Don't forget speed shutter from F4 is 1/8000s which is a huge gap (Only 1/2000s on the F3). And the matrix metering then you don't stick with the spot metering anymore. I have the Voightlander 40mm Ultron and works electronically perfect with the F4 with Aperture mode. Plus, 100% magnification viewfinder, and F4 is compatible with all lenses from pre AI to the lasts. I have F2 and F4, they are the best Flagship for me.
This man seems like a living legend! I use Nikon SLRs and love them, but my wife uses Leica R. So if you’ve got time, you could make an episode about those as well!
What a wonderful gentleman Mr. Woo is and it is great that he is comfortable allowing you to do short videos of him to talk about Nikon products as well as other brands.Tell him he has a fan in South Carolina U.S.A. and I wish him well. Thanks John. - Jeff
I came across your channel a few days ago. To me, this is the best type of videos on photography. Much respect to both of you. Very interesting, I could watch a 2, 3 hour version of this! :)
Great interview, again. My first Nikon ( not my first camera) was a used Nikon F4s with the data back. The gentleman I purchased it from was moving to Olympus. Please ask Mr. Woo how he removed the focusing screen/viewfinder without the spring contacts coming apart. 🙂
Wow you guys are on a roll! That was great. I look forward to the F6 review when you guys get your hands on one. p.s. yes more Exakta! And I never knew about the Exakta shaving blades haha!
Thank Mr Woo for the run down on the Nikon F series. See how happy Mr Woo is! He knows and I know these are great times today with everyone in the digital megapixel mirrorless craze. Just Imagine you can get a set of these wonderful Nikon F series and lenses cameras for the price of a mirroless camera and lens. Plus a 100 rolls of film to boot. And if you shoot on a tripod you may get up to 40M pixels. Yeah, you have to see wait to see what you took but with all the fancy metering in these cameras you won't be disappointed! Plus in 10 years they won't depreciate to nothing😊
Daniel Milnor was a photojournalist at the time of the F4, but the F4 had problems with the first series. The EOS 1 appeared about the same time and everyone who had problems with the F4 was changing to EOS 1 he says (in fact he did himself. He recently bought a Zf though).
As a self confessed Nikon fanboy, I absolutely loved Mr Woo stepping us through the range of Nikon professional film bodies. One correction though, the Nikon F never made it to the moon. It was used in Skylab in the 1970s though. Keep up the great work!
I would suggest capitalising on the calm, nostalgic feeling of a master/grandfather sharing wisdom with his pupils/grandchildren...in camera work as well as voice recording. Then, after you're satisfied that the atmosphere feels right, see if one of the Unintentional ASMR channels might be interested. Just a suggestion.
I used the Nikon F, F2, F3, and F4. I bought my first F in the late 1960s. In 1972, I replaced my two Nikon F SLRs with two Nikon F2 SLRs. Later, I purchased two titanium F2 bodies. I used an F3 for a short period of time but decided to stick with the F2. When collectors made the price of titanium F2 bodies to skyrocket, I sold my two titanium bodies, bought two F4 bodies, and pocketed the profit. Today, I still use three F2 bodies and two F4 bodies. I also use the EM, N70, and N2000 as disposable backups. I would have bought the F5 if I had needed one. I would not have purchased the F6 because I needed interchangeable viewfinders on my flagship Nikons.
Thank you Mr Woo! My first ‘proper’ camera was a Nikon FM way back in the 1990s, at the insistence of my grandfather who was an F3-toting news/press photographer until he retired in 1991. I always wanted an F4, but for the longest time they were too expensive, even when the F5 came out. I now finally have one, they’re very cheap these days compared to the F3 and F2. To add some nuance to the whole autofocus debate - the F4’s AF performance actually is pretty good, at least with standard to short tele lenses. It was definitely the most capable system in 1988… the first gen EOS cameras (EOS650, 620 and 600) while fast in their lens focus operation struggle in low contrast and lower light situations to actually find focus. Shooting inside and even with some landscape situations I find my F4 much snappier and confident than my EOS620. Of course a year later the EOS-1 came out with a much improved AF sensitivity and the better build quality than pros demanded… not quite as brick-like as the F4 but good enough. What really killed Nikon in the pro market from here on in was dragging their heels on updating their lenses to autofocus variants, thinking uptake of autofocus by working photographers would be a relatively gradual and slow process like it had been with other technologies. That was a bad move, of course. Canon went all in, made sure they had all the pro options covered by the time the EOS-1 hit the market, especially the fast super telephotos which of course benefitted greatly from the motor-in-lens design. By the time Nikon responded with the F5 and AFS lenses, it was too late. Worth bearing in mind that Canon was/is a much bigger company, with a far greater manufacturing capability, both within and beyond photography/imaging, which was why they could take the gamble to start afresh with an entire new mount. Something Nikon could never do.
If you have an F6, NEVER sell it. It's a charm to use. I never bought new, but after searching for a long time, found a mint condition used one. Once the film cameras went out, the price dropped, but now I am seeing the prices stay steady.
Excellent and fun review from Mr Woo. Of all the Nikon F series does he have a favourite? Can you ask about a discussion on what many regard as the best ever Nikon film camera - the Nikon Fm3a.
Thought of an interesting topic for Mr. Woo. Starting in the late 40's but not popular until I would say the late 50's to mid 60's were the half frame cameras that could get 72 images from a 36 exposure roll of film since you got (2) 18 x 24mm images per negative. Leica developed a 1/2 frame camera in the late 40's called the Leica 72 and of course many vintage camera owners think of the Olympus Pen 1/2 frame Camera from 1959 as the major player in this market. Nikon themselves modified 35mm full frame rangefinder cameras via the model S3M in 1960. I myself purchased a 35mm SLR Konica Autorex that could switch over from full Frame 35mm images to 1/2 Frame images via a selector switch on the body. It would be interesting to hear his insight on this brief period of camera history where 1/2 frame cameras had a presence and his opinion on why this occurred and why Nikon jumped on-board. - Jeff
My first Nikon was the F2 I bought in 1977, then the F3. I've lost count of how many I've had since then. Now, I'm pretty much totally digital...Nikons, of course!
Enjoying this series... I was a fan of Minolta cameras of the 70s and 80s as well, and they had a close tie in with Leica for a time too. Wondering if a Minolta video could be produced? Cheers.
Nikon F4 is well known to have slower AF than its competitions, this is where Canon overtook it's position. As usual, Nikon strike back w/F5. However, history repeated again in D3, D300, D700 series. Again in recent time, Nikon took it's stride on its transition to Mirrorless & finally resigned to its fate that they are content to play high-end segment than taking down Canon. The Zf, Z8 & Z9 are widely regard as almost equal to the best Sony & Canon have - so the moral of story. As a system, do not be too eager to jump brand just because some features are not ready yet. Nikon usually put the kitchen sink when it feel likes it wanna compete.
Canon upset a lot of people with the change from FD to EOS mount, but it was a calculated risk because fewer professionals owned Canon cameras. Because Nikon AF performance was so mediocre, the joke of the day was the F4 was Nikon's "best ever manual focus camera". In fact there is some truth in this because the F4 was the last professional Nikon that accepted all previous lenses, including the earliest non-AI version.
@@borderlands6606 yes. F5 no longer support pre-AI but works well with modern len. While Nikon lost a huge chunk to news media, Nikon also gained acceptance into NASA space program even today.
This series is a treat to photographers and camera lovers. Specially old school film photographers. Keep it coming!
Got lots more in fact tons more
Don't forget speed shutter from F4 is 1/8000s which is a huge gap (Only 1/2000s on the F3). And the matrix metering then you don't stick with the spot metering anymore. I have the Voightlander 40mm Ultron and works electronically perfect with the F4 with Aperture mode.
Plus, 100% magnification viewfinder, and F4 is compatible with all lenses from pre AI to the lasts.
I have F2 and F4, they are the best Flagship for me.
Only a real pro explains like this. Great video
This man seems like a living legend!
I use Nikon SLRs and love them, but my wife uses Leica R. So if you’ve got time, you could make an episode about those as well!
Sure no problem Mr woo is an expert on Leica R
What a wonderful gentleman Mr. Woo is and it is great that he is comfortable allowing you to do short videos of him to talk about Nikon products as well as other brands.Tell him he has a fan in South Carolina U.S.A. and I wish him well. Thanks John. - Jeff
I’d love to get him on your live stream but he’s involved with his church every Sunday morning
I came across your channel a few days ago. To me, this is the best type of videos on photography. Much respect to both of you. Very interesting, I could watch a 2, 3 hour version of this! :)
Awesome, thank you!
Great interview, again. My first Nikon ( not my first camera) was a used Nikon F4s with the data back. The gentleman I purchased it from was moving to Olympus. Please ask Mr. Woo how he removed the focusing screen/viewfinder without the spring contacts coming apart. 🙂
Lots of info and history from Mr Woo on these older cameras.
Great memories! I used to have Nikon F3 and F4 for many years during my travels! I just bought the new Nikon Zf!
Congratulations you’ll love it pair it with a 105mm 2.5 it’s killer
I already got a Nikkor Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR and a 50 mm Z MC f/2.8 @@Photojouralist123
Thank you Mr. Woo for sharing your knowledge. I learned a lot from that video.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow you guys are on a roll! That was great. I look forward to the F6 review when you guys get your hands on one. p.s. yes more Exakta! And I never knew about the Exakta shaving blades haha!
His collection is epic, and that's only what he showed you.
Thank Mr Woo for the run down on the Nikon F series. See how happy Mr Woo is! He knows and I know these are great times today with everyone in the digital megapixel mirrorless craze. Just Imagine you can get a set of these wonderful Nikon F series and lenses cameras for the price of a mirroless camera and lens. Plus a 100 rolls of film to boot. And if you shoot on a tripod you may get up to 40M pixels. Yeah, you have to see wait to see what you took but with all the fancy metering in these cameras you won't be disappointed! Plus in 10 years they won't depreciate to nothing😊
Daniel Milnor was a photojournalist at the time of the F4, but the F4 had problems with the first series. The EOS 1 appeared about the same time and everyone who had problems with the F4 was changing to EOS 1 he says (in fact he did himself. He recently bought a Zf though).
Nice interview!
This is amazing!!! Please keep all that knowledge online. Mr Woo needs his own channel.
Excellent as always. Cheers!
Another fantastic video, thank you guys!📸
Got more on the way
@@Photojouralist123 Can't wait👍
As a self confessed Nikon fanboy, I absolutely loved Mr Woo stepping us through the range of Nikon professional film bodies. One correction though, the Nikon F never made it to the moon. It was used in Skylab in the 1970s though. Keep up the great work!
Thank you John and Mr Woo for sharing this video, I had a fun and geeky moment watching him talk. Always wonder why he always sit at YL, now I know!
Really enjoy this series.
I would love to see Mr Woo and Mr Chan from Champagne Court together in the same room.
Now that would be interesting and fun.
youre missing the last one!! Nikon F6
I own the F3 and F6 and absolutely love them!
Love this video !
I would suggest capitalising on the calm, nostalgic feeling of a master/grandfather sharing wisdom with his pupils/grandchildren...in camera work as well as voice recording. Then, after you're satisfied that the atmosphere feels right, see if one of the Unintentional ASMR channels might be interested. Just a suggestion.
Very interested in consumer versions too, the f/n70 quirky one!
I used the Nikon F, F2, F3, and F4.
I bought my first F in the late 1960s.
In 1972, I replaced my two Nikon F SLRs with two Nikon F2 SLRs. Later, I purchased two titanium F2 bodies.
I used an F3 for a short period of time but decided to stick with the F2.
When collectors made the price of titanium F2 bodies to skyrocket, I sold my two titanium bodies, bought two F4 bodies, and pocketed the profit.
Today, I still use three F2 bodies and two F4 bodies.
I also use the EM, N70, and N2000 as disposable backups.
I would have bought the F5 if I had needed one.
I would not have purchased the F6 because I needed interchangeable viewfinders on my flagship Nikons.
Thank you Mr Woo! My first ‘proper’ camera was a Nikon FM way back in the 1990s, at the insistence of my grandfather who was an F3-toting news/press photographer until he retired in 1991. I always wanted an F4, but for the longest time they were too expensive, even when the F5 came out. I now finally have one, they’re very cheap these days compared to the F3 and F2. To add some nuance to the whole autofocus debate - the F4’s AF performance actually is pretty good, at least with standard to short tele lenses. It was definitely the most capable system in 1988… the first gen EOS cameras (EOS650, 620 and 600) while fast in their lens focus operation struggle in low contrast and lower light situations to actually find focus. Shooting inside and even with some landscape situations I find my F4 much snappier and confident than my EOS620. Of course a year later the EOS-1 came out with a much improved AF sensitivity and the better build quality than pros demanded… not quite as brick-like as the F4 but good enough. What really killed Nikon in the pro market from here on in was dragging their heels on updating their lenses to autofocus variants, thinking uptake of autofocus by working photographers would be a relatively gradual and slow process like it had been with other technologies. That was a bad move, of course. Canon went all in, made sure they had all the pro options covered by the time the EOS-1 hit the market, especially the fast super telephotos which of course benefitted greatly from the motor-in-lens design. By the time Nikon responded with the F5 and AFS lenses, it was too late. Worth bearing in mind that Canon was/is a much bigger company, with a far greater manufacturing capability, both within and beyond photography/imaging, which was why they could take the gamble to start afresh with an entire new mount. Something Nikon could never do.
If you have an F6, NEVER sell it. It's a charm to use. I never bought new, but after searching for a long time, found a mint condition used one. Once the film cameras went out, the price dropped, but now I am seeing the prices stay steady.
Does Mr Woo own a Noct Nikkor 58mm 1.2 Ais lens? Would love to see that review on that lens since there are hardly any on CZcams
I’ll ask him but I don’t think so
Excellent and fun review from Mr Woo. Of all the Nikon F series does he have a favourite? Can you ask about a discussion on what many regard as the best ever Nikon film camera - the Nikon Fm3a.
I do not know what Mr. Woo's favorite Nikon F series camera is but mine is the Nikon F2 Titanium.
Thought of an interesting topic for Mr. Woo. Starting in the late 40's but not popular until I would say the late 50's to mid 60's were the half frame cameras that could get 72 images from a 36 exposure roll of film since you got (2) 18 x 24mm images per negative. Leica developed a 1/2 frame camera in the late 40's called the Leica 72 and of course many vintage camera owners think of the Olympus Pen 1/2 frame Camera from 1959 as the major player in this market. Nikon themselves modified 35mm full frame rangefinder cameras via the model S3M in 1960. I myself purchased a 35mm SLR Konica Autorex that could switch over from full Frame 35mm images to 1/2 Frame images via a selector switch on the body. It would be interesting to hear his insight on this brief period of camera history where 1/2 frame cameras had a presence and his opinion on why this occurred and why Nikon jumped on-board. - Jeff
Ya good idea let’s do it I’ll ask him
Best video yet - Love those old F camera ... 🦘
My first Nikon was the F2 I bought in 1977, then the F3. I've lost count of how many I've had since then. Now, I'm pretty much totally digital...Nikons, of course!
I was a wire photographer for AP, AFP and if it wasn't for my Nikon's my editor would have had me for lunch
Enjoying this series... I was a fan of Minolta cameras of the 70s and 80s as well, and they had a close tie in with Leica for a time too. Wondering if a Minolta video could be produced? Cheers.
Dennis no problem on the way
Hi John! What camera and lens do you use to record this series?
hahah OMG!! Iphone 15pro Max and Saramonic mic
Nikon F4 is well known to have slower AF than its competitions, this is where Canon overtook it's position. As usual, Nikon strike back w/F5. However, history repeated again in D3, D300, D700 series.
Again in recent time, Nikon took it's stride on its transition to Mirrorless & finally resigned to its fate that they are content to play high-end segment than taking down Canon. The Zf, Z8 & Z9 are widely regard as almost equal to the best Sony & Canon have - so the moral of story. As a system, do not be too eager to jump brand just because some features are not ready yet. Nikon usually put the kitchen sink when it feel likes it wanna compete.
Amen 🙏 brother
Canon upset a lot of people with the change from FD to EOS mount, but it was a calculated risk because fewer professionals owned Canon cameras. Because Nikon AF performance was so mediocre, the joke of the day was the F4 was Nikon's "best ever manual focus camera". In fact there is some truth in this because the F4 was the last professional Nikon that accepted all previous lenses, including the earliest non-AI version.
@@borderlands6606 yes. F5 no longer support pre-AI but works well with modern len.
While Nikon lost a huge chunk to news media, Nikon also gained acceptance into NASA space program even today.
No FA oh dear
I do not have a working one, will do it once I can get hold of one.
Mr. Woo, I shoot with an M3 Leica. You hurt me.
That’s coming up
I would commit absolute ATROCITIES for a Nikon F6...WAR CRIMES!!! 🥴
Unfortunate that the person shooting the video cannot keep it in focus
Video is fine and in focus... thanks John!
@@andre_micallef apparently you need an eye exam
I just got the F4 and the Nikon EL. I'm waiting for my film to develop. The F4 is a machine!
I just got the EL it’s like tank