Description
The Nikon F3 is a professional single-lens reflex manual focus camera with shutter speed operating from 8s to 1/2000 sec. The camera able to shoot higher speed films during the day without an ND filter.
Like all the top-line F cameras that either preceded or followed, the F3 features precise frame coverage, and the finder shows virtually 100% of the image that is recorded on the film. In 1982 Nikon introduction the High Eyepoint “HP” finder (DE-3), which allowed even eyeglass wearers a clear view of the entire frame.
Because the meter was in the body, not the finder, the photographer enjoyed the use of the F3’s TTL meter regardless of which viewfinder was mounted, whether eye-level (DE-2), eye-level HP (DE-3) waist-level (DW-3), sport (DA-2), or high-magnification (DW-4). A right-angle viewing attachment (DR-3) and an Eyepiece Magnifier (DG-2) were also available.
The F3 was the first camera in the Nikon F series to locate the meter in the body of the camera, not the prism. Older Nikons featured 60/40 center-weighted metering, as does the more recent FM3a. The F3 features 80/20 highly center-weighted metering, with 80 percent of the meter’s sensitivity concentrated in the well-marked central 12mm circle and 20 percent spread out over the rest of the frame. The camera uses an ingenious two mirror system to measure the light TTL and on optical axis for absolute accuracy.
In standard TTL operation, the ISO range of the F3’s meter is from ISO 12 to ISO 6400, and the metering range is from EV 1 to EV18, approximately F1.4 at 1 full second to F11 at 1/2000 second with ISO 100 Film.
This camera offers interchangeable lenses with the Nikon bayonet mount.
35mm Film camera Nikon F3 comes with Nikkor 135mm f/2.8 Ai lens.
