For Sale FS: Nikon F3 HP and 35mm f/2 'Conversation Piece'

[dirkfletcher]

Both the camera and lens were used by a major paper for MANY MANY years before washing up in a Chicago camera store. It looked so helpless we gave it a home for many years. The lens is as wobbly is it scratched up and brassed. The body doesn’t look as used and brassed as the lens but is not functioning. The dinged HP (high eye-point) finder is probably the best thing on the camera.

Cool conversation piece. $79.00 plus $15.50 shipping

 

[Kino]

Wow. That's a well used camera...

 

[Huss]

If this was a Japanese ebay seller, it would be rated Mint -



Good luck with sale! Fun object to have.

 

[Horatio]

So, @dirkfletcher, what's not working on the camera?

 

[dirkfletcher]

To be honest, I’m not sure, I popped some new batteries in the camera and it still wouldn’t trip. The lens is QUITE smooth focusing!

Dirk

 

[jwd722]

If this was a Japanese ebay seller, it would be rated Mint -



Good luck with sale! Fun object to have.

So very true!

 

[SchwinnParamount]

So very true!

Uh, no. Like any generalizations, this one is false at least as often as it is true. My personal experience with Japanese sellers is that they are as accurate in their product quality estimates as anyone else.

 

[awty]

Barely broken in.
It could be just a bit of tarnish or a loose wire around the battery compartment.

 

[Archlich]

I wonder if it can make it to Tokyo one day for one of Nikon's occasional F3 service campaigns there.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I'm tempted to pick it up just to be able to use the lens. I bet it produces quite a bit of character in an image.

 

[mrosenlof]

To be honest, I’m not sure, I popped some new batteries in the camera and it still wouldn’t trip. The lens is QUITE smooth focusing!

Dirk

There is an on/off switch on the F3. Possibly that one around the shutter release? I forgot that once and thought the camera was dead.

 

[Huss]

The F3 is notorious to being killed by a wack on the rewind knob side, as that can crack the circuit board underneath it.
Perhaps that is the issue with this camera.

Nikon fixed this issue when they introduced the titanium clad series - F3 Ti, Ltd and P - which had much beefier top plates and heads.