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<blockquote data-quote="PeterRussell53" data-source="post: 50412" data-attributes="member: 8016"><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="PeterRussell53, post: 50412, member: 8016"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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