Shutter Priority automation is possible with a DS-1 Aperture Control Unit.

DP-2 is engraved on bottom of metering head besides the serial #. It has increased sensitivity to light, and to batteries. These finders were manufactured by Nikon from 1973 to 1977 and their first meter to use LED’s. When a DP-2 finder was attached an F2 it becames a Nikon F2S. You adjust the f/stops or shutter speed to center the needle. Both the F-stops and shutter speeds are visible in the finder, as they are in all of the F2 metering heads. This finder is the most numerous and least expensive F2 metered head. It was unpopular because of the lack of a built-in meter, but remained available for the life of the F2.īy adding the Photomic Finder (DP1) to a Nikon F2 it becomes a Nikon F2 Photomic.

Unlike the other heads, about 90% of DE-1s were chrome finished. It provided a virtually 100% accurate viewing image, but was a plain pentaprism eyelevel viewing head with no built-in light meter and so had no metering or exposure information display, except for a flash-ready light. The head on the basic Nikon F2 was called the Nikon DE-1. Therefore, it’s not unusual to see body/head combinations with mismatched serial numbers and/or colours. Note: F2 heads were often sold separately from the body, mostly in black finish with about 10% in chrome. However, it was the F2’s interchangeable viewfinders (also known as “heads”) that marked it as a truly professional level SLR and was its greatest strength.īy providing updated heads every few years, Nikon was able to introduce new versions of the F2 and keep the basic body in the latest technology until production ended in 1980. It was the last all mechanical professional-level Nikon SLR. It also offered a detachable motor drive, something the F only had as a custom modification. The F2 replaced the Nikon F, adding many new features a faster 1/2000 second maximum shutter speed, a swing open back for easier film loading, a wider assortment of detachable finders and metering heads, a 250 exposure film back, a larger reflex mirror to ensure no vignetting, and a shutter release nearer the front of the camera for better ergonomics. The camera itself needed no batteries, though the prism light meter did (and of course the motor drive). The Nikon F2 is an all-metal, mechanically (springs, gears, levers) controlled, manual focus SLR with manual exposure control.

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