All Along The Watchtower

Today I have taken out yet another camera from my "as is" eBay box.

A Nikon N2020. It was introduced in 1986 and is very much a product of it's time.

It's big. It's heavy. It's loud. It RUnS oN AAA BAtteRIeS! Which, for an SLR camera, is kind of a big deal for me. It is, I'm pretty sure, my only battery operated SLR camera.

Anyway, here is the camera:

 

 Here are the pictures from today:

 Note, there will be more pictures in a future post, this roll of film spans a few days.

Overall, I'm happy with the camera. I used my manual 50mm that came with the FT, and I think it was, overall, a good combination.  This is another camera that I'm looking forward to using.

Sweet Home Indiana

I started working through the box of the "as is" Nikon 35mms that I snagged last month.

I found that I really enjoyed using the N80, and I hope that it will go into semi-regular rotation in the future.  Admittedly, I'm more of a fan of semi-manual camera usage, but if I need to get some pictures taken the right way on film, I suspect that will become one of my go-to cameras for that.

Next up...The Nikon N70

 Much like theN80, it looks an awful lot like the D40x from the front.  The menu display on the top is a little wonky and took some getting used to.  I only used it in one of the auto modes, with the slightly broken 18-55 AI lens that I snagged for the D40x a while back, so that made my results fairly predictable.  After I use it a little more, I may throw a completely manual lens on it and see what it can do.

As for now, I went to a church and used a roll of film on a dreary December morning:

 Anyway, I will be using this one again as well.

It’s A Wonder I Can Think At All

[location | home]

[have you had a violent moodswing today | accomplished]

[the sounds of | Hollywood Nights ~ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band]

 

A while back I snagged a lot of “As-is” Nikon SLR cameras on eBay. There were six in all and based on the pictures three of them were actually intact, so I figured at least one would work.

Two of those SLRs were a Nikon N70 and A Nikon N80.

I put batteries in both and they both powered on. The N70, however had a flashing error message on the screen and, allegedly, a steep learning curve.

With that in mind, I went with the Nikon N80 It is compatible with the automatic lenses that I own for the D40X and D3100, so I decided to start with that one.

I went out with my slightly broken 18-55mm lens and over two days shot a very nice roll of film.

Here are some samples from yesterday:

Here are some from today:

The weather was a little better today, but you can only do so well on a dreary mid-west December day.

Also, I’m happy with the developing, which I started doing myself in the kitchen last month.

I plan to give the N70 a spin fairly soon, if I can get the error message to go away. I’ve read that it is a fairly odd ball camera. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to that one.