Canon EOS Mount
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Back in December 2022, I was thinking about getting myself a Nikon F4 for my Birthday. Unfortunately due to circumances beyond my control, I had to scratch those plans. I still had my eyes on an F4, but it was not high-priority anymore. A few days ago while surfing eBay, I spotted an F4 in pristine/mint condition selling for less than $200 along with FREE shipping ! I could not resist, so I hit the [BUY NOW] button. A couple of days later, and here my beautiful Nikon F4 in mint condition ! There are no scratches, no brassing, no dents as advertised, the camera is super-clean and hard to believe it was ever used ! The only flaw I found so far is through the viewfinder. It looks like the two little boxes that display the over/under compensation are scratched, but I can still see the values, so no bigg issue there. The BIG test was to see how noisy this camera is. The reason why I sold my Canon EOS-3 semi-pro film camera a few months ago was due to the noise. That camera could wake up an entire noeighborhood by hitting the shutter button ! The F4 passed with flying colors !! It makes noise but it is very reasonable. I'm not going to say its silky-smooth, but the shutter sound is very reasonasable. This camera is a Tank. It is larger and heavier than my EOS-3 which was a large heavy camera itself. Since this was a Professional camera back in the days, it feels more solid and better built than my semi-pro EOS-3. In any case this is definitely a two-hand camera. You can use one hand to hold it and even fire off a few shots, but not for long. There is even a little grip on the left side of the camera for the other hand. One thing I didn't think about is the lenses this camera uses. I wanted a camera that i could use with my old Nikkor lenses and also wanted to use some of my Nikon AF lenses(the few that I have) which this camera definitely allows. However when it comes to AF lenses my guess is that you can only use the 'D' lenses since they have an Aperture Scale. The 'G' lenses do not have an aperture scale, so you have to set the aperture in-camera. Everything on the F4 is dials and buttons. No menus, joy sticks, or spinning wheels(just what I wanted) so how are you supposed to set the aperture if there is nothing on the camera to set it with ? Right now I only have 2 Nikon AF Lenses with the Aperture Scale. The 50mm and the 85mm. Which makes me wonder If I'm going to have to go through another lens-buying spree ? -
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