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