I have to Stay Away from Ebay.......
Yeah, I gotta stay away from Ebay. I now have a decent Nikon rangefinder collection, the Nikon S3 2000 looks new even though it was made 25 years ago and based on a 60 year old camera design. In hindsight this along with the SP 2000 introduced in 2005 was Nikon's last kick at the can with pure mechanical film cameras, so much so, retired employees were tracked down and rehired to run the assembly lines because the current employees didn't have the expertise.
A few short years later a massive product cull reduced the film camera catalogue down to the FM10 (made by Cosina for Nikon) and the F6, everything else, gone. There will never be another Nikon film camera, ever. Those who knew how to make them are gone, the supply chain is gone and to get that back up in running doesn't make financial sense.
That said rebuilding Nikon rangefinders for a short run in for the home market was a great way to cap an era off.
Camera: Nikon S3 2000, Nikkor S 50 F1.4 lens.
Film: Fomapan 400, Rollei Supergrain 1+15.


























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