkor-H-C 5cm f/2 (chrome) - Provia 100F

 

[Erik van Straten]

Fantastic color shot, Nicolas! Will make Eggleston pale around his nose.

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Nikon S2 (black), Sonnar black/nickel 50mm f/1.5, 400-2TMY.

Erik.

 

[Trask]

I've attached a photo of most of my Nikon RF gear -- a brace of S2 camera, Voigtlander 25mm and 85mm lenses, Nikon RF 35mm f/2.5, 50mm f/1.4, 85mm f/2, 105mm f/2.5. I may have a 135mm hanging around. Not shown: my WA Contax lenses that I could also use -- 21mm and 35mm Zeiss.

As for the two pictures, they're from 1973. I joined the Peace Corps that summer and went to then-Zaire/now-Democratic Republic of the Congo. We new volunteers were trained for several months at a facility in Bukavu in the Kivu province -- you'll see Lake Kivu in one shot. We had a place where we could swim in the lake, which reportedly did not have schistosomiasis because of the chemical nature of the volcanic lake. I'm the guy with the beard. I had brought with me a Nikon S3 with 25mm or 28mm lens (cannot remember now), 50mm, and 105mm. My photo was with the WA lens, I believe, and the young woman with the 105mm, on Pan F developed in Rodinal (I'd brought tanks, bulk loader, print-out paper, etc). Before I left Bukavu, a local thief climbed in our dormitory window and stole it all. I still wonder where it all wound up...

 

[jonmanjiro]

Inside an old building - all with my Nikon SP 2005, first with Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 and other two with Voigtlander 25mm f/4, and on T-Max 100 dev'd in FX-39:

I keep coming back to these images. So good!

 

[css9450]

I keep coming back to these images. So good!

I like them too!

What's the outside of that building look like? Hope they're restoring it and not planning to tear it down...