At some point, when I was living in Virginia, I purchased a Nikon F2 Photomic with a motor drive and battery pack from a friend I went to photography school with. Why—because I just had to have it! As I recall, he showed me his Leica M3 he was replacing the F2 with and I drooled (I drool a lot when I'm around Leicas. Maybe I should reconsider getting one or it might get "drool" all over it.
One day, one of my F3's stopped working so after dropping it off at Mora Camera (Washington DC - now closed?), I picked up a black Nikon FM2 with a motor drive to back up the two F3's I had in the event it happened again...and it did...just a few days later, my second F3 had the same problem. Something was wrong with the electronics. Both of them were in the shop with electrical problems. Lucky I had the FM2. I was working for a multi-image slide house at the time and had several shoot pop up on a regular basis.
These cameras (both Nikno F3 HP's, F2 and FM2) have been used to photograph personalities when I worked for the Pottstown Mercury, they sat in the rain, and have been used to photographed many sports car races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans (twice). I still have all four cameras and they are now proudly displayed on a shelf in my home office that is known as THE MUSEUM OF OUTDATED PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY... tickets please.
One day, one of my F3's stopped working so after dropping it off at Mora Camera (Washington DC - now closed?), I picked up a black Nikon FM2 with a motor drive to back up the two F3's I had in the event it happened again...and it did...just a few days later, my second F3 had the same problem. Something was wrong with the electronics. Both of them were in the shop with electrical problems. Lucky I had the FM2. I was working for a multi-image slide house at the time and had several shoot pop up on a regular basis.
These cameras (both Nikno F3 HP's, F2 and FM2) have been used to photograph personalities when I worked for the Pottstown Mercury, they sat in the rain, and have been used to photographed many sports car races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans (twice). I still have all four cameras and they are now proudly displayed on a shelf in my home office that is known as THE MUSEUM OF OUTDATED PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY... tickets please.
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