jimmuller wrote:
As for the bodies, such an embarrassment of riches which aren't very useful! While I'd been thinking about my Nikkormat and film and meter battery, two more bodies drop into my lap, functional but flawed. I could put different films in them. Attempting to fix the F2 might be fun. I'm not sure about the filters.
I personally would be thrilled to have an F2 drop into my lap: It is a mechanical gem, and as it with the non-metering DE-1 finder, you don't have to fight with adapting a modern battery to it. Replacing the seals should be easy. The shadow on the finder is probably corrosion/delaminating of the mirroring on the prism, so not much you can do about it. The Close-up #2 filter is high quality and fun to play with, giving you a +3 diopter (magnification), but I personally prefer to use extension tubes. Otherwise (personally) not being a nifty-fifty guy, and already having my wide and 105mm lenses, I would sadly treat most of this kit as just "more stuff", and probably try to find another home for it.
