Nikon F's are like peanuts

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... you can't just have one.

I just bought 3 F bodies in the last couple days.

..... probably the sign of some underlying psychological issue...

:bang:
 
Nah, I have maybe a thousand cameras and lenses. Been buying and selling them since I was 11 years old.

I have very few other vices, in the grand scheme of things this is a relatively cheap and harmless hobby.

You could be collecting antique cars or sailboats, or worse.
 
Mid-life crisis...actually, I have a year on you! enjoy those Fs. I once had an F and had it modified to take the F36 motor drive. Sold it many years ago when I was living in Paris. Still regret it now and then.
 
I Love Film said:
Nah, I have maybe a thousand cameras and lenses. Been buying and selling them since I was 11 years old.

I have very few other vices, in the grand scheme of things this is a relatively cheap and harmless hobby.

You could be collecting antique cars or sailboats, or worse.
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I keep telling my wife that. It's true though, it is interesting.
 
Compared to fountain pen collecting, cameras are far less expensive and far more functional. However, few cameras contain 14K or 18K gold as a pen nib would.

I also drank the Kool Aid with a Nikon F purchase recently. Nice shiny chrome with a very clean plain prism. I don't think that I'd want another one, though it is a smooth and solid camera. Mine came with the E grid screen.
 
There is a black F body, with a red dot serial number, in a camera store in town here.

And it has both external boxes, with matching serial number on the brown outer box.

I'm not sure that it is overpriced, but, I've seen it three times at the store now.

Tried to bargain it down to "my price" but the store isn't agreeing yet.


I tell you, it is a vicious addiction.

Vick
 
I can certainly relate to this thread. Vick: black Red Dot F's are fairly rare, and a double boxed one? You must have that. Well, one of us must have that.

I just scored my earliest F, a 640xxxx with correct N-K prism, that was advertised as a student camera. That one was an easy one to add to the collection. Now have: two chrome with standad prism, one chrome red dot with Ftn finder, and one black with Ftn (looking for a black standard prism for it) and some accessories and a lot of lenses.

Robert: let's talk pens. Finally got a Nakaya.
 
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My Nikon F stash is rather modest - 7 only, 3 black with prisms and 4 chrome (two prisms, one with a Cosina top for finder (12/15 VC lenses) and one with the sports finder). None of them are mint - but they all do work - and are being used.
I think my total investment in the bodies and lenses (lots of those) is not even close to what a M6 costs today!
Oh, the old Nikon 52mm filters are getting a second lease on life - some CV lenses can use them (15f4.5 M, 35f1.2).
 
Vickko said:
... you can't just have one.

I just bought 3 F bodies in the last couple days.

..... probably the sign of some underlying psychological issue...

:bang:
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Luckily you're amongst people who understand ... totally!

:p
 
I've got three, 2 Chrome with Prism and one Chrome with FTN finder - a '66, a '67 and a 1971.

I was not aware the M mount 15mm CV takes 52mm filter.....now I've got that lens covered in just about every color filter Nikon made for 52mm.

...looks like I've got to keep an eye out for a black Nikon F with plain prism - the family won't be complete without one.
 
Sacramento? Hello. You should meet up with me and Bingley soon. We often get together to shoot, yak about gear, trade lenses, have a beer...


ZivcoPhoto said:
I've got three, 2 Chrome with Prism and one Chrome with FTN finder - a '66, a '67 and a 1971.

I was not aware the M mount 15mm CV takes 52mm filter.....now I've got that lens covered in just about every color filter Nikon made for 52mm.

...looks like I've got to keep an eye out for a black Nikon F with plain prism - the family won't be complete without one.
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Sorry, but that bug never got to me.

Had a black Nikon F sent to me recently and found it had nothing over my Nikkormat FTn's.

Maybe the torn titanium first curtain had something to do with that as well...

Sold the repainted black plain finder and the Photomic FT finder to a fellow RFF member from OZ for petty cash and the body will go for parts etc. soon...

My Nikkormats persist, though!
 
I Love Film said:
Nah, I have maybe a thousand cameras and lenses. Been buying and selling them since I was 11 years old.

I have very few other vices, in the grand scheme of things this is a relatively cheap and harmless hobby.

You could be collecting antique cars or sailboats, or worse.
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My hero! I am probably 940 short of that - but still trying!!!!!!!
 
bobkonos said:
Robert: let's talk pens. Finally got a Nakaya.
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nice, those are really great pens.

fountain pens can be either a cheap hobby or an expensive one. generally the later comes about when you start to use words like resin or urushi or celluloid.

I'm lucky enough to have got all of the pens I want and be done.
 
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