More Nikon N75s...

[zanxion72]

Hello to you, Ken Rockwell disguised!! Your pseudo-cover is now blown...

In this case, I agree with you with a (small) disclaimer - N75 is second best after the N65.

... Which in turn is second best to N50

 

[Moose22]

... Which in turn is second best to N50

crap, do I have to go back through the numbers to see all of these now?

Seriously, I bought Huss' N75. This is a fine little camera. We'll see how the first roll comes out, but considering it's vintage, I'm expecting the metering to be awesome. What a great bargain!

I shall now studiously NOT research N65, 50, or 80s to reduce the temptation for more camera bodies. I'm currently full up of 135

 

[Huss]

Hello to you, Ken Rockwell disguised!! Your pseudo-cover is now blown...

In this case, I agree with you with a (small) disclaimer - N75 is second best after the N65.

The N65 did have a bunch of really useful features that went missing on the 75.

 

[ic-racer]

crap, do I have to go back through the numbers to see all of these now?

Seriously, I bought Huss' N75. This is a fine little camera. We'll see how the first roll comes out, but considering it's vintage, I'm expecting the metering to be awesome. What a great bargain!

I shall now studiously NOT research N65, 50, or 80s to reduce the temptation for more camera bodies. I'm currently full up of 135

I think 'box speed' is a reality with these cameras. I have been doing zone testing with 35mm cameras since the 1970s and the older 'center weighted' and 'average' meters really needed 1/2 box speed to eliminate maybe 25% of images on a proof sheet that would be under exposed.
Having said that, with HP5, I still use 250 or 350, but I have made up some 400 cassettes to try in these cameras but have not used them yet.

 

[zanxion72]

crap, do I have to go back through the numbers to see all of these now?

Seriously, I bought Huss' N75. This is a fine little camera. We'll see how the first roll comes out, but considering it's vintage, I'm expecting the metering to be awesome. What a great bargain!

I shall now studiously NOT research N65, 50, or 80s to reduce the temptation for more camera bodies. I'm currently full up of 135

Set aside jokes, I have a black N75 with its awesome looking soft case. I love that camera because it is dirty cheap, it does all of the tricks really well and it weights just nothing compared to my mechanical ones. I do not frequently use it due to the loud shutter and due to not having many AF lenses to play with.

 

[Huss]

While the N75 is great w the kit zoom lens, it really comes into its own with the 50 1.8G. Such a great fast and lightweight combo.

 

[Moose22]

I have a crapload of good Nikon AF glass. Including a couple 50mm AFs and a 28mm AF-G. The 50mm AF-D and AF-G are ridiculously sharp and fast for the price. It's kind of the classic formula for Nikon, they've been great back to manual focus days.

I'll probably shoot a roll or two with a 50mm on before I move this camera to its final home.

 

[RDW]

The N65 did have a bunch of really useful features that went missing on the 75.

The faster autowind and the lack of 'pre-wind' when loading are wins for the 65 over the 75. Nice to have the spotmeter and glass prism in the 75, though. More basic AF without AF-S support in the 55 makes that a step too far down for me, and the plastic lens mount doesn't help.

 

[shutterfinger]

and anyone looking for a N75 should check out https://www.shopgoodwill.com/ as there are several silver bodies with opening bid at or below $10 and no bids. Some have lens.

 

[jay moussy]

Did you take a peak at my watch list...?!?!

Now I gonna' have to wait another week or two to grab one!

 

[mklw1954]

It's good you found one with the battery pack because the N75 battery door is flimsy. I had the battery door just finally disintegrate to pieces. The battery packs are very hard to find now but a few years ago I was lucky to find one on KEH and another N75 that came with one. Very nice camera, which I use with the 28-80mm f3.3-5.5 G lens and the 70-300mm f4-5.6 G lens. Also have an N80 which feels more solid. You have to remove the battery door from the N80 to use a battery pack but the N75 battery pack can be used without removing the battery door (it hangs down into the pack).

 

[M-88]

28-80mm f3.3-5.5 G lens

That's one of the best lens among the cheap ones. Sure it's plastic and all, but it weighs next to nothing and image quality is comparable to that of some much more expensive gear.

You have to remove the battery door from the N80 to use a battery pack but the N75 battery pack can be used without removing the battery door (it hangs down into the pack).

Sure - things happen and one might theoretically forget to put the battery cover of F80/N80 into its slot in MB-16 battery pack and just lose it completely, but I never saw necessity to remove the battery cover as something inconvenient.

 

[ic-racer]

Here is a link to a story about the development of that lens. I even occasionally use one of my 28-80G on my F6.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

I think ic was referring to https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0063/index.htm

 

[ic-racer]

Thanks, Nicholas, I forgot to paste the link.

 

[M-88]

Here is a link to a story about the development of that lens. I even occasionally use one of my 28-80G on my F6.

Author of the article seems quite proud of his invention. And rightfully so. Do you know, by any chance, how 28-80 AF-D and 28-80 G compare to one another, in terms of performance? "D" version of this lens had 7 or 8 elements instead of 6 elements which we see in "G"... And while I'm happy with 28-105, sometimes I need to pack smaller equipment.

 

[Huss]

Author of the article seems quite proud of his invention. And rightfully so. Do you know, by any chance, how 28-80 AF-D and 28-80 G compare to one another, in terms of performance? "D" version of this lens had 7 or 8 elements instead of 6 elements which we see in "G"... And while I'm happy with 28-105, sometimes I need to pack smaller equipment.

I had all three of those lenses. I honestly couldn't tell any difference in performance. Difference is in size/weight/build quality. The 28-80G is super light, super plasticky with great optics. I bought it originally w my F75, then used it on other cameras when wanting light weight. The 28-70 is built to pro levels in comparison, but optically similar. I now only have the 28-105 out of that group due to wanting to get rid of too much gear. The extra size (and reach!) was worth it to unload stuff.