At a glance
£200-300 body only, used
High-quality 35mm film SLR
Uses Nikon F-mount autofocus lenses
Similar form factor to Nikon DSLRs
3D Matrix metering
Robust alloy chassis
Excellent viewfinder
If you became interested in photography at any point in the past 20 years, the chances are that your initial experience was a digital one. The rate of camera development in that period has been truly impressive, and the digital path to imaging is well established as the mainstream technology.
Increasingly, however, folk are looking again at analogue techniques – silver-based imaging – as a true alternative to stand alongside digital photography. It’s a route which allows the photographer a lot of individual creativity, as well as being a huge amount of fun, but inevitably you’ll need to buy additional kit in order to explore it. If you are an existing Nikon DSLR user, a very good candidate is the Nikon F100 film SLR, as it can use many of the Nikkor F-mount lenses that you already have in your bag.
The Nikon F100 is a finalgeneration film camera. Produced between 1999 and 2006, it shared space in the Nikon range with the decidedly retro-styled FM3A film camera (2001-2006) and the first professional digital models such as the innovative D1 (1999-2001). As a result of its development in this period of crossover for the industry, the F100 benefited from both the last refinements of the film era and some of the new thinking that digital brought about. This results in a camera whose operation and layout will be immediately familiar to DSLR users.
Layout and handling
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