Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re:OT Nikons new cameras
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun Apr 24 17:02:24 2005

On 4/24/05 3:47 PM, "F?lix L?pez de Maturana" <FELIXMATURANA@telefonica.net>
typed:

>> The F100 killed the F5 sales. The F100 is Nikon's best film SLR. Unless 
>> you
>> want to spend $2600 on the F6.
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> Chris
> 
> I think not. The F5 sales figures have been on the level of the F pro Nikon
> cameras. F100 is a advanced amateur not a pro however many pros had it as a
> backup or even as a main camera but the building of the F5 is definitely 
> much
> more robust. In every feature the F5 is better camera excepting the red
> illuminated focusing points that in the F5 are grey and more difficult of
> seeing. I have not -yet- the F6 but I own two F, two F2 and one F3,F4 and 
> F5
> and the later is, by far, the best. Nikon optics are different from Leica
> which does not mean every time worse.
> 
> Felix
> 
> 
There is a lineup of used F5s at the used glass counter at the pro Photoshop
down the street for 800 bucks I think.
Maybe less (money)

Makes me want ot buy bricks and bricks of film and a freezer and a film
loader for full rolls for my Nikon 5000 scanner.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/






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