BebuLamar

The plastic piece is an adapter and is not part of the camera. The F2 like the F and F3 has special hot shoe around the rewind crank (although all 3 of them are slightly different) and would accept flashes designed for it. Otherwise you need that adapter.

Gino_P Loc: Massachusetts

Looks like an F2

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

F2 Photomic with auxiliary flash coupling shoe.

This body fixed all the major issues most of us had with the Nikon F Photomic FTn. It's a classic, but the F3 was even better.

My high school yearbook advisor bought one so I could teach her to use it!

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

nikon F2 with the tn meter housing and flash attachment. the best nikon ever made other than the original F. still using both daily.

slermj

It is a Nikon F2S. I have one that needs gaskets.

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

well, get it to a tech and have new light seals put on - then go use it!!!

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

That's a Nikon F2 camera, but there were a number of variants... although in most cases the only difference between them is which of the various interchangeable viewfinder prisms is installed on the camera.

F2 "Eyelevel" (I don't think an official model) was sold with a DE-1 meterless finder. Other meterless finders included DA-1 (action/sports), DW-1 (waist level) and DW-2 (waist level with 6X magnification).

When a metered prism finder is installed it becomes an "F2 Photomic" model. All camera bodies and meters were offered in choice of all black or black & matte chrome finishes, except one.

The one pictured is either an F2 "Photomic" or "Photomic S" or "Photomic SB". The differences between them are the version of finder and subtle changes between those.

Photomic uses Finder DP-1 which has needles indicating exposure in the viewfinder.
Photomic S uses Finder DP-2 which uses red LEDs to indicate over/under exposure, instead of the needles.
Photomic SB uses Finder DP-3 which switched to using Silicon Blue cells for improved metering accuracy.

All three of the above finders have that little window on the front, adjacent to the Nikon logo, so look in the viewfinder to determine if it's a plain Photomic or one of the latter two. To distinguish between the latter two, you may been to remove the finder to see if it's labelled. All three of these are "non indexing" models which require you to rotate the aperture ring it's full range when you first install a lens on the camera.

"F2A Photomic" and "F2AS Photomic" are two more variants with metered finders, both easily recognized because the finders are labelled that way right on the front and both of them lack the little window that was noted on the other metered finders.

The "F2A" uses an auto-indexing version of the DP-1 finder, called Finder "DP-11" with an "A" clearly marked on the front. "The F2AS" uses an auto-indexing version of the DP-3 finder, called Finder "DP-12" with an "AS" marking on the front.

The F2 "Titan" has a titanium body shell... early ones were labelled, later ones weren't but have serial numbers in the 920,xxx range. As originally sold, it was not a "Photomic" model because it used a meterless DE-1/T viewfinder. But, of course, it can use all the same finders as the other F2. The DE-1/T appears to be the same as DE-1, except finished differently to match the camera.

As noted by some others.... Yes, the pictured camera has flash coupler AS-1 installed over the film rewind knob. This allows various flash with standard hot foot to be attached and used with the camera (there also were dedicated Nikon flash offered that don't require the adapter). The AS-1 can simply be slid off the camera (would need to be removed to rewind film).

BebuLamar

The F2S has 2 LED on top and not the meter needle like in the OP picture.

carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida

it's a F2

BIG ROB Loc: Princeton, NJ 08540

Please tell me what issues you can remember the original Nikon F Photomic FTn having? I'm curious and would appreciate hearing of any that you
could still recall; of course, I have one and love it! Thanks allot.

carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida

Best times!

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

i never had problems with my nikon f bodies, but then, i never used the meter housings. the one change between the f and f2 was the battery compartment in the camera body, rather than the meter housing. i thought this a bad move, as the body compartment could suffer corrosion via owner neglect.

we were so suspicious of the f2 that nikon had to continue a 2 year run of f bodies before we became believers in the f2.

Kuzano

It's one of the film models. Probably a 24 or 36 shot model.

BebuLamar

It's the newer Nikon. The first one can take 40 shot.

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

only if you are loading your own film!