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| Photograph Quality | 10/10  |
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| Features | 8.9/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9.3/10 |
| Value for Money | 9.9/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 9.9/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9.4/10 |
| Nikon F75 35mm Film Camera |  | £183.18Free P&P |
Full review by
photoman
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on 26th Mar 2007
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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.
photoman's review and ratings | 317 words
Review by
terrierkennedy21
on 29th Jun 2005
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I have used my F2 with a standard prism for 32 years. I bought it new, and it gets serviced every 5 years. I put about 1000 rolls of film through it every year, and it keeps on going. What more can I say ?
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Review by
notnilc23
on 30th Mar 2004
User Rating : 10
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I've owned this Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera for the past 10 years and its never let me down and I doubt it ever will. No it isnt like the modern marvels that to my mind take away a lot of the photographers thinking. I've owned and used many SLR's Olympus OM1 Leica R3 and Mamiya RZ, ALL GREAT CAMERAS and all have their own merits but theres just something about the F2 that feels different. To my mind its easy to use at speed when your used to it and has never caused me any probs in that dept. Many s ...
notnilc23's full review | 227 words
Review by
shutterbug.
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on 21st Jul 2003
User Rating : 10
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If you get an F2, the DP-11 finder makes it an F2AS which is the most advanced and desireable configuration with AI lens indexing. One of the nicest things about the F2 is that it won't leave you in the lurch if your batteries die and it uses readily available MS-76 silver oxide or A-76 alkaline batteries.
You can also use virtually every Nikon SLR lens ever made except for the new G-series (no aperture ring...aperture is set electronically on the newest low-end Nikons). Other than that, you ...
shutterbug.'s full review | 418 words
Review by
Chris Williams.
on 26th Nov 2002
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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 bat ...
Chris Williams.'s full review | 188 words
Review by
Fastone.
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on 30th Mar 2002
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The Nikon F2 is the last hand made Professional camera made by Nikon. The early models in the s/n71xxxx had a small problem with film backlash. This is really noticed when a motor drive is attached. I wouuld stay away from the early models for this reason. If it can be fixed it is expensive. Other than that caveat the camera is fantastic. I have shot professionally for years with an Nikon F, then an F3. I bought an F2 for fun. It has been without a doubt my favorite camera to casually shoot with ...
Fastone.'s full review | 464 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
Carl.
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on 4th Feb 2002
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I used a Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera in the early 80s and never enjoyed making pictures so much as with that camera. Unfortunately, a previous owner had allowed it to take a swim, and when it jammed, the repairman declared it a rusted loss. I kept the screen and the DP-1 against the day another F2 came my way and used an FE and the FT2 I'd had for a decade. After some years of neglect, I picked up a Retina IIa (almost got a digicam) just for kicks and had so much fun I started shooting a lot, with ...
Carl.'s full review | 512 words
Review by
Mike Wilde.
on 12th Jan 2002
User Rating : 10
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If youre after a ben all singing bells and whistles camera then the Nikon F2 35mm SLR camera is not for you! However, its sheer robustness and quality make it a beauty of a camera. If you can handle centre weighed metering and manual focus, then there is no better SLR. The system back up is vast, and the lens quality legendary. This camera is like taking out a classic car for a spin, well worth the extra effort!
Mike Wilde.'s full review | 119 words
Review by
Michael Helms.
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on 10th Apr 2001
User Rating : 9
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The F2 is everything a camera should be. Many will argue that it is heavy; I personally think this is one of the most comfortable and well balanced cameras ever made; most of the modern lightweight cameras feel too flimsy to me. The shutter release is positive, and everything just seems to fall at your fingertips - there when you need it, but not obtrusive or in-the-way.
The Photomic prisms suffer from the typical old-Nikon woe - once the ring resister wears out, it's tough to get repaired. ...
Michael Helms.'s full review | 152 words
Review by
Rui Lourosa.
on 22nd Sep 2000
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I love this camera, i'm not taking pictures anymore with the 2 photomic bodies i have, because they are becoming a collectors camera, but they are really exellent cameras, compared to my other cameras (90x, F5, fm2 + md12, mamiya 645 and RZ, fujy ga, pentax me super, and bronicas), they are true working beasts, once the others i have are just, in comparaison, toy's.
Rui Lourosa.'s full review | 86 words
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