How many Nikons?

[TerryMcC]

I always seem to have one less than I need.

Me too
F100
F4
F4s
F3P
F2
F
S
S2
S3 2000
SP
Voigtlander R2S
Fuji S2 Pro (my most ergonomic camera)
Nikonos V

 

[LeftCoastKid]

F6 x 1; F5 x 1; F3P x 1; F3HP x 1; F2AS x 4; F2A x 1; and F2 x 1.

 

[Michael Firstlight]

F2AS; N5005 (was a gift - I'd never have bought one myself), N950, N990, D1x, D200, D300, D800. I still have the F2AS, D1X, N990, and D800- all mint cared for. F2AS is still my fav.

 

[Billy Axeman]

I am a real Pentax man, most of my 25 camera's are Pentax's (135 and 120). However, I also have 3 Nikons: FM2N, FM3A, and F6. Guess what, these are the camera's I use most

 

[jerrybro]

At the moment I have 6. 2 FMs, 1 FM2, 1 FM2n, 1 S2, 1 D100. I really do miss the F3hp though, and I hear that the F2 is really nice, and I understand that the F4 will meter will all the F mount lenses, and F5 prices are going down, .....

 

[BayG75]

I started out with an FE2 in 1984 - my first serious SLR. Now I am up to 14 Nikon film cameras: F, F2, F2AS, F3HP, FE, two FE2's, FM, FM2, FG, FA, Nikkormat FT2, N90, and S2.

All are functional. The FE2's and the F2's are my main 35mm cameras, but the others all get used at least occasionally.

 

[darkosaric]

, I have 4 of them: F, 2x F3, F55. F55

interesting - 5 years later i have (again) 4:

F3
F801s
F70
nikkormat

So F3 is the only one that is still with me from the original post

 

[Theo Sulphate]

S2 chrome dial
F plain prism
F2 Photomic 1972
F2 Photomic 1974
F2 Photomic 1976
F2S
F2S w/MD-1, MB-1
F3/T black
F3/T champagne w/MD-4
F4S
F4S
FM early style
FM early style
FM new style
FM3a chrome
Nikkormat FT2
FE2
D700

 

[BMbikerider]

Only 4.

F6
F601
D300s
D700

But all my many lenses are Nikon.

 

[RichardJack]

18-20 I've lost count. Lenses are in the hundreds.

 

[BrianVS]

Around 60 to 65, from the Nikon M up through the Df.

 

[macfred]

After selling my F4 only three left : FM2 and 2x F2Photomic (DP-1 finder) - my D200 died a few months ago. The lady of the house has a F301(N2000) and the EM.

 

[tessar]

Only four, in order of acquiring:
Nikon F, plain prism -- given to me!
Nikkormat FT3 -- to have an extra body
Nikon FE -- for the aperture-priority automatic shutter
Nikon N2000 -- for the motorized film advance
Four bodies seem to be enough for now, but who knows?

 

[juan]

F, F2, N8008, Nikonos III, D300, D750, and some Nikon point and shoot

 

[Naples]

One camera ... One Nikon ... F100

 

[Chan Tran]

I have a few.
F3HP
FM old version
FM new version
FM2
FE
F4S
F5
N2020

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Nikkormats Ft and Ftn, both with good meters.
F, plain prism plus Ftn finder for macro.
F2 (early 72) with dp11 finder.
One 50 f:2 Nikkor H for each body, plus Nikkors from 20 to 135mm.
Also a 13.5 f:3.5 Nikkor H C for my Contax II.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Well, I have 4 of them: F, 2x F3, F55. F55 I got for free, it will be gone soon from my collection. I had before FG20, F801s, F50, FE, EM, FG.

F3 is the best for my taste. I have original F mainly to have body that will work all day without problem on winter when is -20C and below.

The only one that I would like to have also is F2.

that doesn't happen too often in Hamburg,does it.

 

[Chan Tran]

that doesn't happen too often in Hamburg,does it.

I want an F2AS to replace my very first camera stolen in 84 but I can't bring myself to paying the same price as when I bought it new for a 40 years old camera.

 

[BayG75]

I want an F2AS to replace my very first camera stolen in 84 but I can't bring myself to paying the same price as when I bought it new for a 40 years old camera.

It's not so bad if you take inflation into account. Current F2AS prices are all over the map, but KEH has one for $460, and I've seen others - in working condition - for less. That's $122 in 1978. Looking at it the other way, $460 in 1978 would be $1,730 today.

 

[Chan Tran]

It's not so bad if you take inflation into account. Current F2AS prices are all over the map, but KEH has one for $460, and I've seen others - in working condition - for less. That's $122 in 1978. Looking at it the other way, $460 in 1978 would be $1,730 today.

I actually paid $550 in 77. It's an F2AS and not F2A which was about $450.
Plugging that in the inflation calculator it came out at $2150 in 2014. So my first digital at $2750 isn't all that much more expensive than my first film camera.

 

[darkosaric]

that doesn't happen too often in Hamburg,does it.

When I wrote the first post - I lived in Warsaw, there you can have very extreme cold weather

 

[Ai Print]

I have 7...

1. My first 35mm, FM2
2. FM3A
3. F3 HP
4. F100
5. D750
6. D810
7. D850

 

[blockend]

Did anyone mention the F301? Manual focus, auto advance, nothing spectacular. In spite of not owning one for very long in the 1980s, some of my favourite shots were taken on the F301 with a Kiron 28mm lens. Also had the F601M, a manual focus camera that needed AF lenses to access its functions! Bought one as back up to my F601.

Also owned a plain prism F (favourite Nikon by far), an F2AS, a bunch of Nikkormats 5 of which I still have, 2 x F60, 1 x F55. Some nice pre-AI lenses, a few AI and AIS lenses (including the 28mm f3.5 AIS which wasn't made for long), early Nikon AF lenses pre-D, plus some AF-D and Sigma N-fit AF glass.

Sometimes think I should acquire an F3 to F6 but they don't appeal. I would dearly love a black plain prism F and would quite like a Nikkormat FT3 and Nikon EL. I'd probably buy a Nikon rangefinder before any of them.

 

[Down Under]

So we are playing "show me yours, I'll show you mine" again? Well, why not. It was more fun when I was thirteen or fourteen, tho.

I bought two Nikkormat ELs in 1976. Still have them, still use them. Indestructible. Some Nikon fanatics pooh-pooh them. Bullcrap,I say. To repeat myself (I do this a lot, have you noticed?), indestructible.

My ELs kept me happy and satisfied til 1993, when I went to Indonesia for three months and got camera-crazy. I bought a Nikon F (1962) with an early Photomic head. The camera was fine, but that Photomic caused so much trouble, it all but turned me NQC. After a month of fighting with the thing, I bought a Weston Master V meter and a Nikon prism (without meter) from a Chinese photo shop in Denpasar, Bali, and used those for the rest of my trip. I sold the lot when I returned to Australia and haven't missed it. Nikon Fs and I never did bond.

Roll on a decade. In 2004 a friend sold me an as new FG-20 and four E lenses (28,35,50, 100) at a mate's-rate price. Again, incompatibility set in. The FT-20 was too tinny for me and its metering was wildly unreliable. The camera sat on a shelf at home until I finally sold it in 2016, to someone who loves it. I kept the lenses. To me, all Nikon glass is worth quids.

In 2009 an Ebay dealer I knew sold out of Nikkormat FT2s.I bought two, with 50mm f/2s, brilliant lenses. Also an EL to make up a trio. All these have been very reliable and I use them all now and then for my B&W 'art' shooting.

Also two Nikon F65s (one is an E65, but the same camera) with the kit 28-80s. Sold the lenses, kept the cameras. These require a bit of critical thinking to use at their best, but they do a fine job, again with B&W.

I have two DSLR Nikons, a D700 and a D90. Both work just fine. With D lenses, I shoot digital color and B&W film side by side. Nikon digital color is superb black-and-white film produces the best mono mid tones. For me, Nikons are win-win.

Being well into retirement I'm quietly selling off my film cameras one by one, as I find I no longer use them and when compatible buyers come along. So far I've resisted parting with any of my Nikons/Nikkormats - they are reliable, pleasant to handle, and they have been a long way with me. I don't miss the Nikon F or the FG-20, but so far I have no intention of letting any of the others go just yet.

All my D lenses fit any of my Nikons, unfortunately my pre-AI glass doesn't cross over to the DSLRs, never mind, that's life. Converting to AI is too expensive in Australia. Never mind, no matter, such is life. My most oft-used lenses are the 35mm f/2 and 28mm f/3.5 for film, 28mm f/2.8 D for digital. Now and then the 20, 85 or 180. All superb optics.

Overlooking my lifelong love affair with Rolleiflex TLRs, my Perkeo II bushwalking kit and my Contax G1s and Contax Zeiss lenses, that pretty much sums up my photographic life's history. In ten paragraphs. That's unusually brief for me, but there you are.