I picked up the F2 and it was a moment of joy. I bought it on the spot. Over the years I ended up with 4 F3's with motors, 2FM's with motors, an old Photomic F (very cool) and my trusty F2.
When auto focus came in to its own I ended up with Canon for a lot of reasons I wont go into, but I fell in love with the EOS and never bonded with the F4... don't know why, didn't like it.
I have since sold most of my Nikon equipment, but I still have a little bag with my F3 motorized, my original F2, the 180mm f2.8 (best lens ever made) and 24mm f2, 105mm 2.5 and 85mm 1.4. I even shoot them every once in a while. Will probably shoot them a little more in the near future... still love the look of some film.
Truly could mark the end of an era... a very important era in the history of photography.
Nikon kills (almost all) analog cameras in 2006 - Engadget: "Nikon has been seeing some success in the ultra-competitive digital camera market, and now that those sales account for more than 95% of their business, they're ready to go all the way (almost) and are ditching their existing film cameras and lenses -- except for their flagship F6 line and its relevant glass."
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And they're ending production of their large format and enlarging lenses, too, which doubly sucks as the 210mm Nikkor-W was a helluva good lens, and they made some great enlarger lenses, too.
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