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. 


Nikon S3 2000. Middle of Spadina at Dundas May 2025_ Chinatown Avatars on a Pole May 2025 Chinatown Department Store May 2025 Haunted Abondoned Coffee House May 2025 Ocho Building on Spadina, May 2025 510's at Queen St. May 2025 Prepping for Building on a Vacant Lot off Spadia May 2025 Traffic at Queen and Spadina May 2025 Cameron House Corner May 2025 Future Queen Station on the Ontario Line May 2025 TTC Trackwork on Queen St. May 2025 Peter Pan Corner May 2025 former Black Bull Corner May 2025 Aritzia Queen St. Two May 2025 CN Tower May 2025 CP24 Truck May 2025 Parked in Front of a Closed Market May 2025 Writing on the Wall Over the Queen Riding By the Queen Mother Cafe Marvarlous Fred Corner May 2025 The Rex Corner May 2025 In Front of the The Rex May 2025 Campbell House May 2025 Looking Down University May 2025 501 Bus on York St. May 2025

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