Nikon F55 with Nikon 85mm F/1.8D

I just had fun shooting with this little film SLR camera, Nikon F55. Light weight, small body, and have a ton of features. I attached the Nikon 85mm F/1.8D on it, it's a little bit heavy on the front side though, but I love it.

Pictures from Panasonic Lumix LX3

I bought this little gem for my wife around October 2009. I thought that I could make a portraiture with a background blur since there is a tiny Leica lens in it with F/2 at the wide end, and F/2.8 at the tele end. I was wrong, it was difficult to make a nice background blur or bokeh with this camera, even if it's has a fast leica lens with f/2 aperture. But in Macro mode it is still possible to make a nice bokeh.

For night photography this little camera is very good, I was able to shot at smaller aperture with enough speed to prevent blurring image. ISO 400 is still ok at night, but at noon with iso 400 you will see a lot of grainy image. So I never use this camera above ISO 200 at noon. These are images from this little gem. I still love this camera, but personally, for walk around at night, I just bring the Nikon D70 with my trusty Nikon 35mm F/1.8G.


My wife took this picture at Port Dickson, Malaysia. Shot whith 16:9 aspect ratio at 24mm.


Taken with 16:9 aspect ratio.


My breakfast taken with a scene mode 'food'.


Pool at The Avilion, Port Dickson. This was shot in Vibrant mode colour.


Shutter speed 1/13, F/2.0, ISO 800. Thank's for the image stabilizer and the f/2 leica lens in LX3!


Shutter speed 1/30 at F/2.8 and ISO 500.


Shutter speed 1/30 at F/2 and ISO 640. Again, sharp image helped by image stabilizer and fast Leica lens!