For Sale: Nikon F2Photomic (DP-1 Meter Prism Non-Working)

I have a Nikon F2 Photomic for sale that needs repairs.

The camera body's film back is often hard to snap shut, and the film rewind button on the base doesn't stay depressed, so you need to hold it in while rewinding film. The camera itself is in close to excellent condition looks-wise. There are several small to hard-to-see dings in the bottom plate. The camera comes with a black Nikon camera strap and generic soft shutter release.

The DP-1 meter prism is in excellent condition appearance-wise, but it doesn't meter. The battery check works properly, however.

Is it permissible to ask for best offers here? or do I need to set a price? I can't find any guidelines here for ad content.

For now, I'm open for offers. Best reasonable offer by May 1st gets it.

Please contact me at ( kisatchie50 at gmail dot com ) if you are interested. I can't find any indications how private messages work here, so I doubt if I would notice any sent to me.

I ship via insured priority mail, so please add $10 to the buying price. Sorry, but I can sell/ship ONLY to US addresses.

Thanks for looking.

Hi Rick,

SOLD! Your offer was more than I was hoping for, and I don't want to take advantage of you, so make it $75 plus $10 insured priority mail = $85 total.

If that's agreeable to you, you can send payment to

VINCENT PERI

P.O. BOX 293

ST. JOSEPH, LA 71366

I accept personal checks and money orders. Thanks!

Sounds good, thanks! I'm only a couple of states over in Alabama and I never send checks. It will be a couple days before I get home to do it but I'll send it to you this week. F2 is my favorite camera ever.

Rick H.

Hi Rick,

Thank you. I know what you mean about the F2! I have 5, and I'm thinking about buying another F2A lol.

Vincent

Hey Vincent, I got busy and totally forgot to send that to you. It will go out in the morning. No excuse, I just let it get past me. I'm very much looking forward to getting it and putting some film through it.

Rick H.

Hey Rick...

I received your payment today after the post office closed, so I'll ship the camera to you tomorrow, Wednesday May 3. Thanks again.

It arrived today in good shape, It's actually better than expected. All the shutter speeds seem to work though the slow speeds are a little off for 1/4 and 1/8 but I don't use those often myself. The meter needle does move back and forth when pointed at a light but I haven't yet put a lens on it to check it all out. So far so good, very happy att his point. Thanks!!

Rick H.

Glad you like it. Good luck with the light meter! Sounds like it's doing more for you than it did for me LOL.

Vincent

FWIW, I've revived a few DP-1s by removing the front plate(two screws), drizzling in some carbon tet, and working both the coupling prong and shutter speed dial back and forth a bunch. I've had good luck with both "jumpy" needles and meters that are more or less dead or way off. I've also done some F prisms that way.

Granted carbon tet's not a great idea as it's highly toxic and probably hard to find these days. I do all of this at work in a fume hood. Some tuner cleaner would probably work.

Ultimately the more or less permanent fix is probably to disassemble and clean the ring resistors and wipers. It's not a TERRIBLE on a DP-1, but still is a bit tedious.

I'll give that a try Ben, I have another F2 with a DP-1, it is also an earlier F2 like the one Vincent sold me, and it is a bit flaky in the meter.

Rick H.