I upgraded my F55 (N55), and got a film camera that looks and feels like the company’s DSLRs.
The F75 (also known as the N75) was introduced in 2003. That’s one year after the Nikon D100 and one year before the Nikon D70. Clearly, this was at the tail end of film cameras, and in the early days of digital ones. It’s supposed to be the last consumer SLR that Nikon released.
Some details:
- 25 zone light meter, 3D matrix
- 5 autofocus areas
- P, S, A, M, Auto and scene modes
- ISO 25-5,000, set with DX-coding on the film rolls (no manual way of setting it)
- Shutter speed: 1/2,000–30 sec
- Up to 1.5 fps shooting speed
- Two CR2 batteries
- 131 × 92.5 × 65mm
- 380g (without lens and batteries)
The F75 is made from plastic, which keeps the weight down. But it does feel a bit cheap, obviously, even though it also seems like it is well put together. Anyway, I can certainly live with that.
You can see and recognize the physical design from much more modern DSLRs. That familiarity I like. There’s obviously not a display to look at, but you are familiar with where buttons and controls are.
The viewfinder I find pretty poor. I have to remove my glasses to be able to read the information at the bottom of the frame.
One really nice thing about the F75, which I didn’t know when I bought it, is that it works with AF-S lenses, which the F55 does not. That means that the F75 works with my AF-S 24-120mm f/4 and AF-S 70-200mm f/4.
