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Photograph Quality9.8/10 Based on 4 ratings
Features8.9/10 Based on 9 ratings
Ease of Use9.3/10 Based on 4 ratings
Value for Money9.8/10
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Overall Rating9.4/10 Based on 18 ratings
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Review of Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera

By Chris Williams. on 26th Nov 2002

Chris Williams.'s Ratings
Features10/10
Value for money10/10
Overall value10/10
yes Chris Williams.'s recommendation

Good Points

Solid and reliable

Bad Points

Shutter release button difficult without soft touch release

General Comments

Let's see, I've used Minoltas, Leicas (rangefinders and SLRs), Pentaxs, Mamiyas and Cannons, yet the Nikon F-2AS has been my consistent favorite. Now many people say that it isn't the camera that takes a great picture, it's the camera's lens. That is true to some extent, but here's an important point they often overlook. When you push the shutter release of a F-2, something is going to happen. Either a good or bad picture will be taken, but click the shutter will, irrespective of whether the battery in the F-2 is new, old, or even gone (and I mean, 'totally absent' as the F-2 only needs a battery to run the light meter and nothing else). This also allows the photographer quite a bit of artistic control over exposures and lets the photographer get photographs that many modern point and shoot cameras won't take because the camera doesn't 'think' it should take a picture. I like autofocus and all that, but if I had to choose just one camera, it would be the Nikon F-2AS.

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