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mistermejia said:
mistermejia said:
Hello there! The person that originally offered me the F5 put batteries to test it because i asked him to do that for me, he told me that the camera is "DEAD" it does not power up AT ALL.

Do any of you previous or currect F5 owners know what the problem might be, have any of you had this experience or have heard what the problem is and what the fix could be. I will appreciate your experties :)
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i was just reading about how this camera records EXIF exposure data INTERNALLY, i was just wondering, would this have anything to do with the camera not turning ON? Is there a way that when the camera's memory or buffer gets completely FILLED with this exif exposure date, could that be why the F5 wont turn on at all?? Anyone's input on this?
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I have been searching and searching and finally came across an explanation that the F5 does not like just ANY type of batteries, and when some people have installed a FRESH set of AA batts the camera still does not power up, has anybody else experienced this same issue? Do any of you had/have to buy SPECIAL AA batteries for this camera?
 
It may be the battery holder at fault I have found over the years that contacts on battery packs for various items will develop small undetectable amounts of corrosion , try rolling the batteries around in the holder this rubs the contacts of battery and holder together removing some of this corrosion. if the surface of the contacts looks dull you can see the corrosion ,try removing it with a sharp instrument, this problem is why some battery holders have gold plated contacts.
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The F5 is the best 35mm film body I have ... although its MH30 battery died with very little use ... If not in use, the rolls must be on your fridge, when you pick the rolls must wait a bit to open the box, on grounds of condensation ... Everything is born, lives and dies, even the sun :(
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cosmicnode said:
It may be the battery holder at fault I have found over the years that contacts on battery packs for various items will develop small undetectable amounts of corrosion , try rolling the batteries around in the holder this rubs the contacts of battery and holder together removing some of this corrosion. if the surface of the contacts looks dull you can see the corrosion ,try removing it with a sharp instrument, this problem is why some battery holders have gold plated contacts.
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Thanks, this is a good tip. I am getting my F5 today from the guy that is selling it to me for $40 dollars, the camera does not power up but i am sure i can make it work, i am not going to miss this opportunity to enter into the FILM world before i die, with a F5 :)
 
my only problem is that I wish I had 2 of them so I could have 2 different film loaded; one b/w, one color. I've even started developing my own film which I never did before.

by far, my absolute favorite is velvia 50. it rules hard.





but it is expensive to process.

I was completely disappointing with kodak 160 portra (which I loved on MF), but it came out wicked grainy and looked worse than dime store, unrefrigerated 8year expired film.



the best thing about 35mm pharmacy film is that I find that stuff around all over the place from years past.. still works with only minor color shifts





I don't remember what this one was











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That is the only real problem I have had with the camera. I some times get it saying "end" when the roll still has a bunch to go.

when that happens, I either change the batteries or turn the camera on/off and fiddle with the winder. Sometimes I have to do it from exposure 21 to 36 which sucks.

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35mm film camera you can get if you want speed, durability, precision. that is, if it's in good condition. Maybe the F6, its successor, is a bit better, but I've never tried one, and it's a lot more expensive.

If you are ready for a camera that big and heavy for 'only' 5 focus points (but lighting fast AF) you can't really get better on mettering, overall reliability and robustness. Ergonomically it's also near excellent. My only complaints about the F5 are the lack of front/rear dials in the vertical grip and the not so luminous AF points in darker conditions (the F100 is better in this latter point).

I also own the D200 and I can tell you that, although the F5 (a 1996 camera!) has only 5 AF points, it runs circles around the D200. It makes me think that sometimes we get fooled by the big brands, in believing that the latter tech is always better.
 
O5iris said:
35mm film camera you can get if you want speed, durability, precision. that is, if it's in good condition. Maybe the F6, its successor, is a bit better, but I've never tried one, and it's a lot more expensive.

If you are ready for a camera that big and heavy for 'only' 5 focus points (but lighting fast AF) you can't really get better on mettering, overall reliability and robustness. Ergonomically it's also near excellent. My only complaints about the F5 are the lack of front/rear dials in the vertical grip and the not so luminous AF points in darker conditions (the F100 is better in this latter point).

I also own the D200 and I can tell you that, although the F5 (a 1996 camera!) has only 5 AF points, it runs circles around the D200. It makes me think that sometimes we get fooled by the big brands, in believing that the latter tech is always better.
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revaaron, those are GORGEOUS photos to me! What lens did you use for those shots, do you know?

O5iris, it is called MARKETTING. I mean, the F5 is compared to the D700 or so, and i am getting one for $40 bucks. The funny thing is that Nikon came out with a 50th aniversary F5 for about $1K i think, not sure. If companies don't sell stuff CONTINUOUSLY then they would stop to exist, that is why they have to keep inventing new stuff and make "attractive" for us to buy it, and yes, Digital is pretty cool, but is very sad that film was left behind.
 
I don't know in other countries, but here I paid 496,500 Pts. for the Nikon F5 body &

83,500 Pts. for its MH30 + MN30 quick charger, that is 580.000 Pts. (before Euro, now should be 3,486 € @ this moment 4,245 $ what I paid on 1997) after, the 50th anniversary (same body with golden colors) costed much more and it was near impossible to achieve.
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... The funny thing is that Nikon came out with a 50th aniversary F5 for about $1K i think, not sure. If companies don't sell stuff CONTINUOUSLY then they would stop to exist, that is why they have to keep inventing new stuff and make "attractive" for us to buy it, and yes, Digital is pretty cool, but is very sad that film was left behind.
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YOU ARE GETTING AN F5 FOR $40?!?! I WANT IT!

Got mine actually about a year ago and it was $300? I think. Maybe $315 with s/h from KEH. I need a second 35mm body. please advise where to get one for $40.

for those pictures, I used 24-70mm or 85mm f/1.4
hard to tell, but I think most of them were the 24-70.
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revaaron said:
YOU ARE GETTING AN F5 FOR $40?!?! I WANT IT!

Got mine actually about a year ago and it was $300? I think. Maybe $315 with s/h from KEH. I need a second 35mm body. please advise where to get one for $40.

for those pictures, I used 24-70mm or 85mm f/1.4
hard to tell, but I think most of them were the 24-70.
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Yeah man!!! i just came back from picking up my new F5, the camera is BRAND NEW, no scratches or anything. The reason why it wasn't turning on was because it wasn't making good contact all the way inside the two top metal contacts inside the compartment, when i got it i installed the batteries and inserted the batteries and it did NOT turn on, then what i did is took it out again and kind of slam it in just a bit (NOT HARD) and the damm thing worked, it turned ON.

I cannot believe it, i got it for $40 bucks!!!!!! I am about to faint, i am in shock.

The guy gave it to me with a bunch of filters, polarized i think, a nice bag, and a external flash MODEL SB28-DX, brand new too and also with a 35-80 AF nikkor lens, is not a pro lens but still. I am in shock man!!! Like Favio says, "i can't believe is not butter!!"

The person that sold it to me is actually just a teenager, about 17, 18 years old. The guy didn't really care about what he was doing and he could have tried fixing it himself, pretty sad actually, he could have made at least, AT LEAST $350 to $400 with all this stuff he gave me, the camera looks brand new. Unbelievable!

Guys, please take the time with your kids, give them QUALITY time and lots of LOVE, and teach them not to be this ignorant and CARELESS children, they will loose a lot in life with that kind of attitude when they grow up :)
 
Robin Casady said:
If you are going to seriously shoot film, consider picking up some medium format camera and lenses.

If you are mostly interested in Black & White, get a stainless steel film developing tank and reel to do it yourself. You need a pitch dark room to load the tank, or a changing bag. The rest can be done in a bathroom. Then have the film scanned.
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--I 'll back this up... a Pentacon 6 or a (same mount) Arax 88cm can give you access to some SUPERB CZJ (Carl Zeiss Jena) glass, that in the future (when you advance on a Contax 645 or the lesser Mamiya645AFD), will be still useful, even with a film/MFDB combination... some of these lenses will work with superb results in your Nikon DSLR via $20 very sturdy adapters... The only reason to go for an F5 (or an F100) is the compatibility with G series lenses... if you don't mind that (and insist on 35mm) you are better off with an F3.... A S/H Jobo CPE-2 can make C-41 film development as easy as B&W... chemicals (for all B&W, C-41 and E-6) can be cheaply obtained by "Tetenal" ..."Rodinal" for B&W is a "world standard"... With a good film scanner (I use Nikon 9000ED, extract 16X RAWs and then develop in ACR) you may not want to come back to digital... at least not for the "serious" staff... well, that is unless you eventually get hold of a D800E or a MFDB and then you may consider a "hybrid photo life" but with much better digital skills... due to the huge knowledge that film will feed you with...

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mistermejia said:
revaaron said:
YOU ARE GETTING AN F5 FOR $40?!?! I WANT IT!

Got mine actually about a year ago and it was $300? I think. Maybe $315 with s/h from KEH. I need a second 35mm body. please advise where to get one for $40.

for those pictures, I used 24-70mm or 85mm f/1.4
hard to tell, but I think most of them were the 24-70.
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Yeah man!!! i just came back from picking up my new F5, the camera is BRAND NEW, no scratches or anything. The reason why it wasn't turning on was because it wasn't making good contact all the way inside the two top metal contacts inside the compartment, when i got it i installed the batteries and inserted the batteries and it did NOT turn on, then what i did is took it out again and kind of slam it in just a bit (NOT HARD) and the damm thing worked, it turned ON.

I cannot believe it, i got it for $40 bucks!!!!!! I am about to faint, i am in shock.

The guy gave it to me with a bunch of filters, polarized i think, a nice bag, and a external flash MODEL SB28-DX, brand new too and also with a 35-80 AF nikkor lens, is not a pro lens but still. I am in shock man!!! Like Favio says, "i can't believe is not butter!!"

The person that sold it to me is actually just a teenager, about 17, 18 years old. The guy didn't really care about what he was doing and he could have tried fixing it himself, pretty sad actually, he could have made at least, AT LEAST $350 to $400 with all this stuff he gave me, the camera looks brand new. Unbelievable!

Guys, please take the time with your kids, give them QUALITY time and lots of LOVE, and teach them not to be this ignorant and CARELESS children, they will loose a lot in life with that kind of attitude when they grow up :)
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The SB28-DX alone sells for about $175 on eBay. The cheap lens about $50-75 or more. You should be ashamed of yourself! :)

Even if you pay $15 per roll of 36 exposure film, including developing, think how many rolls it will take to rack up $2,000 (which is the going rate for a D700). Factor in the $500-600 you saved on the F5 and the flash and lens.
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I'd probably give him an extra $50, personally I don't feel right when I get a deal like that from someone who's so unsuspecting...
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herbymel said:
I'd probably give him an extra $50, personally I don't feel right when I get a deal like that from someone who's so unsuspecting...
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yes, i know but remember that the camera was not working at all, and i had no idea how much i was going to end up paying for a major repair, although Nikon did tell me that the most i would pay on this camera was $275 tops. But from what i have read in other forums i was suspecting a bad connection somewhere or incorrect batteries.
 
After having used several F series Nikons I got an F5! Soon I changed it for a F100 I still have which was much better in several points! One of them, not a minor 1, the F100 has the brightest finder EVER of ANY Nikon SLR!
I still use mine for film, together with my Digital Nikons...
And it's much lighter than the F5!
Only Minus, cannot change viewfinders....
O5iris said:
35mm film camera you can get if you want speed, durability, precision. that is, if it's in good condition. Maybe the F6, its successor, is a bit better, but I've never tried one, and it's a lot more expensive.

If you are ready for a camera that big and heavy for 'only' 5 focus points (but lighting fast AF) you can't really get better on mettering, overall reliability and robustness. Ergonomically it's also near excellent. My only complaints about the F5 are the lack of front/rear dials in the vertical grip and the not so luminous AF points in darker conditions (the F100 is better in this latter point).

I also own the D200 and I can tell you that, although the F5 (a 1996 camera!) has only 5 AF points, it runs circles around the D200. It makes me think that sometimes we get fooled by the big brands, in believing that the latter tech is always better.
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mistermejia said:
he told me that the camera is "DEAD" it does not power up AT ALL.
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If any of the 8 batteries are in the wrong way round the camera may not power up.
If one of the batteries is defective the camera will not power up.

If the battery chamber is corroded from a leaking battery replacement chambers used to be easy to find.

It is up to the seller to get the camera to work - and it normally does work with good batteries :)
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