Nikon F-801s - is it a good camera?

Sale

Senior Member
Hi all!
I just bought 12 Nikon F-801s for 200DKK (approximately 27€). I quickly tested them and 11 of them seems to be working. Of course I need to properly test them with a film to see how they really work but, in the meantime, I would like to know if there's someone here who previously owned (or still own) one of those. Are they good cameras?

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Daniele
 

stmv

Senior Member
laughs,, are your nuts? testing them each with film, and developing will eat into your profits, unless you plan on testing with BW and developing yourself?

Yes, this was a the start of the consumer grade AF cameras, this and the 6006 formed their core, and they sold like hot cakes. The critical decision (unlike Canon), was the decision to stay backwards compatible,, YES! Thank God. Because of this decision, the F100 continued on, and then digital, and to this day we can still attach old Nikon stuff on the latest gear.

So,, from a historical perspective intesting, from an investment perspective, well, guess you can try to sell off now 11 cameras and see what you get (ok maybe 9, keep a couple for fun). I have one of these kicking around in my pile of old stuff, but if I am going to shoot film, I prefer the FA or F3 over these clunky 1st generation AFs, or pick up a F100, now that was really the start of the sleak look.

what I would do with these is think of other creative shots to take with so many of the same camera.
 
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Sale

Senior Member
Well...I just wanted to buy two of them (to start using film), but then the guy said that I could have them all for the same price. He bought the stock thinking that they were digital cameras.
I want to test them because I don't like the idea of selling a thing that may not work to someone.
Anyway I will surely keep a couple of them for me!
 

AC016

Senior Member
Well...I just wanted to buy two of them (to start using film), but then the guy said that I could have them all for the same price. He bought the stock thinking that they were digital cameras.
I want to test them because I don't like the idea of selling a thing that may not work to someone.
Anyway I will surely keep a couple of them for me!

lol, he thought they were digital? okay.... It's nice of you to want to make sure they all work before trying to sell. I think most people would jsut want to make some money and be done with it. If anything, perhaps you are the only man around with so many F801s, lol
 

Eye-level

Banned
You are not going to make much money off of each unit anyway so I wouldn't bother testing all of them. Sell them for 5-10 euros or whatever a piece and keep the best one. Then take all of your profit and capital and buy a F5!
 

SamSpade1941

Senior Member
I see those for sale on CL all the time for between $25 and $50 rarely will one ever sell for more than $25. If it has a lens it will usually bring $50 or more depending on the lens. A friend of mine bought one last year on CL with a 180 f/2.8 ED IF for $100 the funny part is I literally comb CL nearly every day and he beat me to that particular camera by a mere 2 or 3 minutes. He essentially got the lens at a steep discount and the camera body for free.
 

Sale

Senior Member
What is CL?

And...what could I do with them instead of selling them? Something weird, or creative that you may think about?

I'm trying to figure out what they were used for, as they all are configured to shoot continuously in manual mode...
 
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