So, if you’re a collector of very spendy old rangefinders and you’re sick of Leicas, this could be a nice change of pace. As the first Nikon using 35mm film, the S2 paved the way for later models while still taking stellar photos. This auction currently sits at $16,000 or so, making it the most expensive S2 on the site currently, with the black and chrome version hovering around $1,000 for a complete or less depending on condition. Camera Geekery: The Konica Auto S2 In another guest review, Soren Rosenberg has been kind enough. An outstanding rangefinder for less than you think What we have here is the wonderfully engineered.
When looking from a collector’s standpoint, however, you have to take note of the color of the dial, with the black dial being much harder to come by than the chrome dials. The Konica Hexar AF has many talents, most of them hidden Now, before people go and get their. The S2 itself is a pretty sweet little rangefinder camera with a 50mm F/1.4 lens and no built-in meter. The SP is a relatively rare camera, sought by users and collectors alike. Few people were silly enough to buy this lens when it was new because it was slow, and no sane person attempted close-up photogrpahy with a rangefinder. To put this in perspective, about 165,000 total Nikon Rangefinders were made, about 950,000 Nikon Fs were made, and about 225,000 Leica M3s were made. The S2 is a fairly iconic camera in terms of Nikon’s history, and (if I recall correctly) is actually the first Nikon camera to use the standard 35mm image format, rather than the slightly smaller image size they used before that. Bob Rotoloni, in his superb book Nikon Rangefinder Camera, states that 22,348 SPs were produced from 1957 to 1962.
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This all-black Nikon S2 rangefinder camera had to be special ordered and could only be obtained by credentialed professional photographers. It will mount and work on the later black dial S2, SP, S3 and S4 as well. The S2 succeeded the Nikon S, which was fundamentally built upon the early Contax rangefinder cameras, so much so that even the lens mounts between the two systems are the same. Nikon Rangefinder 135/3.5 Chrome Mint- w/ hood, original caps, case 199 260769 This is a beautiful chrome lens vintage mid 1950s, produced for the chrome dial Nikon S2 and earlier cameras. One of the interesting things about photography is that any amateur or enthusiast can get the same gear as the top-end pros if they’re willing to spend the money. The Nikon S2 is the Japanese company’s best-selling, and most-produced rangefinder camera with approximately 56,000 pieces rolling out of the factory since its inception in 1955.