It’s obviously a wrong perception: just consider the price of the N2020 – a few years after being launched, it was still more expensive than Minolta’s enthusiast oriented Maxxum 7000, in the same ballpark as the ground breaking Canon EOS 650, itself derived from the very high-end and very expensive Canon T90. The recessed red button starts the self-timer. Nikon F-501/N2020 with a Nikon E Series 35mm f/2.5 – note the convenient AE-Lock and AF-Lock buttons next to the lens flange.

Because they had the two lowest numbers in the hierarchy, they were often mistaken for low performance entry-level models. They inaugurated a new type of laser etched focusing screen, and a new camera naming scheme based on numbers. It was an upgrade of the N2000 (F-301 “in the rest of the world”), Nikon’s first SLR with an integrated motor. The N2020 (F-501 outside of the US) was Nikon’s first mass market auto-focus SLR.

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I love taking pictures, I love old cameras, and that’s all it is about. And they will still be shooting film 10 years from now. People paint, ride horses, wear mechanical watches and play vinyl records for a multitude of reasons, some of them unsuspected 150 or 20 years ago. In the nineteen eighties digital watches did not kill mechanical watches, and vinyl records are making a comeback 20 years after CDs were launched. In the nineteenth century, photography did not kill watercolor painting and cars did not drive horses to extinction.

But there is such an ample supply of nice second hand cameras that finding one you like is not a problem.įilm cameras are now extraordinarily cheap, and as long as you’re in no hurry to see your images and don’t take too many pictures, using SLRs or rangefinder cameras from yesteryear is a rewarding experience. It’s a different experience, and using different tools make you see the world differently. But I also love shooting with film cameras. Like anybody else, I use digital cameras. About old film cameras, and the pictures you can still make with them.

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