Thanks for watching and leaving your thoughts here Steve :) glad you enjoy using your F4. I look forward to using mine for years to come. The entire package is magic to me, every time I pick it up hard to put down :) hope you have a lovely weekend!

Hi, that’s great to hear! I have come to appreciate it even more now too after 3 years of use. It’s a well rounded tool 👌🏽

I’m 73 and have been seriously shooting since 1973. My first SLR camera was a Petri FT-II, purchased from a relative’s military catalogue, for a little over $100.00. My favorite subject matter, in fact the reason why I got what I considered to be a “serious” camera, was to take pictures at rock concerts. I purchased a Petri 135mm tele lens from one of the then 3 camera stores in lmy town. But it was a slow lens, f5.6 or something like that. I traded it for faster Vivitar lens, an f2.8, at one of the other camera stores. As my interest photography gree

Many thanks for the kind words. F3 is a beautiful piece of equipment :) hopefully I can try one day.

ah that’s kind of you to say, thank you!

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

Hi, thanks - good lens, good exposure and scanned by a good lab are the things I'd recommend. I didn't do anything specific/different here. I was using the voigtlander 40mm F2 lens for most of the shots in this video but nikon's 50mm F1.8 lens in my ektachrome video. slide film particularly looks better in 35mm as the ISO is really low and grain is not really visible. For voigtlander lens I was relying on camera's focus indicator and all exposures where metered internally by the camera itself :) it's a great camera, so I definitely recommend!

Thank you so much for watching! Glad it was useful :)

Hey thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

thank you bro :) yes would love for you to try it out !

Thanks for all that information! Truly appreciate it :)

Thanks for mentioning the difference between the B and T modes. I bought the F4s mainly for long exposure tripod-mounted landscape shots.

Hi Albert, I did not know about the compatibility with F3AF autofocus lenses. Thanks for sharing! And I couldn’t agree more about its tactile experience with all the dials, buttons and levers, a joy to use for sure! Have a great day!

@@SathyaPeacock We stupid Germans say 'isso!' - that means > so it is! You're fully right!

Thankyou! Excited for you :)

$199 with an mf23 is a great deal! Hope you have fun shooting with it 😊

Nikon F4 is a special camera yes :) even when I went through an overhaul of selling a bunch of cameras I couldn’t bring myself to sell the F4. I took it out recently and sure enough I was glad to have kept it, it’s a joy to use! Thank you again for watching :)

Glad you enjoyed this one Aristo. Pretty sick combo you got there, love that about the Nikon F4 series - modularity that matches functionality

Thanks Reinhart! A 250exp attachment to the F2! Must’ve been quite the experience to work with it :) O need to try my hands on the earlier F versions too!

@@SathyaPeacock It's worth, indeed! The Nikon F eye level as a 'black beauty' for instance, or my beloved Nikon F2S 'black beauty' ;-))

Wow that’s a tonne of info, thank you! Also glad to hear your experience with its durability. No matter what 35mm cameras I shoot with, I now compare them to this one and I haven’t found one that’s better than the Nikon yet. 😊

Thank you for watching!

It is indeed! Glad you enjoyed the video, happy shooting with the camera and SB-28 combo :)

Couldn't go wrong with its prices at the moment - it's a steal in my opinion. Enjoy shooting!

I can relate :)

Thanks for watching and leaving these comments Erhan! That’s a nice collection of cameras. I have been intrigued by the press cameras for a while now, hope you enjoy using the kit :)

Hey Joe! Glad to hear! it is a great piece of equipment indeed

I have not tried that one yet :) hopefully one day

oh wow that is a steal, Good luck! let me know how it turns out :)

@@SathyaPeacock Gladly! It arrived and I put batteries in it and.. dead as a dodo. Brick. Damn.. ... ... ... But wait, there's more! The batteries I'd put in were rechargables, they'd *been* charged when I unplugged the charger (because they were full) but that was months ago.. cue me searching through our battery recycling bin - Aha, A Duracell.. and an Energizer! Well, they don't sell those individually, so there's at least 3 more of each in there.. more digging.. 8 batteries! Rushing back to the camera, I was filled with 'hail mary' hope. Put them in and.. LIFE! It worked! I took a deep breath, took the old batteries out, calmed my nerves, grabbed my car keys and headed to the store. Fast forward an hour and I'm back with an 8 pack of Duracell AA's. Attacked the packaging and ripped the batteries out like an hungry bear with a happy meal - Put them in and holy - it works....! It all works! Metering, Motor drive, the LCD's have NO bleed.. it works!! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... With one small caveat - The Autofocus is semi-broken. Basically, sometimes it will 'see' or recognise that there's a CPU lens (an AF lens) attached, a lot of the time it won't. Most of the time it won't. I've tried scrubbing the bejesus out of the contacts, with contact cleaner, isopropyl, using an eraser, all the common tricks. They *look* sparkly clean but I did notice a couple of times that it wouldn't work, then I'd clean the contacts, then it'd work for a couple of hours, until I put the camera down for a bit and coming back to it.. same thing, it can't see the CPU lens. It hasn't worked reliably enough for me to be certain that's causation and not just correlation though, it has started working on its own once or twice as well. Maybe it's not the contacts, maybe there's oxidisation on a switch somewhere inside the body. I tried spraying contact cleaner into the AF select switch and wiggling it a lot, didn't seem to help, but maybe I'll give that another go. I know it's an issue with it 'seeing' the CPU lens because when I put it in S mode, (or P or Ph) it defaults to "A" mode, the expected behaviour if one of those modes is selected but with an AI or AI-S lens attached (instead of an AF-D). Have tried a bunch of "known-good" AF-D lenses, they don't work on the F4, they do work on other bodies, so it's defo not the lens. I am overall super freakin' happy though, if someone had said to me "hey bud, do you wanna buy a Nikon F4 for £45? It works great, apart from there is no AF, it's busted, so Manual focus only" I'd have said Hell yeah! At that price. I guess I could always *try* to find someone who will CLA an F4s in the UK for less than the price of a working kidney, although I fear the outlook is grim on that front. But yeah, overall i'm absolutely loving it ... ... ... Butttt there's this little nagging part of me that really *wants* it to be 'fully working' even if it's a feature I won't use much. (My other nikon film bodies are all manual focus). I've run a few rolls of film through it so far and apart from the AF, everything is lovely. The metering seems great! It weighs a ton! I love it! And that's the full story, up until now, where we're at, and where we might be going!

Hi Yamen, thank you! serr’s filmvision pack is the base for it - serrvillasano.com/store

@@SathyaPeacock thanks you for sharing❤ the look worked great with the video subject. Your video really motivated me to take the F4s out for a shoot👍

@@kaminobatto that's awesome to hear Yamen!

Hi Matt, I don’t remember vignetting being a problem (nothing that can’t be fixed in post anyway). I loved that lens for its image quality and close focussing distance, but had to sell it as I wasn’t shooting enough with the F4 to justify keeping it. This is a regret of mine. I am coming around to shooting more 35mm so I might pick it up again. I definitely recommend if it’s in your budget. Thanks for watching!

Hey! thanks for watching, it's the Film Vision by @serr . He has since released Film Vision II, better workflow and control than the first version.

Thanks ! your great, keep it up !@@SathyaPeacock

Hi Muhammed, thank you - the songs in this video are from Artlist.io and here are the links - artlist.io/song/85699/the-queen-and-the-bird & artlist.io/song/5080/breakfast-time . I don't have a playlist maybe I should in the future :) Thanks for your comment

Hey thanks! Good to know :)

Hi, I only ever shot with 2 lenses on this one - the voigtlander 40mm F2 and Nikon 50mm F1.8D. Voigtlander is a better lens with slightly wider field of view but it's a fully manual lens. So if you are happy with full manual focus and aperture control then I'd say go for the voigtlander, otherwise the 50mm is quite a nice lens and it supports autofocus and auto aperture. I don't have any personal experience with any other lenses on this camera unfortunately. But Nikon made some really good lenses and whatever focal length you're after I'm sure you'll find a version that works for you and is good. That's one of the strong points of this camera, you can get any lens that nikon made over 6 decades and use it with this one :) All the best!

I agree with you it’s a little awkward to look through, especially to read the info at the bottom for me. I’ve only heard good things about Canon L lenses maybe one day I could try them :)

Objectively F5 is better in many ways so no surprises there; especially if faster AF is important to you :) Thanks for watching!