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Originally posted by Scooter123:
Nikon am me go back a long ways, have a model S and S2 rangefinders and array of lenses dating back into the 1950's.....

Those early Nikon Rangfinder camera and lens, if in near mint condition, are worth serious a bit of cash to camera collectors.

The Nikon Rangefinder camera was a Contax II knock off and the Canon or Minolta Rangefinder camera copied Leica. Both Nikon and Canon also made screw mount lens for the late '40's, early '50's Leica.

Such is post war copy infringement.

Many years ago I read a book about the photo journalist who covered the Korean War and used Leica cameras with faster lens made in Japan. Many of these photographers soon switched to Nikon or Canon Rangefinder cameras bodies which cost quite a bit less at the PX.

I still have a Nikon 6006. Tried selling it once, but there was zero interest, so it sits in the closet in its original box.

My first 35mm:



It was stolen during a move and replaced with this. I still have it and several lenses:

Nice acquisition!
My career began using FM2s, then F3s and my final film camera was an F4. I loved them all.
It is amazing how compact that 50mm f/1.4 lens is, compared to a new Sony (what I use today) 50mm f/1.4. The Sony/Zeiss lens is just huge.
Enjoy your new camera.

I still remember back in about 1977 a fellow photographer bought a Cannon AE1 and I told him I would never own a camera that required a battery to work...

Boy was I wrong....

I just looked above this.... I owned a Pentax K1000 back then left it on the hood of my car and it came off at about 40mph... bounced down the road and still worked fine....

Very kool. I still shoot Nikon because all the glass fit...even on the DSLRs

Now, if you come across a FTN Titanium....they go for $600 and up!

Cheers

My first camera (1960) was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special using 127 film (square prints and Superslides). In 1964 I bought a Petri 7S rangefinder 35mm camera. A few years later I got my first SLR, a Nikkormat--I liked it because the controls were rings around the lens, like on the rangefinder. My first Nikkormat was stolen and I replaced it with a Nikkormat FT. I had several lenses, but favored a Tamron 28-200mm zoom. Sometime in the 1980s I graduated to a Nikon N70 and added a Nikon FE. I put the zoom on the N70 and got a Vivitar 28mm f/1.8 for the FE--I used 800 ASA film in the FE for indoor shots and ASA 400 film in the N70 for others. In 2004 I decided to try digital and got a Kodak DX7630--the shutter delay and poor low-light capability caused me to graduate to a Nikon D50 DSLR soon thereafter, outfitted with the new Nikon 18-200 VR zoom. I graduated to a D7000 in 2013, still using the 18-200 zoom. The D7000 succumbed to salt air in 2016 and was replaced by a D7100; the first 18-200 was getting gritty, too, and was replaced by a VR2 version.

The Nikkormat FT, N70, and FE are still around somewhere (and an original Nikon 500mm mirror lens built like a tank).

flashguy

I still have my Nikkor 1000mm mirror lens. I would like to find a way to use it like a telescope.

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Originally posted by armored:
I still have my Nikkor 1000mm mirror lens. I would like to find a way to use it like a telescope.

This link http://www.bobatkins.com/photo...s-scope-adapter.html has links (scroll down) to existing adapters to do just that.

flashguy