Nikon N80 35mm SLR Film Camera (Body Only)
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Manufacturer: NikonModel: 1776
Color: black
Product features:
- It designed for excellent performance with flexibility to meet virtually all of your photographic needs.
- 10-segment 3D, Center and Spot metering for auto and manual exposure modes
- Nikon advanced focusing in auto and manual modes
- Uses all Nikon F Lenses (AF Series for autofocus capabilities) - Lens is not included
- Comprehensive viewfinder information
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Nikon N80 35mm SLR Film Camera (Body Only)
Customer Review: About the best SLR I've ever owned
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a serious amateur and occassional professional photographer for over 40 years. My experience spans the early SLR entries up to the present.
I've also been a long-time Nikon groupie. In my opinion, they manufacture the best equipment of this type available, though in recent years the quality provided by a few of the tops seems to be closing the gap. By that I mean Canon specifically.
That having been said, I'm the type of photographer that drags around a select few lenses and a couple of bodies so I can mix and match lenses and films.
Speaking of which (films): I am not technology-averse. I love the idea of digital. I shoot home movies direct to DVD on Sony equipment. I also scan my 35MM negs/prints using the Canon 9950F (an excellent print scanner) or Nikon 5000ED Coolscan (the best slide/neg scanner)to digital files for further action in Photoshop.
HOWEVER, that being said, I still shoot my stills in 35MM film.
Several reasons: Current digital camera bodies simply do not afford the flexibility in speed, sensitivity, or versatility that film does.
I HATE the fact that the CMOS sensors effectively double the focal length of all my lenses (with currently only one exception, by Canon, I think).
I'm recording my images to the only currently available archival medium: film. Yes, I know bytes and bits are supposedly archival. But 50 years from now, is your DVD still going to be readable by any then-current technology? Remember Beta? Or 8 track tapes?
However, Daguerre's and Matthew Brady's prints
(both from the 19th Century) still will be. As will mine -- and yours if you shoot in film.
That having been said, a few years back, as I decided my eyes no longer afforded me the luxury of manual focus and I decided to go for the auto-focus capabilities now available, I stuck with Nikon and bought my first N-80.
I am so happy I did! This camera is simply outstanding in every way, affording you the ability to use it as a simple point-and-shoot if you wish (due to its extremely fast and sharp system coupled with the Matrix Metering system, and on-board pop-up flash), as well as the option to take direct control over every aspect of the creative photo process with intuitive and easy-to-use systems.
I liked it so much that a couple of years later I bought a second as a backup and system enhancer (meaning two loaded bodies with different lens/film combinations).
An additional benefit is that as the current fad seems to be toward digital bodies, N-80 prices have gone down significantly.
An interesting phenomenon that merits a quick observation: in order to get the same quality of resolution available with a good film/camera body/lens combination as far as cropping or enlargment capability goes, you have to spend in the neighborhood of $3000 to $4000 for a body-only camera, and you're STILL limited as to the duplication of film sensitivity. Try duplicating a 3000ASA film speed on a digital camera. Good luck! You'll be blasted by "noise" on the image; what we used to call "grain" for film, i.e. a loss of resolution and sharpness.
I'm finally making the move up to my next big camera purchase. Guess what? It's a Nikon F-5. Another film body. What does that tell you?
Buy this camera! It's great!
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