f16sunshine
Moderator
It’s all going to the hands of a Nikonian.
Thank you all for the input.
Thank you all for the input.
BillBingham2
Registered User
Andy,
Thank God it was quick.
You caused me SOOOOOO much GAS pain I was having troubles standing.
B2 (;->
Thank God it was quick.
You caused me SOOOOOO much GAS pain I was having troubles standing.
B2 (;->
Rick Waldroup
Well-known
I am probably going be in the minority for saying this, but I had two of these F2's for work back in the early 70's. When the F3 came out, I tried one at my local camera store, and traded in all my F2 gear that day for a pair of F3's (plus some cash).
I found the F3's to be excellent cameras- a bit smaller than the F2 and plus it had Auto Exposure, something I still use today on my digital cameras. The F3 was quicker, quieter, and in my mind, more dependable than the F2. I used three F3's for PJ work for the next two decades and I simply loved the cameras. By the time I went digital, the trio of F3's were butt ugly but still working fine.
Don't get me wrong- the F2's were probably Nikon's finest moment as far as building a great system, but the F3 represented a slight jump into the future and I went along for the ride.
Several years ago, after years of using Nikon Pro digital bodies, I switched and went to the micro 4/3 system. I just recently went back to Nikon and am currently shooting a Df, which reminds me a lot of the Nikon F3.
I found the F3's to be excellent cameras- a bit smaller than the F2 and plus it had Auto Exposure, something I still use today on my digital cameras. The F3 was quicker, quieter, and in my mind, more dependable than the F2. I used three F3's for PJ work for the next two decades and I simply loved the cameras. By the time I went digital, the trio of F3's were butt ugly but still working fine.
Don't get me wrong- the F2's were probably Nikon's finest moment as far as building a great system, but the F3 represented a slight jump into the future and I went along for the ride.
Several years ago, after years of using Nikon Pro digital bodies, I switched and went to the micro 4/3 system. I just recently went back to Nikon and am currently shooting a Df, which reminds me a lot of the Nikon F3.
Dogman
Veteran
Lots of people loved the F3. I wasn't one of them. My early F3 (the pre-HP model) was so unreliable I couldn't use it on important assignments because it quit working so often. When I complained about it so bitterly, NPS sent me a special model of the camera to try--the F3P. It had been given the "hockey puck" treatment to beef up reliability. It was great. It was what the F3 should have been to begin with but wasn't. I would have bought one but I had bought the standard F3 and couldn't afford it at the time. Eventually Nikon worked out the bugs in the F3 and it became as reliable as possible but those early F3's turned me off so badly I bought my first Leica and later, when AF matured, I switched to Canon.