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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SamSpade1941" data-source="post: 69633" data-attributes="member: 10336">I cant remember who but a rather well known camera repair man dubbed the Nikon F the Hockey Puck because they simply did not break. They just kept working, the one weak link on the Nikon F was the F36 which was known to be finicky and had to be tuned in most cases to the camera in which it was mounted.  I personally never had any experience with one as that was strictly exotic fare and I was lucky to own the Nikon F Apollo I owned at all considering I was a teenager at the time, I paid $250 for used along with a non AI 55 mm f/1.2 lens and shot photos with it like there was no tomorrow. When I joined the Army and began earning the big money I think around $650 a month, I spend what amounted to the best part of a months pay on a Nikon F2 AS and mounted my 55mm lens on it. I later sold my Nikon F to a buddy who ended up pawning it. I will say this with no reservations, I loved my Nikon F2 like no other camera period end of the story. It was the most beautiful thing in my eyes that ever was. It was rock solid dependable and always worked and was simply a joy to shoot with. It never failed me, having said that neither did my Nikon F. Both cameras in the time I owned them traveled around the world, endured traveling in ruck sacks and jumping in and out of helicopters. The F is a monument to tough and my F2 never did anything better than the F did. It is threads like these that makes me wish I had both cameras back and what I throughly dislike about digital cameras. They don't have that same feel or connection.</blockquote>

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