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Nikon FE 2 Camera Body in original box with original paperwork

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Nikon FE 2 Camera Body in original box with original paperwork
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95.00USD+ (21.38) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 17 @ 15:46UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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The FM and FE were introduced in the late 1970s as light weight, lower cost alternatives to the flagship F2.



The FM series is mechanical with manual exposure.



The FE series is electronic with automatic exposure control.



The FM, introduced in 1977, was a mechanical manual camera with a built in three LED + 0 - meter similar to the F2AS. People didn't take the FM very seriously compared to the F2 back then. That was too bad because the only things the F2 did that made it different were features that no one uses anyway like interchangeable screens, interchangeable prisms and 250 exposure film backs. The FM has a 1-1,000 shutter and 1/125 flash sync.



The FE, introduced in 1978, was an electronically controlled aperture-priority automatic and manual exposure camera very similar to the FM. Unlike the FM it has interchangeable focusing screens. It takes the same backs and motor drives. It has two needles in the finder: one is the setting of the camera's shutter speed knob, and one is the exposure suggested by the light meter. This allows easy use in manual exposure setting: just match the needles. In the A setting then only the one needle indicates the shutter speed set by the camera. Marked shutter speeds go from 8 seconds to 1/1,000, flash sync is 1/125, and a mechanical speed of 1/90 also available for the paranoid who were worried about the batteries dying. A secret feature for night photography is that in A mode the FE will time perfect exposures as long as several MINUTES, and draw only 11mA from the button cells while doing it.



The FE was replaced by the newer FE2 in 1983.



From the collection of Don Dondero.

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