James Markus wrote:
I think I found my film spirit animal - the Nikon F4S. It is all dials, and locks for those dials. Little switches, buttons, and steampunk good looks. I experienced the absolute best green dot auto focus confirmation dot I have ever seen. Bright, backlit - with red arrows indicating the direction for correct focus.. I put non-ai to afs, dx, lenses, - and they all work. The little lens mount flip tab for non-ai lenses even has a lock button. So I loaded up a roll of Ultrafine eXtreme 400 and slapped on the Nikkor-O.C 35mm f2 souped the film in Rodinal-1:25-8.25min-at-70-degrees. It is heavy, but a pleasure to shoot.
I really like this set, especially the closeup of the F4 and lens, and all the hanging pots and pans and stuff.
You are making me want to put film in my Nikkormat!
But I keep bumping into the same conundrum - what film type? If any sort of print film I have no setup (or skill) to develop it, and prints themselves are inconvenient to share, handle, store. Slides? I haven't pulled out the projector and screen for decades; it's a cumbersome process. I do have a nice scanning rig, but if the end result is to produce digital pics then I might as well just use the Z5-II.
Still, I hate the thought of a great piece of equipment, and sort of equipment, sitting idle in a cabinet.
