![]() The use of any Photomic head requires that batteries (two S76 or A76, or SR44 or LR44) be installed in the F2 body to power the head's electronics. However, since Nippon Kokagu made five different metering heads over the life of the F2, there were five different F2 Photomic versions. If a pentaprism head with a built-in light meter was mounted on the F2, the camera became an F2 Photomic. It was unpopular because of the lack of a built-in meter, but remained available for the life of the F2. Unlike the other heads, about 90% of DE-1s were chrome finished. It provided a virtually 100% accurate viewing image, but was a plain pentaprism eyelevel viewing head with no built-in light meter and so had no metering or exposure information display, except for a flash-ready light. The head on the basic Nikon F2 was called the Nikon DE-1. Note that F2 heads were often sold separately from the body, mostly in black finish with about 10% in chrome, and it is therefore not unusual to see body/head combinations with mismatched serial numbers and/or colors. ![]() By providing updated heads every few years, Nippon Kogaku was able to introduce new versions of the F2 and keep the basic body in the latest technology until production ended in 1980. ![]() However, it was the F2's interchangeable viewfinders (also known as "heads") that marked it as a truly professional level SLR and was its greatest strength.
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