It would make sense as the SLR was rapidly replacing rangefinders, when a Leica was carried it was with a wide angle lens. I carried a Canon 7S or Leica IIIG wilth either a 28 or 35mm lens a second body until the early 80s when I replaced it with a second Nikon.
Nikon F and the vietnam war
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I remember I turned 18 in 1973, I got a draft card, thankfully the US involvement was winding down as I wasn't called up. I bought a new Nikon F2S the same year, (I really hated the LED meter display) I have a couple F2 and F bodies today, with plain prisms 
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My wife and I attended an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Centre in—was it 1999?—about the photographers who were killed in the Vietnam War, and many of their their photographs were on display.
Most of the photographers killed were Vietnamese, but there were many others, notably Robert Capa; among the photographs on display were his last two images, one black and white and one colour, as the caption card indicated he had two camera bodies that day.
At the entrance to the exhibition was a composite image of all of the photographers who were killed, as well as a huge photograph of a Nikon F, which had a bullet hole right through the right side of the camera.
Years later, when I was a staff photographer at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, I attended an exhibition of the photographs of the British photographer, Don McCullin. He walked the crowd through the exhibition, talking about his photography.
At one point, he mentioned how he had had a Nikon F camera shot out of his hands; naturally, I thought if the photograph I had seen years earlier. When his walk through was ended, and he was taking questions from the viewers, I told him about what I had seen in Chicago, and asked if that was his Nikon F. He replied no, but said he was nearby when it happened.
I was also able to make some exposures when he was talking to the viewers, and I guestimated the exposure to be 1/30 @ f/2, for where he was standing, which was near the photographs he was talking about, but not under the lights which illuminated his photographs. I went back afterwards and measured the light with my Lunasix-3, and the exposure was correct for a film rated at ISO 800, and I had loaded my camera with HP5. However, his photographs on the wall were horribly overexposed.
Most of the photographers killed were Vietnamese, but there were many others, notably Robert Capa; among the photographs on display were his last two images, one black and white and one colour, as the caption card indicated he had two camera bodies that day.
At the entrance to the exhibition was a composite image of all of the photographers who were killed, as well as a huge photograph of a Nikon F, which had a bullet hole right through the right side of the camera.
Years later, when I was a staff photographer at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, I attended an exhibition of the photographs of the British photographer, Don McCullin. He walked the crowd through the exhibition, talking about his photography.
At one point, he mentioned how he had had a Nikon F camera shot out of his hands; naturally, I thought if the photograph I had seen years earlier. When his walk through was ended, and he was taking questions from the viewers, I told him about what I had seen in Chicago, and asked if that was his Nikon F. He replied no, but said he was nearby when it happened.
I was also able to make some exposures when he was talking to the viewers, and I guestimated the exposure to be 1/30 @ f/2, for where he was standing, which was near the photographs he was talking about, but not under the lights which illuminated his photographs. I went back afterwards and measured the light with my Lunasix-3, and the exposure was correct for a film rated at ISO 800, and I had loaded my camera with HP5. However, his photographs on the wall were horribly overexposed.
In the documentary, “Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War,” the author of the book the documentary is based on, journalist, Michael Maclear, he states, “Vietnam was the first war fought without censorship.”
I bought my first F second-hand in 1974 and it was my only camera for the next 12 years. Sold it in ’86 in London to pay the airfare back to the States. My go-to 35mm SLR is an F2 these days, with the plain prism (I always meter off-camera) and a Micro-Nikkor 55. The years spent without a Nikon were stressful.I remember I turned 18 in 1973, I got a draft card, thankfully the US involvement was winding down as I wasn't called up. I bought a new Nikon F2S the same year, (I really hated the LED meter display) I have a couple F2 and F bodies today, with plain prisms
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