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- Chris Williams.'s review
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| Photograph Quality | 9.8/10   |
|---|---|
| Features | 8.9/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9.3/10 |
| Value for Money | 9.8/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 9.9/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9.4/10 |
By Chris Williams. on 26th Nov 2002
| Features | 10/10 |
|---|---|
| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 Chris Williams.'s recommendation | |
Solid and reliable
Shutter release button difficult without soft touch release
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.
| Helpful | Unhelpful | Agree | Disagree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total Respect: +7
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