Nikon F100

I have an olympus om10 and nikon d610. I use this camera the most. Ive been burning through film like it’s no ones business. Makes photography super fun and addictive. Vendor delivered item as described and was in nearly perfect condition. I do wish it came with the original battery holder as opposed to the battery grip but I’d probably be saying the opposite if it was the other way around. Lol

I guess the F100 is the second-best 35mm SLR camera in the world. Great analogue camera at this price range. Amazing performance and excellent features included. Can go to Nikon F6, which is a slightly better and upgraded camera but somewhat that is more expensive.

Amazing camera with Durable and lightweight body. 3D Matrix Metering as well as Center-Weighted Metering and Spot Metering. Also, provides excellent picture quality. Great battery life that is Multi-Power High Speed Battery. Bought it at discounted price with warranty card.

This camera is credited for some of the best moments captured. The performance with non-autofocus lenses

is the most important feature. I've had this camera for a long time and it continues to captures high-quality

images. It's well worth the money.

Button placement was well thought out, and auto-focus and metering point controls on the film door don't get in the way of normal operation. Anyone familiar with modern Nikon DSLRs will feel right at home after picking up an F100. Its ergonomics are excellent.

I picked up a used F100 last year, it is in excellent condition and has been

a joy to use so far. The model I have has the weaker film winding fork which

may break at some point I have read, but so far ok. All the exposures I have made have been good to excellent on film and slide. Using manual focus lenses

is easy, exposure and focus conformation have been consistently accurate. I also use an MC-31 cord via USB connected to Softalk 2000 software, to read film data from the F100 memory, thus saving me from taking exposure notes when out and about. Overall this is a solid capable and enjoyable camera to use, a kind of poor man's F6. Get one if you fancy a change..it is a real Film Star.

The Nikon F-100 probably still is the most allround camera

on the market. Even in Full-auto or Semi-Auto modes, the pictures are excellently exposed.

For me the biggest feature is the compatibility with non-autofocus lenses.

When set to Aperture-Priority the camera can still auto expose. Even if the lens it self doesn't have any electronics. This makes that a lot of great cheap used lenses become available for use.

this is ultimate dream photo machine for photgraphers excellent for nature and potrait with 80-200 lense relible with 28-105 and brilliant sensing of moving object with even normal lense.

First, this is quite an expensive camera when considered against the features you get. Both Canon and Minolta offer much less expensive models with vastly superior feature sets. Ostensibly, the greatest reason for any serious amateur to invest in any Nikon SLR body, all of which have serious shortcomings-particularly this pricey F100-is to gain access to the vast range of Nikkor lenses which have a superior reputation for fine optical performance. However, having experienced an array of Nikkors, I must conclude this reputation is based upon the performance and build quality of the earlier manual focus Nikkors, which indeed offer optical performance and construction on par with Zeiss of Germany, acknowledged leader in optical design and manufacture for the past century.

This presents, for me, a special problem in that I prefer manual focus Nikkor lenses for their precision and performance, but favor newer Nikon bodies for primarily for their ability to spot meter, a feature sadly lacking from manual focus Nikons with otherwise fine specs, such as the FM/FE series. Most other F100 features are of only limited appeal as they have little applicable value to practical photography: how often have you set a shutter speed in excess of 1/2000 sec much less synched flash at those speeds? Or when was the last time the ability to fire 4.5 frames per second (with fresh batteries) yielded an image you could not otherwise have achieved? Granted, autofocus is great to have when you need it, such as when following fast action, but in the case of Nikon it's ironic that autofocus' occasional advantages must be mitigated against an overall loss of image quality since AF Nikkors simply are inferior in most substantive respects to those older Nikkors and, indeed on MTF specification (http://www.photodo.com/nav/prodindex.html), to the lenses of many competing brands. Adding to the conundrum that the high AF speed of AF Nikkors are achieved through the use of severely short focusing helicoids which, in turn, make accurate manual focusing painful at best. Perhaps the final blow to my confidence in the Nikon system was the matter of battery life which, while decent when using the F100 as a manual focus camera and avoiding powered fiddling with the controls, quickly turned abysmal during a session of follow focusing at my daughter's soccer game. At normal ambient temperatures (greater than 68 degrees F), the cameras batteries failed after only two 24 exposure rolls, with only seven rolls having been previously exposed with very minimal use of single-servo (single shot) autofocus mode. The next set of fresh batteries netted me a similar ten rolls of film, at which point I decided, on top of all the lens quality and camera features issues, that it made little sense for my style of shooting (portraiture, street shooting, still life and fine art) to continue using Nikon's system. For the past couple of months, I've been using a Contax Aria body along with a set of three Zeiss T* primes (28mm f/2, 50mm f/1.4, 135mm f/2.8), a Sigma 90mm f/2.8 macro, and a Yashica 80-200mm f/4 telezooom. Uniformly, this equipment is more satisfying and produces superior results to any other 35mm equipment I've ever used, which includes Canon and Minolta. In particular, the Yashica zoom gives notably better performance than any similar Nikon, Canon or Minolta offering. The Aria, while also lacking mirror lockup, is refreshingly compact while still comfortable to hold and use, and delivers a far higher number of rolls per set of batteries, even in less than ideal conditions.

I'd advise anyone seriously considering purchasing the F100 to explore your options. There are many alternatives that deliver higher function and versatility (Canon and Minolta) or superior image quality (Contax) for less if not very much more money. Don't rely solely on marketing and reputation, as results are what really count. Shoot a few rolls with the equipment you plan to purchase from a variety of brands and go with the one that gives the pictures you like best.

I have three Nikon bodies - a 8008S, a N90s and now an F100, which is by far the best. It feels very solid (I would not hesitate to use it as a hammer) and fits perfectly in my hand. Most slides were exposed dead on and were very sharp - the body and lenses are perfectly aligned. Combined with a 80-400 Nikon VR is just right for body building, but hey in this day and age we need all the exercise we can get. It never let me down, it just ignores freezing cold and sweltering heat and the occasional banging. Whatever bugs there were in the first lots (i.e., in the rewind mechanism and the autofocus selector) have long been taken care off. I love the extended analog exposure scale, which goes from -2 to +2 or -3 to +3 depending on setting - I shoot mostly manual with spotmeter, unless I take action shots. Tyros who need various program modes should not be allowed to touch such a camera. The analog scale of my old N90s is just to restricted, I hate the N90s for this reason. The N90s (not the 8008s) is going to be the camera I'll take along on ski slopes, for the analog scale alone it deserves to die a messy death in a grim fall. Just like the old Ricoh which was assigned this duty until last winter. On the other hand the N90s being a Nikon might survive more black diamonds than me. It remains to be seen. Is the F5 better than the F100? Sure. But it is 50% more expensive