Not surprised. The seller states the rear dial is broken.
So What's the Nikon F5 go for these days?
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Not surprised. The seller states the rear dial is broken.
Not very helpful if I'm on vacation out of state or out of the country and I break the door latch. Accidents happen, if it is a known frailty of the F100 fix before it becomes a possible issue.
It's known to break even if you are careful. If that wasn't the case, you'd see lots of other cameras being sold with broken film doors too, not just F100s (or F80s - they seem to have the same issue).
I always take two Nikon 35mm AF SLRs when I travel with 35mm cameras. One for color and one for black & white. If one fails on a trip and that has never happened to me in over 60 years, I could use the other camera.
I could say the same about failures. Decades of film and digital and never did anything break, until last winter when the rewind knob of my FA popped off and all the little parts went everywhere. I was able to find everything except the little pin that hinges the arm... so I couldn't put it back together and no more FA that day. Luckily I had an F2 as well and just kept shooting, but I was invincible to that point.
It absolutely never happens. Until it does.
Part of why F5s are so... beefy. Meant for an audience that doesn't baby their cameras.
But what happens if the one with color in it fails, and you want to shoot color but the other one already has a roll of b&w in it?
you should really take a third spare body with no film in it. Just in case.
When he started selling them I ordered one up from him .
I've never had a problem with mine , but it's nice to have just in case .
Regardless of what state or country your in , you can always pick up a roll of duck tape to hold the back shut !
But you just know if you take a third body your not going to leave it empty , bound to put some infrared film in it or something .
That beefy F5 is notorious for electrical issues now that they are old. Especially with the control dials. The one listed here in the FB link has a broken rear dial.
Well you obviously need to carry four bodies.
That's one of the reasons I never bought one. The age. I shied away from F4s because of the bleeding LCD for the same reason, and F5s were first gen with stuff like VR and the dials instead of aperture rings.
And, frankly, being beefy, fast, and professional a lot of them have been treated the way pros treat cameras. The get used. A lot. Since they aren't being made I figured parts and repairs would be a problem at some point.
Of course, you had issues with your F6, so maybe I made the right choice, maybe not. They stopped making F6s after I bought mine, too. I could be playing with fire.
Yeah, or you carry two loaded with color on the ridiculous notion that then you don't have to swap lenses while shooting.
or... umm... So I've heard. From a friend. Yeah. From a friend.
There's a guy on this site selling an F5 for under $300. He bumped his post today, and it started in early August.
The best thing about the F5 is the tactile feel of the fake leatherette. It has the best feel of any camera I've ever used, and that's it's primary appeal to me. I want to use it since it feels good in my hands.
I've tried to love the F4, since it has all the old school dials and switches that make it so user friendly, but the hard plastic and thin stiff and smooth rubber is a tactile feel disaster. That generation of Nikons, and almost all the Canons have that horrible hard plastic slippery feel which I just can't stand.
The best thing about the F5 is the tactile feel of the fake leatherette. It has the best feel of any camera I've ever used, and that's it's primary appeal to me. I want to use it since it feels good in my hands.
I've tried to love the F4, since it has all the old school dials and switches that make it so user friendly, but the hard plastic and thin stiff and smooth rubber is a tactile feel disaster. That generation of Nikons, and almost all the Canons have that horrible hard plastic slippery feel which I just can't stand.
There are at least four number series that one could use any one of them for the third entity:
- Prime numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 ...
- Powers of 2: 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, ...
- Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...
- f/stops: 1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 48, 64, ...
There is indeed! Not without patina, but hey - works, beats dealer prices, doesn't need shipping from Japan
When I was a working PJ, although I never had a camera fail, I witnessed many that had, some very new. Sure a PJ puts a camera to hard use and few I knew did not take particularly good care of his gear, most did take reasonable care, meaning that any brand, and type, at any time can fail. When I was working I traded in my main body every 5 or 6 years, at this point my newest pro level body a Minolta 9 is 23 years old. If I can take a preventive action to save grief in the field I will, just don't see any good reason suffer the aggregation
Yup, and I babied mine... maybe I should have bounced it off the floor a few times? Upside is Nikon fixed it, and they still work on the F6. They don't work on any other Nikon film cameras. The reason being the F6 is the only one they still stock parts for.
The two F4s I sold earlier this year had no issues - no leaky lcds - everything worked great. But I decided to keep only one AF 35mm slr (as I am hardly using any of them) so those two went off to owners who will hopefully use them a lot more than I did!
Back to the F5 - the time I handled one it was a 'whoa mama!' moment. Thing is a beast and in its day made a lot of sense. Now, I'm not sure. Then again, now an F75 makes more sense most of the time than an F6...
Hmm, there are two camps as to whether 1 is a prime number.
Fourth body ? well that second body that had Pan F in 'cos you were photographing a waterfall , the third body had Rollei IR in , so the fourth body had HP5 in for the evening , now your onto a fifth body that you stuck E6 in , then you realise that you've now got to systems and you need to pack an extra set of lenses , then you find it's now to damned heavy to carry where you were going and it's gone dark anyway !
A friend , eh ? O.K .
I hope they were two different emulsions you , sorry , your friend , were carrying ?
I got mine 6 months ago for around $350.
What'd you charge me for the little plastic fantastic you sold? $35 I think. And I am still a little disappointed that the girl I bought it for likes it so much as part of me wanted it back. It was that good a camera.
Basically those things are an under $50 camera that runs all modern lenses Nikon film cameras can handle -- including VR -- and has the same quality of metering as the flagship F6. Weighs nothing. Slap an AF50 on it and you have a cheap, small, light, easy to use autofocus camera that makes a perfect walkin' around rig and takes stellar photos. They're the last great bargain in Nikons.
F5 will shoot a gazillion frames a second and really is a nice rig, but if you don't need the framerate, for the same price you can buy a half dozen N75s from goodwill, clean the sticky off of 'em, and just replace any one that fails.
Since I got mine the F6 got stupid expensive -- IF you can find one -- and though Nikon will repair them you have to have a USA serial number to qualify.
A friend , eh ? O.K .
I hope they were two different emulsions you , sorry , your friend , were carrying ?
I tend to have a camera with higher speed film going.
It really seems silly, but I'll tell you that the one time this year that I DIDN'T have a digital camera or any high speed film was when some amazing stuff happened. I took some shots with Portra 160, and ran a roll of kentmere at 1600, but Portra 800 and HP5 (which I love at 1600) or P3200 would have been clutch.
First world problems.
Yeah the F75 really is so good. But not trendy so it’s cheap! Insane to think an Olympus Stylus (which I owned and do not rate highly) is worth 4 times as much, if not more.
I just had/have too much stuff so I’m glad it is being used.
Yes I don't know the construction of the command dials but they tend to fail or rather skipping that is you have to turn several clicks to make it goes 1 click. We use that type of encoder (we call it quadrature encoder) often in the industry but they are much more robust than the ones used in cameras. But almost all modern cameras have the controls that way and I hate it.
Just have to pull out my F5 and check. Luckily it works perfectly fine and no sticky rubber.
I have been using the N75, the US version of the F75, since 2004 including many trips to Europe and Hawaii. The camera does its work well, even sporting a built in flash. It has most of the features that you will need and want and not of the extra frills most of us can live without.
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