Show Off Your Nikon RF

[Tom A]

Mike, you should have your daughter getting married in Paris instead! Romantic city and NHS meeting to boot - and the Bievres Swap meet for wedding presents.
The Summicron 50f2 Apo is nuts pricewise. No lens i that good - and most film and just about all sensors are lower resolution - at least for now. Unless the rumored M10 is a 45-50 mp sensor - who is going to be able to tell the difference anyway.

 

[Tom A]

This is the "interior" of my "beater" SP. Very large notches filed into the filmgate - and enough film has gone through it to wear off the black coating at the edge of the film chamber!

 

[mynikonf2]

Mike, you should have your daughter getting married in Paris instead! Romantic city and NHS meeting to boot - and the Bievres Swap meet for wedding presents.
The Summicron 50f2 Apo is nuts pricewise. No lens i that good - and most film and just about all sensors are lower resolution - at least for now. Unless the rumored M10 is a 45-50 mp sensor - who is going to be able to tell the difference anyway.

I'll try to sell them on that idea. Actually it might happen in Italy if the groom's Fiances' visa issues do not get resolved soon. He is from the coastal town of Bari on the Adriatic Sea & they meet while she taught English in a small private school there. We tried to warn her, when see went over there, not to fall in love but, she did anyway. 😱 😉 So now we wait to see which country they will live in. Canada would be a good neutral country to make their home in, shouldn't it? 😀

 

[bobkonos]

Merci Tom

Merci Tom

Merci Tom: this helps me finalize my NHS Paris kit.

My Nikon Historical Meeting kit. SP (repaint) and 28f3.5, S3 Olympic with 35f1.8 and S3 Millennium in black with the C Sonnar 50mm f1.5. I am also taking along a F with the F mount 12f5.6 and a VC 21f4 + a 85f3.5 Apo Lanthar. Strictly Nikon and in formal black!
ORWO UN 54 (movie stock) in Beutler 1:1:10 for 7 min. Leica MP and Visoflex III with the V-Elmar 65mm f3.5

 

[rbsinto]

This is the "interior" of my "beater" SP. Very large notches filed into the filmgate - and enough film has gone through it to wear off the black coating at the edge of the film chamber!

I'm curious about the notches.
I bought a beater S3 a couple of years ago that has three notches filed onto the top deck as well as three more filed into one vertical edge of the filmgate. I assume the notches differentiate multiple bodies, but do those on the filmgate leave discernible marks on the film that would let one know which body it went through. I've never bothered to tear apart a slide mount and check the edge of the film strip, but since you've got the notches I expect you could enlighten me as to their purpose.

 

[Steinberg2010]

I'm curious about the notches.
I bought a beater S3 a couple of years ago that has three notches filed onto the top deck as well as three more filed into one vertical edge of the filmgate. I assume the notches differentiate multiple bodies, but do those on the filmgate leave discernible marks on the film that would let one know which body it went through. I've never bothered to tear apart a slide mount and check the edge of the film strip, but since you've got the notches I expect you could enlighten me as to their purpose.

Light passes through the notches darkening its shape onto the film. When you inspect your films, you can then match bodies to films – very useful if you have a shutter that is malfunctioning, capping or bouncing etc. as you can track the dodgy body down quickly.

~S

 

[rbsinto]

As I suspected.
My tracking isn't that sophisticated. I always use particular lenses on particular bodies and can pretty much by looking at a given slide, and by noting the point of view of the image, tell which body it came out of.

 

[robklurfield]

Just arrived today.

Shortly after the S2 arrived, so did two bricks of Tri-X. Perfect timing.

 

[maitani]

wow, beautiful a black dial S2, congrats on the new purchase

 

[robklurfield]

Put two rolls through it in 24 hours. What a treat to handle.

Then, to top things off, my wife said she'd make it a gift to me (29th anniversary) after I'd already bought it.I shot a portrait of her and handed the camera to her, saying I'd bought a new one. She said, "no, this is one you already had, right?" The longer we're married, the luckier I feel that I did well in the mate department.

wow, beautiful a black dial S2, congrats on the new purchase

 

[Erik van Straten]

Contax G1, Sonnar 90mm f/2.8, Tmax100.

My chrome dial chrome S2 No. 6174231.

Erik.

 

[jonmanjiro]

The S-mount Nikkor-O 2.1cm 1:4 lens with finder - Robert Rotoloni states in his book The Complete Nikon Rangefinder System that according to factory records only 298 of these were made.

Over the years, I've seen maybe a dozen in the used camera shops in Tokyo, but never in this condition and never with a distance scale in meters. This is the only S-mount Nikkor-O 2.1cm 1:4 lens I've seen with a distance scale in meters. Thus its a very rare example of an already very rare lens. I wonder how many other samples with a distance scale in meters are out there?

Nikkor-O 1:4 f=2.1cm

 

[Tom A]

Drool, very heavy drool!

 

[Range-rover]

Wow, as a new member to the Nikon Rangefinder Club that nice stuff.

Range

 

[kdemas]

That rear element is unreal. Seems to shoot very well looking at your samples. Wowsa.

 

[fbf]

Very nice Jon.

 

[KHW]

Very impressive! Even just the photo of the 21/4. I only mange to get a F-S/C Voigtlander adaptor to may the F version mount on my S.

I just note that my 50/1.1 external mount has meter scale. Is it rare? I have one LMT version and a internal mount version. Seems to me that the focus the internal mount version is always off. Any recommendation?

 

[maitani]

that 21 and 5 1.1. are impressive, the condition of the 21 is unreal

 

[sp9107sp]

Nikon S

Nikon S

 

[JonR]

It has been some time since I posted here.... too much job etc..
Good to see that this forum is active and Jons photos above are really great - need to find time for more time with my rangefinder cameras! Jon