Nikon slr's

MikeTime · Nov 7, 2012

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AgX · Nov 7, 2012

Please bear in mind that Facebook is no longer available to non-Facebook members. At least over here.

lxdude · Nov 7, 2012

I am on Facebook in the US and it says it's unavailable.

MikeTime · Nov 7, 2012

lxdude said:
I am on Facebook in the US and it says it's unavailable.

I'll try to upload the pic tonight

Aja B · Nov 7, 2012

Postings with such vague titles are a waste.

EASmithV · Nov 7, 2012

you have to give a direct link to the jpg.

MikeTime · Nov 7, 2012

iPad works, dsl to my laptop doesn't. I'll try later. It's just a sentimental pic of my now completed Nikon slr collection. In order of acquisition: FM2n, FE2, FA, FM3A, F3, F2AS.

Not trying to waste anyone's time.

MikeTime · Nov 7, 2012

2bits · Nov 7, 2012

I think you have one good Nikon there out of the whole bunch!
Back row first camera on left...:munch:

LyleB · Nov 7, 2012

FM2 is my favorite.

okto · Nov 8, 2012

No F? COLLECTION INCOMPLETE

MikeTime · Nov 8, 2012

okto said:
No F? COLLECTION INCOMPLETE

You have to stop somewhere...

I had one, plain prism, with an old 1.4/50, for ornamental purposes, for years. Sold it. May get a black body at some time.

flatulent1 · Nov 9, 2012

MikeTime said:
iPad works, dsl to my laptop doesn't. I'll try later. It's just a sentimental pic of my now completed Nikon slr collection. In order of acquisition: FM2n, FE2, FA, FM3A, F3, F2AS.

Not trying to waste anyone's time.

Mike, no collection is ever "complete"; what you have is a nice start. You're missing the F, all the other versions of the F3, the F4, F4s, F4e...

Les Sarile · Nov 9, 2012

MikeTime said:
iPad works, dsl to my laptop doesn't. I'll try later. It's just a sentimental pic of my now completed Nikon slr collection. In order of acquisition: FM2n, FE2, FA, FM3A, F3, F2AS.

Nice setup.

BTW, that's a F3HP as opposed to the plain F3 . . .

MikeTime · Nov 10, 2012

Of course, F3HP. I might consider a black F at some point, but for me it stops with the F3. I see the F4 etc as totally different (and ugly) cameras.

Les Sarile · Nov 10, 2012

The manual focus bodies are lookers and obviously stand out today . . .

fstop · Nov 10, 2012

MikeTime said:
Of course, F3HP. I might consider a black F at some point, but for me it stops with the F3. I see the F4 etc as totally different (and ugly) cameras.

I stopped at auto focus too.I have digital for that.

MikeTime · Nov 10, 2012

Les Sarile said:
The manual focus bodies are lookers and obviously stand out today . . .

Lovely cameras! One thing though. I'd like, as a matter of totally irrelevant principle, to pair a body with a lens made in roughly the same period as as the body in question was made. Obviously this is not always possible, but pairing
a F3HP ('81 something?) with a Nippon Kogaku (that's an "S" lens? early seventies?) just doesn't feel right. Shouldn't that have been an F or F2???

E. von Hoegh · Nov 10, 2012

Think of it as a demonstration of compatibilty. "S"(sept) means seven elements and it could be 60s.

MikeTime · Nov 10, 2012

@E.: I was to lazy to look it up. Yes, as far as I recall the letter in those days indicated the number of elements. So this is an "A" or even "Pre-A"? I think Nico van Dijk and Richard de Stoutz have some lists of serial numbers and production dates or years for bodies and lenses. Very helpful, inasfar as it helped me find out I've actually got two Ai's besides five Ai-S's, a few of which are relatively young. Some Ai-S's are still made.

Interesting stuff!

MikeTime · Nov 10, 2012

@E.: I was to lazy to look it up. Yes, as far as I recall the letter in those days indicated the number of elements. So this is an "A" or even "Pre-A"? Serial number 400253? I think Nico van Dijk and Richard de Stoutz have some lists of serial numbers and production dates or years for bodies and lenses. Very helpful, inasfar as it helped me find out I've actually got two Ai's besides five Ai-S's, a few of which are relatively young. Some Ai-S's are still made.

Interesting stuff!

semi-ambivalent · Nov 10, 2012

MikeTime said:
You have to stop somewhere...

I had one, plain prism, with an old 1.4/50, for ornamental purposes, for years. Sold it. May get a black body at some time.

With the huge sales of Fs with Ftn heads, relatively few plain prism bodies were sold. How could you possibly shoot Kodachrome without a meter? While they are still out there one in good condition can cost you dearly. Doubly so for black. Even more for the late diopter-capable Apollo version.

I find all this confusion about S and N and UD and Ai and Ai-ed and AiS quite amusing. Then I remember I am not confused because I am old enough to have lived through it. Then I'm merely grumpy.

Bob-D659 · Nov 10, 2012

All you ever want to know about Nikon lenses and serial numbers

http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html

BradleyK · Nov 10, 2012

Les Sarile said:
The manual focus bodies are lookers and obviously stand out today . . .

The F3HP is a beauty; mine last looked like that prior to its first backpacking excursion - I believe through Wilcox Pass in Jasper National Park...some 30(?) years ago!

Les Sarile · Nov 10, 2012

MikeTime said:
Lovely cameras! One thing though. I'd like, as a matter of totally irrelevant principle, to pair a body with a lens made in roughly the same period as as the body in question was made. Obviously this is not always possible, but pairing
a F3HP ('81 something?) with a Nippon Kogaku (that's an "S" lens? early seventies?) just doesn't feel right. Shouldn't that have been an F or F2???

I am certain that's important when they're on display . . .

F3+DW-3+MD-4+AS-17+AS-14+SB-21+PB-4+AR-7 not all

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