The F5 has an eyepoint of ~21mm, which is down from 22mm on the F4 and 25mm on the F3HP. Most problem reports with the F100 seem to come down to sample variation rather than actual design issues from what I've seen(there again, rewind fork excepted). I've heard a smattering of reports about focus issues, but that seems to be true of every new Nikon SLR these anted we can see issue on a 36mp+ DSLR in a way that we probably couldn't previously short of looking at Tech Pan under a microscope. I seem to recall that he HAD switched to the F100 as his primary camera at the time of his death(and chances are would be toting something like a D610 or D7200 if he was still alive today) but only after the fork redesign. I recall an anecdote about Galen Rowell having it break after he was convinced to try one out, and went back to his trusty F4 for a while as a result. It's certainly not metal like it is on my F5(and I'd guess also the F6) but the redesigned one seems to have been favorably received.
#NIKON F6 SAMPLES SERIES#
I'd consider it analagous to the D700, D8x0, and Canon 5D series today-cameras that are equally suited to both advanced amateurs and to pros who either don't need the features of the D3/D4/D5 or 1D series bodies(or F5 or EOS-1V in the film days) or alternatively just don't want to deal with the size and weight of them.īack in the day, there seemed to be a lot of chatter about the rewind fork. I know plenty of photographers IRL who haven't shot theirs in years but don't want to get rid of them, yet there is no shortage of them on the used market. The F100 came to the market in what I'd call the teenage years of the internet, and there is still a LOT of discussion out there if you poke around on the web about the camera when it was new.įor one thing, it certainly seems that Nikon sold a whole lot of them. The difference between a Ferrari and an Alfa Romeo.Once you drive a Ferrari or shoot wit a F6, you don't even think of looking at a F100. I bought a like new F100 and a few month later, same problem. Unfortunatelly, the film cameras do not inform you that something is wrong, there is no alarm signal and that's why I kept shooting for a total of 30 films! I cried my eyes out.
Today with the screen at the back of digital cameras, one can see if a picture is properly taken or not. It took a while before I discovered that it was 1 part of the curtain that was missing! All, yes ALL the frames were cut off very sharply by 25%. I came home with about 30 films I shot (+/- 1000 photos) and developped them my self in my darkroom. First totally dead, then after pressing and pressing the shutter again and again, it came back to life. I kept pressing the shutter, again and again, and all of a sudden it worked ! The next day, same problem. I couldn't rewind the negative, nor press the shutter, the camera was totally dead. The viewfinder indicated 1/8000 of a second I remember and all of a sudden, nothing worked on the camera any more. On my 1st day in BENIN (Africa), I made a shot against the sun.
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