I can't find anything on the web about the Nikon F5's weak points and problems. Except for the leatherette, which can come off in places.
Do you know more about this? Or is the F5 really the SLR that lasts forever?
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I can't find anything on the web about the Nikon F5's weak points and problems. Except for the leatherette, which can come off in places.
Do you know more about this? Or is the F5 really the SLR that lasts forever?
I've never owned an F5, but I wonder if the metering selector on the pentaprism is as weak as the one fitted on the F5's plasticky toy sibling, the F100 (which I owned, bought new).
If so, it's a pretty bothersome vulnerability. The one on my F100 broke after two years of light usage.
Although I guess even if that were to happen, on the F5 you could just throw away the entire pentaprism and fit a replacement one.
Build Quality. I've dragged my F5 up 16,000 foot passes, around Patagonia, through the backwoods of American, and deep into Alaskan wilderness. It's been rained on, attacked by killer dust storms, dropped, kicked, and shoved recklessly into my pack. It looks like and performs like new.
During his lifetime, my father gave me his F5, which he had used to photograph archaeological excavations in North Africa.
He cleaned the dustproof housing of desert sand residues, I found a few grains of sand which I removed and removed a rubber ring which my father had inserted under the safety switch in addition to blocking the portrait format shutter release.
Everything worked.
Yours looks like mine.
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The housing of the DP-30 standard viewfinder is made of titanium and appears to be very durable.
I wasn't talking about viewfinder, I was talking about the metering selector (tiny switch to go from matrix to spot to centre weighted)
It's probably made of plastic as with its predecessor F4.
I assume it will look similar underneath to this:
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Nikon DP-20 viewfinder (for Nikon F4): LCD examined, case disassembled and reassembled
After replacing the top LCD in the viewfinder of a Nikon F4, I wanted to know what the procedure is for the bottom LCD. To do this, I dismantled a functional DP-20, the standard viewfinder for the F4, whose display is badly bleeding. It has black and green spots that partially cover the...www.photrio.com
I don't know how you could break the ring through normal use.
But if you're talking about the F-100, what happened to the ring?
My complaint is the annoying little button that needs to be pushed in before you can rotate the power knob to on.
I actually took my Time/Life book "The Camera" and had Lee Friedlander sign his pictures in the book. My copy is all beat up these days. It is my inspirational source. I got it in 1973 as a gift the first year I started photography. Sometimes I think everything I have done in photography stems from an image in that book.
I don't have any of the other books in the series, just the one.
Other than size and weight compared to the Nikon F100, there is nothing to complain about the Nikon F5. View attachment 386183
I actually took my Time/Life book "The Camera" and had Lee Friedlander sign his pictures in the book. My copy is all beat up these days. It is my inspirational source. I got it in 1973 as a gift the first year I started photography. Sometimes I think everything I have done in photography stems from an image in that book.
I don't have any of the other books in the series, just the one.
I actually took my Time/Life book "The Camera" and had Lee Friedlander sign his pictures in the book. My copy is all beat up these days. It is my inspirational source. I got it in 1973 as a gift the first year I started photography. Sometimes I think everything I have done in photography stems from an image in that book.
I don't have any of the other books in the series, just the one.
I actually took my Time/Life book "The Camera" and had Lee Friedlander sign his pictures in the book.
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Although I had graduated from college with a minor in photojournalism and working as an Air Force combat photographer …
I up-graded from the F4 to the F5 when they first came out. I used it for years as a professional sports photographer. It's a wonderful camera and likely the best of the AF Nikon film cameras... well maybe the F6 is better but they came out too late for most of us, as the pro shooters had already switched to digital by the time the F6 came out. I only have a F3 now but if I was considering an AF model, I would likely get the F5 or F6. One advantage of the F6 is it's lighter and smaller since the motor drive comes off.
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