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Travis L.
Registered Userino
My name is Travis........... and I'm a Nikon hoarder.
Steve Bellayr
Veteran
I, too, had six but I gave away three and never regreted it.
farlymac
PF McFarland
Travis, it's not hoarding if you only have one of each.
PF
PF
gilpen123
Gil
Add 2 more, one to complete the week and one as a weapon.
nobbylon
Veteran
My name is Travis........... and I'm a Nikon hoarder.
Haha!
Richard de Stoutz has a great page to make anyone who thinks they have too many feel better.
http://www.destoutz.ch/nikon_f_all_bodies.html
I do think it's a shame and i'm guessing, that most of these will never get used again. It would take some serious regime to cycle through this lot on a regular basis.
I still think I have one too many F2's and I only have 2.
Bill58
Native Texan
I'm glad all you guys came out of the closet.
nobbylon
Veteran
I decided to start using my F a little more after this thread. I just got a nice Nikkor-O 35 f2 to go with my 50 1.4 S.C. and the F is off to Sover Wong on Monday for it's first service since new. It's not broken and works fine but I don't plan on selling this black F so I think it's worth doing to get it back to original specs. This particular F was owned by a photographer from the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and was a spare body and 50 1.4 combo. Interestingly he gave me some different coloured booklets that the company used to print as instructions for the F bodies and meters.
jmc56
Member
The answer is pretty simple. They're so hard to kill, no matter how hard you try. Back in the 60s, I bought five F's, plain prism, new for about half price from a Tokyo dealer. I addd a couple more used and none of them ever quit. I had motors on three. I couldn't afford camera down time and frequently worked with three F's and an SP -- you had to be there. That was news. But commercial work sometimes got complicated with multiple emulsions and limited time. I dropped them, bent the prisms, cracked them and ran them to death with the motors. One of of the used bodies had been used so much our repair service said it wasn't worth repairing, but the speeds were on. They were all still working in 1980 (I had left the trade) when a burglar took them and a dozen others, including a really sweet Rollei 2.8E2 and several LF lenses I'd held on to.
I now have one LN F which is of the same vintage as mine, a gift from my father who had put in an order through me for it, along with a set of LN lenses that mirrored my taste at the time. Any time I pick it up the speeds are right, it's clean and it's never seen a CLA. I have a couple of OLYs like that from 1980.
Maybe you're just living right.
I now have one LN F which is of the same vintage as mine, a gift from my father who had put in an order through me for it, along with a set of LN lenses that mirrored my taste at the time. Any time I pick it up the speeds are right, it's clean and it's never seen a CLA. I have a couple of OLYs like that from 1980.
Maybe you're just living right.
Tom A
RFF Sponsor
Speaking from experience - the reason we came out of the closet is that all those cameras took up all the space!
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Harry Lime
Practitioner
Love those Nikons.
Leica may make the best glass around, but Nikon has everyone beat when it comes to SLR bodies.
They really broke the mold when they came out with the original F. That has to be a tie for the greatest camera ever made with the M-series.
Got F / F2 / F3-P (x2) / FM sitting right here... Keep looking at F bodies in stores. Really need to find an excellent Nikon service technician and then a shrink or priest.
Leica may make the best glass around, but Nikon has everyone beat when it comes to SLR bodies.
They really broke the mold when they came out with the original F. That has to be a tie for the greatest camera ever made with the M-series.
Got F / F2 / F3-P (x2) / FM sitting right here... Keep looking at F bodies in stores. Really need to find an excellent Nikon service technician and then a shrink or priest.