Adding lenses definitely changes the equation. I would have bet it was my Contarex Bullseye with the Tele-Tessar 400mm but I think the Pentax K2 with the SMC Pentax 500/4.5 actually weighs more. The Contarex undoubtedly weighs more but the Tele-Tessar lens is surprisingly light for what it is.
If the Contarex is not the heaviest 35mm camera out there it certainly has to be in the running. But if the Nikon F4 really weighs 1.4 kg without lens it has the Contarex beat. The Contarex is only 1.2 kg.
Leicaflex with 90mm Summicron.
I guess over the years it must have put on some weight as the New Canon F-1 manual only lists it at 795g body only - 1,030g with FD 50mm f/1.4 lens. Maybe measure it's waistline too . . .
Canon Site on New F-1 shows 795 g (body only with Eye-Level Finder FN).
I weighed my New F-1 body only with the AE Finder at 838g.
My Topcon RE Supers are heavy even without a lens attached. .
I still use my F1 30 years later without the motor drive. It's the best camera I own.
I have a Canon F1(n) with motor drive and a high powered nicad power pack. Too friggin heavy.
I used to have the ni-cd pack for the New F-1 (AKA F-1N, as opposed to the earlier F-1n), but when it wasn't holding a charge anymore, I decided to sell it for parts and replace it with the AA power pack that takes 12 cells. I bought it over the counter in the early 1990s from none other than the infamous Cambridge Camera, which had a pile of them new in the box on a shelf somewhere in the back. No idea why the 12-cell power pack wouldn't have been a popular item...
Canon New F-1 with motor drive, AA power pack, aluminum body cap, no lens, minimalist strap, QR plate--1812g
Canon EOS-1n RS including 8-cell AA pack, plastic body cap, no lens, QR plate--1528g
I've rebuilt all my High-power NiCd packs with fresh high-capacity NiCd cells - it's a little fiddly to get it all apart and back together again, requires a little soldering - but now they're good for another decade or two. Compared to the expense of loading up 12 new AAs every so often, and the risk of them leaking if the drive sits unused for a while, plus the convenience of powering the camera from the NiCd pack with the Connector C-FN, and I can understand why all those battery packs went unsold.
Duncan
Benjiboy & me agree with you!! Although i've yet to try the Pentax LX.
And with Les Sarile and Cuthbert -other F-1N users-, it seems that this thread is becoming a "Canon F-1N club meeting"...
It is a rather heavy camera but not so heavy when we compare it to the Nikon F4 and F5 monstrosities!!
Heaviest camera I own, in a sense, is my Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 533/24. It is a small camera, very small, but for it's small size the weight is surprising. I'd say it's the "densest" camera I own.
I've rebuilt all my High-power NiCd packs with fresh high-capacity NiCd cells - it's a little fiddly to get it all apart and back together again, requires a little soldering - but now they're good for another decade or two. Compared to the expense of loading up 12 new AAs every so often, and the risk of them leaking if the drive sits unused for a while, plus the convenience of powering the camera from the NiCd pack with the Connector C-FN, and I can understand why all those battery packs went unsold.
Duncan
I'm quite surprised to hear that some people like the F4 and the F5 to be honest. What's the point of these cameras?
It is interesting that these all use the same full frame of 35mm film . . .
On a lighter note.......Les do you use all the cameras you have? Are they stored in another building or do you live alone in a mansion?
Umm... The Rollei 35 and Minox 35GT are smaller than them, and the Nikon F5 is bigger. The cameras pictured there are normal-sized cameras. The EOS-1 did not seem a big camera in my hands. As for the OM-1, i don't like its ergonomics nor the lens system. I always thought it was WAY, way overrated.
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