Am I the only F4 user on this forum??

[thingy]

I have just upgraded from a digital Olympus E-3 to a lovely, secondhand analogue (i.e. film) Nikon F4 and am loving using the AIS Micro-Nikkor 55mm lens, which contrary to popular belief is an excellent lens: as smooth to focus as a Zeiss, non-sticky blades, and takes lovely images.

I was converted to becoming a Nikonite after three years using Nikon lenses* for my large format (5x4 inch) camera.

*90mm f4.5, 150mm, 180mm, 210mm & 300mm. I'm so sorry that Nikon are not still making them.

 

[Eye-level]

I just replied in your other thread...I am not a F4 user but I know it well. I am a F2 user because I enjoy using mechanical cameras...mine is an eyelevel rig so I don't use any batteries at all...fully mechanical! If someone would just build me a scaled up F2 that takes 120 film and a matching 105/2.5 I'd be a happy camper!

 

[Marcel]

I just replied in your other thread...I am not a F4 user but I know it well. I am a F2 user because I enjoy using mechanical cameras...mine is an eyelevel rig so I don't use any batteries at all...fully mechanical! If someone would just build me a scaled up F2 that takes 120 film and a matching 105/2.5 I'd be a happy camper!

You should get your hands on an Hasselblad with the 150 sonar…It does take 120 films.

 

[LensWork]

I have just upgraded from a digital Olympus E-3 to a lovely, secondhand analogue (i.e. film) Nikon F4 and am loving using the AIS Micro-Nikkor 55mm lens, which contrary to popular belief is an excellent lens: as smooth to focus as a Zeiss, non-sticky blades, and takes lovely images.

I shot with F4s back in the day (late 80's-mid 90's) and kept a couple around for back-up to my F5s until about eight or nine years ago. Not a bad camera, but the F5 was far superior. I had an Ai-S 55mm f/2.8 Micro and it was indeed a fine lens.

If someone would just build me a scaled up F2 that takes 120 film and a matching 105/2.5 I'd be a happy camper!

Have you ever seen the Pentax 67? They are not made anymore, but I am sure you can pick them up pretty cheaply. They were a big mechanical 120/220 SLR that looked and handles like an overgrown 35mm camera.

 

[PeterRussell53]

I guess that there are a greater number of Nikon F4 owners, rather than users, today. I've got a a pair of F4s bodies that I've owned from new and they have been used all over the world without once going wrong. I hate to think how many exposures that I have shot with them but my library contains at least 450,000 transparencies shot since 1971 with the whole range of Nikons, from F to F5. When the F4 arrived on the scene it was just light years ahead of the F3, but if memory serves me well the F-801 was already on the market when the F4 was launched and was, in effect, a test bed for the F4 which then incorporated many of the sexy bits in a stronger, more robust body. In fact the F-801 was a very under-rated camera. I've still got one and although I no longer use it I acknowledge that mine earned me a lot of money over the years. However, at heart I am a Nikon F user. Like Eye-level I have owned many F2s and found them to be 'polished' Nikon Fs, but for all the wrong reasons I still prefer a basic Nikon F with a standard prism finder if I just want to go out and take pictures for myself! There's no logic in that at all I'm afraid.

 

[eunix]

No. Not by a long shot - The F4 still gets plenty of action from some and I would dare say that it is still my primary weapon of choice.

 

[Eye-level]

Welcome to the forum Eunix...

 

[photojazz]

Newbie here and yes I have the Nikon F4s and love it.

 

[SamSpade1941]

I have just upgraded from a digital Olympus E-3 to a lovely, secondhand analogue (i.e. film) Nikon F4 and am loving using the AIS Micro-Nikkor 55mm lens, which contrary to popular belief is an excellent lens: as smooth to focus as a Zeiss, non-sticky blades, and takes lovely images.

I was converted to becoming a Nikonite after three years using Nikon lenses* for my large format (5x4 inch) camera.

*90mm f4.5, 150mm, 180mm, 210mm & 300mm. I'm so sorry that Nikon are not still making them.

You will not be if I can find a used one that I can afford that does not have LCD bleed in the prism. I have been working on this for a month now but I am on a serious budget and cant afford to spend $400 to $500 on one which seems to be what they are wanting for one with no LCD bleed.

I may end up being forced to get an F5 or F100, I like my D40 ok but the limitations of the camera have made me realize I need a full frame 35mm again simply because the cost constraints of a Full frame digital or even a better quality DX sensor Nikon are too much for me to stomach at least right now. I would prefer the F4 because of the knobs versus switches and menus and the fact it will work with all the newer lenses and older lenses even non AI lenses. THe F4 rocks.