Nikon F2 Series Professional SLR camera Models

1. From : JWoods (centurywoods@yahoo.com)
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Date : 03:07 PM Friday 04 January, 2002

Take the F2SB and tell me who to talk to to get the F2AS... joke aside, the difference between the two metered finders (DP-3 and DP-12) are just AI and NON-AI. Naturally, the F2AS has less compatibility problems with many newer series of Nikkor lenses. Some are also in the opinion that those F2 bodies produced between 1978 -1980 were the best F2 which have taken close to a decade to perfect. I will take the F2AS in a complete package. Lastly, no one is claiming to be a Guru or expert here, most of us are just passionate hobbyist who always appreciate the best of mechanical engineering existed during that era. Cheers.

2. From : Hamid (hamid.afshar@attbi.com)
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Date : 12:41 AM Friday 04 January, 2002

I'm new to this forume and have a questions for gurus:
If I have a choice between F2AS and F2SB to buy (assuming they are in the same condition)which one should I take? I'm trying to get a feel for functionality, popularity, price, ...

thanks

3. From : Jimmie (jimredcoke@yahoo.com)
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Date : 11:49 AM Friday 28 December, 2001

Ron Riley: I think before you ask, you should at least try to identify what model are you using. Next, nearly all standard production camera models of the Nikon F2 (I think except the F2SB, right ?) has an instruction manual in this website, since you mentioned your camera was a made in 1969 camera (by the way, the F2 was not introduced yet in that year, instead - it was in 1971); so I would assume it is a standard F2 with DE-2 eye-level finder; well, if that is correct, can you try here, it is an instruction manual in HTML form: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/nikonf2/f2/index.htm IF you think you need an original hard copy, then can you check: www.craigcamera.com or http://manuals2go.com, they usually sell USD15-25 a copy, so - I would rather suggest you to either bookmark this site or print them directly via the webpage.

4. From : Ron Riley (ronril@mnic.net)
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Date : 05:31 AM Friday 28 December, 2001

I bought my son a 1969 vintage F2 for Xmas and am looking for a manual for this camera. Please write if you have info on how I may acquire this much needed resource.
Thanks and happy F2ing.
Ron

5. From : Christian Maldonado Fisker (christiano@ofir.dk)
Url : http://www.pisca.dk
Date :

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Thanks ! keep up the good work! What at great site !

6. From : m.carlson (glass@ismi.net)
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Date : 11:35 PM Tuesday 18 December, 2001

Hello--how do I find out what year my F2 was manufactured?

7. From : Michael Breen (breenmt@fuse.net)
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Date :

Does anyone know if the SB-21 flash with the AS-12 adaptor will work on the 1977-1980 F2 model?

The shoe AS-12 looks just like the AS-1 that the F2 uses, but I can find no mention of compatabiltiy. Since the F2 does not have TTL I would shoot manual or reduced and use my flashmeter for exposure. Does this sound like it will work? Would I be better with a Unitron RL-80 ringlight unit instead? Looking to get close in on some flowers, coins and stamps. Any advice on the SB-21 compatability or better solutions would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael breenmt@fuse.net

8. From : Greg (gbsbusa@juno.com)
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Date : 06:05 AM Tuesday 18 December, 2001

Can anyone please tell me where I can obtain the rubber eyecup attachment for a Nikon F2 at a reasonable price. Please email me at gbsbusa@juno.com. Thank you very much.

9. From : Paul Armstrong (pkared@ameritech.net)
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Date : 08:06 AM Monday 17 December, 2001

The "special F2 Back" with the pins was made by Double M industries in Austin Texas owned by a man named Barry Marks. He was a machinist by trade. He made these cameras for the Multi-image industry for copystand use. He was one of the low cost suppliers of this technology. You could either send him your F2 for modification, or he would obtain one and modify it & send it to you. The cost was $400.00 US in 1981. He made some other products to go with it such as a modified beseler color head used upside down under a copystand to project colors through kodalith negatives for making text slides, or for "burning" text into slide images.
Oxberry, Maximillian Kerr Associates and pro? systems were the most prevalent makers of these cameras(modifyers!) They all moved on the the F3 after it was proven reliable.
Forox, Marron Carrol were makers of pin registered cameras not using Nikon cameras as the base. FYI

10. From : Paul Armstrong (pkared@ameritech.net)
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Date : 07:53 AM Monday 17 December, 2001

About the Slidemagic SS-F2 pictured-

It was made by Maximillian Kerr Associates Inc. in New Jersey. They are probably gone-It's past time for Max to have Retired. It was made for use in the slide-animation/Multi-image business that flourished in the 70's and 80's and died completely in the 90's as video equiptment and computergraphics became sharp enough and the colors vivid enough and the cost low enough to displace it. Slide were shot using this camera so that they're position when inserted in a pin-registered slide mount was repeatable within an advertised 1/10,000 inch. So if you shot several frames of a background, and the only thing that moved would be a person(from frame to frame) when the slides were projected(by a kodak ektagraphic projector) the person would appear to move(animation). The bread and butter part of this business was in having bulleted items for presentations "build" on the screen while being projected over photos,etc. at the same time. Multiple projectors were aligned to show on the same sreen at the same time and controlled by a computer. The various images would fade from image to image without the anoying "white sreen" in between. this was very nice for advertising/sales presentations. The color and sharpness were superior to video. Max moved on to making an SS-F 3 & SS-F3II once Nikon came out with the F3. (I own one of the SS-F3's. I used an SS-F2 at work and it was a beautiful machine. Without the Pin Block on the back, it was still able to maintain frame to frame accuracy for animation/multi-image. Some SS-F2's had a Metal block on the back with pins that actually would drop into the film sprocket holes prior to exposure to assure alignment. Max also replaced plastic gears with machined steel to increase accuracy. He also incorporated a special grid in the viewfinder that was fixed(not removable) and was aligned so you could be assured that something centered in the viewfinder would be centered when projected on the screen. It was a very accurate system. The also had a light that could be shown through the viewfinder to project the grid image down onto a copystand so you could align artwork, etc without having to look in the viewfinder.

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