Look what $160 can buy in the summer of 2007!
I can say no more, so don't ask.
I can say no more, so don't ask.
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NIKON KIU |
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Posts: 2167 (07/12/2007 02:19 PM) |
This belongs to "Bargain of the week" thread
 Is the Shutter cloth? Kiu |
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Posts: 170 (07/12/2007 05:10 PM) |
Fred
Wasn't that a surprise. Someone was asleep at the wheel cheers douglas/dugwerks |
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Posts: 154 (07/12/2007 06:26 PM) |
Congratulations Fred....quite a find, that's for sure!! It has to have the cloth shutter being such a low number. I read somewhere that the first 60-70 had cloth shutters. I've always wondered why Nippon Kogaku, with their experience with titanium shutters (SP and
S-3) resorted back to the cloth shutter with the introduction of the "F"? A bit of a retro-grade step. Perhaps the original blue-print drawings....2 years earlier...for the "F" supported that camera with a cloth shutter. Any other thoughts? Also, did your 6400031 come with a standard 5cm/f2.0 Nikkor-S. If so, what is the serial #? Cheers, Mike PS- And I thought my #362 was early.....! |
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NIKON KIU |
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Posts: 2167 (07/12/2007 06:35 PM) |
I am sure Fred would have said more if it was his...I have a feeling it is not!
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Posts: 322 (07/13/2007 07:53 AM) |
Mike: The SP and the S3 did not gain titanium shutters until after the release of the Nikon F. So it was not a backward step for NK to use cloth shutters in the very first Nikon Fs. I am not sure when the S3 got the titanium shutter, although all the "Olympic" S3s came with Titanium. I believe the SP got the Titanium shutter in August 1959, or thereabouts. WES
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Posts: 154 (07/13/2007 09:47 AM) |
Thanks for the clarification Wes. Interesting....
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Posts: 2138 (07/14/2007 05:45 PM) |
My understanding, Wes, was that only about the first 100 cameras had a cloth shutter, and were shipped that way so that the camera could be reviewed before
release. I know for sure it was not over 1000 since I have had Nikons in that range with titan.
Cameras in stores should have had titanium shutters right from the start? |
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Posts: 322 (07/16/2007 02:42 PM) |
Sorry if someone thought I was saying that so many Nikon Fs had cloth shutters. I thought only a couple of dozen had cloth shutters. Your explanation sounds
reasonable. WES
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Posts: 2138 (07/16/2007 03:15 PM) |
Al Brody brought an early F to the convention in New York City, but I don't remember its exact number, maybe someone does? For some reason I thought it was
near 100.
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Posts: 170 (07/16/2007 08:55 PM) |
6400019 if my minds eye sees it correctly.
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Posts: 159 (07/21/2007 04:53 PM) |
And the earliest known collected /documented Nikon F serial number is? Please and thank you. |
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Posts: 64 (07/23/2007 10:36 PM) |
The earliest 'confirmed and photographed' F I know of is #6400008. I also know of #6400012 in an American collection. |
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Posts: 2167 (08/03/2007 02:06 AM) |
It is "improper" for the "Nikon Historical Society's" Webmaster to start such threads!!
What do you mean "Eat your hearts out"? YOU didn't eat your heart!! YOU didn't even buy it!!! I did NOT eat my heart!! would have if it was 609609!!! Kiu |
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Posts: 2167 (08/03/2007 10:25 AM) |
You guys are sooooo serious!
I was kidding
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Posts: 2138 (08/03/2007 10:50 AM) |
Kiu did you just get back from a vacation?
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