h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Orven called me a Nikon whore, and said that for the price of the FM3A and the F80?thread=Orven called me a Nikon whore, and said that for the price of the FM3A and the F80?thread=Orven called me a Nikon whore, and said that for the price of the FM3A and the F80?thread=Orven called me a Nikon whore, and said that for the price of the FM3A and the F80?thread=Orven called me a Nikon whore, and said that for the price of the FM3A and the F80D I picked up last year, I could've bought an F5. THE F5. Well not exactly. It would cost the two cameras and my wideangle lens. But still, he said, it's the F5; handles like a fighter jet and built like a tank, the Nikon that puts the "F" in MotherF5, the Thermopylae, the Alamo, the Pasong Tirad, of Nikon's exemplary film SLR line. Yada yada yada. Though an F5 would be nice to have, it's better to serve the cause by rescuing two mid range cameras instead of one high end pro body. And when out on assignment, nothing says "OLD SKOOL" like bringing a pair of well worn cameras to shoot with (having just one pro camera with a de Bergerac-ian zoom lens just says "gearsnob"). Besides, based on my recent experience, I think that F5 will still be on the shelf by the time I save enough money to rescue it.