Nikon buff!!!????

[NIKON KIU]

OK... I have to warn you! I am a nikon buff....Soooo DO NOT take it seriously.
I am fairly new here....Sooo heres my .....
I guess looking at my name you know what I am about!,,, I am a Nikon Idiot.... I own a Nikon Msynch(not need to rub it in Brian), 4 Nikon S's, 1 Nikon S2, two Nikon S3(one is new). Nikon S4 and a Nikon SP.....I have used about any Nikon SLR you can imagine....I see guys with names such as Nikon B..... posting threads on Leice site..... Let me tell you something... I am a Nikon guy and as long as I have been here, I have NEVER EVER even looked at a Leica thread!!!!!... I am such a Nikon Idiot that I can't even look at Canons!!!! Soooo My idea of a camers is????.... Nikon... I don't know any lenses that can match a Nikkor...Leice, Contax, Zeiss, Canon, Zunow.....What are you talking about? Nikkors??
All comments are welcome....lets see!!!
Kiu

[pwnewport]

So what are you trying to say?

[NIKON KIU]

I Said It... I Am Nikon Kiu... DO YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT NIKONS??? don't Expect Anything Other Than Nikons From Me!!!
Kiu

Originally Posted by NIKON KIU

OK... I have to warn you! I am a nikon buff....Soooo DO NOT take it seriously.
I am fairly new here....Sooo heres my .....
I guess looking at my name you know what I am about!,,, I am a Nikon Idiot.... I own a Nikon Msynch(not need to rub it in Brian), 4 Nikon S's, 1 Nikon S2, two Nikon S3(one is new). Nikon S4 and a Nikon SP.....I have used about any Nikon SLR you can imagine....I see guys with names such as Nikon B..... posting threads on Leice site..... Let me tell you something... I am a Nikon guy and as long as I have been here, I have NEVER EVER even looked at a Leica thread!!!!!... I am such a Nikon Idiot that I can't even look at Canons!!!! Soooo My idea of a camers is????.... Nikon... I don't know any lenses that can match a Nikkor...Leice, Contax, Zeiss, Canon, Zunow.....What are you talking about? Nikkors??
All comments are welcome....lets see!!!
Kiu

Hey, you are not alone, here or anywhere.

As to Canon v. Nikon.

I remember a salesman at B&H (obviously a Nikonian ) who referred to Canon lenses as "ashtrays"!

Most of my Nikons are SLRs but I proudly own a S2 and now a (needs CLA) S and "working" on my first S3.

In addition to 13.5 and 3.5 Nikkors plus 85mm and 28mm Cosina S-mounts I also now have 3 (yes, count 'em - three) Nkkor 5.0cm/1.4's.!

Does anyone know where I can find some rear lens caps for these multiplying 5.0's?

I cannot keep buying "bodies" to use as "ersatz" rear lens caps for 5.0'! The better half is understandably getting worried and thinks she needs to obtain some kind of "restraining jacket" for me to wear - or something to that effect....

But you know something? These darn 5.0's take some damn fine pics!

[NIKON KIU]

I have no caps for my normals either... the cheapest I have seen is $50 bucks!!! what does that tell you??? Nikon rangefinders are NOT sensible... in fact you have to pay more for a nikon cap than some of your Canon RF lenses!!!!
Try that with your Leica!!!!
Kiu

[peterc]

All of my Nikon gear is SLR related so I speak little of it here. I go mainly for the pre-AI Nikkors when possible. Love the optical qualities of that old glass.

Peter

Originally Posted by peterc

All of my Nikon gear is SLR related so I speak little of it here. I go mainly for the pre-AI Nikkors when possible. Love the optical qualities of that old glass.

Peter

Peter,

Actually, I think the glass up to and including the AF-D's is excellent. Certainly the AIs and AIS's are top quality.

The G-stuff is plastic trash and I think Nikon knows that - whcih may be why the new D-200 is backwardly compatible to the older glass.

But this being RFF - I agree with the original poster - boy, the RF Nikkors are amazing!

I wished I had bought the old Nikkor stuff years ago. In those days I had no idea, however. Personally, I'd go with the Cosina/Zeiss Nikon stuff today. Probably better; and better means nearer to best.

[Poptart]

One punctuation mark per sentence fragment is plenty, cowboy.

[peterc]

Originally Posted by copake_ham

Actually, I think the glass up to and including the AF-D's is excellent. Certainly the AIs and AIS's are top quality.

I have no argument with that. My 50/1.2 is AIS and I have a number of the AF-D lenses.
What I like in the pre-AI are, in particular, the 35 Nikkor-O and the 20 UD-Nikkor.

Peter

[NIKON KIU]

Originally Posted by Poptart

One punctuation mark per sentence fragment is plenty, cowboy.

Hey I am Nikon Kiu... if you find any Rf nikkors for under $100 (other than 13.5cm) I will use one punctuation mark
Kiu

[NIKON KIU]

Like I said....DO NOT take this seriously.
Kiu

[aizan]

ooh, what's your opinion of the nikkor 50/1.4, in either leica screw or nikon s-mount?

[Stephanie Brim]

I will only touch Nikon SLRs but I really like the Canon rangefinders for their Leica screwmount. I never really thought I'd be getting a Canon and liking it so much. So I was a Nikonian in a previous life...the life before rangefinders.

[Poptart]

Here's the oldest Nikon lens I have, a silver-nose Nikkor-H:

[jonasv]

Originally Posted by copake_ham

The G-stuff is plastic trash and I think Nikon knows that - whcih may be why the new D-200 is backwardly compatible to the older glass.

Sorry, but that just isn't true. The G simple means the lens has no aperture ring. It doesn't affect optical quality. While it's true that it is often used on cheaper lenses as a cost-cutting measure, it's also used on all new top-of-the-line lenses (among other reasons because it provides better weather sealing).

I wouldn't call the $4500 AF-S 200mm f/2 VR IF-ED plastic trash...

[rover]

5:04am, I need more coffee.

[rover]

Though I would like to find a nice, but inexpensive S2. I don't think it will be possible to find the words S3 and inexpensive together, and I know that SP of S4 won't go there.

[rover]

OK, Nikon dude, what is your take on the closing price of this auction? High, low? Don't give me the "It is a Nikon it is priceless" stuff. I need the real world "some things are for Master Card" assessment.

[Nikon Bob]

Wow, I thought I drank too much coffee. Seriously, if there is a reason that you are limiting yourself to Nikon you can find help here.

Nikon Bob

[rover]

Originally Posted by Nikon Bob

Wow, I thought I drank too much coffee. Seriously, if there is a reason that you are limiting yourself to Nikon you can find help here.

Nikon Bob

Shhh, some day he will play with an M3 and understand.

Just joking, Nikon stuff is of course wonderful and enthusiasm is always welcome.

[VinceC]

I too shoot only Nikon RF for film. I'm not sure my feelings about it are as strong as yours. For example, I tend to look through Canon and Leica and Kiev threads because these people are often real photographers discussing photography and asthetic situations. Because Nikons are so expensive and collectible (or, more properly, perceived to that way) hardly any one who owns one or two or three seems to use them much.

Glass case trophies. A shame.

I get puzzled by all the Leica terms that get thrown around. Cron and Lux and so forth. They're fairly meaningless to me. Nikon hasn't got the variety. It made one lens per focal-length/aperature combo, and made it so well but for so short a time that there are few meaningful variations from the point of view of a user. I do somethings agitate the Leica forum, as when they're discussing one of their "king of bokeh" lenses and I go ahead and toss in an image from a Nikkor.

I'm very much a user-collector and shot with the cameras professionally for several years and semi-professionally up to several months ago when I left newspapering. I'm now in public relations, so there's a chance I'll use them again for professionally.

I do use also use a point-and-shoot Canon Powershot G1 (which, with its screen folded away, sort of works like a rangefinder with a center focus are but really crummy framing). I also use some non-Nikon lenses -- a Zeiss Biogon 21mm f/4.5; a newly acquired CV 25/f4; an Orion 28/f6. I also just received a Jupiter 35mm f/2.8 in trade and have liked previous versions of it.

When I started looking into Nikon RFs in the last 1980s, it was purely from the point of view of a working photojournalist who had been bitten by the rangefinder bug. I didn't know much at all about Leicas. I bought a Soviet-era Kiev, which gave me a platform for a few Nikkor lenses, and they were of such a quality that I could use them for daily newspaper assignments despite their age, so I started doing this. It was also an odd time when collectors were suddenly starting to drive the prices way up fast. In the course of a year, Nikon SPs went from reasonable -- in the $500 range -- to over $1,500. So mine weren't overpriced compared to Leicas. And the lenses were very good buys for the quality.

[peptonio]

Originally Posted by pwnewport

So what are you trying to say?

Well, he said it. He came here to tell us that he's a Nikon idiot. And obviously he's looking for other idiots to talk to.

[NIKON KIU]

Originally Posted by aizan

ooh, what's your opinion of the nikkor 50/1.4, in either leica screw or nikon s-mount?

Once past F4 there is nothing out there that comes close....Unless you pay tons of money for a newer Leica normal. I have 4 Nikkors I swear by:
1) 105mm f2.5 and 10.5cm f2.5 in SLR and RF mounts respectivly, I own the 105 f2.0 DC and it DOES not fare as well
2) AF 20-35mm F2.8
3) 35mm f1.4 in AIS mount
4) last but not least the Old 5cm f1.4 in Nikon Rangefinder or screw mount

Surprisingly the 5.8cm f1.4 SLR mount was not as good(although is very collectible), I have never had the pleasure of the AF28mm 1.4D but I have heard others swear by it.