I just searched for "Nikon F3" with your username as post author and did not find anything. Other than the stupid LCD in the viewfinder, what's in that book?
Nikon F3. Lol. It could have been a great machine. I could write a book on all that's wrong on that camera. I've already written enough here.
Interesting how cameras are perceived by different people. I love my Fuji, it's my most used film camera. The lens is amazing, I have gotten so many great shots with that camera. It's my travel camera that gives near 4x5 quality without the the hassle of 4x5.Good point, I happily sold my GW690III recently. Just not enjoyable to use.
Raging Chinese piece of crap was (and still is) what brought profit to so many brands. Market doesn't consist of professionals alone. Nikon made sure to be represented in every segment of it, much like everybody else.Nikon should be ashamed for putting their name on this raging Chinese piece of crap.
I am having trouble warming up to my Kodak Retina IIa. My fingers don't fall onto the right places. Great lens, precise, compact, perfect film advance, but it (I?) doesn't fit.
Nikon F - looks cool but when you then use an F2 you think, oh yeah, this is much better. Sold off my Fs.
All the cheap P&S cameras feel like squeaky blobs of plastic. But force yourself to shoot a roll of film through that Pentax and check out the results.
I am having trouble warming up to my Kodak Retina IIa. My fingers don't fall onto the right places. Great lens, precise, compact, perfect film advance, but it (I?) doesn't fit.
Olympus OM-1: Shutter speed control in the wrong place, flimsy film advance mechanics, gimmicky screen that is too big to be useful. And the worst part is the owners -- they're part of a horrible Koolaid-drinking club that thinks this is the ultimate camera system.
Same for me. Had one and sold it after a year. Awkward to hold and use and the one I had was a shop queen.
Lomographic Society made an updated Lubitel, called the 166+, that you can actually focus. It's an infinitely better user than the original Lubitel but it's not perfect either. Lomo steered this camera into too-gimmicky a direction by adding 35 mm capabilities, including an actual 35 mm frame-counter and a rewind crank as well as making the lens hood removable so you can install a mask for the proper FOV. This was largely misguided imo and their efforts should have gone into making the design a good MF camera first and not a quirky Lomo vehicle.Lubitel 166 was garbage too. A super lens that gave unique images wrapped in a camera body that could not focus w any degree of accuracy, and a film advance mechanism that failed after 3 rolls.
Lomographic Society made an updated Lubitel, called the 166+, that you can actually focus. It's an infinitely better user than the original Lubitel but it's not perfect either. Lomo steered this camera into too-gimmicky a direction by adding 35 mm capabilities, including an actual 35 mm frame-counter and a rewind crank as well as making the lens hood removable so you can install a mask for the proper FOV. This was largely misguided imo and their efforts should have gone into making the design a good MF camera first and not a quirky Lomo vehicle.
It's still a vast improvement (and a camera that I've put many dozens of rolls through) if only for the focusing screen, but they could have done so much better still.
I don't like the FE because the film advamce lever needs to be pulled out to turn the camera on and unlock it. Since I'm left eyed, that pokes me in the eye and made the camera basically unusable.
I just searched for "Nikon F3" with your username as post author and did not find anything. Other than the stupid LCD in the viewfinder, what's in that book?
The list of things that are crippled on the F3 cs F2 can be very long...
- Awful "+/-" tiny meter display (instead of extremely clear LEDs or needles)
- Tiny, awful LED display (instead of clear numbers)
- Only two mechanical speeds. No battery tester to see how much you've left (unlike Canon F-1 and even Nikon's FE)
- Mushy shutter button, you never know where the trigger point is (unlike the precise F2 button)
- Viewfinder not as clear
- Finder Illuminator never works (it never fails on the F2SB and F2AS)
- You can have high eyepoint or good magnification but not both. F2 gives you both.
- Memory lock button often falls down with age
- Tiny, fragile multiple-exposure lever on akward location
- Confusing control placement, it's hard to remember which one is the self timer switch versus shutter button lock switch (they're identical). If the shutter is locked you might be confused and think the batteries are gone, since the behavior is exactly the same. The F2P fixed this with a mechanical shutter button lock.
and the worst of all...
- Meter relies on glass FRE resistor, which is placed exactly below the flash hot shoe. So if your flash bumps into a wall or somebody bumps with your flash, there's your chance for your meter to be gone because of breakage of glass FRE disc. This has happened before. So the most delicate part is placed where it can be knocked out.
But sadly it has the same flaws of the F3: an inferior quality viewfinder image (compared to the later F2 cameras), tiny hard to read shutter speed, IMPOSSIBLY tiny "+/-" meter display that is a big insult to common sense, useless display illuminator (it always fail), an AE lock button that often falls out, no battery check (you either have enough power or you don't, and then you're stuck with only 1/80)...
But the biggest flaw of the F3 is that the meter's most critical component, the FRE, is made out of glass and is located below the hot shoe (rewind shaft). Thus, if you fit a dedicated flash and somebody knocks your flash, you risk breaking the glass FRE and rendering your meter useless.
It is as if Nikon was bought by another company and replaced their whole engineering staff with new guys that spent zero effort on looking back and understanding what made the F2 great.
The fact that the direct competitor, the Canon New F-1, has none of these flaws isn't even funny and makes me furious as a Nikon lens owner. Basically i can't get a good pro-quality AE camera from Nikon that is good for manual focus lenses, unless i pay a ton for a F6.
My F2S with upgraded screen has a brighter, clearer viewfinder than the F3 (regular finder) and F3P (with titanium HP finder) i had. The finder on the F2SB and AS is superior to the aforementioned F3 finders.
The need for a semi-transparent mirror on the F3 impairs the potential for viewfinder clarity.
While the F2S and F2AS had the most ideally placed and clearest meter display, the F3 display is a step backwards. And good luck in low light -- I haven't found a F3 with a working illuminator yet. And yes, i've read the user manual on how to activate it.
Sincerely, for me the F3 was a failed effort by Nikon. They could have improved on the F2 completely. In practice, they improved some things (ergonomics, TTL flash, better motor), but in others it's a step backwards. Many things i don't like about the F3, that's why I sold the ones i have including the coveted F3P. This time Canon almost completely won the battle with the New F-1 which is superior in all regards except for the lack of TTL flash meter, which might or might not matter to you. And maybe Pentax LX superior to all of them.
But just to name one out of a hundred, it was a Fuji 6x9 rangefinder. I was so looking forward to owning one. When it came out of the box, my wife and I looked at it and burst out laughing. It went right back in the box and back to KEH the next day.
That camera was BIG, comically big. Felt like I needed striped pants, a red nose and floppy shoes to use it. Even if I had taken a pic w/ it that got me on the cover of Life magazine, that wasn't enough to get me out of the house w/ that camera.
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