Paint old Nikon S.............

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Dear RFF member, i have read many threads about how to paint in black silver cameras, i'm now ready to became, i suppose...
Only a doubt, when i paint probably serial number and other will be covered.
Question?
there is a particular way to repaint in white the black engraved number and letter of the camera?
 
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Because he likes black cameras more than chrome ones, but can't afford a black one (if in fact black S's even exist).
I understand completely. My gear is all user, and as such is bashed and dinged, and my only gear affectation is that I dislike chrome cameras. I love my S3 ( and will undoubtedly love the second one I just bought (when I have it in hand)), but I really wish they were black rather than chrome.
 
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If you do succeed in painting the body black, the simplest way to re-paint the engravings is to paint white over the entirety of the engraving and then wash/wipe away that paint which is not actually within the lettering. Assuming the paint on the body is dry and you wipe away the excess white paint quickly, this shouldn't be a difficult task.
 
Thanks at all, but particulary thanks at rbsinto... i don't know why... why Newton like to observe apple to fall down, and discover gravity, why?
Why bird fly? ecc ecc.
I have, i suppose as most of you, an hard work day, when i'm home i like relax, my job is pubblic healt, my relax is family, and old rf nikon cameras, i 'll like black one's but are more expensive, and difficult to buy. I like an original S2, for example, but in Italy and in japan too, i've found a lot of fake, so i have decided to make "My Fake" for exclusive "My Use".
Aren't you agree???
 
If you paint it won't increase value......but if you do try it, go ahead and redo the body with a nice medium blue lizard skin....it looks cool, i've seen one
Sam
 
I don't think this is about trying to increase the sale price of a camera by deceiving a buyer with a black painted chrome body, but rather simply about painting a body because the owner prefers black to chrome.
I bought a junked black F on ebay for nickles and dimes, and switched the casing with the chrome one on my user for that very reason. Unfortunately, junked black S2/S3/SP bodies are impossible to find at costs less than the GNP of an emerging Third World nation, so the alternative for anyone who can't afford the real thing is a paint job.
Personally, I blame the collectors/speculators/hoarders/investors for causing the scarcity problem in the first place, so I really don't care if they are offended or put out when people do this.
 
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I too, like my cameras black! i do have a nikon S in black. Shintaro painted it for me with a matching, early 35f3.5 Nikkor.
I have done black paint cameras myself. The biggest problem is finding someone who can strip the chrome off (not for the faint of heart as it involves some highly toxic chemicals). The painting and the quality of the paint job is very much dependant on how well you "prep" the surface. Any dent or nick will show up, particularly with a glossy or semi gloss black paint. You will need to "bake" the paint to de-gas the solvents (toaster ovens work fine, though every thing will have a slight taste of paint after that!).
For filling in the white engravings I use acrylics and then clean the surface with acryclic solvents (used for cleaning airbrush equipment). If you use enamel as a base paint, the acylic solvent wont affect it.
If you are chemically stripping the chrome, remember that certain alloys will also dissolve! On the Nikon S that is not too much of a problem as it was built like the proverbial brick out house! Most everything is chrome on brass. On later cameras you can loose small parts easily.
Fred, i know that the fashion for painting cameras is abhorrent to you, but I keep seeing it is a way of getting what you want, without going broke in the process. A black paint S2 or SP, all original, would be nice, but since i can buy multiple bodies and paint them myself (or have them painted) and still afford the film. OK, passing them off as "real" is criminal, but anyone who is buying one of these should check with experts like you or Robert Rotoloni before paying the often exhorbitant prices asked.
 
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