Hell Yes! That's credibility. I managed to avoid situation.
I bought a F2S in 1973 new. Body only was just shy of $600. The S prism has LEDs, these use up batteries and serve no other purpose unless you want the auto EE amazing thing.
I've got most versions of the F and the F2. F2 is hard to beat. The F with the non-meter prism is a spectacularly beautiful camera/sculpture. Also the F is good Leica training, that is for being able to find the shutter release.
I agree, in the old days in time gone past I worked part time as a stringer for several local newspapers, in the 60s while in college, the staff photographers were WWII and Korea War vets who were trained by the Army or Navy to shoot without a meter. Indoors, outdoors, strange lighting. For indoors they used flash, flash bulbs and that new fangled electronic gizmo. I stared with a Spotmatic but upgraded to a Konica T, one of editors told me and the staff photographer that my negatives were frame to frame more contestant and easier to print. When I bought the Nikon F, used, it came with 3 finders, the plain, metered and waist level finder. I shot very little with anything but the metered finder. I still use sunny 16 when shooting my Argus C3, if a battery fails in Konica or Topcon auto 100, otherwise I use a meter.
For indoors. Aperture wide open, slowest shutter speed I can reliably hand hold, get the subject into the best possible light, take the picture, do the best I can in the darkroom with the result.
I bought a Nikon F Photomic T with a 50mm F/1.4 lens and leather case for $149.00 in Japan when I was stationed there in 1965 in the USAF. My recollection is I bought it down in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. I think it was around $489 in America at the time. Then I lost it on a NYC subway a few years later. My heart hadn't been broken like that since I broke up with my girlfriend.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have a Nikon F, preferably with standard prism but OK with Photomic. It would have pride of place with my Spotmatics. But really, in terms of shooting, what's the benefit over my Spotties or even my MX? Asking for a friend.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have a Nikon F, preferably with standard prism but OK with Photomic. It would have pride of place with my Spotmatics. But really, in terms of shooting, what's the benefit over my Spotties or even my MX? Asking for a friend.
With a hand held meter I make one incident light reading to "calibrate" my estimation of the light and then rely on the Sunny 16 variations for the various lighting conditions, e.g., clear, clouds, open sky, shade, etc. Shooting can be even faster than with an auto exposure camera. I've been doing this for 55+ years with a very high success rate.... I find it a bit "funny" that some think a metered prism is clunky and slow, but using a handheld meter instead is somehow less so.?...
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