Turns out they got it right in 1959 (Nikon F)

Halka said:

Reading this thread has caused me to gently fondle my F3

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benjiboy said:

Fondle away, it won't make it a Canon F1N

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Yashinoff said:

It is too bad though that Nikon left out the film cutting knife.

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Halka said:

Haha, I guess not (I posted that comment while I was maybe halfway through this thread).

I really like the look of the New F-1 though. It's sad that the EOS transition left perfectly good (L-types, even) lenses sitting in the dust. Maybe I'll pick one up at a later point, although a T-series camera probably wouldn't kill my wallet

@OP, those pictures are great. Do you have a favorite film-developer combination?




My Canon FD lenses were never " left sitting in the dust" I'm still using them on my Canon FD bodys 25 years later. I don't need a Canon EOS, autofocus is automation I don't need for the type of photography I do, and is just something else to go wrong.

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Halka said:

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This is the first time I hear of this, was it a camera feature?

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philosomatographer said:

So long after starting this thread, the Nikon F was not a gear-acquisition fad. This camera is an eternal masterpiece, and the first-generation optics are a joy to work with. I just developed these:

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E. von Hoegh said:

It was on some cameras, for instance my Exakta VXIIa had on the bottom a small knob, which when unscrewed and pulled out cut the film - so you could expose (say) a few frames, then remove the film for processing.

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