{"id":18139,"date":"2016-12-10T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2016-12-10T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:35:48","slug":"nikon-f5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=18139","title":{"rendered":"Nikon F5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everything in the world of film happens at a little bit of a slower pace and so this is my response to the release of the Nikon D5 DSLR.\u00a0 Twenty\u00a0years ago in 1996 the F5 was the state of the art in SLR’s and I imagine that the D5 is intended to hold the same place within modern\u00a0DSLR’s. Both were released to coincide with Summer Olympics.\u00a0 There are many technological elements from the F5 that a photographer would find are familiar today.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be fun to do a little comparison of the features of each camera that can be matched up.<\/p>\n

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Beyond these it can get a little silly to continue the comparison as so many of the advancements are related to digital capture.\u00a0 The most obvious being the fact that the D5 shoots video.<\/p>\n

The point of even starting the comparison though is to illustrate just how advanced the F5 was as a film camera and if you compare it against\u00a0its first Digital camera competitors it holds up even better.<\/p>\n

One thing about one camera: <\/strong>While you can rewind the film in a Nikon F5 by hand with the little crank it offered a power rewind through a sequence of\u00a0procedures that feels more like the opening of a secret passage way leading to treasure.\u00a0 First open the\u00a0cryptic film rewind cover then press the mystical \u00a0button hidden within.\u00a0 Next turn the mysterious film rewind lever counter clockwise while pressing the secret lock release.\u00a0 Then and only then will the treasure be reveled or the film will rewind in a\u00a0matter of\u00a0seconds.<\/p>\n

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