S3 2000

That's one of the aspects that makes the S3 a joy to load. The bottom of the take-up spool has a good-sized toothed wheel that you can turn with a finger to get the film properly loaded and tightly seated, with no need to use the advance lever. Then you pop the back on again, switch the rewind button from R to A, and work the advance lever a couple of times until the counter is set to zero.
 
I think I now own an S3-2000....

I think I now own an S3-2000....

I just went to KEH and looked on their Nikon Rangefinder page. They had a listing for "Camera Bodies" and another for "Camera Outfits". On the "C.O." page there was an S3-2000 kit listed as Excellent + for $1763.00. I looked over at my Nikon 70-200vr lens...(brand new, only about 50 shots taken through it by me, the original owner, and I never went farther than around the block with it on a Sunday, HONEST :angel: , coming to a classified section or an auction site near you very VERY soon.), said "Adios sweet lens...." and clicked the Buy It button.

I'm saying I think I own it because I got an email from KEH saying that I'd get an email letting me know whether the "item" was available or not on the next business day , due to the nature of their constantly changing inventory etc.. HOWEVER, when I went back to KEH the listing for the S3 kit was gone, as well as the "Camera Outfits" link....so I feel pretty confident that I'll be shooting that sucker by next Wednesday.

So, is an Excellent + condition ratng from KEH pretty spiffy? 🙂
 
Jeff,

First off, I enjoy your blog and love your city. My first trip to New Orleans was to attend the Jazz Festival in 1978. Saw Champion Jack Dupree and hung out in the gospel tent for some of the best music and photo opportunities. Came back on Jan. 1 in 1980 and sold plastic Hog Hats on the street when Arkansas played Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Too many stories there to go into. Came back again in March of 2000 and loved it once again. Saw a parade (parades happen about 365 days a year here) called something like the "Kissing Parade." We had an inside connection at Commander's Palace where we were treated like royalty and got a tour of the kitchen and grounds after supper. New Orleans is truly one of the great American cities; everyone should go at least once and then come back again and again.

Also I hope you're wrong about the ZI. It's become my main camera because it's so easy to use. My M6 TTL sits in the corner gathering dust.

Good luck in New Orleans. It has to be burden just to live there now. Here's hoping it comes back better than ever.

Regards.

Charlie
 
Thanks for the kind words about our city. It is truly heartening that so many people *have* returned to the city and started over again from nothing. My house is on high ground, next to the river. If you drive about 6 blocks from Commander's palace toward the river, you're a block from my house. Crime is bad now because we have so few police and the National Guard are reluctant to show much force. If you stay on the main streets, we look like we're back to normal. If you drive into the neighborhoods, they are mostly barren.

Next time you come down, give me a call beforehand. I'll show you the good and the bad.

I hope I wasn't too hard on the Zeiss Ikon. It isn't a piece of junk by any means. But like a handgun that might crap out without notice, it is hard for me to have it as my sole camera in the bag. Like most guys in their mid-50's, I feel most confident when my camera has a cloth shutter and no reliance on a battery. 😱
 
Jeff,

Thanks for the offer. I may take you up on it.

As fate would have it , I just dropped my ZI on a concrete driveway and now it's "crapped out." Electronics seemed to have died and the attached 35 Summicron has a stiff focus feel to it. Glad I kept the M6.
 
Charlie said:
Jeff,

Thanks for the offer. I may take you up on it.

As fate would have it , I just dropped my ZI on a concrete driveway and now it's "crapped out." Electronics seemed to have died and the attached 35 Summicron has a stiff focus feel to it. Glad I kept the M6.
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I know just how you feel, to a less expensive extent. I had just bought a 50/2.5 Skopar and put it on my just CLA'd Canon VT-DeLuxe. When getting out of the car, the strap caught on my gear shift. I thought it was tangled in the seat belt and gave the strap a firm tug. It flew out of my hand onto the concete (from a tallish SUV). Amazingly, the Canon was unaffected. The Skopar now looked like a tilt lens, and the focusing ring would not move at all.
 
Okay, back to Nikon (and CV), here's a flare shot with the CV 35mm skopar. I didn't see this when using the 35mm f1.8.
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Jeffery Smith said:
I seem to be hitting a raw nerve here.
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Don't worry Jeffery,
This is the Nikon forum,we can bad-mouth Zeiss(a little),it's allowed over here😀 😀


Zeiss owners are always welcome to defend their cameras.

Kiu
 
I appreciate when people are truthful with the equipment they use. Saves one the prospect of buying same and having similar problems.

I can't imagine a camera that won't let you advance the film in the loading process, either by ratcheting the take-up spool ala Nikon F, rangefinder Nikons and at least my M4 or with the advance lever.
 
ZivcoPhoto said:
I appreciate when people are truthful with the equipment they use. Saves one the prospect of buying same and having similar problems.

I can't imagine a camera that won't let you advance the film in the loading process, either by ratcheting the take-up spool ala Nikon F, rangefinder Nikons and at least my M4 or with the advance lever.
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again, this is most definately not the case with either of my zi bodies.
it loads easily, i advance the film to my heart's content and close the back, the swing (don't have to put it in my mouth) back.

joe
 
>>When I was working, my greatest paranoia was that no film was being advanced, maybe irrational, but still it was there.<<

Not paranoia. Not irrational. It's realism. I know it happened to me once or twice early in my career. So part of my regular camera-handling routine is to frequently check the tension on the rewind knob.
 
A large part of my fondness for Nikon RFs and Leica RFs is their longevity and their ability to be repaired decade after decade. When both of my Nikon S2's had light leaks in their shutters, I sent them off to Stephen Gandy and got titanium shutters in both along with a CLA. I expect that they will serve me for many more years in the future. Not surprisingly, I also like Rolleiflex TLRs, for the same reasons.
 
Joe

Don't get me wrong, I generally like Zeiss products. I've shot a Contax IIA for 30+ years as well I have a 21mm ZM lens as well as Hasselblad lenses. The newer Contax rangefinder just sems to be problamatic re: the shutter...which is why I'll stick to the old iron that serves me well.
 
Geez, I didn't realize our precious S3's were vulnerable to U-boat attacks! 😛

VinceC said:
The bits of tape on the top deck is something they did with convoy ships in World War I to reduce the chances of being spotted at long distance by a submarine -- random shapes to break up a familiar pattern.
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Jeffery Smith said:
When both of my Nikon S2's had light leaks in their shutters, I sent them off to Stephen Gandy and got titanium shutters in both along with a CLA. I expect that they will serve me for many more years in the future....
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I honestly believe they will out-last you and me!!

Kiu
 
I'm a huge Zeiss fan (the glass more than the cameras). I wish that Zeiss Ikon had made Contax IIa commemorative rangefinders instead of outsourcing the ZI to Cosina. I think that Kyocera or Konica could have done a good job of making a rangefinder camera for Zeiss. The Kyocera-made Contax SLRs (I have 4) are extremely durable and well-built. But Zeiss, to me, is an optical company. Their microscopes are superb. Their SLR glass designs are superb. The Contax G glass is superb. And the more recent M-mount (and Nikon SLR mount) glass is superb. This would probably get me roasted on the LUG, but I like the saturation, the bokeh, and the signature of Zeiss glass over Leica glass. Leica seems to concentrate on perceived sharpness due to resolution, while Zeiss seems to concentrate on perceived sharpness due to higher contrast and clarity. I suspect that Nikon rangefinder glass was emulating Zeiss as I find the 1950's Nikkor glass to be Sonnar-like in contrast. I'm not an expert in optics, but my gut level feeling is that Cosina Voigtlander emulates Leica more than it emulates Zeiss.
 
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