So How much is a Nikon 21 VF for the Nikkormat worth?

[CameraQuest]

see http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-2-1cm-Vie...22QQihZ005QQcategoryZ4702QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


the serial number is about 545 too high for the NRF 21/4

I am pretty sure this VF was made for the Nikkormat FT, which could mount the mirror lock up Nikon F mount 21/4, but would require a standard type VF since it could not mount the Nikon F "claw" rewind VF.

Stephen

 

[VinceC]

NIkkormat FT came out pretty late (wasn't it 1965?) and didn't have any accessory shoe. However, the Nikkormat did have mirror lock-up and an adapter to create an accessory shoe by screwing a fitting onto the eyepiece.

I suppose high serial number shoe-mount viewfinders are even more rare than RF-camera finders. How many Nikomat purchasers would also buy the 21/4? And the 20mm 3.5 non-mirror-lockup lens came out a couple of years later.

 

[CameraQuest]

yep Vince, it would have been the earlier Nikkormat.

Fred, thanks for the link to the interesting thread. My source for the Nikkormat info was an original Nikkormat owner that I bought a F mount 21/4 from, who said the flat mount finder was made for the Nikkormat.

with hindsight, apparently his later lens got mixed up with an early finder some where along the way.

still, the more important question for a collector is whether or not a much later number flat mount 21 VF should be considered a NRF VF or a Nikon F VF.

To me the later numbers far beyond 21 RF lens production are Nikon F finders, but of course it depends upon the viewer's view of the VF.

Stephen

 

[kbg32]

I owned one of the early mirror lockup Nikkor 21 that was adapted to the Leica M. Really liked that lens.

 

[VinceC]

>>yep Vince, it would have been the earlier Nikkormat.<<

I'm pretty sure the earliest Nikomats/Nikkormats were the FS/FT, which both came out in 1965. Before those, the downmarket Nikons were the Nikkorex cameras, which also didn't have standard accessory shoes.

 

[VinceC]

The unmetered Nikomat FS also didn't have mirror lockup. The mtered FT did, as did the Nikomat FTn, introduced in '67.

 

[NIKON KIU]

OK,
When I put my put my foot in my mouth,I say so!! No need to beat around bushes!!!
It is a fact that the Nikkormats didn't even exist before the Nikkorex!!




Kiu