incident if I'm in the same light as my subject, reflected with correct mental adjustments if I'm not. It's also less obvious to take a reading with a handheld meter, transfer that to the camera at waist level, prefocus a bit, then lift the camera, fine tune focus, frame and shoot. I really like taking a quick incident reading over my head or shoulder, facing the subject. Once I've made my initial reading, I only reset the Digiflash dial occasionally, working mainly with the EV reading changes and camera settings. Your new EV reading stays on the meter display and you can make further adjustments to your camera settings from that. If lighting changes, I look at the EV readout, take a quick new reading and then add/subtract EV to see how many stops to adjust, and then make that adjustment on the camera. The metered EV stays on the Digiflash display indefinitely. Then I set my camera to my preferred f-stop / shutter speed combination. With the Digiflash I take a reading and set the dial to match the metered EV. It would help if you're trying to align the meter with the 90mm frames in a finder. I like keeping my rangefinders compact as well, so I don't have or use a shoe mount. The fact that they keep working after all these years is a testament to what great gear Nikon once made.
And much more has been written about it elsewhere than I could ever write here.Īnyway, enjoy your Nikon S2. Was all of this outright patent violations? Without a doubt. Oh, and just as the US encouraged the Nikon to make C-mount they did a similar thing with Canon which produced camera/lens kits in the early post-war era using the Leica screw-mount system. However, differences in film planes prevent such compatibilty at 85mm and higher focal lengths. Up to 50mm (5.0cm) old Nikon and Contax lenses are compatible and can be mounted on bodies of either manufacturer. In order to "protect" this "system" the US occupying forces in Japan encouraged Nikon to develop a camera using the C-mount, as the S-mount.
After WWII, the Contax facilities wound up on the East German side and the plants were dismantled and moved to the former Soviet Union. This was a version of his R2 that mounted the S-lenses.īTW: The Nikon S-mount is a variation on the German Contax C-mount. Kobyashi, who bought the Voightlander name and combined it with Cosina introduced the R2S. After the popularity of the SLR during the 1960 Tokyo Olympics Nikon began phasing out RF production.
1958) that Nikon "scrunched" a SLR viewfinder onto a S2 body!īTW, lenses b/w the RF and SLR were incompatible due to focal length etc. It "premiered" earlier in the same year (c. The "ultimate" Nikon RF was the SP with a built-in 35/50/85 frame VF. What was key to the Nikon RF was the quality of its lens - particularly the simple 5.0cm/1.4. It's early version was "discovered" by a "Life" magazine PJ who suddenly needed to get to Korea (war started there) and had just purchased one of these Nikons in post-war Japan.
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