JUST LIKE A JEWEL There are some of the cameras you feel fantastic and the others don' t. It is not necessarily mean that an expensive camera looks fantastic. It can be also said that the ones do not look fantastic are not bad. What kind of camera is fantastic? If its design is unsightly but attractive, it might be fantastic. A camera something different which is strange designed or bad from the point of human engineering can be. A camera which reminds you of the nostalgia of old days, an eye-catching one in a catalogue or an advertisement of second-hand cameras, the one which often appears in a photogravure of the advertisement of used camera magazine, and a camera which moves us at the sight without specific reason, and so on, can be. They have nothing to do with the world in which scarcity value effects the market price of the used camera and in which its price shots up to ten times according to only one character or mark printed on its like an Anniversary camera or an Army camera. When you get Nikon F for the first time, immediately you will want to take a photo using it because of its attractive mobility.Even if you use Nikon Ai lens of which focusing barrel made of rubber at first, gradually you know that a metalic focusing barrel lens at '50s and '60s is more well balanced than the former in every point, e.g. its looking and the touch of operating it. Because early chrome Nikon F is well mached with chrome barrel lens.This might be the reason why there were deep consideration regarding the design of Nikon F when it was at the beginning on sale. For the time being, you will recognize that a chrome filter of the first production shows the chrome barrel most beautifully. It is regretful, however, that we hardly see this chrome UV filter of genuine Nikon parts now. Needless to say, the photos taken by current multicoated filter come out well. But when we talk about a camera for personal use, we can not enjoy it without being captivated by it. Does it mean that the camera is only for our self-satisfaction after all?! For someone with no interest in the camera, it has only scrap value. But for an enthusiast, it is like a jewel. Toshi
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