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This is my Nikon MF outfit, just before I sold, it about six years ago. Nikon FM2n, FE2, etc.
I'd like to have kept it all but I'm on a budget. I'd got my first decent digital camera - an Olympus E-P1 and a couple of lenses - that's gone now too!

I started, many years back with Nikon but quickly moved to Olympus (OM1n, OM4Ti) which I loved but Olympus seemed to lose interest in the system, so there was no point keeping buying into it. I had a brief flirtation with a Leica M3 but as an only camera it was frustratingly limited - my photographic interests are too broad. I stayed with Leica and got an R-E, a very much under-rated camera but, if I'm honest, the lenses were disappointing. That's when I went for the outfit above.

Off topic, I know (sorry!) but I love the rangefinder format. In fact, there are days when I would buy a Leica M and two lenses and just narrow down my interests to suit. Fortunately I can't afford one!

I have a Nikon D610 because it just does everything. I don't think I'll ever love it but I love what it does and how it does it. It's not too big, it starts up faster than I can get it to my eye, it will shoot 1000 pics to a battery charge and it'll work with any lens I want to put on it. I don't care what reviewers say, or how things might have moved on in the last two years(!) its IQ and overall performance are remarkable.

Those film Nikons, both MF and AF, were lovely - but I don't miss them one bit!

They're way beyond my means but I'm really curious about those 58/1.4 lenses. How do you get on with it?