Apologies for the delay to this week's post, I've been too busy, out and about taking photos to do any writing this week!
This is a real favourite of mine and an absolute classic, ladies and gentlemen I present you with the legendary Nikon F3!
Without a doubt this is one of Nikon's finest pro cameras, continuing in production even after Nikon introduced both the autofocus F4 and the fiendishly complicated F5. The F3 by contrast, is manual focus and has just two exposure modes, manual and aperture-priority automatic.
The F3 is part of a system that includes interchangeable focusing screens, viewfinders (mine having the HP, high-eyepoint finder, more suitable for those of us who wear glasses), bulk film and data backs and the high-speed (for the 1980s at least) 5.5 frames per second MD-4 motordrive. So far I've resisted the heavyweight addition of the motordrive but a couple of focusing screens have made their way into my bag along with the DW-3 Waist Level Finder.
I haven't used my F3 for a while but seeing Sean Penn using what appeared to be an F3/T ('T' for 'Titanium') in the 2013 Ben Stiller film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty last week I thought I'd give it an airing!