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Reviews on Nikon F2 Photomic S 35mm Film Camera?


john_renton

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<p>When I was doing field work in the high desert on NM (geologist), a F2 was my camera. Dust. Dirt. Rain. Heat. Bah, it's nothing. I knew a guy who used one in Antarctica. Where it was so cold the meter might not work but the camera did. Then one day I was climbing up a cliff to a ledge that had a rattlesnake on it. I jumped back, dislodged a boulder which then rolled down the slop and over my camera, which was lying on the ground. The damage? One small dent. If that would have happened to my D800, there would be a thousand shards. I wouldn't go back to film, but one cannot deny the utmost quality of the Nikon F2. </p>
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<p>I had two F2 Photomics for over 30 years since 1973, they're great bodies, but when I got my hands on a digital in 2006, that was it, I'll never go back to film again. Just the fact that I don't have to carry film and change it every 36 frames is great.</p>
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If I was going to shoot

Street I would probably take

my Olympus OM1 over my F2.

Smaller & lighter in the hand

& I find the viewfinder

easier to focus quickly than

the F2's one. The shutter is

also very quiet when fired.

The OM1 isn't as robust as an

F2 & uses an obsolete battery

(I have had mine recalibrated

for a 1.5v battery) but I

can't see what an F2 offers

over it for street

photography. I have a waist

level finder with for my F3 &

don't find it a lot of use rk

be honest.

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