{"id":75480,"date":"2025-08-13T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/?p=75480"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:29:44","slug":"analogue-adventures-part-43-nikon-35ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/analogue-adventures-part-43-nikon-35ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogue Adventures \u2013 Part 43: Nikon 35Ti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikon 35 Ti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Nikon 35Ti is a high end compact 35mm analogue camera released in 1993. Let’s have a closer look!<\/p>\n

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Nikon 35Ti | Fujifilm Superia 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nikon 35Ti | Kodak Portra 160 NC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nikon 35Ti | Kodak Portra 160 NC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nikon 35Ti | Fujifilm Superia 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nikon 35Ti | Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nikon 35Ti | Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Disclosure<\/h2>\n

A reader sent me this camera so that I could have a look at it for a few weeks. Thanks a lot!<\/p>\n

Handling<\/h2>\n

I know this camera has a lot of fans, if you are one of those, I recommend to jump to the image quality section and skip this part.<\/p>\n

I can’t say I am a big fan of the handling of this camera and there are actually several things that got in the way. <\/p>\n

Let’s start with the finder. It has a lot of barrel distortion which makes framing pretty hard. The framelines are often invisible indoors because they are lit from the top (not the front as all the other rangefinder cameras). It also only shows the shutter speed and whether you accidentally activated the stupid panorama mode. I would have wished to also see the aperture value and\/or the EV compensation here. <\/p>\n

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top display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to know about those things, you need to resort to the top display. I am sure there are some analogue HiFi enthusiasts who will absolutely love this – personally, I greatly prefer cars with analogue instruments, too – but here I found it very cumbersome to read and use this cluttered thing. I guess you may get used to it after years of usage though.<\/p>\n

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backside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may wonder about that “Panorama” slider you see above. The camera can crop your 36x24mm frame to a 36x13mm “panoramic” frame. This is about the most stupid thing I have seen in an analogue camera yet. It is also possible to accidentally flick that switch when taking the camera out of the bag or a pocket, maybe that is the reason this is one of the few things the finder actually tells you about.<\/p>\n

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lens retracted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lens retracts when not in use and will be automatically covered which is also something which does sound cool on paper, but in the field I found the whirring sound everytime I turned the camera on or off rather annoying. Compared to other compact film cameras I also have the feeling this made the body a bit thicker than would otherwise be necessary.<\/p>\n

In aperture priority and program mode the shutter speed range is limited from 2s to 1\/500s. I already find the 1\/1000s of my Leica M6 rather limiting, so this wasn’t a positive surprise. <\/p>\n

I actually used this camera mainly in program mode – which is something I never did with any<\/em> of my cameras – but setting the aperture via that display on top was so inconvenient, I gave up on that quickly.<\/p>\n

Autofocus<\/h2>\n

In short: noisy, slow and somewhat upredictable. <\/p>\n