Nikon F2 Review

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Nikon F2
4.8 stars
Average rating for this product is: 4.8 out of 5

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Chris Williams.'s Review of Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
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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