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

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

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

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.

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.

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.