Help Me.... Addicted to Nikon film gear!

[andrewc]

Hey, Les! It's Andy from p.net. My addictions seem to be getting worse as well. My Nikon collection has acquired a 5005, an N90s, and F80, and a pristine Nikkormat FTN with a 55/3.5 Micro. All in the last couple of weeks! Unfortunately Ive also begun to appreciate (also known as 'buy') Minolta AF gear and it's beginning to grow pretty fast as well. The Minolta Maxxum 7 is a pretty nice camera! You should know by now that there's no help for us...

Andy

 

[Les Sarile]

Andy - It may be that we have too much help . . . KEH . . . ebay . . . Craigslist . . . relatives & friends . . . ;-)

 

[pentax4ever]

You want help from us? Seriously? This is the Support Group From Hell.

I like Pentax and K-mount. Back-up is important. I have a few bodies.

 

[rwboyer]

You want help from us? Seriously? This is the Support Group From Hell.

I like Pentax and K-mount. Back-up is important. I have a few bodies.

Mostly I want some help with giving away some of my stuff to promote film use... Hence the little contest in the link. I think I am one of the few that shoot both digital and film in equal measures and have shot both in a commercial environment.

Here is my take on what is still wrong with digital in 2011

http://photo.rwboyer.com/2011/02/26/things-that-still-suck-about-digital/

http://photo.rwboyer.com/2011/02/26/film-and-skin/

RB

 

[lxdude]

I like Pentax and K-mount. Back-up is important. I have a few bodies.

Oh, yeah. I call myself lxdude, but that's because LXMXx3MESuperx2P3nandabunchoflensesandaccessoriesandm42stuffandnikonstuffdude is just a bit unwieldy.

 

[rwboyer]

Oh, yeah. I call myself lxdude, but that's because LXMXx3MESuperx2P3nandabunchoflensesandaccessoriesandm42stuffandnikonstuffdude is just a bit unwieldy.

Yea that is a bit of a tongue twister - I was think of...

Lei-Niko-blad-dorff shooter myself or maybe Hass-kon-ca-dorff? Hmmm both seem to roll of the tongue a bit better than F2F3FMFE501CMM6-dorff.

RB

 

[lxdude]

I'm sure your dorff is especially dear.

 

[Uncle Bill]

...and you're look for help from us????

 

[Peter Simpson]

StOp Me B4 I BUy Again!

 

[shnitz]

I know exactly how you feel. I am mainly a Nikon shooter, thanks to my dad. He handed me down his N2020, which I really enjoy. But, I recently bought a box full of Olympus stuff off of a lady who is trying to empty her house, because she's moving out of town. Turns out it had a Canon 50mm EF lens and a fairly recent Canon flash. Selling both has completely paid for this Olympus stuff, plus a little. I originally just planned to catalog it and use it to pay for a recent iteration of the Nikon 300mm f/4 lens, but it turns out that I got:
Olympus OM-1n, in great condition, functioning 100%
Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
Zuiko 100mm f/2.8
Zuiko 300mm f/4.5

I can't bring myself to put it on ebay yet! I don't want to get rid of it. In fact, I just bought 8 more rolls of film at Walgreens while I was getting a test roll developed. By the way, Walgreen's has Kodak Ultramax and Walgreen's house brand "Made in Japan" (a.k.a. Fuji, most likely Superia) both on sale, $8 for 4 rolls of 24-exposure film.

A quick shot I took, to make sure the camera works, don't remember the camera settings but it was using the built-in meter, 50mm lens, Fuji Superia 400 film. It was so great to see the negatives that the tech handed me; they were so nice and dark, full of data!

 

[rwboyer]

Yea - I had an OM1 at a point and liked it a lot. If I got into Oly gear that would be horrible - I would have to have an OM3ti or 5.

RB

I know exactly how you feel. I am mainly a Nikon shooter, thanks to my dad. He handed me down his N2020, which I really enjoy. But, I recently bought a box full of Olympus stuff off of a lady who is trying to empty her house, because she's moving out of town. Turns out it had a Canon 50mm EF lens and a fairly recent Canon flash. Selling both has completely paid for this Olympus stuff, plus a little. I originally just planned to catalog it and use it to pay for a recent iteration of the Nikon 300mm f/4 lens, but it turns out that I got:
Olympus OM-1n, in great condition, functioning 100%
Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
Zuiko 100mm f/2.8
Zuiko 300mm f/4.5

I can't bring myself to put it on ebay yet! I don't want to get rid of it. In fact, I just bought 8 more rolls of film at Walgreens while I was getting a test roll developed. By the way, Walgreen's has Kodak Ultramax and Walgreen's house brand "Made in Japan" (a.k.a. Fuji, most likely Superia) both on sale, $8 for 4 rolls of 24-exposure film.

A quick shot I took, to make sure the camera works, don't remember the camera settings but it was using the built-in meter, 50mm lens, Fuji Superia 400 film. It was so great to see the negatives that the tech handed me; they were so nice and dark, full of data!

 

[mikecnichols]

I cannot seem to stop buying Nikon 35mm gear. If I see it and it is anywhere near a hundred bucks or less I buy it. Unfortunately I have more than I could ever use in 10 lifetimes.

Look what I added to the collection in February and all the shipments are not in yet. Help meeeeeeeee....

So far the mailman has brought me:

An F3 - an AIS 50 1.4 - a beautiful FE, another FE with databack both mint - a NonAI 50 1.4 - Another F3 with MD-4 - an AIS 18mm f 3.5 - An FE2 in Black with a FREE 17-25 vivitar. Oh an today another F3 and a NON AI 28 f 3.5 that is like nobody ever touch them.

Oh, in case you haven't heard I am giving some away - first off an F3. I am doing the raffle for the F3 in about a week. You still have time to get in on it if you want one. See the posts here...


http://photo.rwboyer.com/2011/02/06/nikon-f3-give-away/

You can hear me blab on about it here after the Rodinal guy...

http://photo.rwboyer.com/2011/02/15/my-brief-interview-about-the-f3-giveaway/

RB

Wow, I couldn't imagine spending that much or more in 10 years, let alone in a single month. I am very happy with your push and plug for film use. I'm glad you are pushing the film experience to others. Oh how I would love to have an F3. For me, that is the ultimate goal for bodies. I was SO tempted to pick up the one a week or so ago that was on sale for about $100. One day though....

 

[moki]

Well, I was addicted to Prakticas and M42 lenses... at a time, there were about 8 cameras with almost every possible lens from 28mm to 300mm. Mostly flea market finds. Now I'm back to one camera and 3 lenses in M42, because I switched to Canon EF. That effectively stops all the buying because it's cheap... :confused:

It's possible to beat the addiction, but why would you want to with such beatiful cameras?

 

[lxdude]

Oh, yeah. I call myself lxdude, but that's because LXMXx3MESuperx2P3nandabunchoflensesandaccessoriesandm42stuffandnikonstuffdude is just a bit unwieldy.

BTW, that's just the 35mm stuff. Wouldn't want to get carried away. Now, someplace else I'm bronicadude, short for...well you get the idea.

 

[Ian C]

The only known cure for Nikonophilia is a strong dose of LF.

But for some the cure is worse than the original dependency, simply exchanging one shameless addiction for another.

 

[djacobox372]

My addiction was so bad a year ago I had over twenty nikon bodies. But I'm in recovery and have widdled it down to just a short list of my favorites.

F
F2as
F3hp +md4
F4s
F5
F100 + grip
FE
FE2
D700 (don't hate me apug!)

The only nikon body I really would like to add would be the F6 (to complete my "F" collection). But they still cost too much.

We won't go into how many lenses I have. :-0

 

[lxdude]

Nothing excessive there-that's only one of each!

 

[SoulJance]

darn where are these bargains for a $100, I must be getting ripped off again. I have nikon gas as well. Over the past year I have got the FE2, F3, FM2n, FG, FM10, with a FA on the way.
If some one has a F6 or FM3A they are no longer using I have a lovely home with plenty of film and lovely locations near by

 

[2F/2F]

I do my part with consuming film - I just ordered 20 rolls of 35mm TX, 20 rolls of 35 Acros, 20 rolls of 120 TX, 20 rolls of TMX 120, a box of 4x5 TXP, a box of 4x5 E100G, a box of 4x5 velvia, a box of 4x5 portra 400, a box of 4x5 ektar, a box of 8x10 TXP, and a partridge in a pear tree.

It's the 35mm Nikon stuff that kills me - too too much really really nice gear around a hundred bucks. With the Leica and Hasselblad and LF stuff I have the same gear that I have used since the 90's most of which I bought new. Except for of of the the 8x10 deardorffs which I now have two of.

RB

Man! I was just trying to help you reason your way out of your addiction...but you can't help the unwilling!

 

[CGW]

I've got it bad enough to have a new, unused F3HP+equally pristine MD4. Nikon Canada was clearing its remaining stock in 2004 and, well, who could say no? Not me.

 

[shnitz]

Wow you're lucky, being in Germany. Linhof flea market finds, incredible.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I cannot seem to stop buying Nikon 35mm gear. If I see it and it is anywhere near a hundred bucks or less I buy it. Unfortunately I have more than I could ever use in 10 lifetimes.

Look what I added to the collection in February and all the shipments are not in yet. Help meeeeeeeee....

Strong the force of GAS is. To resist futile is! You, the Dark Slide calls! To APUG you welcomed are!

Steve

 

[Nikon Collector]

I'm kinda the same way myself!

Jeff

AAAARGH!!! BLASTPHEMY!!

 

[Particle Accelerator]

$205 for an excellent condition F4 at KEH! So there's no hope. We're all doomed.

 

[Peter Simpson]

Just this month, from the as-is section of KEH: a black FE2 and a chrome FM2n. $40 each. They appear to work, though both can use a foam replacement. How could I say no? They join an F2 and an F3HP. There's also a D700 in the cabinet, but they all seem to be getting along together. I had forgotten how much fun film is.