I photograph live show of rock bands. Not for a living, but as a serious hobby. There are a few bands in the Bay Area that have used my live photography on record covers. This means I take photographs in crowded nightclubs with beer flying about, people dancing and moshing up against me and various bands throwing liquids at the audience.
Thus I use an F4s. Any other camera would be roadkill by now.
By modern standards, the F4s is looking seriously dated. The autofocus is terrible, it's slow, it's barely predictive when shooting moving targets, and stops working completely in low light. The zone metering system is fairly crude, the controls are overly complex and sometimes really unintuitive - there are features on this camera that I dont know how to use after 5 years.
It also weighs a ton. Drag this thing around with a telephoto zoom and a decent flash and shoulder-strain is guaranteed.
But in those five years I have destroyed countless lenses and flashes. I've dropped the camera onto concrete and into sand. I've poured beer onto it and splashed it with seawater. It works as well as the day I bought it. You could use this camera as a hammer without ill affect.
On the pro side, the camera can do practically anything you ask of it. It will shoot 5 frames a second, it has shutter speeds from 4 - 1/8000s. You can override anything and replace viewfinders, screens, backs. It's a tool for a serious photographer who knows what they want. It's certainly not a camera for beginners.
But if you need a camera that will keep on going whatever abuse you heap upon it, then this is the one.
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