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09 Apr, 2012
As a daily shooter it would drive me crazy.
1 of 1 found this helpful First off, it's an absolute clunk, weighing in with a photomic finder and its hard case at almost 3 1/2 pounds,and being once called "too great a burden for one man to bear alone" at the start of a chapter entitled "Striking pictures with a blunt instrument" in Ivor Matanle's excellent and entertaining book "Collecting and Using Classic SLRs." It's awkward to use, with the aperture ring too close to the camera body, tucked under the finder's protruding forehead, and things are unexpectedly backwards, like focusing and lens removal. Having said that, the camera exudes a palpable aura, like standing before a shrine. It changed the photographic world, put Japan firmly on the map as the premier optical instrument maker, and spelled doom for the German camera industry. It was the camera that replaced the Speed Graphic for news coverage, the Exakta for scientific usage, documented the Vietnam war, saved lives by literally stopping bullets, and survived, along with its film, being dropped in seawater. The precision of the camera has to be felt to be appreciated, the smoothness of all the controls makes most others seem crude. The non-AI lenses introduced with it are generally superb, even by current standards, represent quite a bargain, and as I understand, can be used to this day on Nikon's digital offerings. An example certainly belongs on the shelf of every collector, but as a user, it's hopelessly outdated with its simple match needle metering. In anything less than mint condition one can be obtained quite reasonably. A sibling which shares the same solidity, build quality, and much of the heft in a considerably more convenient (and still cheaper) package is the Nikkormat FTN. First used as a backup by many pros, they soon made it their primary camera. Staying with the F series, the F2 and F3 are also much more usable than the original F. But in the end, anyone with an interest in historic cameras should own, or at least hands-on experience a Nikon F. (In my size/weight rating, more stars means more weight...)