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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jerryTheC" data-source="post: 776634" data-attributes="member: 50119">On the film camera side, I had a Praktica DSLR when I was a teenager, an Olympus OM-1N at university, and got my first Nikon - a used FE - around 10 years later. At the time, I was looking for a bigger range of lenses... Got hooked on the system and eventually upgraded to a used F4, and eventually an F5 (brilliant but fairly hefty) and later added an F100 (lighter than the F5 when I didn't need the F5 features), shooting mostly slide film with some black and white.  Eventually went digital with a D70 then D300, which served me well for a long time. Recently upgraded to a mirrorless Z7 II.Basically, I just like the Nikon system - I like the fact they kept backward compatability with earlier lenses - the F4 could use just about any nikon lens (including Pre-AI ones, thanks to a flippable coupling tab, though I didn't have any), and the F5 could be modified to do the same (but I never needed that). When I was looking at my latest upgrade, I considered both the Z7II and the D850 - eventually went for the mirrorless Z7II since it looked as though the new Z mount lenses were going to be where future developments were heading, and having handled both, I liked the mirrorless features and especially the lighter weight (The D850 was another fairly hefty camera, and while I could have handled that, the Z7II was significantly lighter with a similar feature set. And much easier to adapt other brand lenses to).The only major irritation is that Nikon did a half-baked job on the FTZ adapter - it doesn't support the older F-Mount screw drive AF, which means that older AF lenses like my 80-400 AFD and 180/2.8AFD won't autofocus on the Z7.</blockquote>

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