Shooting Old Film Cameras - Nikon N6006 - Volume 3

I left my Nikon D3s home and I did not miss it a bit. I really had a whole lot of fun with that old Nikon N Here is my flickr site I set up just for his camera and the pictures I took with it. Please check it out and let me know what you think. I think more people should break out their old Film cames and give it a try.

I think you will find like myself that the fun is still there. Now I know what that smile on my wife was all about that day, I pulled my old camera out of the back of the closet. Oh the pictures in the camera were of my son playing baseball when he was in middle school, he is now in his third year at Central Florida University, that is how long it has been since I used that old N You have a modern Nikon film camera. No digital SLR's here. I occasionally dust off my FM and N just for fun but always as a companion with the digital on outings.

To me, old cameras are like old cars we keep for nostalgia; good for occasional weekend fun but totally impractical as daily drivers. MichaelChang , Jun 13, I frequently use film besides digital. I use a F, n80 and n Yea I guess you are right Sunley, it is new compared to the F3HP, still pretty old in my book though I think I am going to look for an old Nikon Manual body camera to play around with next. I use to have an old Nikon FG Congrats on re-discovering your film camera.

There are a number of us around here that are still shooting film cameras, Nikon and otherwise. I recently picked up an N for dirt cheap so that I could shoot some film with my old manual focus Nikkors. Not long after that, I picked up an older Nikomat for even less money. I don't shoot a lot of film since I don't have a lot of available funds for developing costs, but I enjoy shooting film every now and then because it makes me slow down and think about what I'm doing. There's something to be said for being limited to 24 or 36 frames.

You tend to try to make them all count. CoryAmmerman , Jun 13, Film is alive and quite well here. Amongst casual conversations over the past couple years I have noticed more people taking a break from their digital bodies, and associated tasks! More than one person has remarked that the experience is liberating. I still use a Nikon FE2. Mike Gammill , Jun 13, The camera I normally shoot is an F I print black and white in my darkroom. Now, as far as Nikon is concerned, nothing older than an F2 or newer than an F4S ; but until recently I often went out with an F over my shoulder or an S2 in my pocket.

I still shoot Nikon film cameras: My fav of the two is the manual focus body as it is more simple and less bulky. Also the lenses can be smaller. I just like to shoot slides. Even if I take my digital D70 I only shoot off 25 frames per day on average. I like slides because there is no post processing, I like to look a them on a lightbox.

When they are scanned on my V they just don't look as good. I might get a Coolscan sometime but there would still be differences thru this intermediate step. I pretty much only shoot scapes and if I pick slide film, the colors just jump at me. If I did sports, streets, portraits, I guess digital would make more sense from purely to get the right shot by shooting more and the financial side of things. I still have some neg film in the freezer and some Provia s.

Next order might be medium format but I may get a few rolls for 35mm just to stock up. RaymondC , Jun 13, I have an F which is the European name for the N why have different names? For old Nikon, I also have my FG and a couple of Fs in my late father's collection which I should put some film through soon.

I love my F90 and use it daily. Great fun and awesome results! Less the sepia ones though. I also have some XP2 waiting to go into the two Rolleiflex SL66 cameras that I also inherited; just can't get myself to part with either system. Neither is as convenient as using a DSLR - but I may take either for spin in the not too distant future. Dieter Schaefer , Jun 14, I have just come back from a photographic holiday. I took my F3, 20mm, 28mm, 50mm, 85mm and mm manual primes and many rolls of Fuji Reala.

I took no digital camera at all and despite the film and processing costing over 50 pounds I am happy with the results. So film alive and well here. I used film because I appreciate the bright and open look that does not have odd washed out blue skies or burnt out bright areas or sooty and dark I get with digital. That is probably my fault in some way but I wanted to relax and enjoy the experience and the easy going nature of the Reala film made that possible.

Ian Rance , Jun 14, I used my F90 twice since I bought my D70 in I only shoot film, except for the times I wish to post something to the internet, then I use one of them new fangled digital gizmos; a Canon G Not being a professional, whatever a professional digital camera would give me, I don't need. In the case of the F2; completely battery independent except for the meter. Or even my my old Leica M2 where I gotta do everything by myself. The Hasselblad CM has as much electronics built in as the M2.

The pictures that come out of this camera will kick the poo out of any digital camera, I personally, could ever hope to afford. Part of it must be the familiarity and simplicity of my film cameras that I prefer, then there is the fact that when I have only 36 frames on this roll of film, with only 4 left to go, I tend to take my time and enjoy the process a bit more. I love shooting film but I don't do it as much as I would like. I don't know why. I'm pretty much a weirdo with digital and film.

I grew up as an avid film photographer, with mediocre results at best. When digital became affordable I sold off most of my film gear.

The thing is, digital gave me the instant feedback I needed to learn what I was doing wrong. I could see what happened in various situations, with various settings, and finally got the results I wanted. While I got better technically, and now most of my digital shots are in focus and properly exposed, they still don't grab me or move me. So I switched back.

I now take more time and get more satisfaction shooting a roll of TMAX than from any of my digital cameras. I capture a lot of stuff on slide film too, and color print, and recently began printing color in my darkroom. The results were very very nice. Here's a shot on Provia with the waterproof wonder: I was fed-up with the D's DX sensor just before 's summer holidays.

So I brought the F3T along with slidefilms on our trip to Norway. It worked just as intuitively as it always did. After our return, I had the films developed. They looked all good! Even my way of exposure with the camera was still intuitive, apparently.

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It just isn't in my workflow anymore.. Albin''s images , Jun 14, Hi Mike, film very much alive in my house All beside my D90 digi. Thanks for sharing your story! I mostly use my D, but my F5 - bought as back-up for when my D needs cleaning - got wheeled out a few weeks ago to take some photos of bluebells I think there's some metamerism that Velvia handles better than bayer filters.

I have a better range of lenses for it than my Pentax , which also got used. If I ever get around to picking up an F75, I'll probably do more film black-and-white when I want something portable and cheap; currently an Eos not digital is on that duty, with a Bessa R as back-up. Andrew Garrard , Jun 14, I do drag out my old s once in a while and run a roll of slide film through it. I don't know of anyone who still prints old fashioned Cibachromes any more. So if my slide film is going to wind up as a digital file anyway, why bother? I just pull out a digital camera.

While I don't shoot any 35mm any more, I have been shooting historic cameras quite a bit for the past year. I have a Voigtlander Bessa, a Kodak No. Two23 , Jun 14, Used my F-5 last week. It still is and always will be an awesome camera. I have used my Nikon F90X with film in the past year with excellent results but will now tend to grab the D I still like film although it is not as available as it was as well as the processing. I have three film cameras of different degrees of technology In addition I have a couple an antique medium format cameras that I have collected over the years and have used just for the fun of it.

While I still expect to use film at times the "main camera" today is the D Boppa , Jun 14, Here is a shot from a roll of APX I developed last night. Didn't use my FM2 though, this one is from my Zorki1.

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I have a roll almost shot in my FM2. The Zorki fits in my bag better though so gets carried more and I don't have a manual focus 50mm in Nikon mount. StuartMoxham , Jun 14, I last used my Nikkormat last September, and I'm slowly working on a roll of film now I try to only take a picture when it counts. So it has to be digital most of the time, with film only occasionally.

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I shoot film a lot. Always have 2 bodies loaded with film.

I use film cameras in rotation, two at a time, just to keep the fun coming. I still have every camera and lens I bought since day 1 Loading the film, advancing the frames, releasing the shutter For colors I sent out. However with a hood or with a larger lens like the Sigma AF I bought, it has such girth and length oh my! So use an accessory flash with bigger-than-standard lenses or if using a hood. In fact, with the matrix metering the flash capabilities of this and the N are impressive enough that there is a separate manual for using this camera with flash.

To be fair, it kind of goes against the point-and-shoot-ivity of the way we use this camera. Primary Menu Skip to content. Produced Nippon Kogaku K.

Nikon N6006 35mm SLR Film Camera Body Only

What the heck are all those buttons? It introduced an entirely new compact, but rugged, copper-aluminum alloy duralumin chassis that would become the basis for Nikon's highly successful range of compact semi-professional SLR cameras. These cameras were intended to provide a more reasonably priced alternative to Nikon's professional F-series cameras, which at the time was the Nikon F2.

They were all-new successors to the Nikkormat F- and EL-series of amateur-level SLRs, but despite the lower price-point they continued Nikon's reputation for high-quality construction, impressive durability and measured technical innovation. The FM has proven to be a remarkably long-lived and reliable camera. Nippon Kogaku would over the next twenty-nine years use the same chassis but with some modifications and basic design philosophy for the FE introduced in , FM2 , FE2 , FA and the limited production FM3A of The FM is constructed almost entirely from metal and uses a mechanical shutter.

It is manual-focus-only, with manual exposure control. Being mechanical, the FM needs no batteries to operate though two 1. The photographer adjusts the aperture or shutter-speed until the "O" LED illuminated to indicate correct exposure.

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This system can be traced back to the Nikkormat FT of and its "center-the-needle" system. The body has dimensions of It was available in two finishes; silver with black trim and all black. The FM accepts all Nikon F bayonet mount lenses, with certain limitations or exceptions. This includes most Nikon lenses manufactured after Pre-AI lenses can be used, but only with stop-down metering.

Many newer Nikon and third-party F-mount lenses are also compatible.