Talking to some friends yesterday and our conversation turned to photography. Eventually it came out that I shoot film in older cameras and they gave me this: The thing feels like a real tank of a camera. 4 lenses: 50mm f1.4 NIKKOR Nippon Kogaku, 55mm Micro-Nikkor f3.5 (macro?), 24mm f2.8 Soligor, & 200mm f3.5 Soligor tele-auto. There’s a lens shade, an extension tube, and 2 expired rolls of iso 64 Kodachrome! All in a sweet suitcase-type box. Ha ha I needed this like a hole in the head. at the very least I want to figure out how to use it and shoot these two old rolls of film through it. Insight, opinions, stories, wisdom, and everything else is welcome. PS: just a word of caution: I shot the pic with my phone and uploaded it straight to the site so file size is probably large. FYI, click on the photo at your own peril- or that of your data plan! Cheers, Tom
Had various versions of this camera including black with the plain prism. Was there ever a better looking SLR?
Nice camera! Have a couple still. The Nikon lenses are good ones, have them and use both on occasion. Don't know of anyone processing Kodachrome, I think Dwayne's was the last and that was years ago. Good camera to have fun with!
The plain prism Nikon F(1) is, even in silver, one of the beauties of any camera collection. Most of them still seem to work, except, that is, for the meters on the Photomic heads.
What's the gadget beneath the cable release (with the dial and a hot/cold shoe) and silvery thing under the flash manual? I never knew the 200mm 3.5 Soligor had a tiny tripod foot! AFAIK Kodachrome dev. isn't possible any more, but the recent 'retro' love for film will mean you can atleast find film and get it developed.....
I can see an AS-1 flash coupler, with perhaps a small shoe mounted exposure meter on it. One of those slinky metal neck straps? Either way a magnificent gift indeed.
