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Nikon F5 35mm Film Camera
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Nikon F5 35mm Film Camera

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  • Battery Type: Lithium Battery
  • Film Type: 35mm
  • Lens Mount: Nikon F
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14

Best SLR on the Planet

byfrank_vanriper Jan 4, 2000
100 Helpfuls 101 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 3 Comments
Pros a superb machine, built like a tank
Cons tanks are heavy
Recommended it? Yes

NIKON F5?The finest SLR on the planet

Product review by Frank Van Riper
Professional photographer, author, and photography columnist of The Washington Post

Engineered from the ground up to go against its competitors in the professional and serious amateur market the... Read full review »

311

F5 -- Nikon's Flagship "Pro" Camera

byHoward_Creech Oct 6, 1999
46 Helpfuls 47 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 2 Comments
Pros Workhorse, good ergonomics, great photos
Cons Heavy, expensive, complex
Recommended it? Yes

The Nikon F5 is the camera that Nikon's engineers created to be the cornerstone of the company's twenty-first century product line. A product line that hopes to blend pro models, amateur models, and digital cameras into a seamless family of imaging products that will completely cover the needs of... Read full review »

170

A Legend In Our Own Time!

bycolonialpara Jan 12, 2005
41 Helpfuls 42 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 2 Comments
Pros Speed, custom features, OUTSTANDING metering! Incredibly versatile!
Cons Weight, initial cost to purchase.
Recommended it? Yes

The already legendary Nikon F5, the film SLR flagship is a 35 mm film camera without peer. Designed by Nikon engineers to be the standard bearer for the company before digital SLRs became so advanced and prolific, this 35 mm masterpiece is now just a single part of the total Nikon imaging family... Read full review »

192

Nikon F5—;The Most Comprehensive Camera Ever Built!

bypaulphoto Jun 9, 2002
20 Helpfuls 21 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 4 Comments
Pros Built, 3D Color Matrix Meter, Operations, Handling, Performance, FAST!
Cons Heavy, Expensive?
Recommended it? Yes

The Nikon F5, as its numeral indicates, is the fifth generation of the legendary Nikon F series, with the first F appeared over 40 years ago (in the summer of 1959). Each of the F series, spanning from manual focus (F, F2, F3) to autofocus (F4, ...) using the same F lens mount, is well known and... Read full review »

5

Exposure is phenomenal!!! Tough to!

byMark2045 Jan 9, 2001
17 Helpfuls 18 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 3 Comments
Pros Tough, exposure is right on in any condition, comfortable, inexpensive for the features &...
Cons Heavy, but it's basically a laptop in a camera for just under 3 lbs!
Recommended it? Yes

I'm not going to bother you with the "features", you can read about them elsewhere. Let's get right to my experiences, mainly in ANTARCTICA with this camera that ended up being mostly a NIGHTMARE on equipment. I wanted a camera that could judge the exposure on snow correctly, could handle the... Read full review »

5

This is the last 35mm film camera I will ever need...

bybitnaut May 2, 2000
12 Helpfuls 13 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? Comment
Pros Fast, accurate, and reliable
Cons Black autofocus indicators are bad in low light. Heavy.
Recommended it? Yes

...so I bought two of them!

The first thing I need to say about this camera is that I totally trust the RGB metering system. For my style of shooting (fashion, concerts, sports) it has never let me down. This allows me to shoot faster because it gives me one less thing to worry about... Read full review »

54

Creme de la Creme

byChauncey Mar 23, 2000
12 Helpfuls 13 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? Comment
Pros focus, trick view finder
Cons weight, size
Recommended it? Yes

They thought of everything, and then some. This camera encompasses everything a photographer could possibly want out of a camera. The first drawback, price, is obvious. But another drawback which ultimatly made me decide against this camera is the weight. It is unusully heavy. It is not the kind of... Read full review »

3

Film's best hope

byjaymalonson Dec 14, 1999
10 Helpfuls 11 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 1 Comment
Pros totally reliable, solid, autofocus speed, very reliable metering
Cons sort of heavy, not designed for everyone
Recommended it? Yes

I'm a professional newspaper shooter and this camera is my day-in, day-out workhorse. I had been an 2 camera N90s user until one of my camera bodies was rendered unusable in a drop. Sinse the body was insured, I made the move up to the F5. I still shoot with 2 bodies, 1 F5 and 1 N90s, but the N90s... Read full review »

12

F5 is a great camera

bynags Jan 25, 2000
8 Helpfuls 9 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 3 Comments
Pros Great Camera, Best meter out there
Cons Weight and Lack of built in Flash
Recommended it? Yes

The Nikon F5 is definitely a great camera. I work in a camera store and I get a chance to play with just about every new camera that comes out. I personally own the F5 and love it. It is built like a tank, which is good, but can also be a drawback. It is not a light camera, if you want a lot of the... Read full review »

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Pro Photographer says YEA!

bybouffard Jan 2, 2000
8 Helpfuls 9 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? Comment
Pros Every function possible and more
Cons Eats batteries
Recommended it? Yes

Just a couple of weeks after the F5 was introduced I started my research on it and decided to drop nearly $3,000 for the body. I must say, this was one of the best photographic moves I have made in 35mm.

The camera offers all the bells and whistles you could imagine; program-mode, auto... Read full review »

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