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With G lenses, I use Program or Shutter-preferred modes.Įxcept for no VR, these limitations aren't limiting. The F4 does everything directly, not menu-driven aperture selection as newer cameras.
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It can't do Aperture-preferred or Manual modes with G lenses because G lenses have no aperture ring with which to select the aperture. It offers these modes with every AF lens and offers Aperture-preferred and manual modes with manual lenses. The very few things it won't do is that it doesn't activate VR, it doesn't offer Program or Shutter-priority modes with manual lenses. With a few button pushes, it does stop-down metering and automation with non-AI lenses. It gives matrix metering and automation with all lenses made since 1977 (AI and newer). It focuses flawlessly with AF-s and G lenses and will work with the ancient fisheyes that recede into the camera body. The F4 is compatible with every lens ever made by Nikon, from the first 1959 non-AI lenses through today's G lenses. The details of the F4 at Nikon's site here. I leave the F4 set to whatever position, and its batteries are still fine 2 years later.į4 was introduced in 1988 and replaced by the F5 in 1996. The power/drive mode switch never needs to be turned off ( L). Unlike the FA, the exposure system is open-loop and doesn't correct for any errors in the lens' diaphragm.
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The F4 offers full matrix metering automatically with all AI and AI-s manual focus lenses, as well as with al AF, AF-I, AF-S and G lenses. If I'm shooting 35mm film with modern lenses I grab the F6, but if I need to use things like the 42-year-old 7.5mm fisheye I was loaned along with new lenses, out comes the F4. Newer cameras may in some ways be better, but no camera has ever advanced photo technology as much as the F4. See Nikon Lens Compatibility for details. The only thing the F4 doesn't do with today's newest lenses is VR.
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The F4 does it all with professional élan. Canon cameras have no compatibility between auto and manual focus systems: Canon has no compatibility across the 1986 AF-EOS/MF-FD barrier. Older cameras can't autofocus, and newer cameras don't usually meter well with manual lenses, or work at all with most lenses older than 1977. The Nikon F4 is Nikon's most flexible camera because it's compatible with the widest range of lenses of any 35mm camera. The Nikon F4 remains relevant today, as it works great with every lens made from 1959 through today's G and AFS lenses. Today you can pick up a used F4 for just a few hundred dollars! When the F4 was announced, people waited for months to pay over $2,000 for them ($3,600 today after inflation). The F4 was the world's top news and sports camera from 1988 through the introduction of the evolutionary F5 in 1996. You have to program menus to get matrix metering with manual lenses on the F6 all you have to do on the F4 is mount a lens. The F6 is a lighter-duty F5, but at least one can get Matrix metering with manual focus lenses on the F6, which the F5 can't. The F5's meter is worse than the F4's when used with manual focus lenses.
The F4 has dedicated knobs for everything. The F5 was simply the F4 in a tougher package, but with knobs replaced by buttons and menus. The F4 is the world's first professional camera with modern Matrix (intelligent) light metering. (Previous cameras had to use klunky external screw-on motors.) The F4 is the world's first professional camera with a built-in motor drive. The F4 is the world's first professional autofocus camera. The Nikon F4, introduced in 1988 and still used daily by many photographers today, was a breakthrough in that: The Nikon F3 was an electronic F2, still merely evolution, not revolution. The F was mostly what other companies, like Exacta, had done decades before. Nikon's first SLR, the F, was just an SP rangefinder with an added prism. Nikon's first rangefinders were merely massaged copies of the Contax and Leica. Nikon's digital SLRs and F5 and F6 are nice, but still none of them, not even the D3, is as earth-shattering as was the F4 at its introduction. The F4 shattered more new barriers and advanced more technology in bigger steps than Nikon had ever done before, or has ever done since. The Nikon F4 is what brought cameras into this modern era.
The indomitable Nikon F4 is the most innovative camera ever introduced by Nikon, or probably anyone.
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