Why Would One Bash the F5?...and How Does it Compare to the F100 and 1v?

[Sirius Glass]

If you have big hands then an F5 would fit your hands while an Olympus Pen F would not.

That is why it pays to handle or better yet rent a camera before buying. I would never sell a large person a very small camera or a small person a very large camera.

Steve

 

[Stock Dektol]

HAH. Rockwell is not accurate at all. He is totally bias and not at all reliable.

 

[FilmOnly]

You are right, Sirius Glass, it is always prudent to handle a camera first. For many of us, though, this simply is not an option. In an ideal scenario, I would never buy a camera (or just about anything) without seeing it first. If I were to judge merely by the majority of opinions here (or elsewhere), the Nikon F5 would seem a big, bulky (though feature-rich) camera that only Hercules could handle. I have held an F5, and have had no problems with its size or weight. I prefer this type of camera. With so much discussion in regard to the size and weight of the F5, and other similar cameras, I sometimes wonder if the photographic community is composed largely of weaklings. After all, even the heaviest of 35mm cameras are no more than two or three pounds.

 

[Christiaan Phleger]

Yeah, Totally Agree, this era of photogs are getting to be wimps. I laugh when someone comments on my D3 at a wedding and says it heavy, I then hand them my F4 with a 135 f2 in there hands (or and F3/MD-4 with an 85 1.4!) and say, thats still lighter than my Speed Graphic.

 

[FilmOnly]

Indeed, RidingWaves, I buy only "heavyweights." When I hear that a camera's main "benefit" is that it is "lightweight," I tend to stop listening.