I couldn't stand the 1980s era Nikons the made you pull out the wind lever
for the meter either. The expensive F3 didn't require this, and I saw it
as a deliberate crippling of the cheap models to make the expensive one
more 'usable' to discourage pros from buying the less expensive ones.
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On 8/8/12 12:17 AM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 8/7/2012 7:25 PM, Jim Couch wrote:
>> Yes it was Nikons - one of the major reasons I wound up with an Om was
>> this fact! When I purchased my first SLR I was debating between an OM-1
>> and a Nikon. The wind lever in the (right) eye was a deal breaker! At
>> the time I was not really aware the being left eyed was not common, I
>> thought the Nikon was just poorly designed!
>
>It seems to me they were poorly designed, even if it only impacted a
>smallish minority of potential users. I found it
>unsettling when I inherited an FG.
>
>F. G. Moose
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