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The Nikon F4 Review

J. Ramon Palacios (jrp)


Keywords: nikon, f4, camera, bodies, film

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My Nikon journey started early. First I had a Nikomat FS (1965). Then a Nikkormat FT2 (1975) with integrated meter. Upgrading brought me into the FE2 (1983) and the fun of the MD-12 speed winders. Later, the Nikon N4004s (1989), the N6006 (1990) and then the great N8008s (introduced in 1991). So with my own cameras and my father's 1959 Nikon F I lived the Nikon tradition hands-on. However, even that did not prepare me for the F4.

 

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The magnificent Nikon F4
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I have repeatedly seen and read that the rugged Nikon cameras have long been a preferred tool of pros, for well over forty five years now. The recording of events all over the world and beyond has been done with Nikon bodies and through Nikkor lenses. 

Nikon, omnipresent where something important happens. Hasselblad was with the astronauts into outer space, but so was Nikon; just as it was in the last frontiers of earth, helping to make the everlasting images that probably serve as benchmarks in our lives.

 

So Nikon has helped to make the images1 that have stirred our hearts, our guts and our brains, profoundly contributing to the way we see and feel our world and beyond; long before there were special effects and Adobe Photoshop. 

 

Such tradition and my early on experiences made easy to expect that Nikon's own accumulated experience, plus that of the great photographers that they always seem to listen to, would always produce a new darn good camera. 

Nevertheless, the appearing of the Nikon F4, and soon later, of the F4s and the F4e really caught many of us by surprise. A professional camera with auto focus and manual capabilities like no other before, lending itself to adapt to any photographic situation. 

Another true pro camera in the F tradition, the fourth, with full line lenses compatibility. No wonder it received the European Camera of the Year and the Camera Grand Prix awards in 1989.

In the words of wildlife research photographer B. Moose Peterson: "Of all the Nikon Pro bodies, the F4 is by far the most magical"2, and I was fortunate to finally have one !!!

What follows may explain why, after all these years, it remains a great camera to have and use.

 

Pin of F4, Winner of the Euriopean Camera of the Year ´89-\'90

 
Guide to the Nikon F4 & F3

1 From 1942 to 2001, out of 97 Pulitzer Prizes, counting both Spot News and Feature photography, 57 were won with a Nikon; 10 were for the next closest winning 35mm brand, Leica, most of them with Nikkor lenses; 5 wins with a Canon.   Before 1962, the medium format Speed Graphic cameras dominated the photojournalism scene.

2 Magic Lantern Guide to Nikon F4 and F3, Pro Edition, by B. "Moose "Peterson, Silver Pixel Press, a Tiffen Company, Rochester, N. Y., Third Printing, 1998, page 45. Printed in Germany by Kösel GmbH, Kempten


WHY ALL THE EXCITEMENT?

In the Nikon purist engineering tradition it took a decade to perfect a flagship, but it was finally here, exactly 30 years after the first, the Nikon F (1959->1988).
 

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Nikon F4s with Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4, showing the 6 AA batteries MB-21 speed winder that makes the F4 the F4s, with a vertical grip shutter trigger. .


THE FEELING

Never mind the specs for the time being. As soon as I took the camera in my hands there was this immediate feeling of power, the promise of total delivery. And a so round body. The precise size and contour of the rubberized grip; it seemed made for my hand. The correct placement of the shutter and all of the controls. And so easy to understand and use.

I am one of those persons who opens the box, throws the manual into a corner  -unless it has great pictures-  and goes back for it only if in deep serious trouble. Never got into a jam so I don't even remember where the manual could be. It is a natural, logical system, a redefinition of the term "user-friendly". Much, much better than anything before.

THE ELECTRONICS

Also, never before 1988 a camera had been so loaded with electronics. The F4 has 1,750 parts, 4 coreless motors and batteries. Talk about Nikon engineering. Somehow, just to think that it all fits into this body makes you realize it is not so big after all.

Of course this amazement is easier for me to feel and comprehend since I had the opportunity to meet face to face with ENIAC, the first computer, at the University of Pennsylvania, where it's 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, inductors and mechanical switches occupied all of the basement of the Moore School of Engineering.

his computer was replicated on a single chip less than 3" X 2" in size, on its 50th anniversary in 1996. But the miniaturization and fitting on the F4 took place 8 years before!

 


Wiring a program on the Eniac

 

Without knowing then, this excitement was shared by many enthusiasts and pros.


NOT REALLY THAT HEAVY

A solid rock chassis had to be built to give the F4 strength to its power.
 

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Nikon F4 chassis.
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Taking this camera in your hands can only be compared to handling a Smith & Wesson .44 magnum revolver with molded hand rubber grips. That powerful gun, the Model 29, weights 47 oz. with a 6" barrel, unloaded. At 45 oz., the F4 camera's body weight is the right one, transmits the feeling of power and a sense of certainty of never failing shooting. It delivers and, BTW, I don't remember 'Dirty Harry' ever complaining about the weight of his handgun.

The camera's backbone is a solid aluminum alloy die cast chassis, chosen to give the F4 the strength, rigidity and resistance to corrosion that a pro camera needs; in other words, ruggedness and durability to withstand the worst possible environment and treatment.  The box shaped construction with bridges and the hollowed wall design increases the strength inherent to the materials and it's shock resistance.

Furthermore, with most other cameras before I had to frequently check on the screws; extensive airplane, train and automobile travel eventually makes them loose. The thick wall makes the F4 endure vibration like no other body I ever had, the screws are still in place as when purchased, about a decade ago (I was late).
 

As much as I love it and as much as I care, it is most certain I have given it quite a few bumps, but there is not even a scuff in the body after over a decade of heavy duty use in three continents.
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THE TRUE MEANING OF ERGONOMICS

Human factors engineering. Science dealing with the application of information on physical and psychological characteristics to the design of devices and systems for human use. 
 

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The Nikon F4 with the MB-23 power pack, making it a Nikon F4e,
shown here with the Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4
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Nikon engineers demonstrated what applied advanced ergonomics is all about when producing the F4. Human engineering at work for easier, faster, practical and logical handling.

 

When the camera is gripped, the hand does not have to search for controls like the Auto Exposure Lock or the Autofocus Lock or even the DOF preview button and Mirror Lock. It is all within natural reach.  The same goes for the shutter, exposure compensation and shooting mode. Plus, the eye does not have to leave the viewfinder to change any of the settings.
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THE CONTROLS

The controls on the F4 are very easy to understand even without the manual.
 

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Close view from the top of the Nikon F4s;
motor drive advance mode set at 'S' for single frame,
program mode in 'M' for manual, '0' for no exposure compensation.

 

Very self explanatory, speeds from 4 seconds to 1/8000 of a second and 1/250 sec flash sync; 'B' for Bulb, 'T' for Time (long) exposures, 'X' for 1/125 sec flash sync are possible under Manual and Shutter Priority auto exposure. 
It soon becomes evident, when looking thru the viewfinder, that when the camera is in 'P' (normal Program) or in 'A' (Aperture priority) modes, the shutter operates stepless from 30 seconds to 1/8000 of a second.
 

F4 shutter speed dial

Mirror Lockup lever for critical vibration prone photography. It is there for use with long and/or heavy super telephotos or in microphotography. 

To activate, the DOF preview button is depressed and the lever is turned counterclockwise until it locks up and stops.

 

F4 DOF and Mirror Lock Up

A neat feature is the viewfinder illuminator, it's switch is under the shutter speed dial at the front of the camera. Great to have when it gets dark. It gets activated setting the switch on and lightly pressing the shutter release button. This fully illuminates the viewfinder display. It switches off automatically as the viewfinder display disappears.
 

F4 viewfinder illuminator

The film does not advance when the shutter is released if this lever is pushed out as shown. This allows for two exposures to be made on the same frame. To make more than two exposures, one just has to push it out for each additional exposure since it gets reset automatically after one shot. 

This I specially appreciate since I could very easily forget to reset it.

 
  

F4 multiple=

 

 


THE COMMAND DIALS

So self explanatory and so well placed.

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Nikon F4's DP-20 standard finder. Exposure meter is shown set at "Spot".
Bottom right is the exposure compensation indicator for interchangeable screens.
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A blessing, the diopter adjustment knob (left) allows to see through the viewfinder without eyeglasses, by adjusting the eyepiece within a continuous range from -3 to +1.  Just pull it out, rotate until you see clear sharp images, stop and press the knob back in. It won't move.

The dial on the right sets the exposure meter to "spot", "matrix" (as shown), or "center weighted".

 

F4 DP-20 diopter adjuster and meter

For precise metering, depending on the viewfinder screen used and since the exposure meter is inside, sometimes it is necessary to compensate. 

Adjustments are possible from -2 to +0.5 EV in 0.5 EV steps. 

 

F4 DP-20 exposure compensator

The exposure compensation dial has a range from -2 EV to +2 EV in 1/3 EV increments. 

Settings appear on the viewfinder display so there is no need to remove the eye from the subject to set it or change it.

 

F4 exposure compensation dial

A lever closes a blind to prevent light from entering into the eyepiece and distorting the exposure meter reading. Specially useful when the self timer is applied and light is coming from behind the camera. 

Painted red, it prevents easily distracted photographers like me from thinking after use they have suddenly become blind or that the lens iris diaphragm has frozen closed. I miss this color on the F5 and F6.

 

F4 red eyepiece shutter

 

 


THE SMALL NUANCES

The etymology of 'nuances' is French, of course, from the Middle French, shade of color; from nuer, to make shades of color; from nue, cloud; from the Latin nubes; perhaps akin to the Welsh nudd, mist. 
 

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Nikon F4s with Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4 
lit to show the
subtle 'ridges' in the grip.

 

In English dictionaries, I found 'nuance' registered as far back as 1781. The word takes now several meanings:

  • A subtle distinction or variation
  • A subtle quality: a nicety, a refinement, a distinction
  • The sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling, or value).
The word "nuance" implies "a subtle, delicate degree"; a subtlety used to accentuate, to stress, to make more prominent various design features. Because nuances can really make the difference in feel perception. Maybe the small nuances cannot be recognized immediately but are definitively appreciated. 
 
 
 
 

The Japanese are splendid at subtleties, but Nikon® excels. Some physical examples:

  • Roundness of the entire body, almost sensuous to the touch.
  • Rubberized area of the grip to make it comfortable and hard to slip.
  • A subtle couple of 'ridges' in the grip, for the fingers to perform a firmer grip.
  • Extremely well balanced, whether long and heavy or short lenses are mounted.
  • Perfect fit into the hands.
  • The speed settings click into position and lock (no accidental resetting).
  • Tightly fit gaskets in all controls to further protect against moisture and dust.
  • Buttons distinguishable to the touch, like the AE-L (autoexposure lock) which is convex, and the AF-L (autofocus lock) which is concave. 
  • Viewfinder confirmation of just about everything.
For the body they contracted Giorgetto Giugiaro, the car designer, whose credo is: "Form follows function", and indeed it does.

Giorgetto Giugiaro

All of these nuances become even more subtle because -amazingly- they have never been publicized, at least not extensively.


THE INCREDIBLE SHUTTER

The shutter of the F4 is a technological marvel. An electromagnetically controlled focal plane shutter capable of ultra fast 1/8000th of a second and 1/250th sec flash synchronization.
 

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Taken by Carlos Dias from Portugal, with his constant companion, a Nikon F4s
Picture scanned by himself on a Nikon CoolScan III

 

Built at the Ohi plant (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo), it's dual multi bladed blinds prevent even the slightest of leakages, even in the critical mirror-up shooting.

The materials, high quality and durable, ensure a lifetime of trouble free shooting. Four of the eight blades are made of epoxy resins reinforced with carbon fibers, the other four of a secret -light and durable- aluminum alloy. The use of these light materials allows for fast traveling speeds without having to sacrifice reliability.

A shutter balancer, made of a tungsten alloy, compensates and absorbs the vibration due to the shutter curtain travel. A braking system prevents any shutter bounce.

The minimum reliability accepted for this shutter is 150,000 cycles. I used my F4s for almost 10 years, shoot maybe 15 rolls per month on the average (540 cycles per month), so I have accumulated at the most 64,800 cycles, about 43% of it's rated minimum life. At this rate I could still use it reliably -if I keep the same pace and I am still alive- for no less than another 13 years!.

It's incredible shutter, with innovations such as the above described shutter balancer, hybrid shutter blades, dual curtains for light-shield; plus Infrared (IR) cut filter, vertical-format shooting, and Continuous Silent (CS) mode; made of the F4 indeed the most magical of all.

Sample informal family portrait. 
My dear wife and my son at the time of his college graduation.

Nikon F4s, 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5 AF Zoom Nikkor, TTL flash with SB-25 speedlight.

 

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For today's standards the F4's focusing speed may seem sluggish for some; for the day it was incredible fast, faster than that of the N8008s. And even today it produces amazing results in the hands of pros as shown below:
 

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Nancy Rutherford snowboarding off a ridge in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, taken with a Nikon F4s armed with a Nikkor AF 24mm f/2.8D, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6. Photo by James Kay. To view more of James' adventure sports and fine-art landscape photography, please visit his site at www.jameskay.com. This image was featured on the cover of the Nikon Full Line Product Guide No. 6

 

On the Nikon F4, you set the focusing mode at "C" for continuous focus and the winding speed at "CL" and automatic focus tracking becomes a reality. That is all you have to do. The camera will track the subject for as long as you have the shutter half depressed and the subject is kept inside the brackets in the viewfinder.
 

Even for an amateur like me, with an outdated zoom like the Nikkor 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 AF (now replaced with the splendid 70-300mm f/4-5.6G ED AF-S VR) it is possible to make focus tracking pictures like the one shown at right, provided you also use fast ISO film as in this example, taken on Kodak Gold 400.

The picture shows Captain John Ledingham, of the Irish Showjumping team, at Club Hípico La Silla, in Monterrey Mexico, while competing for the Pulsar Crown a few years back.

 

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The auto focus capabilities of the F4 have been greatly exaggerated as "poor" or "hunting" by users of large aperture zooms. If you pre focus and lock it -or at least use the limit switch- the zoom performs well, not to mention when you mount on it lenses like the Nikkor zoom 20-35mm f/2.8D AF or the 35-70mm f/2.8D AF.
 

Other zoom that in my experience performs well (even when I forget the shade in my room and therefore flares) is the AF 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5, introduced in 1986. (And the 35-105mm is even better).

With it I took hundreds of family pictures like the one at right, which I preset and was actually shot by a passing-by skier.

 

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THE EXPOSURE METERING SYSTEM

As said before, in the Nikon purist engineering tradition it took a decade to perfect a flagship, but it was finally here, exactly 30 years after the first Nikon F (1959-1989).
 

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The author and his son under bright sunlight and harsh shadows in the high mountains of Keystone Colorado. Nikon F4s with Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5, TTL fill flash from a SB-25 on self-timer.
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The DP-20, the standard finder on the F4, not only offers 100% of the picture field and -for the first time- a diopter correction knob, but also performs the metering modes, Matrix, Center-Weighted, and the third, Spot, to cope with any type of lighting situation. Furthermore, the F4 does not require a lens to have a CPU to be able to function in the matrix metering mode, therefore allowing for full use of all pre-AI, AI and AI-S lenses, and of course those that have a CPU. To do this, it has 4 integrated circuits including a 8 bit microcomputer.

Contrary to general belief, matrix metering is ideally suited for difficult lighting and manual exposure compensation becomes unneeded, even when there are strongly different areas of brightness in a scene. To make it work, the F4 has two photo diodes, each consisting of three sensors which meter the frame divided into five segments. Once the measurements of brightness and contrast are made, they are transmitted to the high capacity computer which in turn, using Nikon proprietary software, evaluates such brightness and contrast patterns, arranging the information according to 25 matrix boxes, each of which contains one or more algorithms. After analyzing the light patterns of the scene it goes on to determine the appropriate computation method averaging the extremes of light and contrast and in the end deciding what should be the recommended exposure, after comparing the scene to the 100,000 brightness and contrast range combinations stored in its data bank. The speed at which it performs this task is -of course- instantaneous!

Center Weighted metering works with 60% of the meter's sensitivity on the 12mm circle in the center of the screen; the other 40% of the information required to compute an exposure is derived from the rest of the screen.

Spot metering, best suited for very precise and selective metering of smaller subjects within the frame, is performed within the confines of a 5mm diameter circle in the viewfinder.

When fill flash is required -like in the picture above- metering data combines to balance the exposure on both the subject and the background. Based on data stored for general brightness and contrast scenes, the meter and the microcomputer perform a five methods computation to decide whether the picture should be taken as low brightness weighted, average, center weighted or high brightness weighted.

In the hope that I have not confused you much, let me just say that it works like nothing before. It is not until the advent of the F5, with its RGB matrix metering (a meter that also sees color) that a camera meter could be said to have improved upon that of the F4.


THE POWER PACKS

There are three speed winders for the F4: the MB-20, the MB-21 and the MB-23. The MB-22 is in fact an external AC power regulator. 
 

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The main function of this packs is to wind and unwind film at different speed rates.

 

  • The F4 is the basic body with the MB-20 battery pack, holding 4 AA alkaline batteries in the right hand grip, providing a firing rate of 4 frames per second.
    This is the lightest configuration.
 

F4 with MB-20

  • The F4s is the basic body with the MB-21 speed winder, instead of the MB-20. This battery pack holds 6 AA alkaline batteries, three in the right hand grip and three in the grip extension on the bottom of the camera body. The firing rate goes up to 5.7 fps. This is the configuration made popular in the US.
 

F4s with MB-21

  • The F4e is the basic body with the MB-23 power pack, also holding six AA alkaline batteries as the MB-21 and providing the same firing rate of 5.7 fps, but it can take the MN-20 battery pack. This is the configuration favored by the pros.
 

F4e with MB-23

  • For the first time, a very convenient vertical shutter button on both the F4s and the F4e is provided in both the MB-21 and the MB-23 power packs.
  • A word of caution on AA lithium batteries for the F4: Not recommended by the factory because of the original voltage on these batteries when new and their tendency toward voltage fluctuations can indeed hurt the camera and shorten its life. (Ok, John Shaw doesn't seem to mind, but remember he can replace his anytime)
 

F4s/MB-21 vertical shutter

 

 


THE LENSES

This has been recurrently said about the F4 today: Looking for the top of the line camera body for manual focus lenses? Find a used F4s in good shape, get the MB-20 battery holder to reduce its size and weight and go into Manual Focus lenses haven. 
 

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Nikon F4s with Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 AI-S

 

Outstanding professional photographers, like the late Galen Rowell, preferred the F4  -made light and compact with an MB-20 grip-  over the magnificent but heavier F5. If you then decide to use MF lenses, there will be little batteries use since the AF motor will not be active. To the F4 advantages over the F3HP, of matrix metering, spot metering, TTL flash support, higher flash sync and top shutter speeds, you add the possibility of using AF lenses at any time if you are not in the need of critical super fast AF action.  

Before the F5 (with its RGB 3D Matrix Meter), and now the F6, the F4 is IMO the best camera Nikon has ever made. A bargain now for under US$500, used, in like new to mint condition, in either F4s or F4e configurations.

Typical recommendations of superb optics, now Nikkor classics, are:
 

° 24mm f/2 AI-S Some buy the f/2.8 due to its lower price
° 35mm f/1.4 AI-S Some get the f/2 for the same price reason
° 50mm f/1.2 AI-S The f/1.4 and f/1.8 are more popular due to cost and the 55mm f/2.8 Micro for its specific macro use
° 85mm f/1.4 AI-S Same thing here -cost- for the f/1.8
° 105mm f/2.5 AI-S I like the 105mm f/1.8 slightly better but it is more difficult to find in EX+ condition or above, heavier and more expensive
° 135mm f/2.8 AI-S Same comment as above about the 135mm f/2.0, which I like better
° 180mm f/2.8 ED IF AI-S Darn good, slightly better than the AI version
° 200mm f/2 ED IF AI-S Others prefer the 200mm f/4 Micro and the AI versions
° 300mm f/2.8 ED IF AI-S Excellent, slightly better than the AI
° 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AI-S Here you may opt for the 400mm f/3.5 P for less money

 

Two very important features these lenses share:

  • Luminosity (wide aperture both for improved viewing and focusing; and the capability to shoot under almost any light conditions even if dim) plus
  • Legendary razor edge sharpness and excellent color rendition
  • Capability for extraordinary selective focus images.

Of course, to buy them all takes up a good chunk of money and a lot of guts and stamina to carry them all into the field; so choose from the list the ones you really think you must have.

I did select 5 out of the 10 above and had a wonderful time, rarely missing the chance to capture the image I wanted, the way I wanted. So, as some well known authors have claimed before, with these lenses and the F4 you'll be "in Nikon MF heaven". Just take a look at the gear of John Shaw in his books, like in "John Shaw's Landscape Photography: Professional Techniques for Shooting Spectacular Scenics". 

Nikon obviously recognized these preferences with the introduction of the splendid FM3A, "Where tradition and technology meet."

Nikon gave us all -with bodies backward compatibility- the opportunity to continue to use these MF lenses on our DSLRs.

At right, the 105mm f/2.5 AI-S shot @ f/2.5 on a Nikon D2X body at sunrise. Now, that's bokeh!

 

But with this my F4s I can also continue to use legendary MF optics on A (Aperture Priority) or M (Manual) modes, can mix them with AF and even with the newer AF-S lenses. With these lenses, the F4s' AF is so fast it screams.

"G" lenses also work on the F4, in both P and S modes. Talk about F4 forward compatibility!


WHY IT REMAINS AN INTERESTING ALTERNATIVE

 

It is a workhorse. I have had mine for more than 13 years in full use and keeps on performing like the first day. Rugged and reliable. A masterpiece without a compromise.
 

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Nikon F4s with Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4, showing the 6 AA batteries MB-21 speed winder that makes the F4 an F4s, with a vertical grip shutter trigger.
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You should not buy this camera if: 

  • You can afford a brand new F6 or a F5 and Nikkor AF-S lenses
  • You don't care about using 'old' prime MF (manual focus) lenses
  • You place a high priority on ultra fast and quiet auto focus 
  • You want all the bells and whistles of the latest cameras
  • You don't care about film anymore.

 

But, IMO, it remains a very interesting alternative for the serious amateur. 
So, you should very seriously consider buying this camera if: 

  • You love film (even if you mainly shoot digital now)
  • You would like a Nikon Pro SLR for a good price
  • You loved the F3HP
  • You have a good collection of great MF lenses or ...
  • You don't have a collection of lenses, but would rather spend more money on legendary optics than on the latest body
  • You want something build as a tank with reliable Matrix, Center-weighted and Spot metering
  • You are adamant on having the fullest possible lens compatibility: Non-AI, AI, modified AI, series E, AI-S, MF & AF, AF-D, AF-S
  • Ultra fastest auto focus isn't the first priority, but ruggedness and quality.
  • You enjoy both the luxuries (like focus tracking) and the occasional "let's get back to basics" of Manual mode, Shutter Priority and Aperture Priority shooting.
  • You enjoy features, but don't want to get bogged down in menus or complex custom functions.

The F4 may not be seen today as an AF camera per se or a special purpose one, it is a professional camera system with a built-in option of a fast (not the fastest, but fast) and reliable Auto Focus mode.

I have upgraded and now am also the happy owner of a F5 and a F6; however, when on a tough self imposed assignment, like the wedding of the daughter of a friend or a relative, I take the F4s too.

The AF-S lenses perform splendidly well on the F4s, BTW. 

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THE F5 Review

As for many, for me the F4 has been and continues to be, a dependable and durable source of joy. And for that I am very thankful.

Have a great time 

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Originally written on June 24, 2010

Last updated on December 31, 2020

J. Ramon Palacios J. Ramon Palacios (jrp)

JRP is one of the two co-founders of Nikonians and has in-depth knowledge in many photographic areas Awarded for his contributions for the Resources

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5 comments

Bo Stahlbrandt (bgs) on October 1, 2021

bgs is one of the two co-founders of Nikonians, with in-depth knowledge in several areas Awarded for his valuable Nikon product reviews at the Resources

It is truly a very inspiring article for all of us who still shot film now and then, or dream about doing it.

J. Ramon Palacios (jrp) on September 24, 2021

JRP is one of the two co-founders of Nikonians and has in-depth knowledge in many photographic areas Awarded for his contributions for the Resources

Obrigado, Jose

Jose Santos (espeto68) on September 23, 2021

Best review ever.

Keith Braine (kebra) on March 28, 2014

Here is link that I have found. http://www.butkus.org/chinon/nikon/nikon_mf-23/nikon_mf-23.htm

Juergen Cosfeld (Cosinus) on September 18, 2013

Hello dear Nikonians-User I'm using a F4 with Multi-Control-Back MF-23 and Battery Pack MB-21 since 1990. All components are still working. But I lost the User-Manual for the MF-23. Is there anybody who can help me in this case,to get a copy of it. Best regards Cosinus

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