Very strong.40 rolls with a battery set.Good metering even with ais lenses.Easy to use Muti exposure.

Looks a bit plastic.No PC plug No remote cord No pop up flash

I heve been using a F801since 1995.This camera is perfect for landscapes and outdoor pictures .The metering is ;i think; exellent even with mf nikkor lenses.The one I have has worked à lot about 70 rolls a year and is still perfectly working.I also used it for weddings where flash control was pretty good.Af is terribly slow in low light or inable to focus on costal scenes.I now use a F5 which is much more faster .

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never used

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F,FM,F301 andF5

Tough and durable. Good vision in finder for eyeglass wearers Good battery life Matrix metering &fill flash is a snap which really improves some photos. Really sets up well with MF lenses. Autoload is very reliable. Metering is incredibly good. Repairable.

Heavy, loud No PC plug No cable release Continuous autofocus is a bit slow for truly effective action use. Try using focus priority avaiable with the MF21 back instead.

Good solid kachunker! This camera has many really nice features that some don'' need and it doesnt have a few that some do need such as cable release and a pc plug for external flash units thought that is easily surmounted with Nikon cords and flash units. A particularly strong point for this camera is that it uses AA batteries --- always available even in the most remote corners of the world. Others experience may vary but I can usually shoot about 50 rolls of film with a set of 4 batteries. I dropped mine and caused lots of damage to body and lens. While expensive, Nikon USA restored it to like new function.

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Nikon (and probably many others) can repair this unit. It is built for service

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FM10, K1000, F3,

multiple exposure double self timer easy to use controls

no pop up flash for fill light

I am very new to my N8008s, but so far I think it is great. I am glad I got it instead of a new N80. I love the double self timer. That should be great for group shots that I will also be in. I also like how easy the multiple exposure is to use. I was used to the camera in a matter of minutes. It is my favorite camera I have used so far.

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NA

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availability, cost 1/250 second flash synch flexible program, A, S, M meters with mf Nikkors Uses AA batteries good enough Matrix metering to give modern cameras a run for their money 3.3 FPS

weight slow AF wont autofocus AFS lenses looks very plasticy

I have disliked this camera (8008) for most of the 4-5 years I''''ve had it. It''''s noisy, sometimes if the batteries are low and you hit the shutter release nothing happens, the af is painfully slow with any kind of telephoto lens, it has no spot meter, it''''s heavy, it''''s plasticy, it won''''t autofocus with AFS lenses, or use VR etc. etc. etc. But in the end you cannot argue with results. To put it bluntly it gets the job done, like an ugly coat that keeps you warm. It meters with mf lenses, it has possibly the best multiple exposure control I''''ver ever seen, you just press the ME button and roll the control wheel until you get to the number of exposures you want to take, and then fire away with the number counting in the viewfinder down every time you hit the shutter release. But the most important feature of any camera is what the slides look like, and while the af is slow, it is dead on, and the metering is likewise excellent. What it means is sharp contrasty photos with surpising consistancy. If you are a casual photographer the faster AF and lighter weight of an N65 or N80 is probably preferable. But if you are more serious or proffesionaly minded and you need things like a 1/250 flash synch (with excellent fill flash metering) and you want to be able to use excellent lenses like the unequaled 28mm f2.8 AIS, and if you also want your camera to use easy to find AA batteries, and you would rather spend your money on lenses than a better camera body, this might be the ticket. You also get that 1/8000 second shutter but I''''ve only used that maybe once, and even then it was just because I could and I wanted to try it. Just remember that if you want spot metering you have to get the N8008s, the N8008 doesn''''t have it, and remember that the N8008(s) won''''t autofocus AFS lenses or use VR. I''''m planning to upgrade to an F100 eventually. When I started considering new camera bodies the first requirement was that it had to at least duplicate every feature of the N8008, nothing below an F100 would do that except an N90, which I don''''t consider enough of an upgrade. To me the F100 looks like a quieter faster N8008 with with a 5 point multicam 1300 AF(ala F5) The fact that the N8008 is so close to an F100 is a tribute to the design of the 8008, not a knock in any way on the F100

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Never used

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none, this is my only AF SLR The FG is an excellent mf Nikon The Mamiya 6 is great for medium format, but for situations that require an AF SLR my N8008 still performs well.

Stable, balanced, user-friendly. No questions to exposure metering. High-eyepoint.

Spotmeter is the only thing which lack is really painful. AF is not good, but just don''t consider it as AF camera. Loudy. Not for the theater.

Everything is good except AF: it''s acceptable with AF 50/1.8 but with 70-300/4-5.6 at 300 mm it is horrible. It simply is not. :-) Spotmeter is also desired sometimes. Someone in the net said that F801 is good manual camera. It is. For the modern technology level. It is not autofocus box, it is a camera with automatic focus feature.If you don''t demand more, its'' excellent. Why not FM2, FM3A? Does they have high-eyepoint for glass-wearers? Then FM3HP? Ok, can it do 1/8000"? And handling at last. It''s much better than F90x/N90S or F80 for my taste. I suggest to buy this camera if you need a time-proofed workhorse with excellent exponometry and some nice electronic features and you don''t need fast AF. If you need fast AF and/or spotmeter buy F80. If you need fast AF and/or spotmeter and compatibility with MF lenses buy F100 or F5 (maybe f90[x] or f4).

Customer Service

er... too late, huh?..

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no electronic cameras before

Multifunctional. all program modes to satisfy any situation and then expound on them. Legendary Nikon durability and Optical strength. Uses 4AA''s as opposed to 6V lithium. Use this camera in some severe weather condtions and it has always soldiered on.

Noisy AF drive and film advance. AF sensors not quite up to par with current cameras, it has problems with horizontal subjects. Easily overcome but an annoyance none the less.

This camera rules (or it did when it first came out) all the features that you could possibly think of and then some. This was the first camera I owned which tied all the components together into a seamlessly operating system. The lenses provided the camera with the info it needed, the flash used the camera to optimize the light required. Everything works in harmony.

Customer Service

No problems...Was cleaned two years ago and all specs were within tolerance for the age of the camera.

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1) very good handling 2) depth-of-field preview 3) uses regular AA batteries 4) equipped with almost all the functions one may need and actually use, but no gimmicks 5) very accurate (though slow and noisy by today''s standards) AF which works well even in adverse lighting conditions, in low light and low contrast 6) good viewfinder display which only lacks the metering mode; +/- 2 stop exposure scale 7) bright high-eyepoint viewfinder with interchangeable focusing screens (I like the microprism J-type for manual focusing) 8)fast shutter with a high sync speed of 1/250 9) very good looks :-)

1) no spot metering (regular 8008) 2) no regular cable release socket (only the socket for the expensive electric release) 3) the metering mode is not displayed in the viewfinder 4) the outside LCD panel is not lit, and as some important data, such as the metering mode, is not displayed in the viefinder, it is hard to check or change some of the settings when it''s dark 5) exposure data is displayed only in full-stop values, so a reading of 1/60s at F5.6 may actually be anything between 1/90 at F6.3 and 1/45 at F4.5, which is a 2-stop differece: something to be aware of when using the camera as an exposure meter 6) AF detects only vertical lines 7) certain flash-related features and flash exposure mode combinations are available only with the SB-24, 25, etc, and not with simpler flashguns

I bought the 8008 just before the ''S'' was announced and I was sorry because the 8008s had what I missed in the 8008 the most: spot metering, and slightly faster and quieter predictive AF. Still I consider the 8008 one of the best (and the nicest to look at, as well) SLRs for a serious amateur: it''s a no-nonsense, gimmick-free camera equipped with almost everything one may really need and actually use

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F-601, F-801s

EASE OF OPERATION, RELIABILITY,RUGGED,LONG BATTERY LIFE WITH4AA'S

LACK OF A SPOT METER.HOWEVER THIS IS AVAILABLE ON THE N8OO8S.

THIS CAMERA PRODUCES SOME GORGEOUS PICS.APPEARS TO BE VERY RELIABLE, EVEN THOUGH IT IS GETTING ON IN YEARS.I PAID 350.00, INCLUDING A NICE NIKKOR35-70.IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PRO CAMERA WHOSE OPERATION IS MORE INTUITIVE THAN MOST, SNATCH ONE OF THESE,I DONT THINK YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED!!

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SHIPPED A MANUEL AT A REASONABLE PRICE

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I must say that though I had only started for about a year, I will say that this camera is good for a beginner who wants to try his hand on SLRs. It feels durable and solid and the weight gives the user confidence in taking coverage shots.

The matrix system is pretty accurate, especially those involving outdoors and closeups.

With depth-of field preview, multiple exposures and other musts for a semi-pro SLR, one can really get to learn about photography.

Matrix system isn't that accurate especially those involving indoors.

Auto-focusing is slow.

It's a great camera. The second-hand price is pretty affordable and it's great for a beginner.

Customer Service

Since it is a second-hand, and it's already 8 years old, I still manage to get good support from the shop that I purchase.

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Durable enough for backpacking, good exposure system (if you know what you're doing). Uses AA batteries.

AF sluggish, esp. with AF60mm 2.8 micro. No flash compensation through body. Only electronic remote release (MR-3 adapter is expensive).

Good, reliable camera, getting on in years but very servicable. Not for action photographers. Flash photography is OK, but limited if you don't want to carry a large flash around (the tiny SB-23 does not have any controls for that).

Customer Service

no experience, except for having a lens cleaned.

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