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Can an older Nikon take pictures with colored film?


aaron_miller

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Troll<P>

And not even a particularly smart or funny one at that.<P>

Humor requires intelligence and skill. Intelligence is a matter of genetics and

we can't help you with your choice of parents but you should go back to

practicing in private and when you can find that you can make your cat or

goldfish laugh at your jokes, then you should try going public again.

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I do not think older Nikons could take pictures all by themselves, in B+W or color?

Am I wrong to assume there was a Nikon of old with built in intelligence? Even the newest N, C, P, M, H, L, ... cannot take pictures by themselves: So the answer clearly is no, it can not! You need an intelligent being taking the picture.

 

Please someone clue me in if i am mistaken. I think you will need a photographer for a quite while who takes the pictures.

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The question isn't all that stupid if we discuss very old lenses, i.e., designed in times when there wasn't any colour film around yet. With such very old lenses you could experience significant colour shifts. When you shoot negative colour film, most colour shifts will be corrected during printing. If you prefer slide film, the colour rendition of your lenses is very important. So if you are in doubt about some old lenses, just try it with a type of slide film you know very well and in typical lighting conditions (sun, overcast, flash...).
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I don't know if it was a troll or not, but I found it an interesting question. Other than snapshots on a really cheap point and shoot, my only photography experience has been digital. So my film knowledge is lacking. I clicked on the question because I was curious if cameras made before colour film could take colour film. By the sarcastic answers, I'm guessing it can. :)

 

Guess it's like the funny looks I get from kids these days when I mention record players...

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I owned a couple of Nikon S-series rangefinders in the 1950's - I am not aware of any Nikons older than the original S, and I can assure everyone that there was plenty of color film around at the time, and it worked just fine in the cameras. Even Kodachrome at ASA 10. So what does the original question mean by "an older Nikon camera"?

 

The point about older lenses is valid, and there is no doubt that both contrast and color correction have improved in modern lenses, but I would love to have that old equipment back.

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Color photography dates from 1861, and the first commercial color film from 1907. If there were Nikons made before 1861, they would have had lenses corrected only for blue light, and so might not have worked well in color :-)

 

Note that any lens not corrected for color will also not work with panchromatic black and white film

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