After learning last year that our office was due to close, I wanted to use my photographic skills to give something back to the people I worked with, something that might help them find their next dream job. I thought I could offer portraits that people could use on their CVs and social media. After […].
Apparently, only accredited photojournalists could get their hands on one of these babies, so only limited quantities were produced until… Nikon decided to make extra ones called […]. The Nikonos V — with its striking orange exterior — is one of the most legendary 35mm film cameras ever made.
But […]. In January , after 5 or so years of film photography with a combination of cheaper cameras e. Ergonomically it is beaten by another on this list too which represents a better buy IMHO.
But that said this is capable with a wide range of lens support. Read my full review here. In short this was a second thought. Essentially just a F stripped of the AF control motor and electrics. You could imaging Tubbs shooting it on a stake out in Miami Vice. This is a mid range consumer model. Often overlooked in favour of the more prosumer F or F But this benefits from much of the same tech but in a more flimsy shell.
It loads out with serious kit harvested from earlier cameras. Manual focus AI lenses can be used with focus assist but no metering. It can use almost any Nikon lens ever made including those invasive Fisheyes as long as the lens has a mechanical aperture ring. Some would argue you can get better bodies for still reasonable prices. But these are great cameras to wet your toes to try out a Nikon SLR. This is my quick run through about Nikon F mount lenses.
This is know as the F mount and a simple mechanical bayonet mount. Revised to deal with new technology, many a dSLR can still use a original F mount lens. Oddly none on this list can. The Nikon F was originally unmetered. To achieve this early Nikon Lenses have prongs known as Rabbit ears that catch a pin on a metering arm. In they introduced the AI revision, which uses a small ridge on the lens base rather than the prongs making mounting much quick and easier.
Weirdly as some decidedly budget digitals can like the D40 — go figure? AI would be tweaked with the AI-S revision in — this benefits predominately AF cameras but is cross compatible with older AI bodies and vice versa.
Even newer AF-D lenses which lack these but have an aperture ring, can still often be used on pre-AI bodies with stop down metering. Successful Autofocus sorry F3AF arrives in AF is the designation of the original lenses. They use a motor on the camera body to power the lens.
Later revisions led to AF-D lenses which allowed the camera to know the focal distance — handy for flash control. The system was very successful but be came dated rapidly. Both have 5 electrical coupling pins on the lens mount see below. These lack an aperture ring and have no AI ridge. Control of aperture is by the body and requires electrical connection. This makes them useless on cameras that require a mechanical connection i. AF-I lenses moves the motor onto the lens from Just 4 years later they got a minor revision to become AF-S lenses.
The difference really being a more silent motor. These have between contact pins handy if trying to work out a G class lens. Or infact any digital body made before Today Nikon still makes a few manual focus AI lenses.
The full frame FX lenses are just 35mm lenses and will work fine providing the tech otherwise matches. DX lenses often vignette when used on a full frame or 35mm film body and I have found support can be finicky my F75 worked fine with the lens below but not my F90x.
For more on compatibility and Nikon lens tech Ken Rockwell has some excellent guides. They only switched to the K mount in Numerous legendary Pentax cameras notably the spotmatics are M Quantaray, I believe, was the house name of the Sears department store in the US. Think you might be right re the Sigma. However Jim was none too impressed though and I tend to find Sigma lenses pretty good. Quantaray was actually the house brand for the Ritz Camera corporation.
Their AF lenses were largely sourced from Sigma and Tamron. Furthermore, you can program the camera to automatically correspond a specific shutter speed with a given aperture.
Capping off our list of the best film cameras is the Nikon FM2. Think, nimble, durable, lightweight, fast, and consistent, and you have a firm idea of what to expect from this manual gadget.
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