It became the archetypal “shutter in a box” that people who care much less than I usually do about cameras always talk about – it was there to perform a function, and beyond that, I wasn’t that fussed about it. For the 35mm PC lens, I just needed a pre-AI Nikon Mount camera with a mechanical shutter, so the F2 was perfect. I don’t really use the F, but the F2 became my camera of choice for shooting my Nikon shift lens. So I ditched it and bought a Leica M7.īut, whilst the valuable FM3a left my life, my tatty old F and F2 stayed. I couldn’t focus it with my slightly duff right eye and found left eye framing bothersome with an SLR. The shorter version is that the Nikon FM3a was, for a while at least, my dream camera – but when I bought it, I found it didn’t work for me. I’ve told the story about my discovery that my right eye was failing a few times on this website, most notably here. As such, the Nikon collection started to wane to the point that I just had an FM3a, F2 and F. I used to have a huge Nikon collection, but at some point well-prior to starting this website I concluded that I wasn’t all that keen on being a camera “collector”, and that whilst I like owning the things, I’m not the sort to have a defined collection of one brand or one type of camera in the way proper “collectors” do. The SLR ReduxĪctually, SLR cameras have never entirely gone away for me. In the meanwhile though, it felt appropriate to start at the beginning with this Nikkormat FTn – an eccentric but quite fascinating camera that started this little SLR redux of mine. In fact, I’ve already written reviews of the Leica R6.2 and Contax RTS, both of which shall be surfacing in the next month or so. This was a great way to prevent myself from falling down a bit of a GAS rabbit hole… Well, what can I say, I’ve tripped and fallen down it without really realising what I was doing, and since the beginning of the year have ended up shooting quite a few more SLR cameras. Beyond my usual desire to buy cameras to write about, I can’t perfectly explain my recent desire to shoot SLRs more again, though it’s definitely fair to say that the Nikkormat FTn has opened the floodgates.įor a long time, I’ve held back from SLRs by telling myself – and you lot for that matter – that I just don’t get on with the things. I picked up this Nikkormat FTn back in the winter – it was actually the first of a string of SLRs I’ve recently either bought or tried.
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