As a person with small hands, the F3HP was an absolute handful, even more when I attached a Metz hammerhead flash to it, and the MD-14 and carried it all in the huge Karrimor front handlebar bag around Tasmania in 1986, including a 33km snow-covered slog into and out of Queenstown -- one of the coldest, gloomiest, lifeless and generally most unwelcoming places I've ever seen (never went back again!). Needless to say I had to walk up many more hills around Tassie than my touring companion who carried just an Olympus XA!! It's not a camera that I would go back to for nostalgia or practicality.
Why does none of the F3s showed here show any signs of brassing around the strap lugs?! Especially on the angle where the strap is constantly rubbing against the body, when it is around your neck?
Used mine once and BAM! Brassing!
Was I duped with a weak paint touch up job, and is the paint just naturally weak?
Are you guys constantly carrying in hand or bag?
Well, you pay dearly for the "very lightly used", or you were exceptionally lucky and bypassed the scalpers.
Standard Nikon strap used.
People who say they prefer brassing are the same type who says, "I did that on purpose" when making a mistake, making a virtue out of happenstance or unavoidable circumstances.
Brassing can be charming in certain designs and when you inflicted it yourself by normal everyday use over decades. But I'm undecided whether then F3 patinates well in that regard.
Helga
Maybe I got lucky. I also went for a non-HP version. I think that most shooters want the HP version. My camera repair buddy said that it looks as if new, barely used. Came with the red/brown Everready case too. I’m really liking it. The new F3 and my FE-2 compliment each other well. I slapped a very nice MD-4 onto it too.
Thanks
Well, sometimes you're in for your share of luck if you keep looking. What did you pay?
Put some black electrical tape on the corners and a sticky protector in the bottom, if you decide you want to delay the onset of brassing.
The MD-4 is as fast as your ever going to want to shoot with film,. Though you could go to 13.5 fps if you wanted to, with the F3H and special motor.
I got a Rolleiflex 2.8f in very nice condition with Rolleinars and yellow filter for around a hundred and fifty dollars some years ago.
These cameras are paid off decades ago. What they are worth now is just speculation and hot air.
Don’t be surprised if the brassing happens before you think though.
Even if the strap is soft, it’ll still polish off the paint, due to the constant slight movement for every step you take.
Why does none of the F3s showed here show any signs of brassing around the strap lugs?! Especially on the angle where the strap is constantly rubbing against the body, when it is around your neck?
Used mine once and BAM! Brassing!
Was I duped with a weak paint touch up job, and is the paint just naturally weak?
Are you guys constantly carrying in hand or bag?
Don't know either! This is my F3 and I use it a lot.Why does none of the F3s showed here show any signs of brassing around the strap lugs?! Especially on the angle where the strap is constantly rubbing against the body, when it is around your neck?
Used mine once and BAM! Brassing!
Was I duped with a weak paint touch up job, and is the paint just naturally weak?
Are you guys constantly carrying in hand or bag?
This is my first one, taken a few moments ago.
While it has not had an easy life, it has had a hard but fair use life, with literally, thousands of rolls of film through it.
Mick.
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They perform well but I wouldn't use them on the F3 as they would look out of place on the F3. On the EM however they look nice.Looks good to me. What is the consensus opinion on the Nikon E 50 f/1.8 glass?
What would be "Out Of Place" about the lens.?They perform well but I wouldn't use them on the F3 as they would look out of place on the F3. On the EM however they look nice.
They perform well but I wouldn't use them on the F3 as they would look out of place on the F3. On the EM however they look nice.
Well I've been doing something wrong for about 25 years, which is about the length of time I have been running a 28mm E series and 35mm E series on my F3's.
I would never have thought either of these look out of place.
Mick.
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Well I've been doing something wrong for about 25 years, which is about the length of time I have been running a 28mm E series and 35mm E series on my F3's.
I would never have thought either of these look out of place.
Mick.
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The camera strap is just webbing from a hiking store 30+ years ago, along with some do it yourself components, the rings are key rings. Nothing fancy at all, but extremely effective.
These straps for all of my 35mm cameras allow me to lengthen or shorten, but generally I run a long strap over my right shoulder with the camera under my left hand, with my left hand mostly sitting on top of the prism to keep it steady. One then picks the camera up with the left hand underneath and the right just lightly holding it and firing the shutter and winding.
It is possible to wind the camera strap in such a manner that the strap is taut around the left arm, thereby almost making me a tripod; works well in high wind without a tripod. This was a common occurrence in Iceland last year with extremely high winds.
At one stage, we endured winds around 45ms to 60ms when photographing a Gannet colony. A tripod couldn't be used as we were standing on a steel platform that was moving in the wind as it stuck out directly from the land into air something like 40m above a boiling sea looking down to the colony and one of those industrial open galvanised steel mesh platforms; worked a treat, generally. It is almost impossible to walk with wind at that speed, except in spurts as you get your balance for a few steps. Pardon the pun, but it was a blast.
This short video in the last seconds shows the platform, just.
Mick.
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Well I've been doing something wrong for about 25 years, which is about the length of time I have been running a 28mm E series and 35mm E series on my F3's.
I would never have thought either of these look out of place.
Mick.
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