Show Off Your Nikon RF

[migtex]

OK OK I did go on...

Kiu

Oooohhh yes !Please please! keep it running!

 

[phi47]

Focusing only as accurate as the alternate system. The Voigtlander rangefinder works well enough, OR, since I'm cheating by using another camera for metering, I check focusing distance from the metering camera. FRAMING is another issue, the varifocal only helps to 135mm.
Cheers,
phi47

 

[Stefcuoz]

Hi phi47
I think you are crazy and enterprising enough to accept my advice .... tries to buy a viewfinder "Tewe" it is not impossible to find and the focal reaches 200 mm.
Hello

 

[phi47]

S:
Think it will be far easier to make my own framing viewfinder, similar to the Sports Finders for Nikonos, if I were really to ever use this combo for some SERIOUS pictures. Before I found some other RF lenses, I went to the trouble of trying to find out which of my F lens would fit so I wouldn't be stuck in the 50f1.4 mode. I will try to find information about the Tewes finder.
Thanks, phi47

 

[dexdog]

That's a perfect setup.

I like it a lot. My normal lens is a 35mm, rarely use a 50. The 85mm is useful for about 10% of shots. Except for the shutter release being in the "wrong" place, the SP is a great shooting machine. One could also ask for parallax correction in the 35mm framelines, but that would be quibbling.

 

[phi47]

I'm Waiting.........................even if I don't have a 50f1.2 for OM

 

[NIKON KIU]

Less trouble would be to slap a Rangefinder super telephoto onto a Nikon F2

Easier to focus 😀 -----------------------------------------------Excuse the laundry basket.

Kiu

 

[TheHub]

I wanted to get a Nikon RF for a while but high prices kept me away for so long. At a camera fair a few months ago I looked at an S but was disappointed by its relatively small viewfinder. I went to lunch and when I came back this S2 was sitting in a display case. It was cheaper than the S I looked at previous. It has its share of scratches and brassing but the viewfinder is very clear and it's proven to be a wonderful camera.

 

[NIKON KIU]

Keeping it going here:
here is a Family of Nikons:

-----------Nikon S2---------------------Nikon E2------------------------Nikon F2


Kiu

 

[summilux]

great combo: 50 and 21.
three questions: the hood for 21mm biogon, where can I get one, and second, do you need to remove the rear collar for use with nikon? third, which 21mm viewfinder do you use?

thanks.

 

[furcafe]

I'm not Bill, but: (1) heavystar on eBay sells a wide-angle 40.5mm hood that will work w/the 21/4.5 Biogon (like the 35/2.8 Biogon, Zeiss Ikon never offered a hood); (2) no, you don't have to remove the rear lens guard; & (3) I use the original ZI 435 finder (w/a Hama bubble level in the top shoe), but I suppose any 21mm finder will work (the CV is supposed to be nice & is almost certainly brighter than the original).

great combo: 50 and 21.
three questions: the hood for 21mm biogon, where can I get one, and second, do you need to remove the rear collar for use with nikon? third, which 21mm viewfinder do you use?

thanks.

 

[summilux]

thanks furcafe!

 

[Keith]

I just thought I'd mention in this thread that my new baby turned out to have a capping shutter which required a trip back to the US where the wonderful Pete Smith did his magic. Turned out that the camera had a broken shutter brake spring and needed a CLA ... it now purrs and is so smooth! He's a top bloke as we say here in Oz!

I'm very impressed with the Nikkor 1.4 that came on the camera ... what an enigmatic lens! 🙂

 

[infrequent]

@keith - couple of questions:

1) is that 50/1.4, S mount or thread mount?

2) how much does it go for?

 

[Keith]

@keith - couple of questions:

1) is that 50/1.4, S mount or thread mount?

2) how much does it go for?

Hey ... I'm a total ludite with Nikon stuff ... S mount I guess or whatever they call Nikon RF mount!

I think you can get the same lens with the same optical formula in LTM which I would be tempted to do one day. I think Roland mentioned to me that he thought that they usually fetch around $300.00 to $400.00 ... someone correct me if I'm wrong. These Nikon rangefinders have a totally different feel to a Leica screwmount or an early M ... they feel mechanically superior IMHO! I'm pretty tempted to sell my entire screwmount collection and buy another Nikon ... an SP would be nice! 😀

 

[infrequent]

a fast lens for that price?! hmmm...i suppose it doesn't have the leica signature! ; )

 

[wjlapier]

furcafe,
thanx for replying for me! I'm not sure if it was heavystar or the other company, but it was the one recommended a while back when I was asking about a hood. Regarding the rear lens guard--I wasn't aware there was one🙂 I just mount it and shoot away! As for finder, I use the CV one. Nice and bright. I considered the original one furcafe mentioned but good clean ones were more than I was willing to pay at the time.

Sorry for the late reply.

I'm not Bill, but: (1) heavystar on eBay sells a wide-angle 40.5mm hood that will work w/the 21/4.5 Biogon (like the 35/2.8 Biogon, Zeiss Ikon never offered a hood); (2) no, you don't have to remove the rear lens guard; & (3) I use the original ZI 435 finder (w/a Hama bubble level in the top shoe), but I suppose any 21mm finder will work (the CV is supposed to be nice & is almost certainly brighter than the original).

 

[summilux]

luigi case? nice leather.

a truly compact 50/1.4 lens, more compact than most 50/2.

 

[Jacob]

Not a close up, but in a rather well spread publication...
Here is my S2 in a hallway in the 2009 edition of the Ikea catalogue.

 

[gilpen123]

Here's mine taken from a pic sent to me by Jon before I bought the unit.