More Nikons Added to the Collection

[Mark Vaughan]

Hey!

I've not posted in a while - I lost my little digital camera (found it), and took a lot of time off work to travel. Got a few more Nikons for the collection:


FM in OK shape with an MD-11 that actually works! This one will become an everyday shooter for me.


FG-20 - not terribly special, but it does help to round out the collection of MF Nikon SLRs. Would really like to find a RARE black version of this camera. Any sellers?


Nikon EM - like new! That's an MD-14 motor drive on it.


Nikkormat FT2 - got this one in Portland, OR for $35 with a lens. Not much wear and everything works.


This FE2 was dropped and landed on the flash unit. The ISO hot shoe is now loose and it also has a small dent. It works though. May replace it with a dandy if I come across one...


FINALLY! An FA! I bought this one from a guy headed into the Grapevine, TX Camera Show this past Saturday morning. He was broke and needed the money and was on his way to the KEH table to sell it. I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck (before he could give the thing away) and I gave him a fair price since it appears to be near mint.

I'm still looking for an FE, FT3, FS, FT, and EL-W.

Take care,
Mark

[Deleted]

Boy you are going after the Nikons!

I still have a near mint FM, an F body with TN finder and an F with the FTn finder--and a nice F2. Did have an F3HP with MD-4 but sold it to help finance an 18-200 Nikkor for the D300.
I have a friend who has virtually every body variation of the Nikon F and most of the lenses from that period (he worked at a camera store and bought most for noting from their owners when the store wouldn't take them as trade-ins). Most are in nearly new condition. He seldom shoots them. They just sit in Nikon Display cases--also from that period.

[grenouille]

Hi,

My 1st Nikkoemat FT that I bought in 1965 new, I still use it occassionally, meter and all still functioning well. Regards

grenouille

[nikonbob]

Good to see you back. Quite the expansion program you have been on with some very nice examples to show for it. That black FT2 is a looker.

Bob

[barbarian]

The people running the Grapevine show seem to have lost my address. Do you have a source for the show schedule?

[renobart]

What's the story with the Nikkormats? Anything special about them?

Thanks - Bart

[grenouille]

Nikkormats had lass features than the F, this reduce the cost considerable and made Nikon camera avaliable at a modest price. This allowed Nikon to reach the vast customer base who could not afford an F.
Nikon F owners do use Nikkormats as a backup body as they are equally well known for their robustness and relability.
I bought my Nikkormat FT body new in 1965 and to-day all systems are still working.
Regards
Hye

[grenouille]

I 've got a Nikon 35Ti returned to me by my son, gave it to him before the end of last century and my daughter gave me her Nikon Zoom 300QD which I bought for her around that time. They have both gone digital and have no more use of these cameras, pleasant surprise.

Hye

[melek]

I have an FT3, which is an excellent camera. I guess it was the final model to bear the Nikkormat name. I also have a Nikon EL2, in addition to the two Nikons that I bought in 1979 -- an F2A and an FE.

[grenouille]

The FT3 and the EL2 were the least produced Nikons, in production for only just a year, their production life was cut short by the arrival of the FM & FE, Regards

Hye

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If I was going to spend money on another film camera it would be the Nikkormat FT3. Had one at one time and let it go. Have regretted it since. The FT3 can use the original Nikkors that fit the Nikon F and also can use the auto indexing Nikkors. Plus it uses the easily obtainable silver batteries rather than the mercury batteries used in the Nikkormat FTns.

[daveh]

i noted genouille said somewhere that he has collected in ther same way as I have - always keeping hold of the last camera, in spite of a new one coming along. There was a tim when I shot B&W and reversal, so if I bought one camera with, say, a new lens fitting I tended to buy two. Hence I had 2 Ilocas, 2 Canon rangefinders, 2 Topcons, 2 Cosinas, 2 Pentaxes. Other than a Leica 39mm screw-fit Nikon 5cm f2.0 I have never bought anything Nikon.

[Deleted]

Currently, in addition to my Soviet RF gear I have two Nikon F bodies, one F2, an FM and an FA. I did have an F4 I wish I had kept even though I almost never shoot film now. The F4 may well be the toughest Nikon ever build. I feels like it was milled from a steel billet.

Also have a Contax IIa that deserves to get more exercise.

I've always been primarily a Nikon shooter although I did have an Olympus OM-1 at one point (didn't like the camera or the optics), a Contax RTS (couldn't afford lenses for it); a Mamiya M645 (loved the images but didn't like the size and weight) and the recently-mentioned Pentax LX (my last SLR before going into a decade-long video mode).

Actually there were a few others: a Mamiya C330 (the normal lens seemed soft on the edges);
Two Leica M3 double strokes (not at the same time--they "felt good" to hold but I'm an SLR guy at heart, a Leotax, a Petriflex, a Pentax SV, an Exa I, Canon IV, 4x5 Graphic View Camera- - - If I had all the money I lost trading cameras during my life I would be a fairly wealthy man--and that doesn't even count the same experiences I had trading guns!

W.

[grenouille]

After the FT, I evantually went to get the FT3, still using it occassionally, Its built like a tank, so are all the Nikkormats.
The only Canon I have is the AF35M II and the Power Shot S 20, one of the very early digital. I do have an FTb in mind and one of these sunny day I'll go get one.
I normally go through 2 B/W a month, enjoy developing and printing them in our local club.

Hye