Why Mechanical Nikon Bodies Will Always Have a Place in My Camera Arsenal...

BradleyK · Dec 31, 2015

Deciding to take advantage of some gorgeous winter weather this afternoon, I loaded up a camera bag with the following and headed into downtown Vancouver: F6 and F2AS bodies (the latter Soverized and motor-less) along with 24 F2, 35 F1.4, 85 F1.4 and 180 F2.8 ED (all Ais) and a half dozen rolls of E100G/VS. Less than a half hour into my trek and my F6 decided to go wonky: the command dial would no longer allow changes of the shutter speed. What to do? Call into service an F2! Had I not thought to bring along a second body - "just in case" - the afternoon's shoot would have been lost. Mechanical Nikons...indispensible!

BradleyK · Dec 22, 2021

So much for Nikon's film camera swan song effort: Less than two years after having spent in excess of $300 having the command dial issue repaired, my F6 has "crapped out" again, with the same problem. Not sure whether to have the camera repaired again, or resign myself to having a rather imposing paper weight take up residence on my desk...

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Why Mechanical Nikon Bodies Will Always Have a Place in My Camera Arsenal...

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