The shutter itself is very quiet, but the film advance motor is not. You’re limited to one autofocus point in the middle of the frame, but if you focus and recompose, it works well enough. Once you get used to it, it’s fine though. The shutter button is a little odd, its travel is quite long and doesn’t have much feel to it. Loading it is dead simple, just put the film in, place the film tip next to the red mark, close the back and press the shutter. I searched a bit on eBay and found one in reasonably good condition for a fair price, about a third of the price of beater MJU II. So, I kept on reading until I found a couple of articles praising the build quality and lens of the Nikon 元5AF. I did quick search on eBay and found out they were and still are selling for ridiculously high prices, considering that they’re between 10 and 20 years old and most can’t even be serviced. They mostly praised cameras like the Contax T2 or T3, Olympus MJU II, Yashica T4, T5 and others. I started reading online and came upon lots of buyers’ guides and reviews. Logically I thought of buying a point and shoot camera. I started taking pictures using only SLRs, but the size and weight meant I found myself leaving the camera at home and then seeing scenes I wanted to take pictures of, but of course couldn’t. Unlike most reviews, this not meant to be an analytic article on the optical quality of the lens, but rather my subjective take on this particular camera. The Nikon 元5AF is a point and shoot camera I love using.

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