This is a short nostalgia film of me unboxing a Nikon F3 HP in mint condition. The F3 was released in the 1980s and was a flagship! the camera was made for professionals and made to compete with Canons flagship the Canon F1.

The Nikon F3 is Nikon's third professional single-lens reflex camera body, preceded by the F and F2. Introduced in March 1980, it has manual and semi-automatic exposure control whereby the camera would select the correct shutter speed (aperture priority automation). The Nikon F3 series cameras has the most model variations of any Nikon F camera.

Initially, the F3 model with the DE-2 eye-level finder was introduced, soon followed by the popular F3HP, or High Point camera, with the DE-3 High Eyepoint prism/finder. The major advantage of this finder was that the entire viewfinder image could be seen from a distance of 2.5 cm from the viewfinder. This made the F3 more usable by those who wear glasses when shooting, or were forced to shoot in high-glare situations while wearing sunglasses.

In this video I will also go through the basics of how to use the camera. Feel free to ask in the comments if you have any questions.

00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Unboxing Camera
01:31 - Lens
01:57 - Turn on camera
02:05 - Shutter speed
02:22 - Exposure compensation
02:31 - ISO setting
02:42 - Manual shutter
02:47 - Remove lens
02:54 - How to take picture
03:17 - Picture counter
03:33 - How to focus
03:39 - Remove viewfinder
04:33 - Shutter sound
04:35 - Putting viewfinder on
05:00 - Cinematic

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