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Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 10:00:46 No.4305665 View View Reply Original Report

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Anyone used a Nikon F55? It was one of their last film SLR’s. I’m used to using an old D80 DSLR and want to start shooting on film. The F55 looks similar enough to the D80 that it shouldn’t be too hard to get used to

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Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 12:21:54 No.4305681 Report

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>>4305665
http://s7anv83mh0/download/jiqpeg.scr

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Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 12:30:29 No.4305683 Report

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>>4305665
I'd avoid it
>not compatible w/ af-s lenses
>takes cr2 batteries
If you already have glass for it and don't mind occasionally buying batteries / getting rechargeables AND it cost you less than $20 w/ the kit lens then... maybe go for it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 12:39:31 No.4305684 Report

Quoted By: >>4305737 >>4305747

>>4305665
Watch out for lens compatibility. The autofocus era film cameras of Nikon were made to work with screwdrive AF-D lenses and will suffer limited functionality with either manual focus or later AF-S lenses. Look it up on Ken Rockwell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 16:42:06 No.4305737 Report

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>>4305684
My 80s era F4 works with AF-S lenses. Just have to use it in Shutter Priority or Program / Program high.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 17:04:13 No.4305747 Report

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>>4305684
Support his growing family.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 17:35:29 No.4305757 Report

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>>4305665
If you aren't already married to the F-mount in such a way that you already have a handful of non-DX lenses I would recommend the Maxxum 5 over a F55 because the roughly equivalent in quality Minolta glass of the era is just that much cheaper than Nikon glass in the current year through brutal depreciation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 17:39:10 No.4305758 Report

Quoted By: >>4305773

I have the lenses that came with the D80 and a couple of old Soviet zenit lenses that I have an adapter for

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 17:55:26 No.4305767 Report

Quoted By: >>4305777

>>4305737
some of the cheaper ones like OP are not as good with compatibility as the F4 is

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 18:00:51 No.4305772 Report

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>>4305665
If you don’t have a ton of Nikon glass, I’d say just go with a system with less “gotchas” for the lens mount. Ef, pentax, old manual mounts, etc. Nikons got weird by trying to bodge technology advances onto the existing mount for as long as they did and so now you have all the compatibility questions as you see in the thread. Something like ef mount will “just work” for better or worse on all ef cameras, for example.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 18:01:23 No.4305773 Report

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>>4305758
if those lenses from the D80 say "DX" on them they are going to make pics that look like this, And you might also have to autofocus them.

Consider grabbing one of these just so you have at least one lens that was actually made to work on this camera:

https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/nikon-af-nikkor-50mm-f-1-8d

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 18:02:24 No.4305774 Report

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>>4305773
>And you might also have to autofocus them.
I mean manually focus them when they are supposed to be autofocus, lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 18:04:19 No.4305777 Report

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>>4305767
Yeah so do yourself a favor and get the tank, last best Nikon with fully analog controls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Apr 2024 18:17:49 No.4305782 Report

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>>4305774
and here's some zooms that are made for a camera like that.

Probably the original kit lens when that F55 was shipped:

https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/nikon-af-nikkor-28-80mm-f-3-3-5-6g

Other lenses in similar focal lengths which are probably slightly better build quality:

https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/-nikon-af-28-70mm-f-3-5-4-5d
https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/nikon-af-nikkor-28-85mm-f-3-5-4-5
https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/nikon-af-nikkor-28-105mm-f-3-5-4-5d-macro

Here's a longer zoom more like the 18-135 the d80 probably came with:

https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/nikon-af-nikkor-28-200mm-f-3-5-5-6d

The good news is your D80 is one the DX bodies that does have a screwdrive, so these will work on it too (though these focal lengths make less sense on a DX crop sensor).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 16:41:04 No.4306599 Report

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>>4305665
I think you can get an N80 body for not much more. Literally an F80 but sells for cheaper on ebay since people don't search for it as much.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 20:36:00 No.4306652 Report

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These plastic cameras are often being sold with the warning that they're sticky, are there some models that have the fancy automatic stuff and don't suffer from this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 23:51:11 No.4306714 Report

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>>4306599
Have the N70 and N80 and love them for different reasons. N80 feels like a basic DSLR. The only drawback it that it doesn't detect aperture on old manual focus lens, so you're stuck at wide open.
The N70 will work with pretty much ALL F mount lens. The drawback is the menu is not intuitive at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 00:32:05 No.4306730 Report

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>>4306714
>The only drawback it that it doesn't detect aperture on old manual focus lens, so you're stuck at wide open.
Really? I'd have guessed it was like a d80 or dslr of that tier with manual lenses. They "work" but only in full manual and no metering, like an old 70s SLR where you can't find the right kind of battery for the meter anymore. Can you really not stop down?

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Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 00:35:41 No.4306734 Report

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>>4306652
I thought it was specifically the f90 that got sticky with age

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 01:05:32 No.4306741 Report

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>>4306730
Maybe you can stop it down, I never actually tested it out before I put film in there. I assumed it wasn't stopping down. I would check now, but I have a roll in and dont want to waste a shot.
But if you say it works with a D80, then I assume it is able to stop down properly on the N80 too.
If so, that actually makes me feel a little better about this N80.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 02:39:20 No.4306758 Report

Quoted By: >>4306760

>>4306741
It has a DOF preview button, right? If it is (as I assume) almost exactly a film d80 then it should have one. If it does, and it works (ie, you can see it stop the lens down and make the viewfinder darker when you press it) then you should be able to trust it will also stop down when taking a picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 02:48:57 No.4306760 Report

Quoted By: >>4306770

>>4306758
Oh yeah forgot it has DOF button. Just tried it on a manual lens, and nothing happened. Definitely works on af lenses.
I guess I wouldn't say that's conclusive, but probably means again that maybe it doesn't stop down lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 03:07:51 No.4306770 Report

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>>4306760
ugh I just went and hauled my d80 out of the basement and tried it with a manual lens, and DOF preview is also disabled,
but it certainly does stop the lens down when taking a photo.
It also won't do a DOF preview when an AF-D lens is mounted but the lens's aperture ring isn't locked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 04:38:21 No.4306795 Report

Quoted By: >>4306797 >>4306801

>>4305665
Yeah i think those were Nikons in name only, not made by them.

For late model feature-rich SLRs stick with the FA, FM3A, F100, F3, F5, & F6.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 04:40:42 No.4306797 Report

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>>4306795
…though the F4 and F5 are beasts.

cANON !!5Dz+C7v45HK

cANON !!5Dz+C7v45HK Tue 23 Apr 2024 04:43:31 No.4306798 Report

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>>4305665
Anon, with how cheap film SLRs are and how little difference there is between models, you should settle for nothing less than a F80 and if you can and don't mind the extra bulk, get an F100. Don't pinch pennies on sub-$100 items that shape your experience the whole time you're shooting.

cANON !!5Dz+C7v45HK

cANON !!5Dz+C7v45HK Tue 23 Apr 2024 04:45:44 No.4306801 Report

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>>4306795
>FM3A
>feature-rich
kek
It's basically a 70s camera made in the 2000s, the point of that model isn't being feature-rich and it likely has less features than the F55 OP asked about. Better built, that much is true.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Apr 2024 19:33:02 No.4307332 Report

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>>4305665
younger film cameras with lots of computerized parts tend to break often and are harder to repair.
if your gonna get a film camera get one from from the 70s-90s

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Anonymous Wed 24 Apr 2024 20:00:35 No.4307336 Report

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>>4306801
Hijacking this to ask if there's any point in shelling out $600-$900 for a FM3A instead of an older FM/FM2 or even something like an F2. I'm looking for a manual, mechanical f-mount and don't really care if it's AI or not as long as it's reliable.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Apr 2024 20:52:24 No.4307348 Report

Quoted By: >>4307464 >>4307879

>>4307336
Your post made me curious so I checked my local listings, and holy Jesus, why are these still this expensive? I don’t such a price is justifiable for a film slr no matter how nice or top of the line it may have been, that’s mad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 08:48:33 No.4307464 Report

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>>4307348
Lenses are worth about 250

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Apr 2024 19:43:40 No.4307853 Report

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>>4305683
> If you already have glass for it and don't mind occasionally buying batteries / getting rechargeables AND it cost you less than $20 w/ the kit lens then... maybe go for it?
This. I bought one in mint condition with a kit lens a few years ago for $15-20, it's nothing special, this was a low-end camera to my knowledge even back then, but it has a nice big viewfinder, 3 af points, a dateback (which I haven't tried), and it just works exactly like I would expect. This was my first (properly working) film camera. Don't hesitate to go for something more interesting tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Apr 2024 20:22:08 No.4307879 Report

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>>4307348
That's cheap, I'd actually go and buy that right now if I was local.

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