Good link Don.
The guy must be addicted to Nikon rather than collector.

F3 was the true joy of old time photography for me. I Loved it in and out, though had more handicaps of many other high grade Nikons but more than picture that I got with it, it was the way it would bring joy to my days. A real feel of grandeur (Right or wrong) to have it and I really missed when I lost mine in early 90s. Well now have a few more but never had time to go back and shoot with them.

Catch of day:
A canon lens that is probably bat and owls would use it, if they were photographer:

Canon 50mm F/1.0


LINK

Hmm...the F3. I bought the action finder prism for mine, then the bolt-on vertical format shutter release/ intervalometer. Next came the thread adapter (AH-3 sticks in my head??)...then the flash hotshoe adapter which fastened above the rewind crank. The MD4 drive naturally had the Nicad pack inside for extra drive speed :).....That baby nearly weighed more than my first car!

I blame the delay, so my only very recent dive into AF lenses (weirdly following buying digi bodies!) at how good the Nikon F3 was, or more to the point how poor the F4 was in comparison. The timing for Canon I think was spot on. Canon traditionally always seemed to play second fiddle to Nikon in the Canon F1n vs Nikon F3 battle. I think the launch of Canon's Eos 1really started to show others the way....I think a time where Canon really overtook Nikon in the Professionals choice for much of the time. (Though argubly I feel Minolta had the best AF system and Olympus the best flash system back in those days)

Canon f/1.0
I recall seeing something about a f/0.95 for a rangefinder Canon, also? Can't find my Hove blue book to check??

Joe,

I posted some links to the same in another thread before this one started. So here they are again.
http://www.huffman.tk/id11.html
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/c...ml/canon_7.php
http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Canon_RF_2e.html

Don

I just checked and my F2 / MD-2 without a lens weighs 4lbs. D2X is positively lightweight. :D

Don

thanks Don :)

Don't know about you but I well remember when I saw this one first in real life.
I was a young boy having my own super dopper Canon FTb with a lot of pride, (Early 70s and no I am not coming from dinosaur era), in a once-in-a-lifetime journey along with parents attending a professional conference in Iron curtain Russia, during Brezhnev's time, when at a breakfast table of Russia Hotel saw that gorgeous looking couple from America, the gentleman carrying one of these on a tiny tripod that made my mind blow up! Well I know even then where I want to live, A place where resident can buy that type of gears... Well as a happy Persian-American today, I still don't own it but well have saved the link to the seller in my wish list for hopefully a deal in near future.

EBAY LINK

Well the camera had a huge magazine that takes film cuts to make unheard-of-for-the-day number of images you could shoot on any still camera.

I think this one was put up for a low price on ebay but may be the number of production was large enough to make the price low for collectors on these days.

Bottom line; Know the value of your few hundred dollars PnP camera with 2 or 8 GB card that make thousands of images...

Nice find Sassan. 250 exposure film back.

I need to find an image of a camera with this and a motor drive to put beside a modern DSLR and Compact flash or SD card to show how things have moved on.

My memory is failing me a bit here and I would have to do a gallery rummage to refresh it, but we do have a member here who used the Nikon version on an F2 with motor drive. A seriously large lump of kit.

Don

Here is a good historical Nikon resource.

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/im...tory/index.htm

Olympus also made a 250 film-back for their OM system. Not sure that it kept its compact 'ethos' with both the 250 back and the motordrive with the 18 volt battery grip (12 x AAs), though the 15 volt NiCad version was about the same size as the power-winder.

My old 1973 OM system lens catalogue is looking a bit tatty now, but it shows the range that Olympus said would all be available at the time of the OM1 launch. In fact, they couldn't live up to the hype and some lenses didn't appear for a year or two and some never made it at all! At least two in this picture never materialised - the 400mm F4.5 and the dinky little 300mm F6.3

Going back to the Nikon fisheyes - it's interesting to see that they thought they would be useful for 'general photography' as well as specialist applications (just how many 'general' shots can you take with a 6mm ;))

That 13mm in the super-wide lens group looks an impressive piece of kit - anyone ever see one of those? (16 elements in 12 groups, 118 degree field-of-view, 1200gms).