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Merco_61

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I helped a friend put together a classic analog travel setup today.

At a large dealer we found these:

Nikkormat FT3

35/2 O Ai'd

50/1.4 S•C Ai'd

105/2.5 P•C Ai'd

All for about $750 with 6 months warranty.

 

All three lenses are converted with the factory ring and can be mounted and meter on his D600 and resolve good enough for that sensor.

 

I believe something like that can be bought in EX condition for about $550 in the USA. Worth thinking about when starting to build a set of FX primes and you realise that the FX 35/1.8 alone is nearly $600.



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I purchased a used Nikon N70 camera body (from the 1990s era) for $20 plus shipping and a lens came with it, a 1960s era Nikkor-S 50mm f1.4. There are bargains out there.



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I have a kit just like that!

 

I have a Black Nikkormat FT3- built like a tank, all mechanical.



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I would really like to have a black FT3 that is used enough to get that nice brassing they get. It is a shame that they didn't keep the meter needle in the FM as it is much easier to use than the diodes.


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Brian

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The FM was cutting edge- LEDs and Gallium-Arsenide Photodiodes. These did not have the IR sensitivity of SPDs, very close to CDS spectral response.

 

The Nikkormat FT2 was my first Nikon, bought in 1978. I still have it.



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I had an FM2n - a silver one because black was £30 extra :). It was a lovely camera and I really wish the economics and the marketplace had been such that Nikon could have given us a digital version of that camera - in the same way that Leica have done with the digital M series.

 

I still have my F4 and F5, although I no longer use them, and I wouldn't mind an F3 to go with them. Perhaps, given that I don't use them, I could find a non-working one cheap! :D



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I bought an F3HP "INOP" from KEH for $80 several years ago.

 

I cleaned off the battery contacts, THEN put the battery in. It. "op'd" after that...



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Get on eBay and camera then Nikon. Read the classifieds and look at the sellers reputation. I just purchased FM2n mint+,strap and a 55 micro-nikkor f 2.8, likewise mint +. Bundled together for $375.


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