Nikon F2 Review

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Nikon F2
4.8 stars
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photoman's Review of Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera

26th Mar 2007

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Photograph Quality
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Time Camera Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Features
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Durable, superior body finish an quality


Bad Points

No standart hot shoe


General Comments

I bought this camera used but in great condition for my collection 5 years ago.
Nikon F2 is top of the line professional 35mm SLR camera of 70'. It is the last hand made professional Nikon. More than 800,000 units produced.

It has titan-foil horizontally traveling shutter with fully machanically controlled speeds 1-1/2000 and flash sync on 1/80. Shutter holds more than 150,000 exposure cycles.
Nikon F2 is extremely high quality camera, it has great body finish and precise mechanics.
This camera is a system that every photographer can costumize for his own needs.
You can use various camera backs, motor-drive, viewfinders and focusing screens.

My camera is equiped with DP-1 TTL viewfinder, if displays shutter sppeds and apperture. In my version exposure metering is done with galvanometer needle that after years becomes jumpy and requires cleaning and service.
I have attached Nikkor 1:1.4/50mm lens, it is very sharp and gives great colours.
Nikon F2 is fully mechanical and has no auto exposure (Nikon F2AS can become shutter priority AE with special dedicated atachment).
As Nikon F, it has no standart hot shoe flash atachment, so it can be used with flash only with special Nikon flashes, or via special adapter or via PC-SYNC cable.

In right hands this camera gives great quality pictures as best of most modern top of the line professional SLRs. Because it is fully mechanical it will not fail you if batteries will be drained.
It is very respectable and collectable camera, I recommend such camera for collectors (especially more rare versions with special viewfinder and special editions) .
Nikon F2 is a camera that gets you back to the times of past, it is very good feeling for me to take pictures with it. It feels like a real thing, when you hold it - you feel it, most of modern cameras can not give you such feeling.

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