Nikon F5

In the good old days, a pro Nikon would be for sale for about ten years before it was up-dated, a bit like BMW motorbikes and Mercedes cars. Nikon realised that many traditional photographers preferred twiddling knobs, so the manual focus F3 was replaced with the auto everything F4, but it still retained mostly moving parts in the knobs and button areas, and the high speed bit for the motor drive had to be bolted on. Alas, sales suffered as the new generation of professional photographers were more used to lap tops than wet processing, so the sexy Canon EOS1 started to erode Nikon's sales. The EOS had a LCD display and nothing much to twiddle, plus a superb ...  Read the complete review