The amazingly talented F100
I've been using cameras for a very long time now, from childhood to mandatory retirement, from the ancient to the very new. I've gone from very old roll film cameras to the digital age. I have had long relations with most of the family lines of single lens reflex cameras. This started with Minolta, strayed to Pentax, then went on to Olympus. I gave Canon a real try, and finally gave my full attention to Nikon. Along the way I noticed that I was spending more time expanding and maintaining my hoard than I was putting in to using them in the field and picking out the best shots in the darkroom. This was a sublime realization for a lover of the lens as the natural response was to snag a camera bag every I went out the door. It's a dedication that is a challenge both to my image hunting grounds as well as feel for the medium. That camera bag has, not surprisingly, become smaller and lighter. It no longer holds a couple or three camera bodies, three times that number of lens, along with tasty flash toys. These days the bag holds nothing but Nikon; a body, two lenses and a small flash. I carry more if I'm shooting for the paper, but then I absolutely have to get their shots, which means a second body, lenses tailored to that format and a very flexible flash system. But, that small bag is getting more and more use, and much is owed to Nikon for developing my very favorite camera body, the F100. It has so many capabilities that I almost never find myself unable to try out another set of features, and has never managed to fail, making me call on it's twin. The shutter is precise and flexible, it takes to flash like a fish to water and uses batteries I can find anywhere. The dazzling crown for this King is made from amazing Nikkor lenses, and the only problem is selecting which of these tag along. I find that I no longer keep a 'normal' lens mounted, tending more toward a fast 35mm and a zoom in the 35mm to 105mm range. If I'm going toward nature, the third lens is another zoom, covering the 105 to 210mm range; anything longer is a boat anchor. The best thing is that Nikon has built so many lens with fine definition, contrast and color balance over the years that the three lens battery can always take a slightly different selection. As of this date I am still not built for digital except for an Olympus pocket wonder that I think of as the 'document recorder' because that's the role it fills best. It's always along, but given a couple of heartbeats it will slip back into my briefcase and my intended target will see a Nikon F100 in it's place. These two F100 camera bodies will most likely fill my need for 35mm SLR film cameras from here to the great beyond, a place where no recording of wonders is needed.
Beau
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned