Using The 1970's Nikon F2 35mm Film Camera In 2022 (And It's AWESOME)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- This week I try out the 35mm Nikon F2 analogue film camera and use it in a shoot along side my modern workhorse, the Canon 5D Mk3 D.S.L.R, and compare the results.
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It's nice to see somebody who knows what they're talking about! I've been a photographer since 1973 when I started my career as a photographer. My first camera was an Apollo F body, and then I purchased F2s. Carrying two Nikon bodies and lenses certainly kept the weight of me. I retired with a Nikon D4s. I kept with Nikon because they saved me thousands of pounds over my career by just letting me change the metering heads or placing a camera back not if, but when they got damaged, and the most important thing of all, I can use almost all my Nikon lenses up to the present day. Nikon has been extremely loyal to their customers not many camera manufacturers can say that!!!
The most sturdy, reliable, accurate and indestructible cameras I've ever used. Fantastic optics, too. Still in love with Nikon and still use their equipment.
A (somewhat) fair 35mm SLR battle would pit the Canon F-1 vs. the Nikon F-2. In most cases, it's draw, since both cameras were built to the same mechanical/electrical standard and were aimed at the professional market. I've used Nikons since the late 1960's, starting with a Nikkormat FTN and up to the FM series. The Nikon F2 was my "semi-lab" camera for Kodachrome slides, while the FM+MD-12 did "the newspaper photography" thing. My college friend was the Canon F-1 user, though I found the Canon EF a worthy successor to the venerable FT series.
Ah, this brings old memories back since Nikon F2A + Motor Drive was my first SLR back in the late seventies.
Mine too. Picked mine up Feb 1977; still shoots great!
Thanks for yet another great video! 😊👍🏻 While you’re at it, why not make an episode on «the anvil» - the Nikkormat? Keep it up!
Amazing video, I shoot the F and F2AS as my prime bodies. I have the D3 as a backup if I can't afford to have film processed/developed. I choose to shoot these over Leicas as they require less maintenance and... they just go on forever. I may be biased as I am part of the new generation of film shooters (ie I am under 30) and the one Leica i owned (1936 IIIA) had bad shutter banding issues.
I love my F and F2 systems. A pleasure to shoot and have never failed me.
I still have the F2A I bought new as a 19 year old in 1977. It’s outlived two MD-2 motors and still shoots like new without ever having had a CLA (Just new mirror box foam).
The interesting thing about its self timer is that it can be used to give you timed long exposures up to 10 secs with the T shutter speed, if you didn’t already know that. Great camera.
I did not know that, thanks
I just got Nikon F2 with 35mm/2,8 on it. This lens feels like a perfect match. Like co-worker who you don’t have to talk with. You both aim for the same target without saying. I’ve shot one film with it but haven’t yet developed it. I like the heavy tool feeling. Really cool camera to hold. I have Minolta X-500. It doesn’t feel the same.
While i still have the camera ill try it with a 35mm
Its 'Knee-Con' already! But I love the character 'Lord Nikon' in the fly on the wall documentary 'Hackers', a very great work. I'd never have believed film quality fire simulation could be run in real time on a 286 with no co-processor, multitasking or even vesa local bus and as a virus too, truly amazing. Anyway, great video!
Go listen to some Paul Simon. And lay off of the lighter ⛽️
Fuck! I totally missed that! A guy with an English accent pronouncing it nyekon and not the kneecon you usually hear.
I was always pronounced “Neye- kon” in the UK until about 2000. It’s a bit like KEEmotherapy - it was pronounced KEMotherapy (as in chemistry) until the BBC started showing neighbours.
Neyekon is for the American market.
I have a Nikkormat ft2 with a 105mm f2.5 lens for portraits.
My daily carry is a FE with a 50mm f2 lens. Light, small and takes my old non ai lenses.
Had an f5 that I stupidly gave away a few years ago still kicking my arse about that would love the f2 I love it. Great vid mate lovely shots congrats to you and the model 📷👏
@Mike Zielinski hind sight eh 😂😂 I’m picking up a few old models of late love trying the old 🎥
You got some nice results from this old Nikon , as I expected you would. The old Nikons were great cameras and combine that with your controlled studio environment you would have had to go some to not get great results. I particularly like the one at 5:04 and fully agree the film images suite the subject far more than the crisp clean digital images do .
Thanks for sharing Take care :D Teddy
PS Im guessing next weeks video will be fun to watch : )
Thank you
Thanks for the video! Were you able to take your transmitter from your digital and put on the Nikon straight away?
Yes, you can, cant remember if it work from the sync lead or hot shoe it was a while ago.
I have a Nikon F2 with Nikkor 50mm sc 1.4 and Nikkor 105 p auto f2.5 lenses. Excellent results. Love it.
I use a Nikon FE with a Nikkor 50mm f2 when I am with my friend who is not a photographer. I use it on auto.
Underwater with large format? Has someone been listening to Sunny 16?! Looking forward to the visuals! Either way - really enjoying the videos. Keep 'em coming!
Sunny 16? Isn’t that a rule to help you badly expose stuff, is it a band? We managed to do underwater stuff with the Wista, but there’s no underwater 16 so had to use a light meter.
@@olitography Sunny 16 podcast... Give it a whirl when you get a sec :)
from memory, self timer can also be used to make longer exposures from 2s to 10s!
The f2 images are magic
Yep
Great Vid...enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it
I have a well used Nikon F with the photomic head which I think was the final version and it seems to work when it feels like it. A small pinhole in one of the shutter blinds has been 'repaired' with a small splodge of Humbrol black enamel paint and it seems to have worked. These camera are brutes and I don't like the way the photomic head seems to hide the aperture ring but nevertheless as I said mine has probably seen a lot of work and I do like it. I agree you definitely know you have been using it :)
I want to get my hands on a f so I can wear white trouser and jacket and take pictures of mimes in a park, in south east london,
@@olitography, I like your style sir!
@@olitography Don't witness any murders though! Oare you hoping for a visit from Vanessa?
I want to make a video on the F go to the park and say nothing about the film :)
That was great, thanks!
After using the tremendous F2, do you scan and digitalise the negatives?
Yeah, I have to, to put it on RUclips.
Someday I need to break out my old Minolta X-570.
Another fine film. Can't say I blame you staying at home after the last two outings. You gotta love those old Nikons, and you're right about the lens character. I still think my old Nikon FE is the most instinctive feeling camera I've ever owned. My Olympus OM2n is the most beautiful, while a Praktica MTL 3 was definitely the toughest. The 1970s and 1980s was a great time for slr cameras, unfortunately I couldn't afford the Nikon or Olympus then. Both mine were bought cheaply when digital properly took off ...... as I couldn't afford the digital either back then!
My FE kept breaking its shutter, which is why it’s not had a video yet, the OM1 is also broken so wish me luck
@@olitography Good luck, can you do these repairs yourself? If so you'll save a small fortune. Just keep up the variety of cameras, that's partly what makes your channel interesting. Price and reputation mean little, some of the best pictures I ever took when using film involved an Olympus Trip.
No idea if I can fix them but I’m
Up for stripping them down and having a look
@@olitography You might find some good advice on the Fix Old Cameras channel ruclips.net/channel/UC_LLC4wtg7fORCFtw97xhDg
@@cdl0 I love that channel!!
I will try Z50 body + FTZ adapter + old Nikon lens. thanks.
Are you using it for stills or video, i ask because ive had some issue with lens breathing in auto focus video, its a far cry form the F2 though
@@olitography
I'm going to use old F mount manual lens with Z50 for Still not for video.
Do you use flash for the nikon? Does it has the hotshoes?
I used the flash sync.
the mirror lock is handy for avoiding mirror bounce which even on a tripod can spoil the sharpest image
It’s too heavy to voice, surely?
@@olitography I am probably just being over anxious... but before going to digital I used a 6x7 Pentax for work and you could feel the vibration through the camera body. To be fair thr Pentax mirror is almost big enough to be a shaving mirror so expect a bit of clattering about.
@@kangaroogroundboy Yeah, that's the Pentax 6x7 its a different monster, in the Iceland video with the Pentax you could watch it bounce but you don't see any motion blur in the image, not above 1/30 anyway
I had a Nikon F, I used to joke that if it fell on the floor, the floor would break and the camera would keep on shooting as if nothing happened. according to legend the Nikon F once stopped a bullet!
I’ve seen that camera, though I can’t remember if it was an F. (It had a hole in it and was sort of stoved in.) The film plate really saved him. It belonged to Don Mcullen, though it might not be the only one to be used that way. Great use for a Nikon 😂 actually I’m not sure a Canon would have been as effective a bullet shield.
@@olitography yes, it was Sir Don McCullin whose camera saved him and it was indeed his Nikon F. His war photography and photojournalism in general are amazing works. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2016.
You need to try the Canon F1 next.
I’ve never used a film Canon camera, would love to try the F1 and the 1990s Eos cameras
@@olitography I'm not into guns at all, but the Canon F1 always reminds me of the rifles I used in the military. There's the feeling of large, precisely machined metal parts sliding together. Ka-ChunK!
And, like the Nikon F2, they last forever.
@@olitography I still have my Canon F1 from back in the early 80S I still love it .
Solid as a rock and a great viewfinder ; )
Teddy Wanderer i am considering getting one, please tell me how is it!
Scott Paris i am considering getting one, please tell me how is it
The worst thing about old Nikon's are the lenses and their flange distance limiting 3rd party options.. but they're great otherwise if that's not a problem.
I sold mine because they didn't do much for me Vs old rangefinders and Zeiss GDR slr stuff
Best thing about Nikons is when you bake them with beans, Jokes aside I do like this camera but still will never know why it would need to be the size of a medium format camera, to become reliable.?
I had a chance to get the F2 but Korona made me miss it
That’s a shame but there are plenty about, they will last forever.
"Less than £200" ????? The cheapest one I've found is nearly £400 (with a 50mm f2.0 lens included). Did you mean body only?
Mostly without lens, but I can see one with lens on eBay right now for 198
@@olitography the top makes a difference too, DP12 ups the price compared to a DP1. Having said that they're excellent with the waist level finder and the 'E' screen for architecture.
Of course this is just total self indulgence as my D800E does a pretty decent job....but a hybrid of analogue to scan to Photoshop is good fun.
the FLASH Photography on F2 cameras are 80 sec and when you are taking photos in STUDIOS THEN you need to remember that so not much diffrents
So you saying 70s photos look 70s because of the lenses used?
I’m saying that this lens was so prevalent with pro photographers at the time, using it will result in an image that feels like a 35mm 1970s image. Pick up a 70s copy of playboy or Vogue. Look for the way the chromatic aberration is split by the printing dots. If it wasn’t medium format it was more often than not a Nikon, Canons were seen as copies with bad lenses and Pentax was mostly seen as enthusiasts cameras. (Even though I think there better, both camera and lens)
Schau Dir einmal die ähnliche, etwas früher gebaute Exakta RTL 1000 aus der DDR an. Du wirst staunen.
haven't heard of it but will check it out
@@olitography Bin gespannt. Sie ist ähnlich und hat aber einen Stahlschlitzlamellenverschluss. Das Premium Objektiv dazu heißt Pancolar.
@@FILMARCHIVCHEMNITZ Those Pancolar lenses are excellent, but extremely expensive. Zenography channel did a comparative review of the 80 mm f/1.8 recently: ruclips.net/video/lAe2YY-o428/видео.html
I guess you're not that strong.. I'm 72-year-old man and carry and use my D850 with battery grip and 70-200 f2 on one shoulder and the F2as with 21mm Carl Zeiss ZF-2 nikon mount on the other shoulder for hours at shorts events. My advice is to get rid of the man bun and hit the gym.. grins
The man bun is the source of my creative powers!! And my limp wrist
unfair. the nikon is too over powered
I'm pretty sure the Nikon won fair and square
I think you need to go to the gym mate ...
Only shot 2 rolls without having a sit down ....🤣🤣🤣
youth of today .... put em in the army..
If that camera was a car, it would be a T34 Tank
@@olitography Back then (over four decades ago), I shot with F2A + MD + BP + 70-200 f/2.8 + Metz 45 CT4 hammerhead flash + external Quantum Turbo lead-acid battery pack. That outfit makes my old D3 + SB900 almost compact & light, but not when compared with LF camera and flashpower / flash bulbs from our previous generation. 😊 As far as the F2 body concern, I thought Nikon was trying to make it almost as 'bullet proof' as the F. The best about the F2 at that time was being a system camera that one could change various parts to suit one's needs. For instance, user could replace the back for pressure plate issue instantly or if there was a split-image focusing aid black out, then one could replace it with another screen. We have to remember that interchangeable prism, back, focusing screen, MD & BP, etc. were not common back in the old days and those were some of the advantages of owning a flagship model. However, I preferred shooting with another system camera, the Hasselblad 500 C/M instead of the F2A in the studio.
Good luck getting a decent F2 for under £200.....
Nykon? Really?
Sadly yes, I say Nikon not Nykon naturaly but it’s ikon and Nipon combined so they style themselves Nykon, in there own advertising.
@@olitography Interesting. I always thought the Japanese pronounced it Nee-kon. I've had many a lengthy argument with a friend who collects vintage cameras as he always uses the American version. I suppose none of them are wrong as such, I'm just more inclined to use the British pronunciation because I dislike the way Americans ruin the English language ;) Great videos btw, fascinating stuff!
It’s NIKON NOT NIGHKON. YOU ARE ENGLISH TALK IT.
OK SHOUTY MAN!!!