Does your F2 make a loud "ping" when you fire it?

[Huss]

not to mention the f2 is nothing more than a over sized fm

I would agree with you except you are wrong.

Unless you mean any camera is just like any camera. Then I would agree with you...

 

[Cholentpot]

It looks like my well crafted humorous post was deleted. Oh well...

My Argus C3 pings, I think it has to do with being an older mechanical machine. Both my C3's ping when fired along with my Nikkormat. My OM-1 doesn't however. Most of my fully mechanical bodies one way or another make strange sounds. They're getting on in years and I'm not the original or even second owner of these machines. As long as it doesn't effect my photos I chalk it up to character and leave it at that.

 

[TheTrailTog]

I'm sending my F2 back and will never touch one again. I don't think Nikon got a pro camera right until the F3.

I'd be happy to put you out of your misery, send it my way

 

[CMoore]

I'm sending my F2 back and will never touch one again. I don't think Nikon got a pro camera right until the F3.

I kept looking for some type of sarcasm alert.
I am kind of shocked to read this. I always thought the Nikon F2 was the pinnacle of the 35mm "Pro Camera" world.
It was the camera that "every" guy with another 35mil wished they had.
There were some Canon F1 to be sure, but i MOSTLY saw the Nikon F2 poking through the fence line and in the crowd of every.....
Auto race
Concert
Demonstraion
Festival
Fire
Inside or Outside event.....
During the 1970's and 1980's that i ever attended.
I have to assume there is a problem with the example in question.?

 

[chip j]

If you read the previous posts, you would know that a lot of F2s have the problem.

 

[Jerevan]

Let the ping man go, the more F2 love left for us then. My three does not ping (one serviced by Sover, and they are early, mid and late in the serial range).

 

[CMoore]

If you read the previous posts, you would know that a lot of F2s have the problem.

I am not close to a Camera Tech or a Nikon Expert, but when you say A Lot.......A lot of the F2 that Nikon made, or "a lot" of the 10 that are mentioned in this thread.?
Is it a "problem", as in a design problem with the camera, or is it a 40 year old camera that needs maintenance.?

 

[ruilourosa]

yes f2´s are garbage! lol

 

[Ap507b]

My 71x one does. My 77x one doesn't. Suspect it will start making the noise in a few years though so as not to be left out. Need to think about an CLA.

 

[Willyekerslike]

Nikon F2,s are around 40 years old. They are just about the best of any mechanical camera ever made, they contain 1500 individual parts. I belive that if you are buying such a camera you should factor in a proper service to the amount you are going to spend. The bottom line is they do not make these cameras any more so take a thought for the people who will want to use one in another 40 years time and look after them now. Any new camera that may be made in the future will not be anything like a F2.........enjoy them now and leave them in good working order.

 

[Sirius Glass]

My Hasselblad does not ping, it goes THA-WACK! announcing its presence.

 

[Cholentpot]

My Hasselblad does not ping, it goes THA-WACK! announcing its presence.

My T50 goes CLICK THUNK RIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPP Ku-CHUNK!

No dainty 'ding'

 

[CMoore]

Nikon F2,s are around 40 years old. They are just about the best of any mechanical camera ever made, they contain 1500 individual parts. I belive that if you are buying such a camera you should factor in a proper service to the amount you are going to spend. The bottom line is they do not make these cameras any more so take a thought for the people who will want to use one in another 40 years time and look after them now. Any new camera that may be made in the future will not be anything like a F2.........enjoy them now and leave them in good working order.

I think about that all the time. It is secondary for doing a Repair/Maintenance, but it is always a thought.......I am Fixing/Preserving a world class camera, that will never be made again, for some young and upcoming photographer......maybe a photographer that is not even born yet.
I feel like we need to get these cameras into our Wills/Trusts, and leave them to some kind of organization or person(s) that will care for them after we are gone...so they do not end up in a scrap pile, or used for target practice, or stored on the side of a building for 50 years.
If you know what i mean.

 

[ruilourosa]

now i full understand the machine that goes ping...

 

[chip j]

My Hasselblad does not ping, it goes THA-WACK! announcing its presence.

Hasselblads are supposed to have a SEXEY sound, but I've never heard one.

 

[fstop]

It looks like my well crafted humorous post was deleted. Oh well...

My Argus C3 pings, I think it has to do with being an older mechanical machine. Both my C3's ping when fired along with my Nikkormat. My OM-1 doesn't however. Most of my fully mechanical bodies one way or another make strange sounds. They're getting on in years and I'm not the original or even second owner of these machines. As long as it doesn't effect my photos I chalk it up to character and leave it at that.

I appreciated it.

I am kind of shocked to read this. I always thought the Nikon F2 was the pinnacle of the 35mm "Pro Camera" world.

The F2 was a pinnacle up until the F-3 came out.

 

[Cholentpot]

I appreciated it.




The F2 was a pinnacle up until the F-3 came out.

Well thanks there pardner. It's always nice sharing war stories of the bad 'ol days. 12 shot rolls anyone?

 

[fstop]

I think about that all the time. It is secondary for doing a Repair/Maintenance, but it is always a thought.......I am Fixing/Preserving a world class camera, that will never be made again, for some young and upcoming photographer......maybe a photographer that is not even born yet.
I feel like we need to get these cameras into our Wills/Trusts, and leave them to some kind of organization or person(s) that will care for them after we are gone...so they do not end up in a scrap pile, or used for target practice, or stored on the side of a building for 50 years.
If you know what i mean.

On my bucket list is to see if you can actually drive a nail with a F. Probably more urban legend than truth.
I don't have anyone that would appreciate my collection (100+ 35mm alone most are pro bodies) to leave it too, hopefully I'll live long enough to dispose/sell them to someone who can appreciate them.but when I move to the nursing home I'm sure they will be thrown in the trash.
I won't miss the F-2's though, add a motor drive and its battery pack and aperture control unit and its absolute monstrosity that handles like a sledge hammer when you need a scalpel.The F-3 is better suited to motor work.

 

[Sirius Glass]

On my bucket list is to see if you can actually drive a nail with a F. Probably more urban legend than truth.
I don't have anyone that would appreciate my collection (100+ 35mm alone most are pro bodies) to leave it too, hopefully I'll live long enough to dispose/sell them to someone who can appreciate them.but when I move to the nursing home I'm sure they will be thrown in the trash.
I won't miss the F-2's though, add a motor drive and its battery pack and aperture control unit and its absolute monstrosity that handles like a sledge hammer when you need a scalpel.The F-3 is better suited to motor work.

Have you considered just taking them with you when you go? Have your casket built with shelves and cubby holes.

 

[CMoore]

On my bucket list is to see if you can actually drive a nail with a F. Probably more urban legend than truth.
I don't have anyone that would appreciate my collection (100+ 35mm alone most are pro bodies) to leave it too, hopefully I'll live long enough to dispose/sell them to someone who can appreciate them.but when I move to the nursing home I'm sure they will be thrown in the trash.
I won't miss the F-2's though, add a motor drive and its battery pack and aperture control unit and its absolute monstrosity that handles like a sledge hammer when you need a scalpel.The F-3 is better suited to motor work.

Perhaps i should start a post...see if we can create some kind of Trust/Foundation.
Probably a lot of us have nobody "good" to leave our cameras to. Absolutely no reason they should go to Kids/Family/Relative. We could start something to help preserve (not just our cameras) the traditional skills of photography.
We also have darkroom equipment and books.
I must have 40-50 books. I am not positive, but i think most of them are out of print...some of them for quite a long time now. Just like with a camera, once the books are gone.....they are gone for good.

 

[AgX]

Cushion foams? How is the exact position of the mirror then established over time?

Am still puzzled. All SLR models I got have solid rubber "cushions" which practically do not deform.

 

[Huss]

My T50 goes CLICK THUNK RIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPP Ku-CHUNK!

No dainty 'ding'

My SX-70 goes Click-pshhhzzzzz-chkchk. You can hardly hear it if you are in the next county.

 

[Cholentpot]

My SX-70 goes Click-pshhhzzzzz-chkchk. You can hardly hear it if you are in the next county.

I always imagined when I use a Polaroid that when the photo rolls out it goes KA-Ching! like a cash register.

 

[cooltouch]

My FE's MD-12 kinda makes a whine that sorta sounds like a ping.

I have two F2s, both of them go p-clack!

I switched from Canon FD to Nikon in 1989 and my first two cameras were an F2 and an F3. I bought the F2 because I was already aware of its pedigree -- being the last hand-built camera made by Nikon and the last all-mechanical pro camera made by Nikon. I bought the F3 because I was already somewhat familiar with it. I was intrigued by its metering pattern and was thinking that its tight metering pattern would probably work well with the camera's Aperture-priority exposure system -- a guess that proved correct, in my case. Also, I wasn't blind to the fact that the F3 had pretty much come to dominate the pro segment, so there must have been something good about it. After owning the two cameras for a while, I came to appreciate the F2 for its unflappable ruggedness and the F3 for its subtle -- for the lack of a better word -- sexiness. Its gentle ergonomic curves and silky film wind had a way of growing on me that I ended up quite liking.

My heirs will have to decide what to do with my F2s because I'm never getting rid of them. Same for my F3, far as that goes.

 

[fstop]

I always imagined when I use a Polaroid that when the photo rolls out it goes KA-Ching! like a cash register.

It does, in the Fuji film factory. muhahahaha