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Thinking of picking up a film camera.
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<blockquote data-quote="Mako1969" data-source="post: 608849" data-attributes="member: 43338"><p>The F4 is a nice camera, but if you can spend $288 +/- $75 (last 50 Nikon F5 sales on ebay as of March 6, body only, working camera), that will put you in the range of some nice F5 cameras. I've been looking over eBay too, as I <em>really</em> wanted an F5 when they first came out, and now that the prices are reasonable, you almost can't pass one up. My D4s is a marvelous photographic instrument, but there's something about film that I truly miss from my days as a yearbook photographer back in the 1980s. Knowing that with film there are a finite number of images (5 rolls = 180, 190 if you're good <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />), and it makes the photographer that much more in tune with whatever they're shooting. Loading the reels carefully so as not to overlap the layers, the developing steps, unloading, and then seeing your images come to life as you unfurl the roll. </p><p></p><p>That is truly creating art<em>. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Update 03-07-17: I just bought from eBay a Nikon F5, Mint condition, serial no. 3231168 (manufactured during the last 2% of the run of 235,612) for $499, and two more from an estate sale in Denver, CO. One of them has the MN-30 NiMH rechargeable battery with the MH-30 charger and the seller assured me that it still holds a charge. The camera has a serial number that begins 318xxxx, putting it at about the last 20% (i.e. mid to late 2002). I think that the other camera's number is around 311xxxx. The two from the estate sale will be going on eBay this weekend.</em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mako1969, post: 608849, member: 43338"] The F4 is a nice camera, but if you can spend $288 +/- $75 (last 50 Nikon F5 sales on ebay as of March 6, body only, working camera), that will put you in the range of some nice F5 cameras. I've been looking over eBay too, as I [I]really[/I] wanted an F5 when they first came out, and now that the prices are reasonable, you almost can't pass one up. My D4s is a marvelous photographic instrument, but there's something about film that I truly miss from my days as a yearbook photographer back in the 1980s. Knowing that with film there are a finite number of images (5 rolls = 180, 190 if you're good :cool:), and it makes the photographer that much more in tune with whatever they're shooting. Loading the reels carefully so as not to overlap the layers, the developing steps, unloading, and then seeing your images come to life as you unfurl the roll. That is truly creating art[I]. Update 03-07-17: I just bought from eBay a Nikon F5, Mint condition, serial no. 3231168 (manufactured during the last 2% of the run of 235,612) for $499, and two more from an estate sale in Denver, CO. One of them has the MN-30 NiMH rechargeable battery with the MH-30 charger and the seller assured me that it still holds a charge. The camera has a serial number that begins 318xxxx, putting it at about the last 20% (i.e. mid to late 2002). I think that the other camera's number is around 311xxxx. The two from the estate sale will be going on eBay this weekend. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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